Here we go, it's started

See what I don't get is if this was EFL advice, why are Stevenage waiting for the test results for the full squad before making a decision on tomorrow's game, when Grimsby were allegedly told to close everything and isolate?

 

why can’t they then?

 

Liverpool paid for Lincoln squad/staff etc to be tested.

Think this is the problem. In the PL players are tested twice a week and shopping is delivered to the players. Players have to say where they have been and in contacted with but basically told to say at home. Yes, PL players will catch it but they the just isolate the player/players that have it and test everyone again.

Seems in the ELF clubs can do what they want. I said before a ball was kicked in the football league who is going to be paying for the testing and it looks like no process is in place at all.

 

What I also don't get is the Grimsby youth player that has tested positive is currently on loan to Spalding United so presumably won't have been in contact with the first team squad anyway?

 

If the game was off at the direction of the league it would be postponed, as it is our game is on and the Grimsby/Cheltenham game is suspended as Grimsby said they couldn’t safely fulfil the fixture.


Lack of leadership from the EFL

 

are they currently playing /training

 

As far as I understand, a contact of a contact does not have to isolate unless the original contact develops symptoms. If someone in your home works closely with someone who tests positive, they isolate and rest of your family only need to isolate if your family member develops symptoms. I think that’s right.

 

He was a second half sub for Spalding last weekend. If he is playing for them but still training with the Grimsby squad during the week that seems very foolish, given the current circumstances.

 

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

 

Its because grimsby haven't tested their players as the EFL dont require it. Which is stupid in my opinion.

 

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.

 

There was a school saying that if a child is sent home from one year due to an outbreak a sibling in another year could still go to school but the parents would be asked to isolate. It made no sense to me what so ever.

Then again the rules change daily. The rule of 6 from 2 weeks ago have been updated about 3 times already.

 

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

 

Spent far too much time at work reading PHE, GPHC, Gov, NHS updates.