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St Anthony's are in the West of Scotland League now.

The ignore option filters out crackpots quite nicely

On the money here. Well done KL.

Whether people catch covid from playing football is immaterial. The amateur game goes on. What is being discussed here is the sense of PAID players playing without any income (and officials need paying too on top of that). That said, it is a gathering of 50+ workplaces (two squads, two management teams, two sets of committee members, however limited, maybe 3 match officials). It is a chance for the virus to spread (without supervision). People are not following protocols. I saw players last weekend breaking social distancing guidelines. I watched people hanging over the wall during Musselburgh v LTHV last night. My avatar is John Bishop playing for Southport in 1990. Today's opponents have cancelled because of Covid in the team. It's the latest example of many down there. We have had various matches off up here and that will continue. Disruption, chaos, mayhem, stress - for what?

bookmark my link and keep an eye on it over the next wee while. I will stick to official data when available. Cases aren't doubling every day, but they are doubling every 7-10 days (J Leitch, yesterday).

https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview 'view cases by neighbourhood' fill yer boots

We don't know how the clubs were split in East though, all LL have an opt out up til xmas with no penality. In West, clubs with wage bills don't want to play without a major source of income.

The LetFansIn movement is crackers. It might have worked in July or August - but now, as we head towards a rise in covid cases - putting increased pressure on hospitals? Yeah right. Before some libertarian #letthemalldie comes on, it's not about deaths, it's about the NHS being able to cope with hospitalisations, not just in terms of bricks and mortar but staffing too.

If I jump off a bridge, must you follow?

but seriously, Maxwell's message from the high towers of Hampden said that dressing rooms are still shut for teams:

The rules re:changing rooms have been updates so it's now possible for players to get changed. what is the change?

It's a bit of a joke - there's not a single professional player in the North Caledonian League. It's a good outocme for our clubs but a bit laughable.

"The one major change from before is the Lowland League Board decided to impose the suspension of Development team football from tomorrow to midnight on Sunday 25th October. This was done on the grounds of safety. "

The LL themselves banned u20 teams, not the SFA.

https://wosfl.co.uk/update-9th-october-2020/?fbclid=IwAR119sWWiPw5ohBZay4fE-NaTXn2yo-wxbhxX9KOrenC57CzzJY5BtqPGFQ

Ian Maxwell speaks:

Clubs have been told there is no promotion / relegation according to this interview.

There was no announcement yesterday which said the Lowland Development League teams could play. I don't disagree but I think (as league was postponed anyway and wasn't going to be granted anything) the granting of the clubs to play was an assumption the 20s could play their friendlies. Pollok FC is one club. We have 44 signed players. Whereas Glens 21s is a separate entity in terms of paperwork.

True - but various tweets today saying this was unexpected. I guess assumption being that they were and are the same teams. Pollok have 40+ signed players. We don't differentiate between 1st team and 20s on their registratios.

Development teams now told to not play, contrary to yesterday's announcement.

Well done to SFA for widening their view on this beyond Professional / Non Professional board. Not sure it's quite in spirit of what NS intended though!

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/kilsyth-rangers-take-west-scotland-22812400

EoS / SoS plan to play too, circuit breaker apart.