Boxing Day Game ??

[splott parker]

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New EFL guidance has said games will go ahead if teams can field 14 players including a goalkeeper.

https://www.efl.com/news/2021/december/efl-statement-covid-19-update/

Sounds like the issue for this weekends games were mostly in Derby’sand Stoke’s squads. Unless something big happens in the next few days I’d be surprised if the game doesn’t go ahead.

Can’t we field 14 including two goalkeepers in the more difficult fixtures?

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Can’t we field 14 including two goalkeepers in the more difficult fixtures?

You can tell things are bad when I read that and think "You know what? That's not a bad idea!"

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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You can tell things are bad when I read that and think "You know what? That's not a bad idea!"

Mick McCarthy would have asked for a postponement if he could only field four centrebacks.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Mick McCarthy would have asked for a postponement if he could only field four centrebacks.

Ain't that the truth!:xmashehe:

[Michael Morris]

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New EFL guidance has said games will go ahead if teams can field 14 players including a goalkeeper.

https://www.efl.com/news/2021/december/efl-statement-covid-19-update/

Sounds like the issue for this weekends games were mostly in Derby’s and Stoke’s squads. Unless something big happens in the next few days I’d be surprised if the game doesn’t go ahead.

Interesting to listen to Ryan Lowe on five live this evening who said he has a fully fit Preston squad but it was Millwall that called the game of citing Covid. He left it out there that a club could have injuries and claim Covid.

Which cynically was my first thought about Derby. They have history

[City123]

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I guess we'll have to wait and see

I don't think I'll be booking my travel to Bournemouth until the day before to be safe!

[Des Parrot]

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No pleeease not, I’m home for Christmas & have already got the tickets, it’s my only chance of a game this season.

[Grangenders]

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Interesting to listen to Ryan Lowe on five live this evening who said he has a fully fit Preston squad but it was Millwall that called the game of citing Covid. He left it out there that a club could have injuries and claim Covid.

Which cynically was my first thought about Derby. They have history

This is the issue. I don’t believe clubs have to prove the positive tests. With injuries, clubs could use the 10 day isolation period for Covid to cancel three games over Christmas.

[splott parker]

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This is the issue. I don’t believe clubs have to prove the positive tests. With injuries, clubs could use the 10 day isolation period for Covid to cancel three games over Christmas.

It’s dreadful if the main reason is unvaccinated players falling ill. We’ve had to prove our status for the last few games whilst the ones we're watching on the pitch have somehow got in the ground. They were out partying last weekend on their club ‘do’, which, no doubt didn’t help the unvaxxed lot.
People, who’ve followed advice, are home for Christmas, perhaps one of the only times of the season that they get to see their home town side and have a few pints with mates who they rarely see. I’m annoyed if this situation is down to dumb players believing tripe on social media.

[The Lone Gunman]

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Is Drakeford taking the piss out of us?

On Friday, he said: "We'll make some announcements about that (sport in Wales) on Monday. Our Cabinet decided yesterday we needed some extra information about the way that the Omicron variant operates in the outdoors."

So where on earth is such 'extra information' likely to come from within the space of three days when past experience tells us such things take weeks, if not months? And even then the data is clearly far from reliable.

It's utter nonsense. They're not going to make any decision (if it hasn't been made already) on the basis of 'extra information' regarding how the latest variant operates outdoors. There is no science to follow. They're going to make a decision based merely on their own opinions, and they've been doing that for many months.

[IanD]

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Is Drakeford taking the piss out of us?

On Friday, he said: "We'll make some announcements about that (sport in Wales) on Monday. Our Cabinet decided yesterday we needed some extra information about the way that the Omicron variant operates in the outdoors."

So where on earth is such 'extra information' likely to come from within the space of three days when past experience tells us such things take weeks, if not months? And even then the data is clearly far from reliable.

It's utter nonsense. They're not going to make any decision (if it hasn't been made already) on the basis of 'extra information' regarding how the latest variant operates outdoors. There is no science to follow. They're going to make a decision based merely on their own opinions, and they've been doing that for many months.

One option on LFTs is "to attend a sporting event". If the same person then has a positive Covid test = data. It doesn't, of course, always follow that the person picked up Covid at a sporting event but, given enough data sets across the population, data can point towards Covid being transmitted at such events. Maybe that's the data Welsh government are waiting for.

[Hilts]

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Its all a mess.

Just let us know now.

What about the thousands shopping? Is there much difference.

Welsh National at Chepstow on the 27th as well.

How many ST holders have we got? There will be issues if theres suddenly a capacity restriction.

[The Lone Gunman]

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One option on LFTs is "to attend a sporting event". If the same person then has a positive Covid test = data. It doesn't, of course, always follow that the person picked up Covid at a sporting event but, given enough data sets across the population, data can point towards Covid being transmitted at such events. Maybe that's the data Welsh government are waiting for.

Sure it is. That'll tell them how Omicron operates outdoors. Except for the fact that the vast majority of people who contract the virus have no idea where they got it and there are currently relatively few cases of the new variant, especially in Wales.

What's Drakeford going to do, ask the 95 people in Wales who have the Omicron variant if they've been to any sporting events recently? As I said, it's utter nonsense.

[The Lone Gunman]

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I should correct myself. Apparently, 194 cases have thus far been recorded in Wales. 194!

[splott parker]

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I should correct myself. Apparently, 194 cases have thus far been recorded in Wales. 194!

The football bus back into town after the game would pack more than that on!