Match Thread Away vs Grimsby town - Tue 22 December 7pm kick off

The chairman doesn't want to pay for testing, that's what's behind all of this.

SM said on the radio that the EFL should pay for weekly testing to help clubs out financially and to keep the hope of completing the season a real one.

 

It is 14 days if told by track and trace due to being with someone who has tested positive

 

My lad has to self isolate for 14 days after one of his class at college caught the virus. Only needs a test if he shows symptoms.

 

The EFL should give the option of playing the game or forfeiting the 3 points

 

I think the EFL need to be more organised/flexible in terms of called off games. E.g if two games get called off because one team has positive Covid 19 cases, why don't the two teams who don't have cases play each other instead? Saving fixture congestion down the road.

 

That makes to much sense for the efl

 

Game officially now off

 

What a joke officially off

 

Are we being awarded the three points then since Grimsby are clearly so desperate not to play?

 

So Stevenage have more players out and less notice but have to play, nah stinks from both Grimsby and the EFL make the feckers play. Watch them sign about 5 players by the time we actually play them. Another Tuesday night game to fit into an already tight schedule.

 

Yes it was them. It stinks does this. Their chairman has been pushing his agenda for weeks and months now and the fact that they're the only club to have postponed games when other clubs have been able to get on with it, speaks volumes. Add in their poor start to the season and their long injury list and it all starts to look a little convenient.

I very much doubt their case is any different to that of Stevenage's but the EFL have made a rod for their own back with this decision as clubs will now be able to call games off whenever they want so long as they have one positive test. Season will never finish after this decision.

 

Go on Stuart lad!

Pile the pressure on, then thump them four nowt.

 

I really do feel we need to be very vocal about this and demand an explanation from the EFL, they had zero first team players effected by it, it was a young lad out on loan. We had our two first choice CBs suspended, can we just get games called off until we can get replacements in? @wetherbywhaler will the club be going further with this?

 

Yeah this all doesn't seem right and is extremely worrying for the rest of the season. Grimsby seem to have their own agenda and are using 'medical advice' as a cover. Obviously everyone needs to be safe but at some point we need to get on with life or there will be even more severe consequences for everyone and not just football clubs.

I do hope I am wrong on this and there is some information that hasn't been released and that this was in fact a sensible decision but it doesn't seem that way.

Didn't they say that they weren't getting the rest of the squad tested due to a 5 day incubation period? Well tomorrow will mark 5 days, surely could get tested then and they would then know if they can play at the weekend?

 

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/grimsby-town-jock-curran-coronavirus-4545590

So there allowed to call off 3 games because a player currently loaned out but trained with them has covid.

EFL needs to get a backbone and shouldve told them they need to play matches.....season will never end if teams are allowed to do this.

There is no doubt grimsby taking advantage of situation while they have injuries and try to add to the squad. Embarrasing