Chelsea away

[Norbs]

Oo, I wonder if if it's one of our African players whether they'd be able to go to the Afcon. Might be a blessing in disguise

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If the rule is anyone who has featured in a PL match by my count we have 24 outfield players who qualify, to have a game postponed we would need to have 12 outfield players out (or not have a GK) to have a game postponed. According to the PL injury table we have 5 players currently injured, Robertson suspended and now 3 guys out with Covid (if they are all outfield players) that takes us to 9. With 3 guys about to go away to the ACN another outbreak with similar numbers and current injury levels, could see us have games postponed later in January...

[rodo]

Jurgen has tested positive

[S-RED]

Seriously joke, I am sure game will be postponed by tomorrow, hopefully before fans travel

[Kenneth]

You think?

[Buzzo]

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[Fredo]

Seriously joke, I am sure game will be postponed by tomorrow, hopefully before fans travel

It won’t as there hasn’t been a more consequent outbreak yet. Things might change tomorrow if we’ve got 10 or so players out.

[S-RED]

They need to have a chicken pox style party. ��

[Exiled_red]

Ffs

[Maxiedge]

Absolute joke. It seems you are either riddled with it or you can continue as normal. We’re obviously not on the good side of the line but going forward, I think some questions need to be asked about precautions.

[Kenneth]

**** sake. It feels like that "if you have 13 players, then play the game" rule is bull****. Some teams have bigger squads ffs.

Premier league have ****ed up here big time

I think the rule is fine, essentially treating Covid as any other illness or injury scenario seems sound, but there needs to be transparency and oversight by the FA/PL to avoid shenanigans.

[Exiled_red]

I think that for transparency it should be clear which players for each club fall into the eligibility category and which players are unavailable so that we know that everyone is being treated equally. We don't know what is causing games to be postponed for certain clubs.

For example I suspect that some clubs could be taking advantage of the 'played in the PL' part of the rule. They might have players that were happily registered in their 25 man squad as senior players, but as they haven't played in the league can more easily help them get games postponed. I could be wrong, but...

[Exiled_red]

Also out of curiosity what are the EFL rules, thinking back to our EFL Cup game within a day of the World club Cup a couple of years ago, would these rules stop something similar happening again?

[Kenneth]

I think that for transparency it should be clear which players for each club fall into the eligibility category and which players are unavailable so that we know that everyone is being treated equally. We don't know what is causing games to be postponed for certain clubs.

For example I suspect that some clubs could be taking advantage of the 'played in the PL' part of the rule. They might have players that were happily registered in their 25 man squad as senior players, but as they haven't played in the league can more easily help them get games postponed. I could be wrong, but...

I think the consideration for non Covid related injury is open to abuse. Eg Player ‘feels something’ in his hamstring in training so is out injured for a massage or two.

[fabinho]

17th December we were on 40, City 41.3 points ahead of Chelsea.

England cricket level collapse this.