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Scenario: Your team has won the WOSFL Premier Division would you prefer if your team was 1) promoted to the Lowland League or 2) remain in the WOSFL

Glenaftons pitch has had a fair amount of investment and professional input over the past few years and is in better condition for this time of year than I've ever seen it.

I think the fact it took the referee some time to decide whether the game should be on or not means it was far from being frozen solid. Stop exaggerating. And if it is a 100 mile round trip from Barrhead to New Cumnock I would suggest you consult a map. Stop exaggerating.

And if the initial costs are say 70k or upwards for floodlights etc do the benfits still outweigh the costs, how long until that investment if it is manageable is clawed back?

Not into medieval circuses myself. The whole charade is an embarrassment.

Last season only .

WOSFL is rapidly turning into a farce, a supposedly professional football organisation and they cannot make a decision on a team turning up with seven players, shocking. Their lack of decision making is preventing the affected clubs from pushing on with : Pitch renovation New season sponsorship Signing of existing players Signing of new players. It really is time they got their act together and make the only logical decision available unless they are wanting a rerun of the farcical situation that played out at Glenafton.

You would need to be very gullible to think Glencairn were not trying to gain an advantage by releasing players early. That move failed so doon yous go kicking n screaming. I wonder where the keeper of many clubs will play next season? Wonder if the judgement on the Blantyre faisco will be out before DArvel's two promotion games are completed. Could draft in Sue Gray to speed things up a bit. .

WOSL is a new organisation are you sure there are rules covering this scenario, if so why the delay in decision making?

The integrity of the game at this level is at stake here. The decision reached could have a knock on effect for many years as this is probably setting a precedent. A correct code of conduct has to be established that prevents teams manipulating the 7 player rule. Under no circumstances should any team have the power to get a game abandoned and thus obtaining a replay by using the 7 player rule. The team with less that 7 players must be seen to have lost the game and a 3-0 awarded to the opposition. Glenafton in this instance. Any other decision sets a ridiculous precedent. Personally I think a points deduction is appropriate for Blantyre for next season.

No alternative but to close it for at least a month and take it from there.

All dependent on the supply of the vaccine and efficiency of the process, Few vacancies getting advertised for positions within the mass vaccination programme so presume the Oxford one is getting passed ok. Add in the 6 weeks / 2 months whatever for the double dosage to kick in properly. The current rate is about 250k per week UK wide getting first dosage and with Approx 25 million to receive it shows the mountain of folk to get through. Good luck to them.

You were heavily on the side that the virus would be over by November at one time were you not due to the large chunk of the population being exposed tothe virus earlier in the year? That disn't pan out too well unfortunately. On the contrary rather than playing out a pointless season which will be over before the players are anywhere near to gtting vaccinated and with the new more virulent strains I would close it today at lower levels help stop the spread throughout the wider more vulnerable community.

So how did all your theories pan out?

Cost as well with the Ocford Astra Zenica vaccine being significantly cheaper and supposedly being made under not for profit. The UK will use up the Pfizer vaccines they have preordered but unless it shows significant advantage amongst certain people there should't be a need to go back for more.

He's demeaned yourself, he's slagged off all the teams in the West that have withdrawn calling them a cabal and slagged of all their committees for not adapting to the financial situation. Some guy Burnieman eh !! Oh and it'll still be thats PnB for you.

They've obviously budgeted over a season what their income will be and nothing you have said alters that overall income just temp. cash flow issues possibly if they don't have a buffer which I'm sure most of them have. If the leagues start and players are on full wages at all the clubs there will be casualties unfortunately before the season ends unless circumstances change dramatically from now, e.g. grants or vaccine or natural die out of virus.

Gate money is only a portion of the equation, perhaps 30% at most with some clubs. Match day hospitality, match day social club income, Pie shop, half time draws being other equally if not bigger contributors combined and all that gone. How do you replace that offer cyber pie n bovrils at half time to increase their income? Do you not think they have tried other avenues for income? The current model is the model that works for those clubs in their communities and for many has been very succesdul I thought you would at least have had the decency to respect that before calling them a cabal and relying on gate money in what is a low grade spectator sport.

"Needlessly panicked and jumped shipped", you are not being serious surely? Their statement quite clearly states its down to financial implications of the current restrictions, its no that difficult to get your head around. In a few weeks there would be no money for wages due to dependency on match day income. Sounds like the correct decision to me. I would be very surprised if many teams across the leagues with sizable outgoings do not come to the same conclusion down the line, probably sooner than later.

I'll watch the league with interest as my team is out, and justifiably so under current conditions, I reckon it'll all be done n dusted for Christmas.

If the leagus starts without supporters there will be more club casualties than if the league was mothballed for a year. By far and away the biggest part of most teams expenditure is wages. Any teams out there currently paying wages or getting pressurised by players to pay them?

I wonder if they got the go ahead from their committees to start without fans or maybe they have some arrangement with the players that they will all contribute their time and effort for free. Starting without fans and virtually zero income and expectecting to be paid is going to bring nothing but extreme financial hardship on the clubs, probably most will not be able to meet their obligations very quickly and then what?

Where is the scientific information that it is over in Western Europe? Cases are escalating in many countries look at France 15k plus per day. Today the chief scientific adviser warned of a potential 50k cases per day in the UK with 200 plus deaths daily a month down the line. ( Thats 0.4% mortalty). Where is the evidence you talk about of this immunity I would be interested to read it as the biggest study shows 7% with antibodies a long way off herd immunity.

The tests seemed pretty detailed but time will tell, hopefully you are correct. but personally I don't think for one minute UK is anywhere near here immunity look at how the cases are rising throughout Europe why would we be any different from the likes of France? Unfortunately the weaker frailer members of society will bear the brunt and the mortality stats will rise . https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/news/largest-home-antibody-testing-publishes-results

The largest study of over 100,000 people a couple o f month back showed on average 7% of the population are carrying antibodies, where is the evidence that the pandemic is over and a second wave could not happen?