Polish Speedway ( currently running behind closed doors) is allowing 50% capacity into stadiums from next weekend.

Steps 5 & 6 are hopeful of getting underway in Sept with a 30% of capacity into the grounds.

Anyone know what our official capacity is? I’ve seen both 6,000 and 8,400 quoted before. Both seem a little high based on how full the York game seemed.

There were two turnstiles installed at the hospital end last season between the hotdog stand and the exit gates. They were fitted after the two in the corner designated for away supporters when segregation needed. Think that means we have six altogether

Shows how little I went past my seat.

So we need two more somewhere to meet the grade A requirements. I wonder if there’s scope to expand a current entrance (or two) , rather than a whole new one.

On I slightly different tact, I wonder if the March of first season deadline for ground grading improvements might be relaxed in light of the delay in confirming promotions.

http://www.thefa.com/-/media/thefacom-new/files/about-the-fa/2019/ground-grading/grade-a-july-2019.ashx?la=en

Interview with Culverhouse about the promotion from 30:00 minutes in:

https://audioboom.com/posts/7611227-19th-june-2020-champions-wealdstone-kings-lynn-and-barrow

Bradford PA are predicting Lynn and York both promoted, many National clubs can not afford to have there players Covid tested after every play off game, at £125 a test, if you have 30 - 40 players, no income, wages to pay, I have to say I agree with that statement.

If you do the sums, teams in 6th for example, would have to play 3 games to go up (if the current structure was used.) if they used the same protocol as the championship, that would mean paying for at least four rounds of testing. Assuming only 25 were tested, (players, coaches and minimal ground staff) that gives sum nice easy sums.

25*4*£125=£12,500 - not exactly pocket change.

If/when football restarts, that’s likely to be an additional monthly cost of running a team for the foreseeable, up and down the pyramid. How many clubs have that, without gate receipts? Can’t imagine it’s many.

With Jarvis, I wonder if his delay may be because he still wants to play most weeks, and if we end up in the NL, rather than NLN, he’d probably only be viewed as a squad player at best. He’s been a fantastic player for the club, but over the last two years he’s just not quite what he was; father time and all that.

So, my guess is that we’ll only end up keeping one of Marriott and Jarvis, depending on which league we end up in, for slightly different reasons. (Am willing to be wrong on this.)

With a reported 1400 players out of contract in the Pro game at the end of June the Non League market could be ‘flooded’ with players.  Can see it being a case of tight, quality sides at budget prices.  Hopefully part of the savings will be passed on to Joe Public to encourage people back through the gate,  at the appropriate time.

One other item Mr Cleeve mentioned was theft from the club by person/S who enjoyed full access and who are no longer involved.

If, as suggested, L1 and L2 will be limited to 20 professionals per club, that means they’ll only be 960 professional players in those leagues. 1400 out of contract this summer, and if only 500 players were on multi-year deals, that would mean half of last years L1&L2 players being available for non-league clubs. (Also says something about how big professionals squads had become.)

The above being said, it might be premature of Culverhouse signing too many up for next year, as potentially better players who this season were playing 3 tiers higher might be available.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8326997/Chairmen-lower-league-clubs-discussing-radical-plan-split-League-Two-regions.html

Is a pretty reasonable plan. Seem’s likely Lynn would miss out if this came to pass, but in the long run I think is the right thing to do. 3 Nationwide leagues rather than the current 5.

My glass is no longer half full because I downed my 3rd and final 5 minutes ago - hence this post of what some will call doom and gloom, but I call reality.  I can imagine no football at all until Sept 21 at the earliest.  Even then, I feel the competitions at every level could only re-commence in the same position they were at the start of this very unfortunate season.  I’ve no idea how the finances of clubs, Chairmen, Directors, players, and workers can be calculated, but must hope that they will all engage generosity and good grace in the discussions to come.  So, no answers, just hopes for all concerned....

I’m starting feel as you do, except I think the Prem will run some sort of pseudo-bubble league for SKY. How the pyramid works with only the top tier in action, ???. Possibly some extended pre-season sort of thing for lower tiers from spring next year, but that’ll be that.

With the annual winter crisis in the NHS, they’ll want to avoid a third peak over winter.