Covid-19 update: FA Cup withdrawal

[LaxtonLad]

If a club doesn't care enough about it's own players to test them and isolate those with the virus then the virus will spread among the rest of their team and staff, eventually that club will find itself with not enough fit players and so cannot fulfill their fixtures. Other clubs ought then be awarded the game by default, as were King's Lynn. Totally unfair it was to Notts, our safety first has bit us on the bum.

[sidders]

Who cares if Ardley is a decent caring individual. His job is a a football manager
Shame that Notts did,nt have this attitude last week,they should have cancelled the Maidenhead match, so Ardley,s reason for the Maidenhead game, that he wanted to play in the FA Cup went up in smoke

Will Ardley also be responsible when the club's toilets run out of toilet paper?

[nw6pie]

If a club doesn't care enough about it's own players to test them and isolate those with the virus then the virus will spread among the rest of their team and staff, eventually that club will find itself with not enough fit players and so cannot fulfill their fixtures. Other clubs ought then be awarded the game by default, as were King's Lynn. Totally unfair it was to Notts, our safety first has bit us on the bum.

Are you talking about cup games? Or also the league? If it were the latter, there would be zero incentive to test your own players. Instead, you'd be asking them play through a potentially very damaging virus.

It makes sense, as Neal Ardley believes, that the virus got inside Notts' camp from another team (presumably Altrincham), but it's Notts who have suffered from another team's lackadaisical approach to testing (and, by extension, the government's inability to have a comprehensive, affordable testing system in place). We lost a league game we probably would have won with a full squad and then had to forfeit a cup tie we were the favourites to win.

As the cold winter months kick in, though, this will probably just become the norm rather than the exception.

[crazyfists]

Will Ardley also be responsible when the club's toilets run out of toilet paper?

As long as he remembers to pay the milk bill we'll be alright.

[laddo]

Davy is relentless. I hope he takes a breather

[upthemaggies]

Testing should have been sorted by the PFA. Gordon Taylor, the chief executive, earns more than £2 million a year.

[Notts78]

Testing should have been sorted by the PFA. Gordon Taylor, the chief executive, earns more than £2 million a year.

But that still wouldn’t cover players who are not on full time contracts. The PFA looks after professional footballers, not semi professional. So IMO pointing the finger in that direction isn’t the way.

What should happen is that those clubs who are now clearly receiving more from this grant than they would in attendances should use that money to test the players, like Maidenhead and Alty.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

But that still wouldn’t cover players who are not on full time contracts. The PFA looks after professional footballers, not semi professional. So IMO pointing the finger in that direction isn’t the way.

What should happen is that those clubs who are now clearly receiving more from this grant than they would in attendances should use that money to test the players, like Maidenhead and Alty.

Weekly testing has got to be made mandatory as well at this level in my opinion. It's the first league on the football pyramid where semi-professional meets professional so does have it's challenges. As you say if semi-pro clubs like Maidenhead have been given more money than they lose from gate receipts then they should be forced to use this surplus money for testing.

The professional football field is a place of work and employers have a duty to protect their employees in all walks of life. You can't have social distancing measures in place, or wear a mask on the field of play. Likewise you don't need a track and trace system. So the only other safety net is to test.

If mandatory testing is not put in place then it's going to go round the national league causing disruption to the season, to the club's indivdually but more importantly it's putting players health at risk. That can't be right.

As someone mentioned the PFA should help the semi pro clubs at this level or other footballing bodies. It's not like there is not enough money in football. It needs sorting out.

[i961pie]

Davy is relentless. I hope he takes a breather

That applies to both of you, we all know where you both stand but keep going over the same ground over and over again is boring.

[laddo]

That applies to both of you, we all know where you both stand but keep going over the same ground over and over again is boring.

Completely agree it's dull. When DavyFacts posts the same repetitive thing for the ump****th time I will try best just to ignore it for the sake of the board.