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St. Johnstone v Aberdeen (The Massey-Ferguson Main Event)


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1 minute ago, Bose said:

the SFA/SPFL will be desperate to keep the Scottish Government off their back. 

Sturgeon despises football so she'll be desperate to make an example of the league, and clubs. 

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Aberdeen have survived in this league on far flimsier pretexts. It’s time to throw the book at them.

Hiding behind the fact Stranraer don’t have regulation shower heads and therefore can’t take their place in the top flight won’t save them this time.
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Doesn't the match have to be cancelled now?  As shite as it would be so early in the season.

Is it the case that you don't necessarily test positive automatically when you get the virus, it might be a day or more before it shows up in a test?  Happy to be corrected on the science here.

But if that is the case, why on earth would they risk infection spreading to another club when it can hopefully be contained to just the one.

I'd be amazed if something doesn't come out on the back of this in terms of the Scottish government jumping on it.  They've hinted a few times at how folk socialising are being complacent and risk starting a second wave, so feel this might the ideal opportunity for them to make an example of public figures/ the club, or football in general.

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6 minutes ago, Merkland Red said:

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Its true.

Two players being positive either means its either spreading through the squad, which means the game will have to be cancelled (a negative test doesn't prove you don't have the virus if its too early since exposure), or that both players (maybe more) breached protocol, which means they should be named and shamed.

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2 minutes ago, PauloPerth said:

Is it the case that you don't necessarily test positive automatically when you get the virus, it might be a day or more before it shows up in a test?  

Aye.

Could be 3-5 day it seems before you can test positive, and you're contagious before that.

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Just now, craigkillie said:

Can we please stop saying that the game will be cancelled. It won't be cancelled. Cancelled means called off permanently, never to be rearranged.

The match will be postponed if there are too many positive cases.

If we're going to come down to that level of pedantry,  there's no guarantee the season will play to a finish.  Maybe fixtures will have to be cancelled!

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If we're going to come down to that level of pedantry,  there's no guarantee the season will play to a finish.  Maybe fixtures will have to be cancelled!

Yes, this match (or any other set of matches) could end up being cancelled, as the entire final two months of last season were.

However, if this weekend's game is called off it is not going to be immediately cancelled, it is going to be postponed.
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3 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said:

Why? 

Non playing members of staff have tested positive before games and they still went ahead. 

Our game against St Mirren was literally cancelled for that reason just weeks ago.

A Twitter search shows folk from Aberdeen talking about a group of their players being at the Soul bar on Saturday night, they've tweeted this before news of the first positive test came out.

Not a good look for the players.

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Just now, Marshmallo said:

RandomGuy was on the Falkirk thread a couple of weeks ago saying this was literally impossible, so I'm not surprised to see he wants people put in stocks in the High Street for contracting a highly contagious virus.

I said if everyone followed protocols it would be impossible.

I clearly didn't expect a bunch of players to spend all night crammed into a pub.

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1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:

I said if everyone followed protocols it would be impossible.

I clearly didn't expect a bunch of players to spend all night crammed into a pub.

Is there a list of protocols players have signed up to?

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2 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said:

Why? 

Non playing members of staff have tested positive before games and they still went ahead. 

I'd like us to play a weakened Aberdeen team, we've waited long enough for football to restart without having games put off already.  

But if theres potentially Aberdeen players carrying the virus that haven't yet tested positive, is it worth the risk of it spreading to another club? Then Saints play rangers and Hibs and we get a chain of cases throughout the league.

Possibly they are expecting this to happen, and the leagues attitude is get on with it and field a team of non-affected players, but I'd be surprised if the government were okay with that.

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I will be watching Sky Sports football at 12.30 on Saturday and there’s absolutely nothing that the SPFL, Aberdeen or the Scottish Government can do to stop me. 
I'm envisaging some kind of Estonia v Scotland scenario.

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13 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

Its true.

Two players being positive either means its either spreading through the squad, which means the game will have to be cancelled (a negative test doesn't prove you don't have the virus if its too early since exposure), or that both players (maybe more) breached protocol, which means they should be named and shamed.

No-one should be 'named and shamed' for obvious fucking reasons.

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RandomGuy was on the Falkirk thread a couple of weeks ago saying this was literally impossible, so I'm not surprised to see he wants people put in stocks in the High Street for contracting a highly contagious virus.
The latest demand from the Mrs Lovejoy types is that every Dons player should be sacked, the club ejected from the league immediately, and for good measure everyone in Aberdeen who was out for a drink at the weekend to be suspended on no pay from their work for two weeks.

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