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Premier League to resume season at start of May?

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Baldrick's Cunning Plan, Mar 31, 2020.

  1. x

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    my. take is that this season has to finish, even if it means making changes to next season. this season's league games can be wrapped up in six weeks. the fa cup can be dropped. most of the european competitions can be dropped, unless, perhaps some are at the semi-final stage, in which case they can be finished next season.

    if the six weeks plus a month break takes us past when next season should start, there are several ways to shorten next season.
    1. if the season starts after december, make the league half as many games long, with teams playing each other only once. who they get home and away will be random.
    2. drop the league cup.
    3. drop the fa cup.
    4. make any european competitions one game knockouts.

    finishing this season and defining new rules at the start of next season, for one season only, maintains the integrity of next season, and maintains the integrity of this season.
     
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    Pfft, where's the fun in that?

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  3. highpeak tiger

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    And if Sky pay per game played, you lose half a season compared to 6 to 9 games
     
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    Sky/BT pay for the games they broadcast.
     
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  5. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Why **** up two seasons? This ones void
    It’s that simple
     
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    you misunderstand and i don't agree with you.

    if this season is completed, apart from a handful of cup games, that's only one ******ed up season. what if there's no football till november? i gave options for next season; which of the options are actioned depends when/if the next season can start.

    no, almost all teams have 9 or 10 games left of this season, and that doesn't account for play-offs. the list of POSSIBLE ways to reduce next season contains options. i'm not suggesting they're all done. that depends on when the season could start.

    this is about INTEGRITY of the league competition. the rules in place at the start of the league season get to be enforced for the whole season, rather than arbitrary and potentially unfair alterations being made late on and rendering a 75+% completed season a waste of time.
     
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    if the six weeks plus a month break takes us past when next season should start, there are several ways to shorten next season.

    No
     
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    this is about INTEGRITY of the league competition. the rules in place at the start of the league season get to be enforced for the whole season, rather than arbitrary and potentially unfair alterations being made late on and rendering a 75+% completed season a waste of time.[/QUOTE]

    But you are advocating changing the rules 3/4 of the way through. The only fair to everyone way is to write off this season altogether. Everything else leads to complaints from all angles.

    There are no fair ways to shorten next season either.
     
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    Seems fair to say that to most posters the resumption of football is a pretty minor concern versus the nations's health and welfare (just looking at the number of posts on this thread, and comparing to the Covid one). Whatever happens now, this year is historical and the normal rules don't apply. Whatever is decided we should man up and support those making the tough decisions whether we agree or not.
     
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    There is no integrity , only £s
     
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    Wealth before health.
     
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    I find that I now do not give **** whether the season finishes or not, it just seems irrelevant given everything else that is going on.
     
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    But you are advocating changing the rules 3/4 of the way through. The only fair to everyone way is to write off this season altogether. Everything else leads to complaints from all angles.

    There are no fair ways to shorten next season either.[/QUOTE]

    you obviously understood or read nothing of what i wrote. i'm advocating NOT changing the rules this season. i'm advocating finishing the season come what may.
     
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    you obviously understood or read nothing of what i wrote. i'm advocating NOT changing the rules this season. i'm advocating finishing the season come what may.[/QUOTE]

    So scrapping the FA cup and international games this season, then cramming the remaining games into 6 weeks are not changes then?
     
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    How the hell do they overcome social distancing for the players, coaches and officials?!
     
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  19. balkan tiger

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    And if one of the star players shows symptoms and has to self isolate but the games go ahead without him, it opens the door for clubs to claim they were at a disadvantage and on and on it goes.

    The seasons a write off, put it out of it's misery.
     
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  20. Amin Yapusi

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    They get paid enough. Teams should live together til season and have zero interaction with outside world. The ****s.
     
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