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What about them ?

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“Exackerley”! :rolleyes:

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glad its not just me.

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We always have been Cashy, even in non league days :D

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Possible Headline come the end of May?........:rolleyes:
CHORLEY WIN FA CUP!:mosher::jimbo:
Six rounds awarded to them ‘by default’ due to opponents having to withdraw due to Corona Virus outbreaks! :rose8::s_whistl:

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what gets me with all this is the cost of testing people for the virus. i admit its an area i know sod all about but it seems funny where the oxford jab costs 200 times less than the test which looks like shoving something up your nose and down your throat.

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Testing twice a week among all 72 EFL clubs and funded by the PFA finally some sense.

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Testing is good news, but as Mr.T has stated previously - we are all the E.F.L....

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55563342

Correct Cashy ;)

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Well Stanley have 7 games in January and February and 6 in March so not much more wiggle room, testing positive is a lottery so any of Stanley,s opponents have to call game off and we will struggle to fit them in, plus more bad weather forecast to me it isn't hard to forecast an extension to the season, nobody wants PPG again.

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big covid outbreak at aston villa, be interesting to see what they do about this one if game is off on sat.

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Thought they said you had to play if you had 14 players available or forfeit the tie, yet Shrewsbury v Southampton is postponed mixed messages again as Derby said they are prepared to play youth in their affected tie.

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Villa due to play Friday, they should have to play kids - like Liverpool did last year - or forfeit the tie!

Shrews should have been the same!!!!!!!!

It is becoming a joke :(

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its a total joke those responsible should be ashamed i would be if i was that stupid,

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Not becoming it is a joke behind the curve as they put it all the time.

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Looks like Shrewsbury will be out of the competition as they can't raise enough players will still receive their prize money though.

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Got it Andy :)

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Middlesbrough now also.........

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Villa to play their youth team in the tie.

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And so they should!

Regardless, they will still get £££, win, or lose.


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on top of the virus anyone else think we are going to have a season interupted by really bad weather as well. its sods law.

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Well Salford have just called tomorrow,s game off due to frozen pitch.

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The Southern league,s below elite level have recommended to clubs to declare the season null and void due to current restrictions. Sadly inevitable at that level and below.

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Carlisle off frozen pitch thought it would have been ideal for slippers Zanzala.

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Northern Premier league have took the same steps as it's Southern counterparts and advised that the season be cancelled.

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Exeter City manager has said if the F.A. can bring a ruling in with Covid positive in the camp you play if you have 14 fit and positive free you play, says the EFL should bring in same rule interesting.

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That is very reasonable if you ask me. That's why you have a squad.

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Correct

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Dover have X34 games left to play in the League :eek: :eek:

Not sure when their season finishes, but..........

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Just noticed we're going to lose another one with Blackpool getting through to the 4th round of the cup. Can't see anyone who we could rearrange with unless Portsmouth get through today when we could move one of the Hull matches to the Saturday and try to find somebody else to play midweek.

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Might benefit from the break and fit it in later.

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Shrewsbury v Lincoln off Saturday due to Covid at Salop.

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Scottish football below the Championship suspended for 3 weeks.

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I am pretty sure that somebody on here came up with this idea????

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55617486

Do you think that the Premier League bosses view Accyweb?? :D

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Stanley clean bill of health in Covid testing :)

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I aint sure them CLOWNS can read mate.

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lets hope lincoln are the same.;)

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No! ;)

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:yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm

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think they,d be ok. its joined up writing they have not mastered yet.

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Grimsby town become the first club to be found guilty of breaking Covid protocols and rules they have admitted guilt and have been handed a suspended fine. Among rules broken it has been reported were not keeping to social distancing measures at the training ground, car sharing and playing darts in a Ian Holloway training tout.

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X2 Brentford games off :(

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:rolleyes:

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Irony at its best!:D

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Southampton's game against Leeds postponed, so they can play F.A. Cup game against Shrews.....

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Sheffield Wednesday's games off too.............

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Carlisle United next 3 games off Covid.

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Wycombe,s next game off Covid

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Scottish F.A., have written to all thier Championship clubs asking in the current environment if they wish to play on or finish season now, I personally had to go to Royal Blackburn Hospital yesterday and it,s grim A and E apparently was squeaking at the seams and a report this morning says beds are unavailable wow sorry but football is way down on a lot of the public,s priority,s.

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its only bit of priority is for its fans itself. the majority of the population either have little interest or no interest in the game. i personally would hate to see football being cancelled but then i could not care less if foreign holidays are cancelled and pubs never open again, apart from those who lose their livelihoods due to it.

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Precicily the point some folk are saying one rule for some etc,etc.

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Entire National league season under threat as the second installment of grant money promised when they started as been changed by the government to loans 75% of clubs want season to finish now big meeting tomorrow hopefully trying to get government to change it's mind, if it does finish a lot of clubs saying non league will change beyond recognition.

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it actually might be a good idea in the non league structure did change. there will always be bigger clubs in any league but the difference in the national league of clubs like notts and stockport counties, wrexham, chesterfield and hartlepool in comparison to weymouth and wealdstone is the biggest in any league in this country. a regionalised div.2 to incorporate these teams would be a better way and the traditional non leaguers having their own leagues that may eventually go back part time as they used to be.

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Are you saying let the clubs that were once league clubs and are doing sort of all right just now back into an extended EFL and then permanently raise the drawbridge? And while we're at it, shouldn't we throw out the "traditional non-leaguers" that happen to be in the EFL at the moment? Which would include Fleetwood, Burton and most of the clubs currently near the top of League 2 - oh, and probably us given where we were for forty-odd years?

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so many of these what i call traditional non league clubs will never have a decent fan base and are being bankrolled by some individual just to compete with the bigger ex league clubs. the non league system allows this. actually one day a club will fluke promotion without a ground or fanbase to really allow em to suceed in the league. would macclesfield even without their owner problems still have existed if they had not gained that promotion a few years back. just wonder how many fans would flock to fleetwood if they got relegated and were struggling in div.2. lot less that stanley i think.

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Isn't that exactly how unkind people would have described us when we were hanging on by our fingernails to a League 2 place and just about keeping our gates above 1000, only a few years ago?

And wouldn't you have called Oxford, Wimbledon and Wigan "traditional non-league clubs" just a few years before they started climbs that led to the (proper) First Division / Premiership and assorted Cup Finals?

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think we could all pick and mix for our points of view. stanleys few poor seasons are nothing compared to our friends at spotland whose gates and performances in the late 70,s right up past the mid 80,s were far worse than stanleys. if they had gone then i doubt they would have survived but certainly improved as a club over time. think wimbledon were really the beacon of the non league success story. wigan should have been voted into the league years before they were but i,ll refain on comment about oxford.

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Getting messy in National league,s some clubs saying they aren't going to play on as it's pointless wasting any more money, and with comments about pubs and restaurants probably remaining shut until May at the earliest fans won't be back so no income can't blame them majority have voted for options 2 or 3 which are turn the loans into grants or null and void season.

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National league's North and South suspended for 2 weeks.

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A bit about it here :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55767999

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Bit of a reality check from Cheltenham manager Michael Duff the club will be here next year largely down to this cup- tie.

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First time this has happened in a while - unless I have missed it??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56219571

Just hope that this will not be the start of another round..................................



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Hopefully the beginning of the end and back watching live in August.

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Let's hope so Andyd....but I'm afraid it all depends what happens when we get the third wave. After a summer of partying and holidays, I think we'll find a new clampdown is needed in the autumn.......if only to deal with the new variants of Covid....

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if we do its down to idiots and knobheads, we are actually getting on top of it now.

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When all the schools go back en masse next week it'll kick start another massive spike, just as it did in September. There should have been a phased return - anything else is madness

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they need to get the kids back to school. its a price we need to take if we are ever going to get back to normal. kids at home permanently is not normal. more madness is allowing people in and out of the country just for something that really is not a necessity a foreign holiday. that includes them coming here also.

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Kids back at school is a necessity before they become feral your entire future not just educational but socially are shaped by your formative years especially with your peers at school and play, as for things like foreign holidays let's walk before we run every aspect of society has probably suffered some financial hit but gradually opening things is the way.

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[QUOTE=andyd;1251211, as for things like foreign holidays let's walk before we run every aspect of society has probably suffered some financial hit but gradually opening things is the way.[/QUOTE]

for me all holidays are classed as a luxury people can do without anyway especially abroad. even pubs are more important as its a place you can meet people away from work. meeting people is important for the majority of us all and its not compulsory to get blind drunk in them. plus meeting inside and not outside like they promise. i still be cold and wet in may and stood around chatting with your rain or overcoat on is not ideal.

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I didn't say don't get them back in, just not all at the same time as we are doing - staggering their returns would have helped to stem the floodgates from opening

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wait and see im sure yer wrong.

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Rangers have won the Scottish title big deal good for them but does it really excuse the need for thousands to gather ," celebrating " so risking lockdown exit on time sorry absolutely no excuses.

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just find stuff like that really pointless and only gives ammunition for the governments to keep their restrictions on us even longer. its going to happen in manchester anyway shortly unless city make a mess of it. if you could attend live it would be a far different matter but we/they cannot so why do people do it.

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Basically in my opinion they are brain-dead selfish barstewards.

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Just a pity that they could not have delayed the end of the season for the lower leagues..................... :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/57062288


Might have been the one and only time that we were able to see some players play in the flesh.......



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With the likelihood of the news being today of a further month before all restrictions are lifted, and then there are no guarantees it takes us to just 2 weeks before the new season. Wonder what the stance will be now on when season tickets will go on sale, it doesn't leave anyone much time.

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Was thinking the same andy and I presume that there will be a great deal of wondering over what to do about season tickets and when to do it by those in charge at the ground.

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i wont be wondering mate 2 weeks or not, soon as they are available im getting mine.

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you might as well get one if you are going to most if not all games. the worst thing that can happen is that next season will be like the last and the club would refund you anyway if you wish. there is no reason for the club or anyone to delay stuff no matter what johnson says today or in a months time.

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i reckon it will be when the fixtures are out?

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Tweeted Andy Holt the same question this morning he came back with an answer straight away, saying he hopes that the delay and more vaccination will allow crowds back for the start. Hopefully he says the Ifollow option will be there so worst outcome it would be " free " to ticket holders, but he did say that when they do go on sale it will be made clear that it will be your choice to purchase as there will be no refund,s in the future, fair enough that but it quite obvious to me that nobody at football is sure we're we will stand on August 7th on capacity,s, or away fans.

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one thing is sure the E.F.L. wont even know it is Monday.:rolleyes:

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[QUOTE=andyd; that but it quite obvious to me that nobody at football is sure we're we will stand on August 7th on capacity,s, or away fans.[/QUOTE]

doubt anyone in the government knows either. the worst thing that would happen would be the present reduced capacity scheme thats being used in the national league at the moment. went to the stockport v hartlepool game last sunday where the crowd was limited to 2,700 for somewhere with a 10,000 capacity. doubt that will be reduced but possibly increased at the outset without away fans.

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doubt they,d be able to phone a friend. they wont have one.

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Latest on FANs returning...............


https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/...-fans-to-wham/

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Just get fans back in, Sootland had an estimated 20000+ fans in London without tickets for the game or the official fan zones, although against advice now that big proportion,s of the population have been jabbed and by July 19th every adult above 18 should have at least one dose there should be no more delay,s, or what,s the point of vaccines.

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i fail to see anything wrong with fans in as long as they are distanced.

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Agree mate, in a ground like ours, with the small number of home supporters especially :confused: :)

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thereby comes another question. there seems to be groups of fans together then wide open spaces in the same stands. is this done on purpose or are fans just ignoring their seat numbers to sit together. had a fall out in the only live game i saw the other week where someone was sat in my seat and the ones around it. wether you agree with these restrictions or not if you are not willing to abide by em then they should stay away.

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Maybe the groups of fans sat together are a family group. So no need to sit separatly? Just a thought? That 's what I assumed....

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could be right, therefore why can,t they sell distanced tickets in the gaps after the initial ticket sales have been done. they will know where everyone will be seated by then. its the easy way out for them just having a certain percentage of fans being present or a strict ground limit.

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I would have thought that after 16th August things will be better.

Most Clubs will ensure that all their staff have both jabs, so self isolation will not be required :)

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[QUOTE=VALAIRIAN;1255284]I would have thought that after 16th August things will be better.

Most Clubs will ensure that all their staff have both jabs, so self isolation will not be required :)

yes, but will players who have contracted the virus even a minor one will be unable to be selected even if they are tested negative until a certain period of time as elapsed. a bit like the one with a head injury with possible concussion. if so then teams may be at a disadvantage from day 1.

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Well let's hope they minimise the risk by behaving sensibly :rolleyes:. Although with Bob dead, I suspect the only remaining Hope is Faint :mad:.

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calming down the pre rehearst goal celebrations would be an idea. cannot see how scoring is more exciting now for players than it was years ago.

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Good point in a 5 / 5 draw 10 minutes could be taken of the 90.

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that rubbish as well as badge kissing, wrestling for the ball after getting a goal back and running to the half way line to pop it on the spot are stuff i could do without. as if the opposition are going to rush the start for the latter.

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Agree a lot is to do with no respect for the official,s unlike in rugby for instance, celebrate a goal by all means but as quickly as possible as for the other things clamp down on them, carding would be a start instead of stupid rules like the late raising of linesman flag at offside,s.

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I'd like to know which bright-spark came up with this insane interpretation of the offside rule, ie; allowing play to continue before penalising the offence.
Even if offside within inches of the half-way line, officials allow play to proceed, often resulting in goals being scored & then disallowed. Absolute madness!
Any offside should be flagged immediately at the point of offence to avoid wasted play. How can the linesman remember exactly where the offence occurred if play is allowed to continue?
The other joke has been adapted from the 'all of the ball must be over the line' goal scenario to permitting players to place balls outside the quadrant when taking corners.
Seems that 'all of the ball is within the quadrant if 1mm of the ball is 'touching' the outer edge of the quadrant'.
This fad has resulted in players taking liberties with corner kicks - especially when the linesman is on the opposite side of the field.
Why bother marking quadrants when they're now simply ignored.

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Blackpool apparently cancelling friendly with Rangers due to out break at club, Sheffield United effectively shut down, by season start everyone should be virtually vaccinated decisions needed now on the need for all this routine testing and isolating if your pinged on the app which most people are ditching anyway can you blame them. Boris announced nightclubs can open then shortly after said they will probably be super spreader events and in the future you will need vaccination passports for entry, hang on to your hats it's going to be a roller coaster next few weeks into the new season expect nothing to be straightforward.