RandomGuy. Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Robbo63 said: Aberdeen spokesman has just said on the sports bulletin on the Nine that they will play St Johnstone on Saturday minus the 2 players affected , don’t know where the 8 are coming from ? https://spfl.co.uk/news/joint-response-group-update-060820 Quote 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay21 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Just now, RandomGuy. said: https://spfl.co.uk/news/joint-response-group-update-060820 Someone needs to tell Aberdeen then , as when he was interviewed he stated that only 2 players will be missing on Saturday , I take it the others must not be first team players 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay21 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: It said on Sky half an hour ago they would be without all 8 players who had socialised together. As I replied to random guy , 6 of them can’t be first team choices as the guy interviewed said he will be missing 2 starting players 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Robbo63 said: Someone needs to tell Aberdeen then , as when he was interviewed he stated that only 2 players will be missing on Saturday , I take it the others must not be first team players Their statement says theyre missing 8 players aswell. Guess we'll find out on Saturday though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay21 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Just now, RandomGuy. said: Their statement says theyre missing 8 players aswell. Guess we'll find out on Saturday though. I am only going on what the Aberdeen spokesman said on news , but we should not always believe what they say in the news and in newspapers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay21 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Robbo63 said: I am only going on what the Aberdeen spokesman said on news , but we should not always believe what they say in the news and in newspapers Also just noticed , they likely interviewed that guy this afternoon, looks like the government have issued that statement after his interview 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 3 hours ago, craigkillie said: Of all the likely candidates on this forum I didn't have RandomGuy down as the one who would have a Helen Lovejoy-esque breakdown over this story. Uh oh... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolph Hucker Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 7 hours ago, virginton said: Ann Budge left seething to the point of a breakdown, Partick and Falkirk left to fester in the seaside leagues for another season and all the stupid money-throwing tinpot outfits from Queen's Park to East Kilbride kept in their stupid wee boxes as well for another 12 months. All while Morton go through the very delicate process of moving to a fan ownership model without making a rip-roaring c**t of things on the park. Can someone ask vt’s mum to go and check his bedroom? On the basis of this and one or two other posts tonight I worry that his spleen may finally have vented itself into oblivion....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 35 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Uh oh... Won't somebody please think of the children SFA/SPFL representative who have to attend a meeting with *the sports minister*. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, craigkillie said: Won't somebody please think of the children SFA/SPFL representative who have to attend a meeting with *the sports minister*. I'm not really sure where you are going with this? Are you trying to suggest this isn't serious? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolph Hucker Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Think he’s just trying to save face after accusing Random Guy of over-reacting a la Helen Lovejoy earlier. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: I'm not really sure where you are going with this? Are you trying to suggest this isn't serious? I'm not suggesting it isn't serious, I was continuing the Helen Lovejoy analogy which came up after his suggestion that "the season might end up scrapped" and various other overreactions on his part on the Premiership forum, given that he was trying to hold up this summit as some form of vindication. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, craigkillie said: I'm not suggesting it isn't serious, I was continuing the Helen Lovejoy analogy which came up after his suggestion that "the season might end up scrapped" and various other overreactions on his part on the Premiership forum, given that he was trying to hold up this summit as some form of vindication. Fair enough, I rarely venture into the Premiership forum much and haven't seen anything there but I don't think there's any doubt this IS potentially serious and the fact Aberdeen are having to play the game anyway is probably an indication that the players brought it on themselves by doing something they shouldn't have but I don't know the details. At the end of the day, if Scottish professional football proves incapable of complying with requirements the Govt will simply stop us all from playing. It's that simple. I just didn't think it was like you to play point scoring over properly significant stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 (edited) Why should professional footballers be held to any higher standard of behaviour in their downtime by the government than any other non key worker right now? It's not as if they're waltzing into care homes every day and passing it on: they have as much right to go to a restaurant or bar on a Saturday evening as anyone else. I wouldn't focus on moralising about player's behaviour but rather on whether a completely non-essential activity like travelling to Perth to contest a football match conforms to the spirit of a local lockdown as well as the letter of the law. The government can't be seen to tell people to stay away from their nearby family members while giving a football team with active cases a free pass to travel all over the country and so I don't think this restart plan is going to hold up to many outbreaks at all. Edited August 7, 2020 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeodhasXD Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, virginton said: Why should professional footballers be held to any higher standard of behaviour in their downtime by the government than any other non key worker right now? It's not as if they're waltzing into care homes every day and passing it on: they have as much right to go to a restaurant or bar on a Saturday evening as anyone else. Is it not the point, though, that you can't play football while social distancing so you need to have more stringent protocol to even be allowed by the government to "ignore" the rules? I'm with SD^. Footballers are going to be one of the most tested people in the country just now so if it's shown to spread via football it's not a stretch to see the government shut us all down. Especially if there's more folk like the Aberdeen players not following their agreed protocol for stopping any potential spread... Edited August 7, 2020 by LeodhasXD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I wouldn't focus on moralising about player's behaviour but rather on whether a completely non-essential activity like travelling to Perth to contest a football match conforms to the spirit of a local lockdown as well as the letter of the law.They're travelling for work so it absolutely is okay.You're correct about moralising on their behaviour though. It's impossible to confirm where anyone contacted the virus and any fines or impositions based on such guesswork would surely not have a leg to stand on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 With schools set to go back, there will be a natural spike in infections and with the way Aberdeen have defied the SG's instruction to stay in bubbles I now think the idea that we will be able to have limited attendance in September (And therefore our games in October) is very much pie in the sky. Lucky if there's limited attendance by Christmas IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 33 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: With schools set to go back, there will be a natural spike in infections and with the way Aberdeen have defied the SG's instruction to stay in bubbles I now think the idea that we will be able to have limited attendance in September (And therefore our games in October) is very much pie in the sky. Lucky if there's limited attendance by Christmas IMO. Plus side to that is no freezing your balls off in places like Inverness and Alloa. Even so I'd prefer to be back watching football than, potentially, having to stream a game on a laptop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 5 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: They're travelling for work so it absolutely is okay. You're correct about moralising on their behaviour though. It's impossible to confirm where anyone contacted the virus and any fines or impositions based on such guesswork would surely not have a leg to stand on. Struggling to find the rules written down but I'm pretty sure the conditions allowing elite team sports to start again are that they pretty well self isolate between training and matches, and restrict contact outside their team and family "bubble". Going to a busy Saturday night pub would be a clear breach whether they caught anything or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Struggling to find the rules written down but I'm pretty sure the conditions allowing elite team sports to start again are that they pretty well self isolate between training and matches, and restrict contact outside their team and family "bubble". Going to a busy Saturday night pub would be a clear breach whether they caught anything or not.You're probably right, but virginton was referring to the "local lockdown" whose rules weren't broken. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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