Mowatt tests positive for covid

I suggest it is because a football club is a place of work , for example if a nurse or doctor catch covid then the hospital does not shut down , same with a supermarket , if any of the staff catch it then the supermarket does not shut down , of course if all the staff contract the disease then it becomes a whole new ball game

 

Is George Spicer in isolation?

 

Agreed. Going to be an issue at all clubs at some stage.

 

I know I’m disappointed we haven’t had an inspirational Christmas/ New Year message from him.

 

Exactly. 2 people wearing a mask is better than neither. Majority of the players getting off the coach on Tuesday didn’t have masks. Ironically George Miller did, Mowatt didn’t.

 

Big problem is unless you separate them from their family & they aren't allowed in shops & to train in a gym you won't stop it with a break in fixtures. You could put a case for all players in the football league to be vaccinated, to provide entertainment for all us millions sat at home. I think there may be a case, but it is complex, Maybe buying in one of the vaccines the NHS isn't in the market for? I really don't know, I'm conflicted on this subject.

 

A number of people at my place of work had to miss their entire Christmas with their families because they'd been in the same room as someone who tested positive for Covid-19. If Mowatt tested positive on Wednesday then he had it on Tuesday evening when he was hugging and being hugged by a number of other people, all with their faces together. These other people are playing a game of football tomorrow, they can do whatever they like. If that's what the right thing to do is then I no longer know the difference between right and wrong.

 

They should be (unless the rules are different when you are outside). These are the rules according to work:

Close contact is defined as:
* direct close contacts - face to face contact with an infected individual for any length of time, within 1 metre, including being coughed on, a face to face conversation, or unprotected physical contact (skin- to-skin)

* proximity contacts - extended close contact (within 1 to 2 metres for more than 15 minutes) with an infected individual

* travelling in a small vehicle, like a car, with an infected person

 

So after big sweaty man hugs and kisses, not to mention travelling to and from the game on a coach, and sat together in a dressing room, and no doubt showering together, nothing at all is being done, to the point where all these people who have been in very close contact with someone who tested positive are travelling to another city to play football. What the actual fc*k?

 

James up front? Surely not..

Has to be Frieser, might not get many goals but covers so much ground and puts in a tremendous shift every time.

 

Mate, it is all ********.

There is science & there are are politicians. The point is you can't shut down supermarkets, hospitals & you have to let people exercise. I contemplated suicide twice in lockdown & once NHS staff came to my flat when i was ready to jump out of a 300 foot window. I had massive financial worries & hadn't seen a friend for 2 months. (I'd chatted on line, but I may as well have been in solitary & my Dad was close to death too.). A lot of people are getting by watching football. I am. I don't know the f-ing answer.

 

Mowatt hasn't tested positive. He has been locked in the Kim Christiensen locker that Simon Davey had made.

Mowatt won't be allowed any food or water until he signs a contract extension.


Seriously though, best wishes to him. Hope he gets through it fit and healthy! You reds!!!

 

No, I said I’d play a midfield three rather than a two. James, Palmer and Kane in midfield with Woodrow and Vic in a front two.

 

Baffled why our game is on tomorrow and it would be good if someone can explain it. Our entire team and many other staff have been in contact with those with covid and so by law shouldn't our whole squad be self isolating for long enough that the Tranmere match cannot be played either.

 

Blimey I bet the pane of glass for that window costs an absolute fortune.

I hope you're doing a little better now than you were then. Don't expect you to be doing well or anything but even just a little better is an improvement

 

It’s crazy isn’t it? I’m not sure how the rules change with them being regularly tested. There’s some rule about testing negative so many times or something that means that you then don’t need to self isolate but then Chaplin and Miller wouldn’t need to if that’s all that’s needed.

 

This is nuts.

I appreciate that the rules are barmy.

but here are a dozen posters who think there’s no way our team should be playing on Saturday, because it’s obvious to us that they’ve clearly been close to two players who have tested positive. So clearly they ought to be isolating.

Yet only a couple of days ago thought it was ridiculous that Rotherham should be excused from playing because only a couple of their players had Covid.

 

http://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/speaking-purely-hypothetically.299216/page-4#post-2620290

http://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/rotherham-game.299209/page-3#post-2619936

 

Hadn’t suggested it was everyone Jay, but there are definitely posters here who thought that game should go ahead.