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Irrespective of when football is back on the agenda, the first priority is to complete 19-20 season.

That has to happen - even if football is not allowed to resume until this time next year.

If that means that 20-21 does not exist, then so be it. 19=20 has to be brought to its natural and foreseen conclusion before anything else can move forward. It's the only equitable solution.

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11 hours ago, macy37 said:

Prize money should not be paid. If they aren’t willing to finish the season as positions are at present then it should roll into next season. Can’t have it both ways surely?

😂 I don’t think they’ve thought that part through.

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14 minutes ago, sbcmfc said:

😂 I don’t think they’ve thought that part through.

You bet they have, brass neck to say the old club broke the rules & owns the debts but new club still has the history 🤯

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On 15 March 2020 at 9:44 AM, macy37 said:

Read that the FA rules are if 75% of games are completed then the league standings stand. I’m unsure if this is actual or some cunt making pish up but if Scotland have the same rules it would be glorious as the Diets would be doon if we don’t restart.

That appears to be some cunt making up pish. 

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13 hours ago, macy37 said:

Prize money should not be paid. If they aren’t willing to finish the season as positions are at present then it should roll into next season. Can’t have it both ways surely?

They probably want the European places decided by current positions too :lol:

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1 hour ago, aaid said:

That appears to be some cunt making up pish. 

Not sure on the English side, but its not really covered off in the league rules up here I believe. Look like it would be up the the SPFL Board to make a final decision, who will take guidance from UEFA. The league rules (all 230 odd pages) are on the SPFL website, if someone want to take a closer look.  

 

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14 hours ago, macy37 said:

Prize money should not be paid. If they aren’t willing to finish the season as positions are at present then it should roll into next season. Can’t have it both ways surely?

Im agreed - however If prize money is not paid this season, then certain clubs are gone. Some premier league teams get over 50% of their income from gate receipts and prize money. They cant survive without that, unless with government or other help.

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3 minutes ago, Stu101 said:

Im agreed - however If prize money is not paid this season, then certain clubs are gone. Some premier league teams get over 50% of their income from gate receipts and prize money. They cant survive without that, unless with government or other help.

Wonder what will happen to the euro prize money.....

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3 minutes ago, Fairbairn said:

Pretty easy to pay it up to the last completed round.

I think team payments are made at certain points in the competition.

market pool payments are made at the end of the season, or at least that used to be the case.  Not sure about the new co-efficent payments - as they were only introduced last season. Would make sence that they are paid at the same time as the market pool payments, you would think.

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11 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:

Nothing should be decided on current positions, mental to think otherwise. Clubs haven't even played the same number of games.

They should finish the season, as and when they can.

Sadly, I cant see this happening. Too complex, unless the whole infection rate drops off a cliff (or UEFA decrees otherwise). 

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17 minutes ago, Stu101 said:

Not sure on the English side, but its not really covered off in the league rules up here I believe. Look like it would be up the the SPFL Board to make a final decision, who will take guidance from UEFA. The league rules (all 230 odd pages) are on the SPFL website, if someone want to take a closer look.  

 

It's something I heard over the weekend about the English Leagues in a "bloke down the pub said" context.

If there was something like this in the league or FA rules then I'd have expected to hear about it from more veritable sources.

Sounds to me like it's something made on the basis of wishful thinking and is doing the rounds but no-one actually can state the origin of it.

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Euro 2020, scheduled to take place at 12 venues across Europe this summer, could be postponed to give European leagues time to complete their domestic seasons
A mini-tournament to decide the Champions League and Europa League will be one option put forward to ease fixture congestion caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

European football's governing body, Uefa, is hosting a video conference with major stakeholders on Tuesday.

Euro 2020 is set to be postponed to allow league seasons to be completed.

A source close to the situation says all parties must be ready to sacrifice something to reach a solution.

All 55 Uefa members, the boards of the European Club Association and the European Leagues, and a representative of world players' union Fifpro have been invited to Tuesday's meeting.

The Uefa members will also hold an additional meeting to discuss their own reaction.

As with the Premier League, who on Friday stressed their commitment to completing the season, Uefa wants the Champions League and Europa League to reach a conclusion because they also have major broadcasting contracts to satisfy.

Both tournaments are at their last-16 stage, with six matchdays remaining, including the final. There are still 14 last-16 ties across the two competitions to be completed.

Playing the quarter-finals and semi-finals as one-off games would cut two fixtures off the remaining schedule.

Playing them over a handful of days as a mini-tournament - in Istanbul and Gdansk, host cities for this season's finals - would concentrate the matches even further, cutting down on travelling and cause the least disruption to the domestic leagues. Rangers would automatically be given a bye to the fnal, if Alex Rae has his way.

It has not been ruled out these games could be played in conjunction with league matches - nor does the Champions League final have to mark the end of the club campaign as tradition dictates.

Moving Euro 2020, due to take place at venues across Europe from 12 June to 12 July, to next summer would also free up more time to complete domestic and European fixtures.

However, that would then impact on next year's calendar.

Both the Women's European Championship, hosted by England, and the men's European Under-21 Championship, in Hungary and Slovenia, are scheduled for the summer of 2021. The Nations League, the draw for which was held earlier in March, is due to be completed next spring.

In addition, the first edition of the expanded Fifa Club World Cup is set to be held in China in June.

While the big domestic leagues have problems over television contracts to solve if games do not take place, most countries rely on the payments from Uefa that come out of major international tournaments to allow their own leagues to function properly. These would be at risk from any movement of the European Championship and are likely to form part of any agreement.

Uefa has an estimated 400 staff working on the Euros. It is unknown what will happen to them if the tournament does not take place for another 12 months.

The situation is not made any easier by not knowing when football will be able to resume.

Uefa accepts it is impossible to know when current travel restrictions will be lifted, but it cannot wait until they are to draft a plan.

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19 minutes ago, Stu101 said:

Sadly, I cant see this happening. Too complex, unless the whole infection rate drops off a cliff (or UEFA decrees otherwise). 

Even if it’s in September, I don’t see why we couldn’t complete the season when things start to return to normal.

Having a transfer window and contracts ending isn’t ideal, but I’m sure some sort of temporary relaxation of transfer windows could be agreed to allow contracts to be extended.

The idea of completing the UEFA comps with one off 1/4 and semi finals, postpone the euros, can the league cup all seem sensible.

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1 minute ago, sbcmfc said:

Even if it’s in September, I don’t see why we couldn’t complete the season when things start to return to normal.

Having a transfer window and contracts ending isn’t ideal, but I’m sure some sort of temporary relaxation of transfer windows could be agreed to allow contracts to be extended.

The idea of completing the UEFA comps with one off 1/4 and semi finals, postpone the euros, can the league cup all seem sensible.

Agreed - far more sensible and palatable for all concerned (fans anyway) then either voiding seasons or declaring winners 75% through a season.

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18 minutes ago, Terry Munro said:

Playing them over a handful of days as a mini-tournament - in Istanbul and Gdansk, host cities for this season's finals - would concentrate the matches even further, cutting down on travelling and cause the least disruption to the domestic leagues. Rangers would automatically be given a bye to the fnal, if Alex Rae has his way.

:lol:

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3 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:

Agreed - far more sensible and palatable for all concerned (fans anyway) then either voiding seasons or declaring winners 75% through a season.

think it would also be more palatable for the TV companies, bookies, other sponsors, etc, and the others more important than fans.

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Just now, sbcmfc said:

Even if it’s in September, I don’t see why we couldn’t complete the season when things start to return to normal.

Having a transfer window and contracts ending isn’t ideal, but I’m sure some sort of temporary relaxation of transfer windows could be agreed to allow contracts to be extended.

The idea of completing the UEFA comps with one off 1/4 and semi finals, postpone the euros, can the league cup all seem sensible.

 

Agreed. Finishing the season at some point is a must and with the English, Spanish and Italian leagues are already pushing for that. It's easy to shorten the next domestic season to suit.

Transfer windows should cease for a year or so - go back to the old system temporarily.

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