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Christian Ziege
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OMT - Leicester City *POSTPONED*
- Thread starter alekaras
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alekaras
The ITK of IDK
Because it appears they had more players test positive today. They couldn't have known that. I'm afraid we'll have to get used to this for the next few weeks. It's going to be "day of" decisions, which I think is the sensible thing to do.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Official now
Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
Woman I spoke to at the club said it had been re-arranged for 30 April. I expressed surprise a date had been found so quickly but she said it was on their system.
Just checked the fixture list - 30 April we play Leicester at home!
Just checked the fixture list - 30 April we play Leicester at home!
Hotshot-Tottenham
Edgar Davids
I think it’s inevitable.
Guessing it will be subject to being rescheduled. Sky or bt may want to show it.
It's going to be chaos. Especially with amazon. They get the rights to promote their boxingday and january sales. What happens if those games are posponed?
I wouldnt suspend it. I'd set a rule - [5] positive PCR tests, or whateer number 24 hours before a game and it can be cancelled. Take the decison 24 hours before to help fans
I think its better to have some games progressing rather than none. It'll reduce some of the backlog
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
Haha!
Hotshot-Tottenham
Edgar Davids
Certainly.
The 78k positives yesterday were from infections several days prior.
In that time it’s been doubling every 2 days or less with an R0 of 3-5, so actual infections are far ahead of reported positive tests.
Apparently we have a capacity of 800k PCR tests per day in the UK so soon enough we’ll be hitting that and people will say “look, it’s plateaued” when it could well be a minimum number that we’re seeing at that stage.
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
Absolute numbers do not tell the story. It's the rate of infection that matters. So no one will say it's plateau'd.
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
Sunday morning 10am KO... double-banker? 30mins each half?
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
I don't think that's necessary from a match perspective, but it may be necessary from a fan perspective. That is, for all those people who are planning to attend games which get called off at the last minute. But that can be mitigated too, by making the decision the day before (as someone mentioned "5 positives the day before and it's off"), or just playing in empty stadia (which is definitely not going to happen).
I think they should just keep slogging through and play the games they can. Of course timing is also important. For example, if half the teams have outbreaks and the other half are OK, but the ones that are OK are not playing each other, then an entire matchday would get cancelled. But at least they'd be getting through some games and avoid the fixture pile up in the second half of the season.
I don't know, there's really no good solution. I'm just hoping this Omicron thing spikes quickly and comes down equally fast and we return to some pre-Omicron normal. And my biggest hope is that it is as mild as preliminary data shows it to be. We have lost enough lives to this virus already.
Lets see what the data shows. At the moment, it appears that cases are going up fast, but as with previous 'new' variants, the new variants has displaced the old one, and the early data from SA shows that this is the same here, at least for S Africa
Hospitalisation rate also appears far lower for O rather than Delta too. Again, early data but 3 weeks into Omicron thats at least how it appears. Admissions and total in hospital fell yesterday.
Early days, but appears we'll have far more people with covid, but with lesser symptoms
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I do think it’s odd for the players to all be getting it en mass
the rough numbers seem to be on average half a prem squad of 25 so 12 players
if that pans out across other close contact businesses like retail the whole world stops. I haven’t seen that in my local shops for example which has stumped me a little but I’m not a facebook qualified virologist
the rough numbers seem to be on average half a prem squad of 25 so 12 players
if that pans out across other close contact businesses like retail the whole world stops. I haven’t seen that in my local shops for example which has stumped me a little but I’m not a facebook qualified virologist
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
prob to do with testing? Aren’t PL footballers tested everyday now, whereas your local tesco’s not.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Could well be that of course
Well they're probably quite arrogant and blase about thinking that they're physically fit human beings and young (and rich) and therefore there is low risk to them. They'd obviously be right in that its low risk that they'd get properly ill, but can easily pick the bug up
Also need to remember that even in our posho training facility the close proxomity of changing, meals, tactics/video sessions etc
Robbo
Paul Walsh
The Livepool trio in my fantasy team is the only thing that can save me from the most disasterous round in history, so I fully expect a massive outbreak.