cmontheloknow

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/6984/scottish-fa-phase-35-adults-matchday-protocol.pdf No changing rooms, team talks on pitch. And of course, no fans.

I interpreted it that players had to travel to games with car windows open?

I used to go to the occasional Liverpool game with a pal in the 90s whern I was 15/16 or so and we'd stand on the Kop and go with the sway, and surge forward when something happened, and surge back when it passed. It was great. Capacities are key. Too many and you get a problem, as history has sadly shown. I will never forget those days on the Kop, even better when the Scousers lost.

You knew the joke was coming which made it funnier. IMO.

And 38 isn't viable with almost 3 mths of season lost already - has to be a middle ground to be found. Maybe in the interim going to 18 next season rather than 16.

A way they could get around the 38 game programme for the Premier would perhaps be to split the league into A & B for this season, and do a seeded 18 game programme. I know I know "can't have conferences at tier 6 blah blah" but lets be honest, the 38 games is a non starter.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3223

was going to say, he's as currant as a Warburtons fruity teacake.

Any post decrying anything other than the majority of last yerar's WRSJFA is a giveaway. For me though the nail in the tyre of his agrument is the pounding of teams for being 'boys clubs'. Every club must start somewhere. Some of the aforementioned WR clubs had less than glorious births in the Juveniles, amateurs, dead Seniors etc... Lok were on offshoot of a working men's club. The new start might confine some of these cultural dinosaurs to their own shelf in the Hampden museum.

As long as we don't get Barnes or Mitchell going all jive alongside it.

do you have a random name generator?

Even if Covid makes a restart challengiing, clubs will survive if those running them want them to survive. The only employees our clubs have are coaches and players, and for those it's a second job (or should be). There are running costs of course such as rates and taxes, but a halt to football for a few months won't kill off clubs - provided they don't have a wage bill that they have to pay. If there's a worst case scenario and football isn't viable for the timebeing, the volunteers who have kept things going since March will still, by and large, be about for a restart. Most Scottish clubs lived through years of world war, though King's Park one were that didn't due to their ground being bombed... but Stirling Albion bobbed up in their place. Football will go on.

What makes this all the funnier is that it shows just how much regard the players hold "10IAR". All this utter shite about it being some historical achievement.... Na, I want to go and get more coin. It's a job. Any of us,if circumstances were right, would take a pay rise and/or bigger challenge. I never get why footballers are held to some greater moral standard on this one, especially in an industry that is cut throat and their renewal of contract is entirely down to the whims of others.

Some teams returning to training this week while others checking availability of La Manga for a bit of mid season sunshine.

Pollok's club used to give it a substantial 5 figure sum each season - as recently as the early 00s when I was first a football club member - but by the end the football club were paying the social bills so it was inevitable it would have to go. Shawlands too much of a competition, some nights post committee when we rolled in we'd be their first customers of the evening - at 9.30pm! And on Lok's origins, no social club until the 70s but the football club were an offshoot of Pollokshaws Working Lads Club (or wehatever it was called), the football section.

Ok for one, which age groups do we think have the greatest issue with compliance, and which gender? I am going to stereotype and say young men, school age to 40s. They say integrity is doing the right thing when you think no one is looking. There will be less of a spotlight on tiers 5 and below, right down to the SAFA. So will all these young men do what they're required to? No one will be watching after all as there is no way they can be watched. The return to training is great, especially as there is very little community transmission right now. Some parts of Scotland practically escaped covid in the spring but will be the be so lucky in future months? Those areas still have their highly vulnerable, unlike other parts of UK. I think things will settle down but I don't think we've reached that point yet. I have absolutely no belief that 2020-21, if it starts, will finish. Even Neil DOncaster has conceded there will be issues in the months ahead. I have no doubt we can 'easily' socially distance in grounds but I have never been to a game where people volunteer to stand metres apart from one another and it is not going to happen as it won't be complied with. People don't consistently socially distance in workplaces, or in queues at the supermarket etc etc. I also think there are wider issues about supporter safety that the middens of the non-league scene cannot get close to dealing with. If someone pays an entry fee, are they expected to sign a waiver that says 'you enter at your own risk'? Just takes a litigious type to contract covid from an unsanitised barrier to stir that hornet's nest.

And neither can you run football clubs without complying with what SFA demand. Everything so far has been aimed specifically at SPFL divisions, yet there are pub teams in SAFA rubbing their hands with glee at playing games within the fortnight. Utterly deluded. Until SFA spell out how football can function at this level, it will not happen, no matter what they allow. You can go to the theatre as of 15/8 (in England anyway) but none can meet the criteria to do so. Same will apply to football clubs up here unless things slackened.

George Grierson seems one of the sensible ones: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/ayrshire-football-boss-says-hell-22557432

James Anderson's money went into a trust - it wasn't just given to SPFL to dish out as they saw fit.

Some good news perhaps re testing / need for it (assuming it will also apply below SPFL): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53870381

See the East Region SJFA secretary publically asking clubs to stop announcing friendlies. EoS did this last week or so too. Anything from WoS on that?

After Thursday night, I'll pay £13.99 to watch it on Teletext.

Any fans will be into games in SPFL, not us. Any teams playing friendlies will be in ther SPFL, not us. Just guesses but let's wait and see.