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Post by zenfootball2 on Jun 29, 2020 10:15:54 GMT 1
www.shropshirestar.com/sport/football/shrewsbury-town-fc/2020/06/29/shrewsbury-eyeing-a-september-return/Shrewsbury Town chief executive Brian Caldwell says the club are working towards a potential September 12 start for the 2020/21 season. Following the curtailment of the last campaign, no official dates have been announced for when football can return in League One and League Two. Sam Ricketts’ side have not played since March 7 and with the Premier League and Championship currently completing their seasons, Shrews will likely not feature again for another three months. “We’re working on the basis that it could be mid-September,” he told the Shropshire Star. “The last we were told it could be the last week in August or mid-September – there’s an international break the week of September 5 so we’re hearing through the grapevine, without anything official, that it could potentially be September 12. We’re trying to base it on that until anything is confirmed, but it’s what we’ve heard from a few places.”
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2020 10:26:48 GMT 1
Old school.
I remember the season starting during September back in the day.
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Jun 29, 2020 10:32:27 GMT 1
The thing is though, you do wonder what those who make the decision are waiting on, what they are they basing this on. What exactly is the criteria that needs to be met before the 3rd and 4th divisions can resume. And how does it differ to the current situation where the season was curtailed. It would be interesting to get an understand of that. For example, will we only start things up again once supporters are allowed back in.
Just as a side, the Kickers and the Oberliga here in Germany have August 20th penciled in to start again. Again, no details about whether that will mean supporters being allowed in. My lads kids team are now back to full training, full contact. Whether the English leagues will once again wait and see how things turn out over here again...maybe.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jun 29, 2020 10:55:10 GMT 1
it will give the squad the time to get back to full fitness
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jun 29, 2020 11:02:15 GMT 1
For me personally i would always prefer a later start date than we have been getting in recent seasons, August to me is still for summer activities. I dont really turn my attentions to autumn/winter activities till we see the nights drawing in quickly.
But i do see the reason why we do start earlier due to fitting all the games in. So how are we going to fit them all in starting mid September?? Not too much of an issue for clubs at our level as we could play on into next summer if we had to but going to be a huge issue in the top 2 divisions with the Euros next summer. There is a deadline to have the season finished at the usual time.
Are managers just going to have to face up to having to play 2 games most week?(cue big moans from the likes of Klopp et al, and from our own SR too). Will clubs have to have even bigger squads to cope with even more squad rotation? Will clubs at our level be able to afford bigger squads? What will happen if we get a second spike meaning we get another delay?. Lots of things to get sorted, still interesting times ahead for sure.
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Post by harboroughshrew on Jun 29, 2020 11:14:28 GMT 1
Always thought mid-September would be the earliest possible date for our season to restart. It could be chaos because several clubs could go to the wall around or just before that once the furlough scheme finishes. A full season behind closed doors is not sustainable financially for clubs like ours. All we can do is hope for the best and that at least some of us will get the chance to see the games in person next season - watching some of the Premier League games behind closed doors shows how much of an effect the crowd has in lifting the players, a lot of the first-halves in particular have been absolutely dire to watch.
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Post by claphamshrew on Jun 29, 2020 13:43:13 GMT 1
I’d favour this as it’ll hopefully avoid the usual problem regarding low attendances in the early weeks of the season due to the overlap with the cricket season and people being away on their summer holidays.
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Post by Minormorris64 on Jun 29, 2020 14:22:59 GMT 1
Old school. I remember the season starting during September back in the day. Just out of curiosity which League Season would that be? Because even in the heady days of 1950/51 Towns Season started on Saturday August 19th And in 1969/70 it started as early as August 9th
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Post by trojanskin on Jun 29, 2020 14:39:20 GMT 1
it will give the squad the time to get back to full fitness Are we still waiting for Cummings to be fully fit? Lol.
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jun 29, 2020 15:38:23 GMT 1
Old school. I remember the season starting during September back in the day. Just out of curiosity which League Season would that be? Because even in the heady days of 1950/51 Towns Season started on Saturday August 19th And in 1969/70 it started as early as August 9th 69/70 started (and finished) particularly early due to the dates of the World Cup. The successful clubs, Leeds in particular suffered huge fixture pressure due to this.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2020 19:41:10 GMT 1
Old school. I remember the season starting during September back in the day. Just out of curiosity which League Season would that be? Because even in the heady days of 1950/51 Towns Season started on Saturday August 19th And in 1969/70 it started as early as August 9th Yes, you're right. Mid to late August most years when I was younger according to BoTS. Maybe my memory is playing up because some our first home games may have in September.
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Post by callum on Jun 29, 2020 19:55:30 GMT 1
It won't worry us but there will also be less time to fit in the world cup qualifiers with the euros being next year.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jun 29, 2020 20:25:50 GMT 1
Burnley will not be renewing Jo Hart's contract so after june30th he will be looking for new pastuers. seeing players making fist pumps with the ref and other players make no sense to me, why are they having any avoidable physical contact ? .when you have no ball boys as balls are located all round the ground and when out of play get sanatized
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jun 29, 2020 20:33:56 GMT 1
It won't worry us but there will also be less time to fit in the world cup qualifiers with the euros being next year. It may affect us, games even in L1 get called off due to international call ups sometimes or have to play without players called up
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Post by Chief Inspector Swan on Jun 29, 2020 20:34:07 GMT 1
Burnley will not be renewing Jo Hart's contract so after june30th he will be looking for new pastuers. seeing players making fist pumps with the ref and other players make no sense to me, why are they having any avoidable physical contact ? .when you have no ball boys as balls are located all round the ground and when out of play get sanatized If I’m reading your post correctly, are you suggesting Joe Hart has been released because of players fist bumping and the lack of ball boys?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2020 23:31:43 GMT 1
Burnley will not be renewing Jo Hart's contract so after june30th he will be looking for new pastuers. seeing players making fist pumps with the ref and other players make no sense to me, why are they having any avoidable physical contact ? .when you have no ball boys as balls are located all round the ground and when out of play get sanatized If I’m reading your post correctly, are you suggesting Joe Hart has been released because of players fist bumping and the lack of ball boys? Yes ! Next .
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Post by LetchworthShrew on Jun 30, 2020 11:40:07 GMT 1
Burnley will not be renewing Jo Hart's contract so after june30th he will be looking for new pastuers. seeing players making fist pumps with the ref and other players make no sense to me, why are they having any avoidable physical contact ? .when you have no ball boys as balls are located all round the ground and when out of play get sanatized Last night in the Palace v Burnley game during the drinks break they also sprayed the goals and corner flags with sanitizer. Palace had to have a wall knocked down to make the home dressing room bigger to allow distancing. The away dressing room is now in portable units. Burnley went down on a train from Stockport and had 3 coaches to take them back to maintain " distancing".
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Jun 30, 2020 13:00:16 GMT 1
Just out of curiosity which League Season would that be? Because even in the heady days of 1950/51 Towns Season started on Saturday August 19th And in 1969/70 it started as early as August 9th Yes, you're right. Mid to late August most years when I was younger according to BoTS. Maybe my memory is playing up because some our first home games may have in September. My memory is of playing cricket until the end of August, so in my mind football started in September.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jun 30, 2020 18:25:58 GMT 1
Burnley will not be renewing Jo Hart's contract so after june30th he will be looking for new pastuers. seeing players making fist pumps with the ref and other players make no sense to me, why are they having any avoidable physical contact ? .when you have no ball boys as balls are located all round the ground and when out of play get sanatized Last night in the Palace v Burnley game during the drinks break they also sprayed the goals and corner flags with sanitizer. Palace had to have a wall knocked down to make the home dressing room bigger to allow distancing. The away dressing room is now in portable units. Burnley went down on a train from Stockport and had 3 coaches to take them back to maintain " distancing".
what is the point of all these measuers when fist pump each, the ref and managers fist pump each other as all of it just undoes the other measuers.
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Post by SouthStandShrew on Jun 30, 2020 18:38:03 GMT 1
I’d favour this as it’ll hopefully avoid the usual problem regarding low attendances in the early weeks of the season due to the overlap with the cricket season and people being away on their summer holidays. Always makes me laugh how people seem to think the cricket season has any real impact on attendances, it's mentioned on here every year.
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Post by LetchworthShrew on Jun 30, 2020 19:20:38 GMT 1
Last night in the Palace v Burnley game during the drinks break they also sprayed the goals and corner flags with sanitizer. Palace had to have a wall knocked down to make the home dressing room bigger to allow distancing. The away dressing room is now in portable units. Burnley went down on a train from Stockport and had 3 coaches to take them back to maintain " distancing".
what is the point of all these measuers when fist pump each, the ref and managers fist pump each other as all of it just undoes the other measuers. and I think they are still being tested twice a week too.
Wonder how many of these measures will still be "needed" when next season eventually is allowed to start?
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jun 30, 2020 19:24:51 GMT 1
I really don't see is getting back to it all that soon.
Or if we do it won't be the football we know and love.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 30, 2020 19:27:04 GMT 1
what is the point of all these measuers when fist pump each, the ref and managers fist pump each other as all of it just undoes the other measuers. and I think they are still being tested twice a week too.
Wonder how many of these measures will still be "needed" when next season eventually is allowed to start?
If it is it costs, ok when you are telivised, but for us without a crowd it would just make us poorer.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 30, 2020 19:29:19 GMT 1
I’d favour this as it’ll hopefully avoid the usual problem regarding low attendances in the early weeks of the season due to the overlap with the cricket season and people being away on their summer holidays. Always makes me laugh how people seem to think the cricket season has any real impact on attendances, it's mentioned on here every year. When players might play cricket and football, it was them that did not really turn up - Ted Hemsley wasn't it?
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Post by Dale on Jun 30, 2020 19:44:35 GMT 1
For me personally i would always prefer a later start date than we have been getting in recent seasons, August to me is still for summer activities. I dont really turn my attentions to autumn/winter activities till we see the nights drawing in quickly. But i do see the reason why we do start earlier due to fitting all the games in. So how are we going to fit them all in starting mid September?? Not too much of an issue for clubs at our level as we could play on into next summer if we had to but going to be a huge issue in the top 2 divisions with the Euros next summer. There is a deadline to have the season finished at the usual time. Are managers just going to have to face up to having to play 2 games most week?(cue big moans from the likes of Klopp et al, and from our own SR too). Will clubs have to have even bigger squads to cope with even more squad rotation? Will clubs at our level be able to afford bigger squads? What will happen if we get a second spike meaning we get another delay?. Lots of things to get sorted, still interesting times ahead for sure. I guess a few solutions to fit all the games in is by scheduling more midweek league fixtures, next season’s FA Cup to have no replays and maybe scrap the League Cup and B Team Cup for next season?
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Post by Dale on Jun 30, 2020 19:46:43 GMT 1
It won't worry us but there will also be less time to fit in the world cup qualifiers with the euros being next year. With the 2022 World Cup being staged in the Autumn rather than the Summer, that should at least offer a few more months to get the qualifiers completed if needs be.
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Post by essofsteel on Jun 30, 2020 19:49:25 GMT 1
I haven't noticed any reduction in the continuous spitting by players during the game! What's the point of all the other safeguards when this is ignored?
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Post by LetchworthShrew on Jun 30, 2020 20:44:52 GMT 1
I haven't noticed any reduction in the continuous spitting by players during the game! What's the point of all the other safeguards when this is ignored? I thought they were trying to stop it but it does seem to happen quite a bit. I suppose with all the testing, sanitization etc it's seen as low risk anyway. If a player is positive then more chance of it being passed on through all the other contact during in the match, dressing room, training etc.
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Post by LetchworthShrew on Jun 30, 2020 20:53:05 GMT 1
and I think they are still being tested twice a week too.
Wonder how many of these measures will still be "needed" when next season eventually is allowed to start?
If it is it costs, ok when you are telivised, but for us without a crowd it would just make us poorer. The PL paid £4m for kits from a company in HK and they are tested privately in London. At the start of testing each club allocated 80 kits to test up to 40 players and staff twice a week. I would assume they will still being tested twice a week to ensure they have not contracted it away from the club.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jul 2, 2020 14:13:01 GMT 1
just seen a clip of how seating in odean cinemas will look like;
asking people to purchase tickets online , but automated machies in cinemas, plety of hand sanitizer stations a family bubble can sit together but then you have 3 seats free either side and the row behind is empty,so a huge drop in seating capacity
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