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It also isn’t as simple as coming into contact. Track and Trace would want to know how long and how close you were and what you were doing.

During actual training distance should be kept so would be classed as contact and even during a match unless you were man marking someone it is unlikely you would class as a contact.

the time and distance is usually within 2m for 15mins

 

Plymouth's game still going ahead tomorrow despite 2 positive tests (1 player, 1 non playing staff). This is their statement -

Plymouth Argyle FC can confirm that two individuals have tested positive for COVID-19.

The club opted to undertake an additional round of testing following an outbreak at Leyton Orient, where Argyle played last week in the Carabao Cup.

Both cases – including one member of the Pilgrims’ playing squad, and one non-playing staff member at Home Park – are asymptomatic. The individuals will now follow Public Health England and EFL guidelines, and will self-isolate.


As a matter of course, the club has informed our most recent opposition, AFC Wimbledon, of the test results before publishing this statement.

Saturday’s Sky Bet League One fixture against Shrewsbury Town will go ahead as scheduled.

The club will make no further comment.

Interesting that two days ago, EFL guidelines were apparently for the individuals concerned to self-isolate, but according to Grimsby today, the EFL are telling them to shut down the training ground for 2 weeks and call off not just tomorrow's game but their mid week cup game and league game against us next Saturday as well. Something doesn't add up.

 

Sorry, you are right Storck.

Definition of close contact on NHS website:

What does close contact mean?


Examples of close contact include:

• close face to face contact (under 1 metre) for any length of time – including talking to them or coughing on them
• being within 1 to 2 metres of each other for more than 15 minutes – including travelling in a small vehicle
• spending lots of time in your home, such as cleaning it

 

Imagine the farce if the game starts as no results are back and then they start pinging through during the match all positive.

 

Orient had 18 cases. West Ham had 3.

 

So is this game on or not?

 

If an individual club calls off the game without it being sanctioned by the EFL, they're essentially forfeiting the game? Surely? Could be our best way to get 3 points this season!!

 

difficult one this.. as there have now been two additional CV19+ results in their playing squad, there may be further asymptomatic carriers. with the incubation period being anything between 1-11 days it would surprise me to see further positive from either club after today. just hope this doesn't come round to bite us in the next week or so.

 

Is it as simple as that Grimsby can't or won't pay for Covid-19 tests and stevenage will?

 

Yep, spoke very well. You could tell he was pi##ed off with the Grimsby chairman.

 

Same could be said about everyone everytime they leave home.

Hopefully our players shouldn’t be standing within close proximity for long periods of time to theirs though.

 

Leyton Orient kicked out of the cup for positive cases, West Ham allowed to carry on regardless.

Leyton Orient game this weekend off, our game with Grimsby has been postponed next week, weeks clogged up with the EFL trophy.

It was bound to happen, I'm suprised we lasted 3 weeks.

 

West Ham just isolated the players effected, so could play on. I presume they had better processes in place so PHE were happy

 

The EFL wanted the game played and were probably happy to look the other way.

 

Game will be off I would imagine.

 

The test results for all the other players and staff will be known tomorrow morning? If only one player has covid and all necessary precautions taken for the rest, surely the game has to go ahead.
If games are to be cancelled due to on3 player having covid this season will never finish.
Incidentally does anyone know what the rules are for cancelling games due to covid. Our game against Grimsby is off due to a number of players/staff having covid. In this instances how many are effected this may help understand if games are likely to be cancelled

 

Will do, thanks for being an "uber fan".

 

I agree. It doesn't reflect well on Baldwin, the CEO.