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German media reporting the 2 scenarios for playing the playoffs which UEFA will discuss next week.

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The 1st scenario would presumably mean scrapping the 'week of football' to fit 3 fixtures for each side into the international week.

 

Three games in a week we would have lorry loads of call offs

 

Would that mean two sets of league games would need to be off

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23 minutes ago, DAVIDB69 said:

 

Three games in a week we would have lorry loads of call offs

 

Would that mean two sets of league games would need to be off

You'd be using the same number of days which are used for international breaks normally, just that rather than having some teams play Wednesday & Sunday, others Thursday & Monday and so on to spread the games around for television coverage, you'd presumably have everyone play Wednesday-Saturday-Tuesday or similar to fit three games per team into the break rather than two, with no impact on club football schedules.

I don't see how they can avoid doing this if they want to both play the Nations League and avoid delaying the World Cup qualifiers, unless they just keep their week of football with teams playing twice shifting fixtures back then finish the outstanding qualifiers in summer 2022 rather than March. However we still don't know what's happening to the club calendar for 21/22 & 22/23 to work around a November/December World Cup either.

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The behind closed doors stuff is going to be weird for us.  It obviously puts us more at a disadvantage for our semi-final (although with some of the moany bitches thatll be in Hampden, maybe our gang of shite actually plays better) but would that level the playing field a little for the potential final?  Is the prospect of going to Belgrade less daunting now?

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3 hours ago, forameus said:

The behind closed doors stuff is going to be weird for us.  It obviously puts us more at a disadvantage for our semi-final (although with some of the moany bitches thatll be in Hampden, maybe our gang of shite actually plays better) but would that level the playing field a little for the potential final?  Is the prospect of going to Belgrade less daunting now?

They're already allowing crowds in over in Serbia with Partizan playing Red Star in front of 25k last week so that won't help us there.

 

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On 14/06/2020 at 13:01, Dunning1874 said:

You'd be using the same number of days which are used for international breaks normally, just that rather than having some teams play Wednesday & Sunday, others Thursday & Monday and so on to spread the games around for television coverage, you'd presumably have everyone play Wednesday-Saturday-Tuesday or similar to fit three games per team into the break rather than two, with no impact on club football schedules.

I don't see how they can avoid doing this if they want to both play the Nations League and avoid delaying the World Cup qualifiers, unless they just keep their week of football with teams playing twice shifting fixtures back then finish the outstanding qualifiers in summer 2022 rather than March. However we still don't know what's happening to the club calendar for 21/22 & 22/23 to work around a November/December World Cup either.

I think they should have cut the Nations League back to a single match v each opponent - that would have saved them 3 matchdays for a start.

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Fraser is apparently not going to play for Bournemouth beyond 30th June. Not exactly a great surprise but there is some impressive irony in him apologising in January for not "playing for the the team" and now he's likely offski with 9 games left.

UEFA meeting just now. Should find out some more info on playoffs and NL schedule at the press conference later. WC quali format on the agenda for tomorrow too.

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13 minutes ago, charger29 said:

Fraser is apparently not going to play for Bournemouth beyond 30th June. Not exactly a great surprise but there is some impressive irony in him apologising in January for not "playing for the the team" and now he's likely offski with 9 games left.

UEFA meeting just now. Should find out some more info on playoffs and NL schedule at the press conference later. WC quali format on the agenda for tomorrow too.

Off to The Rangers, then?

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As already discussed, very real prospect of no fans, or very few fans, in Hampden for our home advantage semi, but a full house and 0 TA, or very very few TA, for our potential away final in Serbia or Norway. 

Terrific. 

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3 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

Just because countries allow fans in doesn't mean UEFA will. I can see no fans being allowed at any of those games.

Can see that too. It would be an enormous advantage with this format if one home side had fans and one didn't. Has to be all or nothing, and I suspect it'll be nothing. 

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8 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

Just because countries allow fans in doesn't mean UEFA will. I can see no fans being allowed at any of those games.

These games are nearly 4 months away. 
If we are still hiding at home when (hopefully) the virus is still in decline then we may as well give up. 
 

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46 minutes ago, Gordopolis said:
53 minutes ago, welldaft said:
These games are nearly 4 months away. 
If we are still hiding at home when (hopefully) the virus is still in decline then we may as well give up. 
 

Those dates are right in likely second spike territory tho

If you are a pessimist yes. 

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