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<blockquote data-quote="weasel" data-source="post: 549666" data-attributes="member: 14"><p>Only 75% of football league players have had 1 or both jabs. So a quarter of them have nothing.</p><p></p><p>Pool played last night with VVD, Fabinho and (the injured) Curtis Jones all out with Covid. Chelsea had Lukaku, Werner (neither are a loss), Chilwell (who is injured) and Hudson-Odi all out with covid too. I wonder what the limit is, number wise, to get a game called off? Apparently both clubs could have asked for a postponement, but didn't. Whether they would have got one is a different matter.</p><p>There are going to be a lot of games to be fitted in, half this w/e's programme is now postponed.</p><p></p><p>On the one hand I wish the PL would just say "if you have 11 fit players, inc. a keeper, you play." But on the other it's hardly fair that, say, Norwich have to go to City/Pool with a team made up of kids and lose 10-0 and yet later in the season the same club turns up with it's full team and grinds out a draw, or loses narrowly. If the league is as close as it looks to be GD could well come in to decide league places. Teams playing with mass Covid absentees means that's hardly fair. At the same time mass postponements for 2/3/4 positive covid cases does seem a tad OTT. </p><p>Another factor to consider is the squad size/strength and the players who test positive. Obviously if it's all a club's keepers that's a different matter. But Pool without VVD and Fabinho are very different to Pool without the Bolton Baresi (Nat Phillips) and Taki Minamino. "Smaller" clubs have smaller/less strong squads, so by definition 2/3/4 first team players out for Burnley is a lot more of an issue than the same for one of the "big" sides. Unless it's Harry Maguire, in which case Utd are better off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weasel, post: 549666, member: 14"] Only 75% of football league players have had 1 or both jabs. So a quarter of them have nothing. Pool played last night with VVD, Fabinho and (the injured) Curtis Jones all out with Covid. Chelsea had Lukaku, Werner (neither are a loss), Chilwell (who is injured) and Hudson-Odi all out with covid too. I wonder what the limit is, number wise, to get a game called off? Apparently both clubs could have asked for a postponement, but didn't. Whether they would have got one is a different matter. There are going to be a lot of games to be fitted in, half this w/e's programme is now postponed. On the one hand I wish the PL would just say "if you have 11 fit players, inc. a keeper, you play." But on the other it's hardly fair that, say, Norwich have to go to City/Pool with a team made up of kids and lose 10-0 and yet later in the season the same club turns up with it's full team and grinds out a draw, or loses narrowly. If the league is as close as it looks to be GD could well come in to decide league places. Teams playing with mass Covid absentees means that's hardly fair. At the same time mass postponements for 2/3/4 positive covid cases does seem a tad OTT. Another factor to consider is the squad size/strength and the players who test positive. Obviously if it's all a club's keepers that's a different matter. But Pool without VVD and Fabinho are very different to Pool without the Bolton Baresi (Nat Phillips) and Taki Minamino. "Smaller" clubs have smaller/less strong squads, so by definition 2/3/4 first team players out for Burnley is a lot more of an issue than the same for one of the "big" sides. Unless it's Harry Maguire, in which case Utd are better off. [/QUOTE]
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