Steven W

In fairness he spoke well. And him coming on every week to Off The Ball is to his credit.

East Stirlingshire are playing Falkirk tonight at the Falkirk stadium. Game behind closed doors with no one allowed to attend. Meanwhile, at the same time, a fun fair is going full pelt in the car park.....

That was announced before the events (put back to 5 October as part of last week's new measures). Not as a result of the weekend events. Jason Leitch on Off The Ball at the weekend mooted the prospect of each team doing a pilot event as every stadium is different. He seemed to suggest that these could take place over the next few weeks

I can only assume infections must have soared in the back of it, as SG have confirmed no pilot events this weekend.

I've not, so i've not seen any details of it. Surprised at that (maybe you've read it though). Especially when Devi is still pushing zeo covid

Interesting that Ireland have today adopted a 'Living with Covid Plan'.

Sooner or later, this is going to result in a harsh shielding program, and the pursual of herd immunity for everyone else unless the vaccine comes soon. I heard John Sutton (of all people) ask Jason Leitch a question today. He was comparing flu to Covid and how we live with flu and get on with our lives, and therefore will we have crowds of 50,000+ at football matches in the near future. JL replied that "I was with you until you said near future". He then basically said that Covid will become comparable with flu in time as, among other things 'we build up immunity'. It was a hint at herd immunity from him. Something I think we're actually already seeing in places (fuckin' hope so!)

Next couple of games are important. I know it's early in the season, but they're still important. If we're not going to be adding to the squad (seems increasingly unlikely), then we've certainly got our work cut out. Most of the team are looking like the step up is a big ask. I guess it's up to the manager then to get the best out of them. I'm still confident he'll do that, but time will tell.

Either way it needs looking at.

Ah! That'll be it. If our infection rates were comparable them, then obviously we'd be having crowds like theirs. Would we f**k......

Decent (socially distant) crowd at the speedway in Poland tonight on BT. Meanwhile in Scotland were telling parents they can't watch their children play football...

Quite agree. "Long Covid" - FFS.

Caught a little of Lens v PSG last night. A fair sized crowd at that. A lot more than 300 anyway.....

Sweden added to the Safe Air Bridge Corridor. Interesting.....

Whilst obviously I have no inner knowledge of each teams' financial coming and goings, I deliberately said "League 1 and below, and most championship sides" as I'd say Hearts could last a while without fans (I think they shifted 11,500 season tickets). The others would clearly struggle. A strange angle to come at me from, when Im pretty sure you're in agreement with me.

I think those should go ahead too (with the crowd adhering to social distancing guidelines). The difference is, that the Premiership teams could probably survive all season if they had to with no fans. League 1 clubs and below (and some championship teams) can't survive with no fans, and thus no income. At present I suppose there's a chance that fans could be back in time for the season starting, but it doesn't look very likely does it?

Its up to the Joint Repsonse Group to make the case to the SG. We all know that there's no good reason why say, Lossiemouth v Strathspey, or Annan v Elgin etc couldn't go ahead with the crowd adhering to social distancing measures.

True. The SG has been applying a one size fits all approach throughout. In fairness, they've got a lot on their plate just now and probably cant be getting bogged down with the finer details of HL, WoSFL etc. That's where this Joint Response Group comes in, who should I detailing plans to demonstrate how fans could attend at this level very easily. So far the JRG have been like nodding dogs, but if they don't begin to stand up for the sport, we're going to lose a lot of clubs.

I think Scotland is opting out of one. You'd be forgiven for thinking that anyway. Nothing on the horizon..........

Parkrun to return in England towards the end of October. Wonder if or when it'll return up here?

One of them might but it's in Dingwall so a ban on house gatherings in Glasgow will have no effect. Your talking as if Glasgow residents are in full lockdown. Just weary of a lifetime of old firm shit

It is just the game in Glasgow, still happening outside the city. Think you're being a bit naive in my opinion. The pilot events MUST involve the OF!

Wouldn't take much to get it to EOS standard though. At the minute you can see in it from the outside, which I think was one of the reasons they were knocked back before (or it might have been another team) as thats an EOS no, no. But a fence all the way round, and I think it would be EOS standard (especially when you consider where Rosyth play)

hahaha!! bit of typo that!

I saw that too. I've no doubt that all three matches with test events will be shelved. But it's because of the Glasgow restrictions. Therefore only Rangers v Utd need be shelved. Will be interesting to see how it pans out. I've no doubt, keeping the gruesome twosome happy, and not risking possible perceived favouritism to anyone that might get their daft fanbase twitchy will play it's part as ever.