National League

Simplest thing is just to mothball the National League (all 3 divs) for the whole season and just restart when the coast is clear. Just like in 1945 when the war ended. Feel sorry for the pros and fans, but they made the mistake of believing Boris's October date.

Quoted from crusty ole pie

How about giving all the national team a random league team that’s available continueing existing score  

Yeah, that's what I am going to do. I have PM'd those with National League teams to let them know.

I can then restart the Buster as planned weekend beginning 2nd October.

Quoted from GrimRob

Simplest thing is just to mothball the National League (all 3 divs) for the whole season and just restart when the coast is clear. Just like in 1945 when the war ended. Feel sorry for the pros and fans, but they made the mistake of believing Boris's October date.

Yes but to be fair to Boris when that date was mooted no one knew that so many people would just disregard the rules willy nilly and consequently the infections would rise so dramatically. I don’t think you can blame Boris for other people’s poor behaviour. As some one else posted no government has got experience of a world pandemic. Even those countries that initially seemed to deal with it better than the UK seem to be suffering now. The whole thing is a mess and I do wonder whether shutting down the 3 National Leagues for the whole season is indeed a good idea. It could even be the same for Leagues 1 and 2 as well unless the Premier League helps. Fat chance of that though, more chance of pigs flying. #UTM

Quoted from GrimExile

Yes but to be fair to Boris when that date was mooted no one knew that so many people would just disregard the rules willy nilly and consequently the infections would rise so dramatically. I don’t think you can blame Boris for other people’s poor behaviour. As some one else posted no government has got experience of a world pandemic. Even those countries that initially seemed to deal with it better than the UK seem to be suffering now. The whole thing is a mess and I do wonder whether shutting down the 3 National Leagues for the whole season is indeed a good idea. It could even be the same for Leagues 1 and 2 as well unless the Premier League helps. Fat chance of that though, more chance of pigs flying. #UTM

It was after a certain Dominic Cummings did what he did that you heard a collective "fook it, what's good for them is good for us". He also allowed pubs and restaurants to re-open, and even encouraged people to go with cheap, government backed offers. All this before important stuff like schools and hospitals were allowed back on line.

It seems anything related to keeping the money pouring in for his chums and backers is allowed to carry on. Get on a packed tube train and go to work, go out for lunch, no problem.

Quoted from GrimExile

Yes but to be fair to Boris when that date was mooted no one knew that so many people would just disregard the rules willy nilly and consequently the infections would rise so dramatically. I don’t think you can blame Boris for other people’s poor behaviour. As someone else posted no government has got experience of a world pandemic. Even those countries that initially seemed to deal with it better than the UK seem to be suffering now. The whole thing is a mess and I do wonder whether shutting down the 3 National Leagues for the whole season is indeed a good idea. It could even be the same for Leagues 1 and 2 as well unless the Premier League helps. Fat chance of that though, more chance of pigs flying. #UTM

Take the point but IMHO opening everything up again was far more to blame than people disregarding the rules. People have been complaining about rules being disregarded since day 1 but the cases kept falling and it was only when the holiday season started and people started moving around a lot more that the cases started to rise. They could have restricted international travel in particular but it was deemed too important for the UK economy to get tourism up and running. The football industry is puny in comparison. If you add up the whole of football in the UK it's about the same size as one FTSE 100 company. So it's easy for a minister looking through his/her economic prism to effectively disregard football and like most people they probably think football is the Premier League anyway.

Quoted from Ipswin

Much less said when 'owt goes well!

The irony!

Quoted from crusty ole pie

How about giving all the national team a random league team that’s available continueing existing score  

Laugh out loud wrong thread

Quoted from GrimRob

Take the point but IMHO opening everything up again was far more to blame than people disregarding the rules. People have been complaining about rules being disregarded since day 1 but the cases kept falling and it was only when the holiday season started and people started moving around a lot more that the cases started to rise. They could have restricted international travel in particular but it was deemed too important for the UK economy to get tourism up and running. The football industry is puny in comparison. If you add up the whole of football in the UK it's about the same size as one FTSE 100 company. So it's easy for a minister looking through his/her economic prism to effectively disregard football and like most people they probably think football is the Premier League anyway.

You make a very good point too Rob. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that irrespective of anyone’s political beliefs no government anywhere on this planet has experience of how to deal with a world pandemic and mistakes are inevitable. Sad but true. #UTM