Blades reporting positive tests

[TsarBomba]

Sheff Utd reporting a number of positive tests, but not confirming who or how many.

[dandeclaret]

Sheffield United have revealed the club has recorded "a number of positive coronavirus tests after the latest round of testing".
A club spokesman added: "Due to medical confidentiality the club will not be revealing the names of those who have been affected."

[Steve1956]

That's it then they want the game off...sadly if teams have injuries they will play this card...football is heading back into lockdown

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Their team coach travelled through Crawshawbooth earlier so presuming the game goes ahead!

[arise_sir_charge]

Whilst the game may be called off (I don’t know), how have you interpreted their tweet in that way Steve?

[Grumps]

Game goes ahead

[Bigvince]

Game goes ahead

Is that certain? Where have you got your info?
I hope you’re right we need to play them now while they have injury worries.

[Swizzlestick]

All starting to get a bit messy now.

[MDWat]

Can see football being suspended for a short while in the new year.

[chekhov]

That's it then they want the game off...sadly if teams have injuries they will play this card...football is heading back into lockdown

Don’t be daft.

[Grumps]

Is that certain? Where have you got your info?
I hope you’re right we need to play them now while they have injury worries.

Every single news outlet that are reporting about it

[HollandsPies]

Bet it gets postponed. Hope I'm wrong.

[Grumps]

All starting to get a bit messy now.

Something like 0.5% of tests carried out in Premier league have been positive.... Not that messy. Six hamstrings wouldn't get a game called off...

[Bigvince]

Every single news outlet that are reporting about it

Wasn’t doubting your post Grumps, just wondered where you’d found out. Sorry if my post sounded as if I was!

[Grumps]

Wasn’t doubting your post Grumps, just wondered where you’d found out. Sorry if my post sounded as if I was!

It didn't... I was just saying where I'd got it from

[Steve1956]

Don’t be daft.

Watch this space,football will go back into full lockdown like everyone else.

[ksrclaret]

Unlucky Sheff Utd. Hard lines. Play the game.

Going to be bumpy ride over the next month or so for football, but I’d hope and expect there is enough collective mettle to push through.

[Socrates]

Something like 0.5% of tests carried out in Premier league have been positive.... Not that messy. Six hamstrings wouldn't get a game called off...

Can you catch a hamstring from somebody else?

Could you then pass that hamstring on to your elderly parent who then dies from a hamstring injury because they have pre-existing conditions?

If not, and I’ve not checked, then it’s not the same is it?

[Socrates]

Unlucky Sheff Utd. Hard lines. Play the game.

Going to be bumpy ride over the next month or so for football, but I’d hope and expect there is enough collective mettle to push through.

Push through the deaths, ignore the heartbreaking messages from NHS staff about exhaustion ..... a game must go on.

Not sure I share your sentiment ksr.

[Stan Tastic]

The team coaches were parked outside the Crow Wood hotel around 3.00pm. When's the latest they get tested before a game? Surely not later than that.

[chekhov]

Watch this space,football will go back into full lockdown like everyone else.

Yes okay, but the idea a club would manufacture fake COVID test results toget a game called off is just daft.
The risk is that a lot of positive tests (I guess) increases the possibility that the virus will spread throughout competing teams, Burnley in this case.

[Socrates]

Let’s say a Sheff United player has the virus and there is a false negative test. Or alternately the symptoms haven’t just shown yet.

Let’s say that player then passes the virus on to one of our lads. Who passes it on to somebody else in the dressing room after the game. Tomorrow at training those two pass it on to Dyche and Woan and two other players. And then there’s a round of testing and those six are positive and have to isolate for ten days.

At the start of January. Just as the takeover goes through when Dyche would want to meet ALK or prospective new signings. And we have big games coming up.

Still alright with Sheff United cracking on are we?

[Swizzlestick]

Something like 0.5% of tests carried out in Premier league have been positive.... Not that messy. Six hamstrings wouldn't get a game called off...

Well it is messy because City got their game postponed last night because of it. Also, hamstrings aren’t highly contagious as far as I’m aware.

[ksrclaret]

Push through the deaths, ignore the heartbreaking messages from NHS staff about exhaustion ..... a game must go on.

Not sure I share your sentiment ksr.

That’s fine, you don’t have to share my sentiment. I don’t share the sentiment that says shut everything down.

I will say though that it’s not just a game.

[Steve1956]

Yes okay, but the idea a club would manufacture fake COVID test results toget a game called off is just daft.
The risk is that a lot of positive tests (I guess) increases the possibility that the virus will spread throughout competing teams, Burnley in this case.

Who said they were manufacturing fake covid tests?...hmmm not me

[Grumps]

Can you catch a hamstring from somebody else?

Could you then pass that hamstring on to your elderly parent who then dies from a hamstring injury because they have pre-existing conditions?

If not, and I’ve not checked, then it’s not the same is it?

But the only staff/players turning up will be those with negative tests, so not a risk.

The hamstring example was about having a game called off because of the number of players missing. Six hamstrings the game goes ahead. Six Covid and it gets called off.

[Steve1956]

Let's just get to 5pm and we see the teams announced and away we go.

[dsr]

Let’s say a Sheff United player has the virus and there is a false negative test. Or alternately the symptoms haven’t just shown yet.

Let’s say that player then passes the virus on to one of our lads. Who passes it on to somebody else in the dressing room after the game. Tomorrow at training those two pass it on to Dyche and Woan and two other players. And then there’s a round of testing and those six are positive and have to isolate for ten days.

At the start of January. Just as the takeover goes through when Dyche would want to meet ALK or prospective new signings. And we have big games coming up.

Still alright with Sheff United cracking on are we?

And let's say that doesn't happen.

Anyway, Ian Woan has already had it. Which on current numbers gives him less than a 1 in a million chance of getting it again.

[Zlatan]

It’s not just the players who are at risk if it goes ahead after some positive results, it’s also their families. All those who are suggesting it would be fine to go ahead (because they obviously know best) are deciding that it’s Ok for football to come before the health of players families - including Ben Mee’s baby daughter.

It’s not more important than that. I’ll trust the medical staff from both clubs to advise and decide the right thing to do, not people on a message board.

[Grumps]

Let’s say a Sheff United player has the virus and there is a false negative test. Or alternately the symptoms haven’t just shown yet.

Let’s say that player then passes the virus on to one of our lads. Who passes it on to somebody else in the dressing room after the game. Tomorrow at training those two pass it on to Dyche and Woan and two other players. And then there’s a round of testing and those six are positive and have to isolate for ten days.

At the start of January. Just as the takeover goes through when Dyche would want to meet ALK or prospective new signings. And we have big games coming up.

Still alright with Sheff United cracking on are we?

That scenario could refer to every single game that has taken place since lockdown. Unaware of it ever happening though.

[Socrates]

That scenario could refer to every single game that has taken place since lockdown. Unaware of it ever happening though.

You’re so close to getting it.

It could happen every game. Dead right.

And we don’t know when it happens. Dead right.

Can you work out the conclusion?

[dsr]

It’s not just the players who are at risk if it goes ahead after some positive results, it’s also their families. All those who are suggesting it would be fine to go ahead (because they obviously know best) are deciding that it’s Ok for football to come before the health of players families - including Ben Mee’s baby daughter.

It’s not more important than that. I’ll trust the medical staff from both clubs to advise and decide the right thing to do, not people on a message board.

I understand that the footballers are indeed taking advice from medical professionals and are not using this message board to make their decisions. So you needn't worry on that score.

[Socrates]

But the only staff/players turning up will be those with negative tests, so not a risk.

The hamstring example was about having a game called off because of the number of players missing. Six hamstrings the game goes ahead. Six Covid and it gets called off.

It’s been reported 20% of negatives are false.

What if the swab was so early in the cycle that the virus couldn’t be detected?

What if they met somebody with the virus one second after the swab was taken?

And to reiterate again. You can’t catch a hamstring which then is passed on which kills somebody with pre-existing conditions.

[Socrates]

No need for the hysteria.

I mean .... he wasn’t being hysterical.

But if he was ... and he wasn’t..... aren’t the hundreds dead every day decent grounds for it? All he’s suggesting that we take teeny tiny steps to do our bit to stop those.

[ksrclaret]

I mean .... he wasn’t being hysterical.

But if he was ... and he wasn’t..... aren’t the hundreds dead every day decent grounds for it? All he’s suggesting that we take teeny tiny steps to do our bit to stop those.

He was.

Luckily, there are teeny tiny steps in place to stop the spread. They've been implemented by Sheff Utd. They're the same teeny tiny steps that have been in place since football restarted in June.

[Bigvince]

Can’t be long before this thread is locked, I thought we weren’t aloud to discuss Covid, probably for the reason that’s happening on this thread, posters bickering and falling out, which becomes quite tedious!

[ClaretTony]

Can’t be long before this thread is locked, I thought we weren’t aloud to discuss Covid, probably for the reason that’s happening on this thread, posters bickering and falling out, which becomes quite tedious!

It is being locked - bickering and posts that are not allowed.