Pritchard

Has covid, so we wont be seeing him play for a few more weeks .

 

Ive just noticed this is on the transfer thread. Its not transfer news though???

Is that the only thread we are using to discuss things now or something?? I think we need to keep the board ticking over with new threads in all honesty instead of bombarding that thread with every bit of news. Keep it to transfer news only.

 

**** man. I hope it’s not the strain Vokins had. He missed months because of it!

 

I know mate, its abit of a blow really i cant see him been ready for the first game now. I hope this isn't going to be another injury jinxed season

 

Likely to be fine. He’ll just have to isolate until a negative test. It’s far more likely a fit, professional footballer is asymptomatic than gets ill from it.

 

You say that but I got it a year past February and was actually running with it (didn’t know I had it as I had symptoms which weren’t listed as symptoms at the time”. Re covered really quickly and was back to full speed. It’s such a weird disease in that it affects some very minority and destroys others!

hopefully he’ll just have a minor strain like I seemingly did

 

Tell Jake Vokins that

 

Yes hopefully he's not poorly with it and he's able to do some work at home otherwise his fitness levels wont be great going into the new season.

 

Yeah but you’re picking out one random case.

The majority of footballers who test positive are completely fine. Of course there are anomalies but my statement was that Pritchard is likely to be totally fine and back in two weeks, which is statistically true.

 

Hasn't LJ already alluded to this, minor strain should be ok in a week or so.

 

I know mate absolutely. I’m a stat man as a job. I report on COVID for my organisation. This is why I hate the “numbers are going up”. We’re testing more and more people and the % of positive cases us no worse than it’s been since last year (in the regional bubble I report on) apparently nationally it’s come down. But they report on numbers rather than percentages.
Just that Vokins is the one we had which potentiially impacted us most (and sometimes a bit of a sarcy twat!!)

 

If they all play with Covid we will hardly notice the difference between them and the team that finished the season

 

Dare I say it....here we F in go.

 

Not sure what you mean. He hasn’t got an injury which is the norm. He’s got a disease (which is sharp becoming the norm to be fair!!)

 

As things open up footballers the same as the general public will be hit by this, all clubs will be affected imo so a decent sized squad would help but I think we're still a bit short in that department.

 

There will be more of this to come, I think it could seriously destabilise clubs up and down the land in the coming weeks.

 

sure LJ stated he had a decent gym set up at home and was keeping himself up to speed, hopefully get his next test and be clear.

 

With a bit of luck
I could be only a positive test and not actually have Covid

 

if honest, he was the one i was really looking forward to seeing him on the pitch, if he has not lost any of his form he should be a hell of an asset.

 

Yeah I was pleased when we signed him