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Post by nws on Mar 16, 2020 19:30:35 GMT
A man after my own heart-Having travelled extensively for work and play, given a choice-Id rather see some of the places in these Isle Ive not seen. Reducing air-travel, if we are serious about carbon emissions would have a huge impact on figures- If you can belive them. its the one area thats not been touched and ironic that the hand has been forced. Working from home will be intersting for thaose who can- as if it works for * months, then it could become more widespread than could be imagined when 'normality' returns. Its not for everyone though- space, kids, grandkids and wife..just a few of the distractions- oh and a half-stripped engine to work on... Believe me working from home will never catch on. I've never been so board in my life and it's only been since Friday. The lack of any human interaction, no office banter, it's not easy. Really? When I was in office work, I loved working from home. Could get stuff done quickly and focus on more interesting stuff like...er...not work
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Post by sword65 on Mar 16, 2020 19:33:19 GMT
Believe me working from home will never catch on. I've never been so board in my life and it's only been since Friday. The lack of any human interaction, no office banter, it's not easy. Really? When I was in office work, I loved working from home. Could get stuff done quickly and focus on more interesting stuff like...er...not work And I bet you learnt how to spell bored
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Post by rollingstone on Mar 16, 2020 19:35:12 GMT
Just said on meridian news that all national league games are now cancelled until 3rd April too A little behind the times Roly ,bet the doors didnt write a song about this. I know, I was just saying that it had just been announced on meridian
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Post by moley on Mar 16, 2020 21:54:39 GMT
Would not like to be the ones making the decisions (on football) especially as we can't be sure when it can all start again.
Just a suggestion, depending on the go ahead date, how about a super season stretched over two, all sorts of problems but then again any solution anyone can think of will have problems.
All this being said, of course, there are more important things than football at the moment
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Post by hongkongstone on Mar 17, 2020 2:22:27 GMT
Just to share experiences, based on the rate of infections and stabilisation here in HK (i.e. when discharged cases start outweighing the new cases) I suspect that the UK will experience a minimum 8 week period before things start to normalise. So no footy until May at the very earliest. Does the UK government have a similar resource to this one to help people track the current status?..... chp-dashboard.geodata.gov.hk/covid-19/en.html
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Post by Benny on Mar 17, 2020 4:25:23 GMT
From this moment on, our football club has no income and a full wages bill to meet. Even the Spitfire Lounge won't be making any money. How can we help Maidstone United? Advance season tickets? Working on the £10 a head rule, that's a potential loss of £18,000 per game. Players contracts can be not renewed in May. But there must be a number of full time admin staff to pay. What can we do? www.maidstoneunited.co.uk/2020/03/bill-williams-on-the-national-league-suspension/
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Post by hammerstone on Mar 17, 2020 6:44:21 GMT
From this moment on, our football club has no income and a full wages bill to meet. Even the Spitfire Lounge won't be making any money. How can we help Maidstone United? Advance season tickets? Working on the £10 a head rule, that's a potential loss of £18,000 per game. Players contracts can be not renewed in May. But there must be a number of full time admin staff to pay. What can we do? www.maidstoneunited.co.uk/2020/03/bill-williams-on-the-national-league-suspension/I think advance season tickets or simply donations are the only way to do anything now as we realistically won’t be able to hold any funding raising events with the restrictions
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 7:29:38 GMT
From this moment on, our football club has no income and a full wages bill to meet. Even the Spitfire Lounge won't be making any money. How can we help Maidstone United? Advance season tickets? Working on the £10 a head rule, that's a potential loss of £18,000 per game. Players contracts can be not renewed in May. But there must be a number of full time admin staff to pay. What can we do? www.maidstoneunited.co.uk/2020/03/bill-williams-on-the-national-league-suspension/I think advance season tickets or simply donations are the only way to do anything now as we realistically won’t be able to hold any funding raising events with the restrictions Will insurance provide any cover? Then again, the insurance companies always have lots and lots of criteria set out in the small print. So maybe not.
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Post by 61666 on Mar 17, 2020 7:46:43 GMT
Scary stuff. Not just our football, but every club outside the football league. Have heard talk of pubs, restaurants etc doing a take away service and some hotels may become hospitals, but for many in the entertainment and service sector, it must be like looking into a very dark tunnel with no light at the end. To mix the metaphors, how to bridge that as yet undefined gap is going to call for some radical thinking. In football, the average Premier League player will, in the short term, be affected, you'd think. So, 21 teams, maybe 400 players on a million pounds or more a year. Suppose each of those players donates £100k to an emergency fund for non league clubs. That's £40million. If allocated at around £50k per club, that would enable 800 clubs to benefit. Am just using this as a basic example of what might be done and it is no doubt wildly altruistic. However, that nation pledged £40 million to Sports Relief on Friday and much of that will have come from small donations. Time for the ultra wealthy to dig deep in their very large pockets? Trouble is, there are going to be so many areas needing support.
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Post by Benny on Mar 17, 2020 8:13:32 GMT
By the time the season resumes many/most players will be out of contract, and could have moved onto other clubs. Assuming anyone is signing players. Some clubs might just not have any money and be signing on non contract terms. Sword might get his wish, the first general reduction in player wages in living memory.
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Post by Nick on Mar 17, 2020 8:37:03 GMT
Does anyvody (JDL) know which of our players are on contract already for next season. I understand Saidou Khan is signed up and maybe Temelci but no idea on others.
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Post by sword65 on Mar 17, 2020 9:17:09 GMT
Scary stuff. Not just our football, but every club outside the football league. Have heard talk of pubs, restaurants etc doing a take away service and some hotels may become hospitals, but for many in the entertainment and service sector, it must be like looking into a very dark tunnel with no light at the end. To mix the metaphors, how to bridge that as yet undefined gap is going to call for some radical thinking. In football, the average Premier League player will, in the short term, be affected, you'd think. So, 21 teams, maybe 400 players on a million pounds or more a year. Suppose each of those players donates £100k to an emergency fund for non league clubs. That's £40million. If allocated at around £50k per club, that would enable 800 clubs to benefit. Am just using this as a basic example of what might be done and it is no doubt wildly altruistic. However, that nation pledged £40 million to Sports Relief on Friday and much of that will have come from small donations. Time for the ultra wealthy to dig deep in their very large pockets? Trouble is, there are going to be so many areas needing support. I can see premier league clubs helping out their feeder teams but they wont care about anyone else. If there is no relegation from the prem league this season then they will save £90million on parachute payments but I bet they spread it among themselves not smaller clubs. As many of you may know I have an affinity with Whitley Bay fc in Northumberland and I have spoken to a club official and they say that suspension of football for more than 4 weeks could kill,not only themselves,but half of the Northern league clubs. Many of these clubs are kept going by money from their social clubs/pubs and if ,as rumoured,they are closed by the government they will not survive. Now multiply that by however many step 3,4,5 and 6 leagues there are and you will have utter and horrific carnage.
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Post by 1018 on Mar 17, 2020 9:20:51 GMT
If no more matches are played this season then one option would be to calculate the final league positions based on average points per game during the season so far.
Current points & position...
70 Wealdstone 67 Havant & Waterlooville 63 Weymouth 63 Bath City 60 Slough Town 56 Dartford 50 Dorking Wanderers 47 Hampton & Richmond Borough 45 Maidstone United 44 Chelmsford City 44 Hemel Hempstead Town 42 Chippenham Town 42 Welling United 42 Oxford City 38 Eastbourne Borough 37 Dulwich Hamlet 37 Concord Rangers 37 Billericay Town 37 St Albans City 36 Tonbridge Angels 35 Braintree Town 28 Hungerford Town
Pro-rata over 42 Matches...
89.09 Wealdstone 82.76 Havant & Waterlooville 75.60 Weymouth 75.60 Bath City 72.00 Slough Town 69.18 Dartford 60.00 Dorking Wanderers 59.82 Hampton & Richmond Borough 57.27 Maidstone United 54.35 Chelmsford City 54.35 Hemel Hempstead Town 51.88 Welling United 51.88 Oxford City 50.40 Chippenham Town 48.77 Tonbridge Angels 48.56 Concord Rangers 48.56 Billericay Town 48.36 Eastbourne Borough 44.40 Dulwich Hamlet 44.40 St Albans City 42.00 Braintree Town 35.64 Hungerford Town
The only significant change is that Tonbridge escape relegation at the expense of Dulwich.
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Post by Scot Stone on Mar 17, 2020 9:59:12 GMT
... The only significant change is that Tonbridge escape relegation at the expense of Dulwich. Because of league restructuring (increasing both Step 2 divisions to 24 clubs from 2020/21) It’s only 2 down (& 4 up) this season. Further, with Bury FC (or successor) likely to be one of these, the prospect is that there will be a reprieve for the better 23rd place team (across both divisions) determined on ppg (points per game)
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Post by Benny on Mar 17, 2020 10:20:44 GMT
Would PPG mean Ebbsfleet are down, despite recent revival in form?
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