Greenridge

The benefit of hindsight. And the same people have been quoting Sweden as a reference for a relaxed approach (which is not a great example based on latest statistics) and would have whined about an earlier lockdown impacting their civil liberties or some other left wing cr@p. Oh and they couldn’t have lived without being able to go to MacDonalds. Let’s face it. WHO didn’t know how to address it and there’s been a multitude of different approaches from different countries. They’ve all taken a punt on what they think the right approach would be. Some have worked better than others. Some placed their money on red some on black.

Proportionally Sweden is struggling massively with deaths more than 3x that of the combined deaths of Denmark, Finland and Norway. And let’s not pretend they are carrying on as normal. I spend a third of my working life in Scandinavia and two thirds of that in Sweden. Many of the ‘rules’ may only be guidelines but they are followed as if they were law. Most companies have employees working from home, they are practicing social distancing, travel within the country is down 90%, universities are closed. The list goes on.

After this horrible time in history is over I’ll firstly think about the awful global loss of lives then I’ll think of what an absolute t1t you made of yourself. Ably assisted by a handful of other loons.

And it is well known that South Korea was more experienced in managing these scenarios due to their experience with SARS. It’s also widely accepted that their rigorous quarantine measures and testing have contributed to their success in controlling Covid19 and not, as your Government hating friend was trying to tell us through shutting down travel. They have done lots that many, if not most countries could learn from, not just the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/south-korea-rapid-intrusive-measures-covid-19

New Zealand has a tenth of the UK population in a country with a similar land mass. Australia has little more than a third of the UK population in a country more than 30 times the size of the UK.

And the same period of 2020 will see the death rate around 50% higher than the normal rate at this time of the year and who knows what that figure would have been without the controls put in place.

Lots of clubs doing the same at the moment. Amazing how quickly they can get the new surface up and running.

Some player that Bertrand / bertrand fella!

I was rather addressing Bangkok's point about player contact. And yes you are of course right. There's a lot to work out but you know that football is a multi-billion pound game so I actually don't think the costs of testing will be an issue in monetary terms but the opportunity cost ie ensuring that frontline / key etc workers not being compromised on their testing etc maybe more of an issue.

I'm assuming one of the criteria to be met is that all players and coaching staff will be tested beforehand and regularly thereafter.

I saw Richards at the Botley Park Hotel the evening before he signed. If I recall correctly he was one of those signings without much prior build-up or widespread knowledge?

No one is saying all of them and I should have been clearer. ‘Some’ may have been a more appropriate word. One is too many of course. Especially if it could be prevented.

I’m not ‘trying’ to say anything. I’m making an observation. I think that’s obvious.

They may well have contracted CV outside of their line of work.

Bottom line is you don’t know but that’s seemingly not stopping you getting all bent out of shape about it.

Yes, as I said I over-simplified it but the fact that the Gov will receive 45% taxation from the players wages far exceeds what they would pay SFC employees on the furlough scheme so as we are not taking advantage of it is a massive help to the Gov coffers. Albeit some of that tax might be delayed a few months.

Well I guess either the Government get 45% tax from the players wages or they pay 80% of the salaries so it's a win-win either way. Yes, I've over-simplified it.

Che Adams has posted the PlayersTogether initiative as has Romeu and others so they are doing their bit. Hopefully you are too.

100% this. Somewhat of a curveball from Gao. Interesting.

No, he was doing his bit to support a couple of self-employed ladies too!

By hosting a party?

Really? That was one throw-away comment in an hour+ extensive and detailed update in response to a specific media question.

Saints eye Omar https://apple.news/A6js7tnQzQ06As3iEtJ-JbQ

WBA have released a statement that Austin has NOT tested positive for Coronavirus. He really is some sort of grade A knobber. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11961147/coronavirus-west-brom-clarify-charlie-austin-has-not-tested-positive

That is exactly the reason.