Slim (10th January 2021)
Wouldn’t suprise me. French banning cross border elite sports. On about shutting nurseries and and making face masks compulsory even outdoors now in England.
Rumours Champions League and Europa league will be a summer tournament again with the Euros being scrapped.
Not sure what price people would lay the festival being on at. I wouldn’t be laying more than 2/1 myself if in the position to do so. Could get a whole lot worse again.
Is that why on ITV racing yesterday they asked people to email them and explain how being able to watch/listen to racing helped them cope with lockdowns etc. It did cross my mind at the time that racing was under threat of closing down. I must make a point of emailing them as I’ve been shielding for months and racing is an absolute lifeline.
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Twitter is in full flow tonight. Might be took out of racings hands anyway, Boris could be announcing a circuit break to elite sports as early as tomorrow.
reet hard (10th January 2021)
Ambulance crews in Britain and Ireland might be needed elsewhere over the next few weeks if the respective health services are facing overload.
The DRF is only 26 days away. Can't be better than 50/50 to go ahead.
Christ this is depressing. Hopefully the last year of this with the vaccine being rolled out now.
I know. I’m the biggest pessimist in the world but even I didn’t think we’d be facing another year of this.
Rumours quashed (for now at least)
https://www.racingpost.com/news/late...rumours/467664
Alcohol, because no good story ever started with "I was eating this salad..."
Slim (11th January 2021)
Given the rate this pox of a Government peforms U-turns, prepare for disappointment.
"Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".
SlimChance, March 2018
Slim (11th January 2021)
A lot of it will come down to football i reckon, If that can’t go on they’ll scrap them all. Positive signs though
Lower league football in Scotland suspended.
Slim (11th January 2021)
I thought only elite sport was being allowed anyhow
Regarding Celtic, I'd had a message earlier that their squad is heavily affected and if tonight's game goes ahead it'll be a shadow team. Have had an account closing bet on Hibs at 11/2
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Alcohol, because no good story ever started with "I was eating this salad..."
[Probably for another thread.]
It's likely to be more of a case of 'close contacts' having to isolate rather than lots of players having the virus but the net result is likely to be as you say, wilsonl, a second XI having to be selected.
Being a fan, I tend to be defensive of the club but the trip to Dubai was a huge error of judgment and a PR disaster waiting to happen.
Needless to say, the anti-Celtic media and establishment up here took full advantage of it to [rightly] hammer the club for posting photos of the players poolside, having a beer.
From the pictures I saw, there was probably at least a metre between those players but when they're playing a match, all players in all teams are jumping on each other when they score a goal.
Nothing was said about the Scottish national team getting together to do 'Yes Sir I Can Boogie' or doing a big team conga after qualifying for the European competition. In fact, it was seen as a great laugh and retweeted by the poisoned dwarf herself.
At their training complex in Lennoxtown, players are tested twice a day, on arrival and departure. There hasn't been a positive test result for months.
Why on earth they put that at risk by fvcking off to Dubai I just cannot fathom.
But it's just another unfathomable decision by the top people at the club.
I've given up on securing the ten. It will cost me a fortune in losing bets. We are by far the best squad in the country but poor management at board and team level sees us well off the pace. It's so bad I wonder sometimes if it's a deliberate move to keep 'Glasgow Big Two' rivalry thing alive.
I might claw back some of the losses by opposing us in future matches until the end of the season but the damage is as good as done.
But I won't back Hibs this evening until I see the Celtic team. If we get enough of our main squad on the park we're playing well enough to win.
Edit - just read an unconfirmed report that Christopher Jullien is the player who tested positive (missed the last couple of games through injury and out "for months" according to a recent update so why the fvck was he anywhere near Dubai??) with 13 players and 3 coaches (including manager Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy) identified as close contacts who have to self-isolate.
Last edited by Desert Orchid; 11th January 2021 at 2:00 PM.
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