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GollyGTFC
January 18, 2021, 11:35am

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7 National League matches tomorrow night. 4 already called off due to "other".
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January 18, 2021, 12:01pm
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7 National League matches tomorrow night. 4 already called off due to "other".


Dover have only played 12 games, with a further 34 remaining. It's genuinely hard to see how that division is going to be completed anything like on schedule, if at all.


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Dover have only played 12 games, with a further 34 remaining. It's genuinely hard to see how that division is going to be completed anything like on schedule, if at all.


Plenty of teams managed a huge pile up in 2013. Guernsey was the worst case I remember

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/mar/20/greatest-fixture-pile-ups-history-redux


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January 18, 2021, 12:22pm

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Not just saying this because of our position.

But cancelling non-league would mean no relegation from league 2, but promotions and relegation from other leagues can go ahead... makes sense to me
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January 18, 2021, 12:28pm
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Selfishly I really hope this happens. Would get us out of this awful position we are in. Would be a massive bullet dodge cos even without COVID, Holloway would have fcuked us
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Not just saying this because of our position.

But cancelling non-league would mean no relegation from league 2, but promotions and relegation from other leagues can go ahead... makes sense to me




Seems good to me. I don't know how but can somebody get a petition up to null and void the national leagues.


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Plenty of teams managed a huge pile up in 2013. Guernsey was the worst case I remember

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/mar/20/greatest-fixture-pile-ups-history-redux


The difference is though that it's not just one team facing a pile-up and unlike with the weather, which generally picks up in March time, we're still going to face postponements due to positive testing for a while yet.

Accommodating a pile up of fixtures for one or two teams is manageable if difficult.  When it's the whole league that's facing a pile-up that is only going to get worse, I can't see how it can be done.  The only realistic options are to a) have a lengthy mid-season break or b) write it off.

Option A just kicks the can down the road.  You delay this season, then the next season is delayed and so on.  That's not even taking into account that you might restart it in April but be faced with another delay in May.

It's crap, but scrap the season now.  By August we should (everything crossed!) be in a far better position to have a disruption free season, hopefully with fans back.
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January 18, 2021, 1:12pm
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I'd imagine by August mass gatherings will be allowed and we can't start the season under normal circumstances with proper crowds and postponements due to self-isolation won't be happening anymore.

I do think I wouldn't be so keen on abandonment if we weren't threatened with relegation. Having said that, take Dover for example, they have to fit 34 games into just over 4 months, that's Saturday-Tuesday for the rest of the season already, and that's assuming no more postponements for any reason. It just seems it's too much of a stretch for them with COVID and crap pitches.

If I look at it objectively, I can't see, without a long extension, how that season finishes and with a long extension it means delaying next season as well. Surely they'll have to abandon it and just start afresh next August? I certainly hope so.


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January 18, 2021, 1:46pm
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Imagine trying to rearrange Dover's fixtures.

Play Team A next Saturday — sorry, Team A are fulfilling one of their own postponed fixtures from earlier in the season. How about Team B? They've got an FA Trophy game. Team C? They've got a regular fixture that day.

Ok, is Team D available? Yes!

Finally the day comes, Dover v Team D... and it's postponed because of frozen pitch. Or covid.

And that's just Dover. Imagine looking at it from the other team's point of view - 'We need to squeeze the Dover fixture in somehow, but they're never available because they're always playing some other team!!!'


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January 18, 2021, 2:40pm
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The longer the season goes and the more games are postponed I see less and less chance of a season being completed.

It’s hard to see now without any more postponements.


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