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Post by laughinggas on Apr 4, 2020 19:50:14 GMT
This keeps being mentioned, but am I missing something?
Surely every member of a football club would have to go into a form of lockdown in a hotel, I.e. become a family. This would include hotel staff, coach drivers absolute ebpveryone involved.
Once you know that both teams are clear then the game can be played and it's back to your hotel.
A high level isolation.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 19:56:43 GMT
It's a stupid idea.
We have half-finished the 2019-2020 season.
This must be made a two year season.
Then we'll finish this 2019-2021 season.
We have that poxy Oil Crook World Cup too.
We can fit two seasons in by May 2021.
So let's have one.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 4, 2020 22:42:52 GMT
What a stupid idea.
Football as a hobby or interest is not important at the moment. That clubs and regulators feel they have right to play with the lives of football players and key staff to satisfy TV, gambling, sponsorship contracts is repugnant. When the CV issue is under control then we, as a football community, can then all decide the best way forward. As it is football is less of a priority than putting all our efforts and time/capital to minimising the effects of the horrible situation.
I do though have an idea. Why don't the government place emergency tax measures so that anyone earning an 'excessive' income pay 60% above a given threshold - say $2,000,000 per year. That way footballers get treated the same but don't have to decide how much, if any at all, to 'donate'. This would also apply to any other well remunerated individual in any industry as they must all recognise that their wealth is only worth anything in a country that functions and has a strong society.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 0:39:17 GMT
What a stupid idea. Football as a hobby or interest is not important at the moment. That clubs and regulators feel they have right to play with the lives of football players and key staff to satisfy TV, gambling, sponsorship contracts is repugnant. When the CV issue is under control then we, as a football community, can then all decide the best way forward. As it is football is less of a priority than putting all our efforts and time/capital to minimising the effects of the horrible situation. I do though have an idea. Why don't the government place emergency tax measures so that anyone earning an 'excessive' income pay 60% above a given threshold - say $2,000,000 per year. That way footballers get treated the same but don't have to decide how much, if any at all, to 'donate'. This would also apply to any other well remunerated individual in any industry as they must all recognise that their wealth is only worth anything in a country that functions and has a strong society. Dont think the government will want to hit all their buddies and themselves so they will probably just stick to blaming footballers for earning too much. Lets not let this affect the old etonians for goodness sake. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 15:22:26 GMT
What a stupid idea. Football as a hobby or interest is not important at the moment. That clubs and regulators feel they have right to play with the lives of football players and key staff to satisfy TV, gambling, sponsorship contracts is repugnant. When the CV issue is under control then we, as a football community, can then all decide the best way forward. As it is football is less of a priority than putting all our efforts and time/capital to minimising the effects of the horrible situation. I do though have an idea. Why don't the government place emergency tax measures so that anyone earning an 'excessive' income pay 60% above a given threshold - say $2,000,000 per year. That way footballers get treated the same but don't have to decide how much, if any at all, to 'donate'. This would also apply to any other well remunerated individual in any industry as they must all recognise that their wealth is only worth anything in a country that functions and has a strong society. Dont think the government will want to hit all their buddies and themselves so they will probably just stick to blaming footballers for earning too much. Lets not let this affect the old etonians for goodness sake. Priceless. This from the bloke who moans on and on the moment anybody else posts anything political and insists that this is a forum for Rovers, Rovers and just Rovers. At least that's established rules for what's allowed, and in future when anything not directly involving Rovers is being discussed and you wade in again, you can be told that you are as bad as the rest of us and just to let others get on with their discussion. Where you do actually have a point here though is that, over the last 4 years, we've been treated to a never-ending stream of 'celebrity' gobsh1tes, people like Hugh Grant, Geldoff, Patrick Stewart, Daniel Craig, Elton John, Rowling, Beckham, Cowell, Cumberbatch, Elba and plenty of others, all demanding air time to foist their opinions on us, but I can't find anything on line about any of them giving any of their millions to help with this crisis, so in that regard, they are all massive hypocrites and are every bit as bad as PL footballers. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 19:12:37 GMT
Nice to see you two back to this argumentative flirting again.
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Post by irishrover on Apr 6, 2020 12:10:44 GMT
I believe the idea that is being discussed is the possibility of players/teams/officials/broadcasters being quarantined in a single area and simply being shuttled to the ground, stadium and accommodation. The idea comes from the NBA in the US who want to requistion 2 Las Vegas Hotels next to the main arena and then play all the games on permanent rotation in that arena. Doesn't sound remotely feasible to me because all that has to happen is 1 out of the couple of thousand people (minimum) involved get it and the whole thing would be shut down. There's an idea for Baseball that sounded slightly more realistic because it involved players staying in self-contained flats at their spring training bases and never leaving apart from being bussed to games at another team's complex (so no hotel staff coming and going) and they are in US states that have been less badly hit. But even if feasible it would only work for that very unique context.
Bottom line is that sports administrators don't have anything much to do at the moment and are presumably trying to justify their existence and the sports press are in a similar situation so will be delighted to report any old nonsense somebody fantasised on the back of a fag packet. But, who knows, governments are apparently very keen on ideas to get some sport played in order to entertain people stuck at home so maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 16:42:10 GMT
Pile o' s**te, mate.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 19:03:43 GMT
Hopeful of the season to end behind closed doors. Won’t have to watch Garnerball then.
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Post by davehuddscousin on Apr 10, 2020 10:59:27 GMT
The A-League in Australia played some games behind closed doors before the season was suspended.
Its is an idea worth considering if restrictions are eased, but its not without its problems. However it is a better option that declaring the season void (as West Ham and no doubt every other club in danger of relegation is lobbying for!)
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