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Post by jules on Mar 14, 2020 15:32:41 GMT
To look on the positive side for a moment, if a decision is made to award Liverpool the Premier League title and promote Leeds & WBA, increasing the division by 2 teams, then presumably a precedent is set further down (although not necessarily so). In our favour is that National League South only has 22 teams this season, so scope for 2 more. Not sure how it would work though bearing in mind there are (I think) 2 Southern League Premier Divisions.
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Post by Kenty in Weardale on Mar 14, 2020 18:35:08 GMT
I did go to the Spennymoor v Hereford game which fwiw was won by Spenny 4-0.
I have to say that there was a very flat atmosphere; Spenny went into the play off places as a result but no one I spoke to felt that there was any chance of the league being completed and players did seem a bit distracted. The attendance was up by about 200 despite there being very few travelling Bulls
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Post by westsussexisred on Mar 14, 2020 20:01:12 GMT
To look on the positive side for a moment, if a decision is made to award Liverpool the Premier League title and promote Leeds & WBA, increasing the division by 2 teams, then presumably a precedent is set further down (although not necessarily so). In our favour is that National League South only has 22 teams this season, so scope for 2 more. Not sure how it would work though bearing in mind there are (I think) 2 Southern League Premier Divisions. If this virus didnt exist and a normal season was finished then 8 teams would have come up from step 3 and 4 down from step 2. We would have gone up to 24 teams anyway.
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Post by wwrebel on Mar 15, 2020 11:32:13 GMT
Promote ourselves and Truro to NLS!
Think we will know a lot more after next week's UEFA and FA meetings.
Hard to see this season carrying on at all especially with the end of the virus seemingly months away. By that time players contracts will have ended and loan deals would have finished.
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Post by vertigate on Mar 15, 2020 17:49:38 GMT
Well from personal experience of watching football as far north as Manchester, speaking to people from all over the country at the 6 games I went to last weekend as well as a game on the outskirts of Southampton yesterday, whilst standing next to people from Norfolk, I am still yet to come across ANYONE who even knows ANYONE who has come close to finding this so called apocalyptic virus! Jeez, I have been trying my hardest to catch it and cannot find it ANYWHERE. The morons of the world are missing a trick panic buying pasta, bog roll and hand gel, its funeral slots we should all be panic buying if you believe enough of the BS being peddled in the media (post Brexit boredom no doubt) - I got mine pencilled in for 2nd April as it was the earliest slot available at the time of booking!! Why panic buy pizza and pasta when the Italians are supposedly at the epicentre? ? Beggars belief really.... Perhaps this country needs it more than we think. Time for Boris to come out and end the madness in this country with a new, modified simple slogan - LETS GET FOOTBALL DONE!!!. After all, according to Bill Shankly (who had far more sense than anyone in today's media channels), football is far more important than life or death. The league are obviously too cowardly to continue as there was no requirement for them to cancel the games at the weekend and still is no requirement for them to cancel matches going forward, there is no ban on arranging friendly matches. Come on Worthing, lead the way, get some football organised and show the world that there is nothing to worry about and let the sensible people carry on as normal, watching football and keeping us all out of the supermarkets and killing ourselves from an overdose of carbohydrates. Although the irony of the scousers being robbed of the title is mildly amusing.
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Post by Keithsson on Mar 15, 2020 18:48:23 GMT
Well from personal experience of watching football as far north as Manchester, speaking to people from all over the country at the 6 games I went to last weekend as well as a game on the outskirts of Southampton yesterday, whilst standing next to people from Norfolk, I am still yet to come across ANYONE who even knows ANYONE who has come close to finding this so called apocalyptic virus! Jeez, I have been trying my hardest to catch it and cannot find it ANYWHERE. The morons of the world are missing a trick panic buying pasta, bog roll and hand gel, its funeral slots we should all be panic buying if you believe enough of the BS being peddled in the media (post Brexit boredom no doubt) - I got mine pencilled in for 2nd April as it was the earliest slot available at the time of booking!! Why panic buy pizza and pasta when the Italians are supposedly at the epicentre? ? Beggars belief really.... Perhaps this country needs it more than we think. Time for Boris to come out and end the madness in this country with a new, modified simple slogan - LETS GET FOOTBALL DONE!!!. After all, according to Bill Shankly (who had far more sense than anyone in today's media channels), football is far more important than life or death. The league are obviously too cowardly to continue as there was no requirement for them to cancel the games at the weekend and still is no requirement for them to cancel matches going forward, there is no ban on arranging friendly matches. Come on Worthing, lead the way, get some football organised and show the world that there is nothing to worry about and let the sensible people carry on as normal, watching football and keeping us all out of the supermarkets and killing ourselves from an overdose of carbohydrates. Although the irony of the scousers being robbed of the title is mildly amusing. Well you've sold it to me, I'm in. Having watched the lunchtime news I went to Woodside Road this afternoon half expecting the pitch to be covered in field tents because the UN had commandeered it as a field hospital. I expected to be stripped naked and hosed down in a CBRN decontamination shower... I even brought my soap on a rope. But no, no-one died, a game of football occurred and the only concession was elbow pumps rather than handshakes at the coin toss... and even they were forgotten by full time when everyone shook hands and hugged. Get on with it football. The top level leagues who instigated this ramping up of hysteria this weekend by ignoring the scientists can carry on being knee jerking surrender monkeys if they wish. But our level?, we don't have to be lemmings, just get on with it.
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Post by westsussexisred on Mar 15, 2020 20:46:47 GMT
Well from personal experience of watching football as far north as Manchester, speaking to people from all over the country at the 6 games I went to last weekend as well as a game on the outskirts of Southampton yesterday, whilst standing next to people from Norfolk, I am still yet to come across ANYONE who even knows ANYONE who has come close to finding this so called apocalyptic virus! Jeez, I have been trying my hardest to catch it and cannot find it ANYWHERE. The morons of the world are missing a trick panic buying pasta, bog roll and hand gel, its funeral slots we should all be panic buying if you believe enough of the BS being peddled in the media (post Brexit boredom no doubt) - I got mine pencilled in for 2nd April as it was the earliest slot available at the time of booking!! Why panic buy pizza and pasta when the Italians are supposedly at the epicentre? ? Beggars belief really.... Perhaps this country needs it more than we think. Time for Boris to come out and end the madness in this country with a new, modified simple slogan - LETS GET FOOTBALL DONE!!!. After all, according to Bill Shankly (who had far more sense than anyone in today's media channels), football is far more important than life or death. The league are obviously too cowardly to continue as there was no requirement for them to cancel the games at the weekend and still is no requirement for them to cancel matches going forward, there is no ban on arranging friendly matches. Come on Worthing, lead the way, get some football organised and show the world that there is nothing to worry about and let the sensible people carry on as normal, watching football and keeping us all out of the supermarkets and killing ourselves from an overdose of carbohydrates. Although the irony of the scousers being robbed of the title is mildly amusing. Well you've sold it to me, I'm in. Having watched the lunchtime news I went to Woodside Road this afternoon half expecting the pitch to be covered in field tents because the UN had commandeered it as a field hospital. I expected to be stripped naked and hosed down in a CBRN decontamination shower... I even brought my soap on a rope. But no, no-one died, a game of football occurred and the only concession was elbow pumps rather than handshakes at the coin toss... and even they were forgotten by full time when everyone shook hands and hugged. Get on with it football. The top level leagues who instigated this ramping up of hysteria this weekend by ignoring the scientists can carry on being knee jerking surrender monkeys if they wish. But our level?, we don't have to be lemmings, just get on with it. To be fair if the manager of one of the teams has got it and a half dozen of the teams having players in self isolation then I would expect to see games cancelled.
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Post by jules on Mar 15, 2020 21:23:00 GMT
I suspect we may have to get used to the fact that this season may not recommence and will therefore not end. Quite where that will leave us is anyones guess. Talk is, not denied by the Health Secretary, is that people over 70 will have to stay in doors for possibly 4 months. Countless people involved with clubs at our level will have volunteers in that category. To give you one example, Bognor's manager could well be confined to home until August under such circumstances. Can anyone really see the league carrying on under these circumstances?
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Post by Kenty in Weardale on Mar 15, 2020 22:25:23 GMT
Well from personal experience of watching football as far north as Manchester, speaking to people from all over the country at the 6 games I went to last weekend as well as a game on the outskirts of Southampton yesterday, whilst standing next to people from Norfolk, I am still yet to come across ANYONE who even knows ANYONE who has come close to finding this so called apocalyptic virus! Jeez, I have been trying my hardest to catch it and cannot find it ANYWHERE. The morons of the world are missing a trick panic buying pasta, bog roll and hand gel, its funeral slots we should all be panic buying if you believe enough of the BS being peddled in the media (post Brexit boredom no doubt) - I got mine pencilled in for 2nd April as it was the earliest slot available at the time of booking!! Why panic buy pizza and pasta when the Italians are supposedly at the epicentre? ? Beggars belief really.... Perhaps this country needs it more than we think. Time for Boris to come out and end the madness in this country with a new, modified simple slogan - LETS GET FOOTBALL DONE!!!. After all, according to Bill Shankly (who had far more sense than anyone in today's media channels), football is far more important than life or death. The league are obviously too cowardly to continue as there was no requirement for them to cancel the games at the weekend and still is no requirement for them to cancel matches going forward, there is no ban on arranging friendly matches. Come on Worthing, lead the way, get some football organised and show the world that there is nothing to worry about and let the sensible people carry on as normal, watching football and keeping us all out of the supermarkets and killing ourselves from an overdose of carbohydrates. Although the irony of the scousers being robbed of the title is mildly amusing. Hi mate, did the atmosphere feel odd at your games?
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Post by wwrebel on Mar 15, 2020 22:30:33 GMT
Another real concern regarding the impact of the virus must be the countless shops and businesses who may go bust if the country ends up in quarantine. How long will grass roots clubs such as ourselves be able to continue if there are no matches, no spectators, no income at the bar and nobody hiring out the facilities at Woodside if the country goes into a prolonged period of mass shutdown as is happening in Italy and Spain. I suppose the club could organise some friendlies in the short term but it will be extremely difficult to replace the missing finances this virus is bound to cause. Very worrying times.
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Post by westsussexisred on Mar 16, 2020 10:09:51 GMT
League meeting at 6 which will *hopefully* give us some more information. How would we all feel if we were promoted as a result of one of these meetings?
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Post by Keithsson on Mar 16, 2020 17:59:59 GMT
League meeting at 6 which will *hopefully* give us some more information. How would we all feel if we were promoted as a result of one of these meetings? Flat. We'd be deprived of 'our moment', that winning goal that seals it, the frantically following Football Web Pages for our opponents games, the trophy presentation, the champagne. I've been watching the post COBRA press conference... the season is definitely over, finito. It'd piss me right off but I find myself almost coming round to the idea of just writing off 2019/20. Everyone stays where they are, we go again in August (or whenever it is safe to do so again). It means all our efforts were for nothing but we need certainty now.
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Post by jules on Mar 16, 2020 18:20:40 GMT
I'm pretty sure now, as K says, next time we start a season, whenever that will be, we will still be in the Isthmian Premier. That's it now I think. What a waste that was. Gutted to be honest, but to keep it in perspective, people we know could well be losing their lives. Keep safe, the day WILL come when we are back at Woodside in the old routine. Keep the faith and keep well.
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Post by wwrebel on Mar 16, 2020 18:57:57 GMT
I have heard rumours that as the season is over 75% complete that any teams with games left, which is everyone, would be awarded 3 points for each game that hasn't been played.
Seems pretty ridiculous to me, teams with a fixture backlog would shoot up the table and a total of 6 points would be awarded for each game.
I have no idea what will happen. There was meant to be a restructuring of the non league pyramid taking place at the end of this season. Will that go ahead anyway??
With social distancing now in place for many weeks when can any sport look to realistically start to resume? My fear on the football issue is that many clubs won't be able to survive financially and will not be around to take part in next seasons competitions, whenever that will be.
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Post by wwrebel on Mar 16, 2020 19:48:57 GMT
Might be an idea other clubs will copy. Keeps some money coming in when there will little other income.
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