Corona

[Moribund]

National League organisers are looking a bit silly now aren't they.

Why? They have given them a chance to play and not postponed matches when there’s no need to. You don’t see teams calling off games because one of their players has the shits do you

You don't see many cases of the shits spreading to every corner of the world...

[prague bluebird]

Reading some of of the posts on this thread, I find them truly amazing that some people are treating this situation as a trivial matter.
Here in Czech we have all shops closed apart from food shops, all pubs restaurants, sports activities and culture events are also closed. We cant even leave the country. I am guessing similar measures may be applied soon in the UK, SO BE PREPARED.

[barrowfan]

This is a view from Simon Stone on BBC Sports. A lot of possibly and could be, but it's an attempt to answer some questions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51876162

Looks like our league will carry on then - subject of course to opposition players not crying off and their club being allowed to postpone the match. I have a feeling that might happen in most of our remaining games!

[chipmunx]

Reading some of of the posts on this thread, I find them truly amazing that some people are treating this situation as a trivial matter.
Here in Czech we have all shops closed apart from food shops, all pubs restaurants, sports activities and culture events are also closed. We cant even leave the country. I am guessing similar measures may be applied soon in the UK, SO BE PREPARED.

It probably will come - the travel one should be quickly implemented.
All flights, boats and trains across the channel will be stopped.
Anyone trying to get round the ban and illegally enter the country will be quarantined and then either jailed or deported.

[prague bluebird]

Reading some of of the posts on this thread, I find them truly amazing that some people are treating this situation as a trivial matter.
Here in Czech we have all shops closed apart from food shops, all pubs restaurants, sports activities and culture events are also closed. We cant even leave the country. I am guessing similar measures may be applied soon in the UK, SO BE PREPARED.

It probably will come - the travel one should be quickly implemented.
All flights, boats and trains across the channel will be stopped.
Anyone trying to get round the ban and illegally enter the country will be quarantined and then either jailed or deported.
It would be difficult to enter or leave Czech Illegally at the moment, there are only limited flights to places such as Russia (who wants that) and the army is on the border.

[olbarrafancumbak]

It probably will come - the travel one should be quickly implemented.
All flights, boats and trains across the channel will be stopped.
Anyone trying to get round the ban and illegally enter the country will be quarantined and then either jailed or deported.
It would be difficult to enter or leave Czech Illegally at the moment, there are only limited flights to places such as Russia (who wants that) and the army is on the border.

So nice neighbours then..

[chipmunx]

It probably will come - the travel one should be quickly implemented.
All flights, boats and trains across the channel will be stopped.
Anyone trying to get round the ban and illegally enter the country will be quarantined and then either jailed or deported.
It would be difficult to enter or leave Czech Illegally at the moment, there are only limited flights to places such as Russia (who wants that) and the army is on the border.

I was thinking more that's what will happen in the UK

[Jonty]

This is a view from Simon Stone on BBC Sports. A lot of possibly and could be, but it's an attempt to answer some questions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51876162

Looks like our league will carry on then - subject of course to opposition players not crying off and their club being allowed to postpone the match. I have a feeling that might happen in most of our remaining games!

Some on here still displaying unbelievable ignorance to this and that in some way players / clubs are “crying off”. Go and and look at the post above yours from Prague Bluebird.

[Jim]

As a global problem it is massive and very serious. Things may become dire here. However, one player quite correctly isolating himself in case he has the virus is a sensible precaution but not in my opinion a valid reason to call off a match.

As I said in another thread, if every business took that approach, the whole country would grind to a halt. For example, if one of the staff at your local supermarket has a cough and a temperature, and self-isolates, should it close - bearing in mind that there is far more probability of the other staff in a supermarket infecting people than there is of the Wrexham football team doing so?

[geobarrovian]

As a global problem it is massive and very serious. Things may become dire here. However, one player quite correctly isolating himself in case he has the virus is a sensible precaution but not in my opinion a valid reason to call off a match.

As I said in another thread, if every business took that approach, the whole country would grind to a halt. For example, if one of the staff at your local supermarket has a cough and a temperature, and self-isolates, should it close - bearing in mind that there is far more probability of the other staff in a supermarket infecting people than there is of the Wrexham football team doing so?

I understand why it's been called off but you raise an interesting point in the second paragraph, myself and a few others at work have self isolated after presenting symptoms but everyone else carried on at work on Friday in spite of obviously being in contact with us, I personally feel it's because the government advice has been too lax so far, in my profession at least where we can work from home easily we should have made the decision at least a week ago, we're playing catch-up desperately at the moment.

[Mozz]

Gents, Real Madrid are calling games off!!!! Ffs. It’s a serious thing , why don’t you all get serious?? People are dying from it!!!!

[andyg]

Eastleigh's manager has accused the Vanarama management of greed in their decision to continue the matches. Chesterfield manager along with our own are questioning the decision. There is not a cat's hell's chance we will play Barnet on Tuesday if we are believe what we are told that most of their team is in self isolation. Living in the Manchester area I was planning to make the trip to Barrow for the Wrexham match. My family were not sure even though I was at Old Trafford on Sunday. Got to admit I was slightly relieved when it was called off. Everything is a dilemma now but the Vanarama can put this to bed by suspending the games immediately - I wonder if they will?

[barrowaberdeen]

They've made the wrong call.

[andyg]

My belief is and it depends on so so many factors is that if the league can be suspended and we can kick off again sometime maybe in late April/early May or perhaps later crowds will be good even for teams with nothing to play for therefore it will help revenues etc etc. Better to watch Barrow on a pleasant June evening than on a windy rain swept February night. Plus the pitches will be good and conducive to out playing style Sorted!

[Tommylad]

My belief is and it depends on so so many factors is that if the league can be suspended and we can kick off again sometime maybe in late April/early May or perhaps later crowds will be good even for teams with nothing to play for therefore it will help revenues etc etc. Better to watch Barrow on a pleasant June evening than on a windy rain swept February night. Plus the pitches will be good and conducive to out playing style Sorted!

If the predictions that it will get worse in roughly 6 weeks are correct then it will be a lot later then June fixtures are being played. Which in itself brings a lot of issues with it re contracts/loans etc. This will cause absolute chaos