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Thread: Friday night: Killie v 'Well

  1. #11
    Game off: https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2020/10/02/k

    Interesting we use the word cancelled rather than postponed?

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  3. #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Handsome_Devil View Post
    It looks very likely that, probably for months to come, this situation will crop up again and again. I have absolutely no idea how a consistent and fair way of dealing with it can be found. Already the Buddies were ordered to find a goalie somewhere and get on with it; now Killie have been excused duties. The latter approach avoids some potential banana skins - can you see one of the teams in an OF derby being told to take the field with half of their first choices in quarantine? - but equally potentially stores up a whole heap of unplayed matches. This is not likely to end well.

  4. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by dazlhigh View Post
    It looks very likely that, probably for months to come, this situation will crop up again and again. I have absolutely no idea how a consistent and fair way of dealing with it can be found. Already the Buddies were ordered to find a goalie somewhere and get on with it; now Killie have been excused duties. The latter approach avoids some potential banana skins - can you see one of the teams in an OF derby being told to take the field with half of their first choices in quarantine? - but equally potentially stores up a whole heap of unplayed matches. This is not likely to end well.
    There was no way Killie could play today - they had no first team left and apparently youths don't get tested so under current rules wouldn't have been eligible.

    I'm relaxed either way and certainly tonight safety comes first so no game. But...if this counts as precedent, it's likely we'll have problems when this happens again. And if it happens to two, three, four teams at the same? If it happens to the same team two or three times? If it happens late April or May? If everyone says they're entitled to a postponement and not forfeit, how on earth will the season be concluded?

  5. #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by Handsome_Devil View Post
    There was no way Killie could play today - they had no first team left and apparently youths don't get tested so under current rules wouldn't have been eligible.

    I'm relaxed either way and certainly tonight safety comes first so no game. But...if this counts as precedent, it's likely we'll have problems when this happens again. And if it happens to two, three, four teams at the same? If it happens to the same team two or three times? If it happens late April or May? If everyone says they're entitled to a postponement and not forfeit, how on earth will the season be concluded?
    It should never have started.

  6. #16
    That begs the question of how many clubs would be left to start next season?

    I actually think football has done ok so far but not preparing in advance for some of these inevitable scenarios means there will be confusion every couple of weeks.

  7. #17
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    Given its being reported that the 2 League Cup games will be forfeited, and assuming thats true this far in advance, then the very game that got hit on Friday should also be forfeited. Our team needs all the help it can get and I wouldn't say no to it -- it's not like the fans are missing a game to go watch. Online sucks in comparison to being there. Show me the points, I'd take them!

  8. #18
    If Killie and/or their players broke the rules and were infected as a result I think we'll be awarded the points.

    If they can show it was just bad luck, it's 50-50. On a one-off case you say rearrange for sure but that would be setting the standard for the rest of the season unless they make some very random qualifiers...which has the potential for utter chaos later on.

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