[Football] Next season start date confirmed

[sparkie]

Yep not criticising The club at all - but people will have paid their Season ticket off in full about 4 months ago or those paying by Direct Debit will have had money being taken since April 1st.
It's a lot of money if we aren't actually getting to go. i guess they will make an announcement in next few days

The first thing they need is the fixture list. Then a date for at least some fans in the stadium, so they can formulate a plan.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Hopefully Leeds will get a rampant Man City with a point to prove and get mullered 0-8

Surely Man City would be the ones with a point to prove if they came up against Elland Road's Finest?

 

[LamieRobertson]

You have to wonder what’s going to happen re leagues one and two ..how an earth are they going to survive with no/few fans and the extra costs involved in putting the match on ‘safely’ etc

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Doesn't give the Championship long to sort out what the feck they're doing with a whole bunch of teams does it. Fully expect the pair of 'massive' cheaters higher up to get off free and Wigan or Barnsley go down.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

All three were away from home first game of this season https://en.as.com/resultados/futbol/inglaterra/2019_2020/jornada/regular_a_1/

Imagined then

 

[goldstone]

There is no reason whatsoever that we cannot have all restrictions removed on football stadiums by September. This has gone on quite long enough already. The government needs to let life get back to normal, and quickly.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

There is no reason whatsoever that we cannot have all restrictions removed on football stadiums by September. This has gone on quite long enough already. The government needs to let life get back to normal, and quickly.

Didn't realise the Donald was a poster on NSC. Hi Donald!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

There is no reason whatsoever that we cannot have all restrictions removed on football stadiums by September. This has gone on quite long enough already. The government needs to let life get back to normal, and quickly.

Oh my. No reason. Yeah. That's right....

 

[Poojah]

You have to wonder what’s going to happen re leagues one and two ..how an earth are they going to survive with no/few fans and the extra costs involved in putting the match on ‘safely’ etc

It’s incredibly difficult for clubs at that level. Officially, crowds of some kind (circa 40%) can return from 1st October, which for many clubs is not that far off the kind of ratio they’d be filling most weeks anyway (local derbies etc. aside).

However, in reality that date is completely arbitrary. Who knows what might happen between now and then. As of right now it is not deemed safe to have crowds on stadiums, so 1st October assumes the picture will be better / safer then. Will it though? I’ve always erred on the optimism throughout the pandemic but even I recognise there’s a very good chance things will have gone downhill to some degree by then.

At Grimsby, we’ve mooted the idea of contracts which are commensurate with gates. It’s an interesting idea in principle, but it’s a difficult one for players to buy into and it doesn’t particularly help in the case of the 9 or 10 players we already have under contract.

We’ve survived to date largely thanks to the furlough scheme, but we already know that won’t exist past that point. For any club without wealthy owners prepared to effectively underwrite contracts with their own money, the situation is fraught with jeopardy.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Didn't realise the Donald was a poster on NSC. Hi Donald!

Well [MENTION=144]goldstone[/MENTION] is an elderly, stupid troll so they may be related.

 

[goldstone]

Oh my. No reason. Yeah. That's right....

Those of you too terrified to go out in public again can say at home, but those of us prepared to continue with our lives should be permitted to attend football matches.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

There is no reason whatsoever that we cannot have all restrictions removed on football stadiums by September. This has gone on quite long enough already. The government needs to let life get back to normal, and quickly.

Well, no reason whatsoever except the daily infection rate going up from 1700 to 2800 in just 7 days.

( Office of National Statistics figures ).

 

[Hampster Gull]

Those of you too terrified to go out in public again can say at home, but those of us prepared to continue with our lives should be permitted to attend football matches.

Yep

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Those of you too terrified to go out in public again can say at home, but those of us prepared to continue with our lives should be permitted to attend football matches.

I am not too terrified to go out, I am a keyworker who has been working through the lockdown. Your attitude is so binary. Large scale gatherings need careful management and I would personally give them a swerve. Until the scientific advice is otherwise I will remain cautious as that is sensible. Just because you 'are not terrified' that doesn't mean you or anyone else has a right to further spread or reignite this nasty disease. There were plenty of people in some of the more Trump supporting states who thought as you do back in May. Look at where that has got them. My friend in Florida constantly posted Facebook memes and links stating that lockdown was stupid and that the cases were plummeting in any case blah blah. She has gone strangely quiet now, I wonder why. There are big case rises in Catalonia right now due largely to people being crammed together in nightclubs. It doesn't seem that different to cramming onto trains or the concourses.