Premier league clubs can stick their so called help up their arse if it is all on their terms and the lower leagues get flooded with the top tiers Reserve teams. That for me really would be the end of the line.
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While I understand the sentiment in the first instance, the precedent that awarding us the league points (as opposed to cup progression) would set is potentially more detrimental than beneficial to us, in the longer term.
This scenario is not going to be unique; as we head into the winter months, there will be fixtures rendered unplayable right, left and centre. An automatic three points on Saturday would be all well and good, but a couple of cases at Essington in a month or so, and WFC couldn’t take the field for 14 days. If that were to fall over a period where 3 league fixtures were scheduled, there’s 9 potential points we’d be surrendering, without having the opportunity to contest them.
If default wins were to become the de facto position, that’s a hell of a lot of league points between now and May that will come down to nothing but the luck of the draw- who had Covid when, and what the fixture algorithm threw up a few months prior. Several posts in this very thread reference the money flowing around the Premier League, and how that has served to eternally stack the competitive deck. It’s an issue I’m sure at least most UTSers feel very strongly about, and competitive integrity is an argument we should want to stay on the right side of. Advocating a final league table that would ultimately decided by a number of arbitrary factors, extraneous to 11 vs 11, wouldn’t be consistent with that.
Rearranging the game for a later date is the right precedent to set. Let’s not forget what we are all about, and ultimately opposed to.
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Chunksters predictions are ready to view and copy 
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If there are no fans though KO time could be 11.00am perhaps to reduce floodlighting?
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I understand there was no specific guideline to testing lower league clubs but I now understand that 17 players tested positive and put the clubs they have played in jeopardy of having there games cancelled because of there negligence. Plymouth have announced 2 are positive and I bet Mansfield will have players testing positive.
I think Spurs were tipped of for them to insist that LO were tested before playing and so payed for it to make sure.
Just to keep up-to-date on the League 2 table situation … other games are going on, and we have:-
Southend Utd 1 Morecambe 0 (5 min - an own goal, it would have to be!!)
Rico Henry subbed off injured after 2 minutes.
Mansfield Town 1 Exeter City 0 (20 min) … pushes us down to 11th as things stand
Oldham Athletic 1 Crawley 0 (30 min) … and a minute later it’s 1-1 
Barrow 0 Colchester United 1 (34 min)
Scunthorpe United 1 Carlisle United 0 (35 min)
Bradford City 0 Stevenage 1 (37 min)
Oldham Athletic 1 Crawley 2 (39 min)
Mansfield Town 1 Exeter City 1 (40 min)
Second half under way …
Barrow 1 Colchester United 1 (54 min)
Bolton Wanderers 0 Newport County 1 (54 min) EDIT … now 0-2 (63 min)
Southend United 1 Morecambe 1 (55 min)
Bradford City 1 Stevenage 1 (61 min)
ex-Saddlers on benches, by the way … Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) and Amadou Bakayoko (Coventry City)
Is this a new job as a tickertape? 
Sheer force of habit Andy!!
Oldham Athletic 1 Crawley 3 (69 min)
That result (if it finishes like that - and in other games) pushes us down to 11th. Not too bad for a non-playing day.
You may need to change your user name to Vidiprinter_Saddler. 
Southend United 1 Morecambe 2 (73 min) … should push us down to 12th 
Mansfield Town 1 Exeter City 2 (76 min)
Oldham Athletic 2 Crawley 3 (80 min)
Bradford City 2 Stevenage 1 (81 min) … 2 goals for Novak, and we’re down to 13th
BOOOO we’re down to 13th. Clarke out! 'E’s gorra gew
The good news is that we are only 3 points off the top with a game in hand. We just have to win 7-0 to overhaul Cambridge …
Couldn’t be easier
Another possible plus point is that, if the season doesn’t collapse sometime soon, there is a chance that we will be allowed back into stadiums by the time the game gets rearranged.