Grants without a transfer embargo just feels wrong.

This on SC’s Twitter



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Looks to me that the Govt may be backtracking on the amount of money being given to The National League.  £1.6 million to the Arts, hundreds of millions to hospitality but the League can't even get £ 3 million a month! Shifting sands from either the DCMS or The Treasury DANGER

As the unemployment rate creeps up, the government will find it an ever harder sell to justify giving taxpayers money to clubs, many of whom have multi-millionaire/billionaire owners, who were active in the transfer market at the same time as saying they needed a bailout.

Quote from: Grissles Oleary on October 01, 2020, 12:33:05 AM

Quote from: jesuslinnet on September 30, 2020, 10:25:28 PM

Is the game being free streamed for season ticket holders?
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I have seen nothing about streaming?

Don’t think it’s streaming as it’s on bt , I maybe wrong thought I read somewhere

Correct

Quote from: Mallard on September 22, 2020, 06:19:32 PM

If clubs can’t survive without crowds in at our level ( the elite few apart)  then sadly the League will need to pull the plug and club’s forced to mothball the Clubs for 12 months...   

Just to pick up on this, what would 'mothballing' actually look like?  SC made the comment that when it was announced the new season wouldn't start on 1st August, that most players had agreed to defer their start date until the season actually started (at the time he said one hadn't agreed).  Obviously players have come and gone since then but we are still probably in a much better position than many NL clubs with 'full-time' contracted squads and I would assume the PFA will pretty quickly get involved if the NL proposed cancelling all contracts for 2020/21

Puts the NL in a difficult place. Try to hold the league this season, and probably bankrupt most clubs into doing something they can’t afford. Or cancel (perpetually delay) the season, breaking the pyramid, and necessitating the cancelling/deferring of over a thousand players across the three divisions they control. It would probably Be better to just cancel, rather than defer it for a month at a time, to provide some clarity. Mini-tournament’s in spring/summer for some kind of football, kick off 2021 in August.

If there was the will, the government could require the PL to keep the lower tier clubs afloat in exchange for still being allowed to play and rake in their tv money, but that likely won’t happen. Possibly some hope of an entertainment targeted furlough type scheme given the mood music on the backbench’s. That or 50+ phoenix clubs come 2021, including us.

The simple fact is B & G that the test and trace system should be THE most important thing on the Government agenda.....if we have a reliable system, then everything can open up.. ... without one we will be over run. (again). The Government has had 6 months to get something reliable in place. Some other European countries have got something suitable in place. I suspect energies are being so dispersed by Brexit, that ministers have let things slip and the country sits in a precarious position. I work in 'close contact services'
and the last 2 months have been an absolute nightmare due to regular changing of advice and no reliable test.
Our neighbours are teachers, both with rasping coughs, who can't get a test... apparently 230,000 people are waiting for test results....I would wager at least the same again who need a test and can't get one....... it's very concerning

The lack of testing is already causing the system to creak, before we even get to the predicted Winter Crunch.

Picture this in a hypothetical school. A number of staff (less than 10) are off waiting for a test. Not results, waiting to have an actual test. Likely they’re fine, but they have to be off for 10 days or until they get a negative result. If a couple more off, the school will have to send a year group home as there won’t be the bodies to supervise them, all without anyone actually testing positive. And no doubt they’ll get complained at, in-spite of everything being done according to the ever changing PHE rulebook. This is the situation pretty much every secondary school is in at the moment.

The normal solution of supply teachers is trickier than normal, as they are understandably being far choosier in which schools they go to; as if they’ve been in a school that has to shut down, they have to not work for 14 days and have no income. So they’re asking how many are isolating in the school and weighing up whether it’s worth them coming in.

The trace part of the systems problem is small fry, compared to the test element. It’s like no-one from the DfE and the DoH realised the impact their policies would have on each other before schools went back.

So back to football, given how things are starting to crumble at the edges, I actually think starting the season in October as scheduled is unlikely, and probably irresponsible, given behind closed doors aren’t viable at this level. Have a feeling some regional mini-league might happen come the spring, before the level starts in earnest this time next year. Hope I’m wrong.

Let’s hope that at least some get to witness our first game back at this level.  A truly fantastic day in store for many, though I fear nowhere near enough.

Fingers crossed the game is streamed for those of us who cannot be there.

Given the new 6 person rule, I’m increasingly doubtful of any fans being let in.

Quote from: Mallard on August 19, 2020, 07:34:07 PM

I thought they were playing at Downham ? 

I believe that was the plan but apparently the two clubs haven't agreed on terms yet.   

Hopefully it will get resolved soon.

Given the announcement from the FA, I hope they at least start the season playing at the walks. Will give the club a chance to test systems for when/if the first-team are allowed to play in front of reduced crowds.

What has the old ground been used for, recently?

It’s now owned by a third tier Rugby Union side.