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  • Thread starter BackRoomRummermill
  • Start date Feb 23, 2020
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Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #176
Yep it’s why every game is so important
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #177
I still can't see the hype. It seems like a lot of scare mongering.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #178
Nick said:
I still can't see the hype. It seems like a lot of scare mongering.
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Mixture of panic and fear
 

Malaka

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #179
BornSlippySkyBlue said:
Stayed away from this the other day, but was a little surprised to see the question being dismissed by some.

Stock markets tanking, talk of schools closing for two months (sweet Jesus), six nations / serie a matches off, there’s even talk of cancelling the olympics.

I can easily see a scenario where matches are unable to be played (in front of fans). Nobody worried?
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Our home games haven't been played in front of many fans for years now. Should be to our advantage
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #180
Sky Blue Pete said:
Mixture of panic and fear
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The headlines in the press don’t help. Yesterday the BBC said toilet rolls were made mostly in China and likely to run out and guess what - empty supermarket shelves of toilet and kitchen rolls
 
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Magwitch

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #181
Grendel said:
The headlines in the press don’t help. Yesterday the BBC said toilet rolls were made mostly in China and likely to run out and guess what - empty supermarket shelves of toilet and kitchen rolls
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Thank god we have the Sun to fall back on, starting with the editorial.
 
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Brylowes

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #182
Grendel said:
The headlines in the press don’t help. Yesterday the BBC said toilet rolls were made mostly in China and likely to run out and guess what - empty supermarket shelves of toilet and kitchen rolls
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That could be a case of people gearing up for a nervy end to the season.
 
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torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #183
Only Russell Slade is capable of scuppering a season, so I think we'll be fine.
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #184
Nick said:
I still can't see the hype. It seems like a lot of scare mongering.
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People are dying and you say "it seems like a lot of scare mongering "

 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #185
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
People are dying and you say "it seems like a lot of scare mongering "

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A load more people have died in car accidents. The football isn’t being banned because people might crash on the way. Take your shit gifs and shut up.
 
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Jcap

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #186
I’ll just leave this here... from a Guardian article Feb 2019

“In total, 2,182 people in the UK have had to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) or high-dependency unit (HDU) because of flu since the start of October. That is more than the 2,045 who needed such care in the same period last year, when the virus was much more prevalent. Flu has killed 195 this winter...”
 
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letsallsingtogether

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #187
First case reported in Brum.
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #188
Can’t remember this level of panic for Bird flu, Swine flu, Ebola, [insert disease outbreak here], etc. I just had the standard cold at the weekend. I was sure to cough and sneeze over everything at Tesco.
 
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Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #189
It's the new age of fake fear and overstatement.
 
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robbiethemole

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #190
all this talk of playing games behind closed doors......................... how do you stop players from getting it to play footy?
all absolute bollocks, basic hand washing, (especially after using the loo, pees and poos, those who don't, you know who you are) and coughing/sneezing into tissue and then bin it.That should be basic enough for most people to understand.
 

hill83

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #191
I’d argue though that the need to be cynical and know more than the experts being demonstrated here may catch a few people out.

The usual rags are pumping out nonsense but that doesn’t mean there is no cause for concern.
 
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hill83

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #192
Liquid Gold said:
A load more people have died in car accidents. The football isn’t being banned because people might crash on the way. Take your shit gifs and shut up.
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Car accidents deaths don’t spread in large crowds as far as I’m aware.
 
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BackRoomRummermill

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #193
Indeed it’s like flu , it will spread I am afraid the average low level of personal responsibility and general carelessness now is rife in UK , going to Tesco in night gowns and pj’s spring to mind. Ironically it’s these people who will bleat the most if they get it .
 
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oscillatewildly

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #194
Grendel said:
The headlines in the press don’t help. Yesterday the BBC said toilet rolls were made mostly in China and likely to run out and guess what - empty supermarket shelves of toilet and kitchen rolls
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Isn't this game Franny Lee's gig still?
 

Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #195
Page 47

26k died of flu a couple of years ago. How many have died of flu so far this year. Maybe 5k.


https://assets.publishing.service.g...tory_viruses_in_the_UK_2018_to_2019-FINAL.pdf
 
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Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #196
hill83 said:
Car accidents deaths don’t spread in large crowds as far as I’m aware.
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Nice.
 

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #197
Liquid Gold said:
A load more people have died in car accidents. The football isn’t being banned because people might crash on the way.
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Complacency will be the death of you.

Liquid Gold said:
Take your shit gifs and shut up.
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And it's a NO on both counts.

 

Alan Dugdales Moustache

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #198
Why on earth is there mass panic for toilet rolls for crying out loud ?
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #199
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Why on earth is there mass panic for toilet rolls for crying out loud ?
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Because some people don’t give a shit.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #200
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Why on earth is there mass panic for toilet rolls for crying out loud ?
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Making sure we've got enough to lob at our promotion party
 

withnail

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #201
Apparently we’re meant to time washing our hands to two verses of happy birthday. I find three verses of ‘we’re top of the league’ works just as well.
 
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Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #202
withnail said:
Apparently we’re meant to time washing our hands to two verses of happy birthday. I find three verses of ‘we’re top of the league’ works just as well.
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Is that Stevie Wonder’s version? Because the classic ‘happy birthday’ annoys the fuck out of me.
 

eastwoodsdustman

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #203
I can see games being postponed or played behind closed doors within a few weeks if the virus starts to spread. They’d be better off getting the league to vote on closing the season off early with everyone finishing in their positions on a certain agreed date.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #204
Premier League has banned players and officials shaking hands from this weekend.

Wonder if this will filter down to the football league
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #205
eastwoodsdustman said:
I can see games being postponed or played behind closed doors within a few weeks if the virus starts to spread. They’d be better off getting the league to vote on closing the season off early with everyone finishing in their positions on a certain agreed date.
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Not a chance of that happening, they'll just play behind closed doors.
 

eastwoodsdustman

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #206
Sick Boy said:
Not a chance of that happening, they'll just play behind closed doors.
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As soon as one of the players contracts it they’ll have to stop playing games though.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #207
eastwoodsdustman said:
As soon as one of the players contracts it they’ll have to stop playing games though.
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Can’t see them ending the season with that happening either, they’ll carry on as normal but behind closed doors. They wouldn’t call off a season if a team came down with flu.
 

skyblueeyesrevisited

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #208
hill83 said:
Car accidents deaths don’t spread in large crowds as far as I’m aware.
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Depends who’s driving
 

skyblueeyesrevisited

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #209
Around 1 million die every year from TB. But that doesn’t get on the front pages of the tabloids. The press are causing mayhem. World economy will suffer but hey the editors will have great headlines. So that’s OK
 
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Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • #210
hill83 said:
Car accidents deaths don’t spread in large crowds as far as I’m aware.
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More people driving more deaths.

we’re all getting this anyway.
 
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