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I appreciate I’m on a forum about a club I dearly love, but does anyone else feel like I do, in that I really couldn’t give a **** about this season. If the new season starts in August, fine. If not, I don’t really care.

Would love to see this, but I just cant see it being safe. Currently being discussed on GMB Firstly how can we justify testing every footballer when frontline staff still arent getting tests/results quickly enough? Our capacity for testing has dropped since we hit that debatable 100k target. 60k people tested on 11th May. Secondly, you cant trust fans not to congregate. People will meet in parks, round houses etc to watch the football. If Liverpool / Leeds are about to win their first league in years, do you think their fans will all stay at home and watch on their TV, in the hight of summer? No chance I'm afraid. Then there's the argument that people cant see both parents/grandchildren etc but 20+ football matches can take place across the country?

I'd be amazed if some half hearted games behind closed doors will be that much of a boost to be honest. I'd struggle to get the enthusiasm to watch them full stop.

This guy, having to take a week off work. I doubt very much that it was because he was upset, probably more due to the fact that he's a massive Sag nause who has continually revelled in any misfortune we've had for years and years. He clearly knew that the opportunity for anyone else to give him some grief back would have been taken and relentless, and he knew he wouldn't have a leg to stand on. You can just imagine what he's like - every workplace has one... FTG

That's the great thing about football though, every success is relative, our last minute promotion against Dagenham, or your last minute win against Manchester United, would have meant just as much-if not more- to us than an umpteenth Champions League to a Real Madrid fan.

I thought that testing capacity was over 100k but there currently wasn't the demand for it? I disagree with the above posters. Football is coming back, whether we think that's morally acceptable or not. The UK gov has been making it clear that it wants professional football to return as a boost to the country. We'll be living alongside this virus for months if not years to come, so it's a decision of when football returns and not if. Yes, there's a risk - but there's a risk for everyone being asked to return to work around the country too. The government and sporting bodies clearly feel it's an acceptable level of risk. As I say, we can debate whether we think mid-June is the right time but now that this ball is rolling I don't think it will stop.

I was hoping to buy a new tent.

Bless him...thinking a week later the piss taking will have died down and everyone would’ve forgotten about it ? You’re absolutely spot on, it gives me a very smug feeling inside thinking about all those Sagheads and what they must have felt after spending most of that season telling US we were definitely going down. ? All those times they celebrated us losing league matches in divisions above them against teams that would’ve put 10 past the Sags had they been the opposition and not us. Sag nause indeed, many workplaces have more than one...I never tire of telling them how much I find their relegation to non league hilarious.

to be fair to the bloke, I had to have a week off work after this as well, due to aching ribs after laughing

Teams at the bottom of their respective leagues are there for a good reason because they are poor & shouldn't benefit from the current surreal circumstances

Not a chance football will be back in a month.

Save their skins by refunding tickets for games that will not be played with fans? Did you read the article?

Covid 19, Bristol Rovers nil

Not sure if anyone saw the Olympiakos v Wolves game just before lockdown but it really was awful, so sterile. Maybe it’ll be different with more familiar names on show and with promotion and relegation to play for (and fantasy football!) as opposed to a nothing Europa game, but I’m with you. It’s the ‘event’ of game day I miss at the moment as opposed to the actual games themselves.

I get it, I do. The idea of football on a Saturday afternoon for some is their escape, a chance to socialise and a reminder of happy times. Football restarting might be a boost to peoples well being BUT it won't be the same and if I was one of those thousands who thought restarting this season is more beneficial to my well being over the risk it poses to those involved (let's face it, it could kill them) then I'm sorry but i'd need to take a serious look at myself. Sorry, but at this current time, with the restrictions still in place, how the hell can they restart football and risk lives for the sake of well being. Personally I don't think it has nothing to do with well being or the nations morale - it's to do with MONEY, end off and it's a disgrace that the football authorities and Governement would suggest otherwise.

Footballers are quite within their rights to say they dont want to play. Ive genuinely no problem with that. I reckon they should be placed on furlough if they dont want to though. Getting the £2.5 k or whatever it is a month might change one or two minds.This whole thing is going to get quite unsavory as its all about money for most of the stakeholders. If there is no relegation then what is the point, complete farce.

If players don't play then they don't get paid. Everyone is at risk of the virus and will be expected to go back to work, with social distancing and risk mitigation factors at play, and get on with it. Footballers will be in one of the most sterile environments going and will have less to worry about then Joe Blow jumping onto a bus with 50 other people to travel to an office with 50 other people. If footballers cannot live with this then they need a career change to something that poses them no risk, like a webcam operation. Everyone is going to have to learn to live with this; it isn't going away. We cannot stay locked up forever and life goes on.

Because workers in a warehouse probably have many policies in place to ensure social distancing. Dont forget going back to work isnt a free for all now, its under strict 2m distance guidelines (or should be) and if it isnt they'd definitely have a case to answer. Footballers dont have that same protection, its a contact sport they have to come within 2m distance of their opponents.

Curtis Davies was on R4 this morning basically saying as much.

I think HR monitors will be more accurate than Strava, they always seem to be a basic calculation and usually over estimate. I’ve got just an Apple Watch and I must say I’ve used the calorie count on that daily for a couple of years now to monitor my requirements and always managed to meet my goals (either lose or gain weight) by using it and allowing for 100-200 margin. 2nd run today, 8 miles in 73 minutes. Little quicker than I wanted it to be, need to control my pace more on those easy recovery runs. I tried out the Nike running club app today on my run, has recorded program guides for various run distances. Was quite clever and a welcome distraction every few minutes talking me through the stages of the run. Probably will get too repetitive after a couple of runs but would recommend for a couple at each distance. Bit of yoga and stretching afterwards, strength and conditioning tomorrow and then back out running Friday for an hour at easy pace with 10 minutes “fast” in the middle

Just found this on Youtube under Recommended videos; it's only ten seconds long.

It leaves them at long last chucked out of the English Football League?

Just threaten them with relegation that'll sort it.

He didn’t find that figure, or if he did he found it off some fake news site or twitter and lapped it up like a gullible idiot because it agrees with his view/agenda. I do agree that we need to slowly get back to normal if there’s no imminent vaccine or adequate testing, but can’t stand stupid people who create, believe and spread utter rubbish because of their ignorance. The people who are pushing us to get back out there were also probably celebrating VE Day on Friday, getting teary over Colonel Tom and clapping for the NHS on Thursday, which in my mind makes them hypocritical because if they actually gave a shit about protecting the greatest generation or the NHS and other key workers they’d keep their mouths shut and follow the reasonable government advice, instead of selfishly wondering when they can get a McDonald’s, haircut, pint in a pub. By the way I do understand the economic repercussions of lockdown, I do also understand that if we leave lockdown too early because of idiot pressure then we’re more likely to end up back in and spending more time in lockdown. I have elderly and vulnerable parents and my partner is a frontline nurse at Southmead, even if this weren’t the case I’m not stupid enough to think my needs are greater than the safety and the needs of those in those particular groups.

I stopped giving a F about football some time back. I was chatting to a friend of mine over the weekend (oft-mentioned on here, PNE st holder), he similarly is glad of the break from having to watch shite upon shite week upon week. In all seriousness, I agree, who gives a stuff about anything but the real priorities of health and safety right now?

Exactly. But you will still get those types who will bandy about 400,000 deaths.

It's not about the absolute figure right now, it's about the potential for a worsening, out-of-control situation that overwhelms healthcare services and kills much larger numbers of vulnerable people. China shut down an entire city to prevent spread. Italy has put itself into lockdown. Italian healthcare services are already being overwhelmed by a relatively small percentage of infection in the context of their entire population (https://www.ft.com/content/34f25036-62f4-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68). Have you considered why the authorities in those countries decided to take such drastic measures? It wasn't the media that made those decisions. Preventing the spread is not simply about the risk to the individual, which is thankfully very small for most of us; it's about keeping the load on healthcare services to a manageable level. It's about avoiding a hugely disruptive large peak of illness where huge numbers of people are all ill at the same time - as well as protecting vulnerable members of society who (unlike flu) don't have the protection of a vaccine.