Should the 2020 championship be cancelled?

Started by macdanger2, October 19, 2020, 10:33:18 PM

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Should the 2020 championship be cancelled?

Yes
36 (40%)
No
54 (60%)

Total Members Voted: 90

An Watcher

If it was an open draw I'd have been all for it

APM

An Open Draw and fixtures like Antrim travelling to play Waterford in the first round?

Are you serious?

An Watcher

Or the dubs travelling to ballybofey or Clones on a pissing wet Sunday rather than having wicklow in croker. Proper competition

larryin89

Rossies have a case , some players now isolating
Walk-in down mchale rd , sun out, summers day , game day . That's all .

Blowitupref

Quote from: larryin89 on October 21, 2020, 10:35:52 PM
Rossies have a case , some players now isolating

Any county team that doesn't get at least 1 positive case over the next few weeks will be extremely lucky.
Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose

dublin7

#65
Quote from: larryin89 on October 21, 2020, 10:35:52 PM
Rossies have a case , some players now isolating

Offaly hurlers also have cases and might have to give Kildare a walkover at the weekend

Hound

Quote from: Blowitupref on October 21, 2020, 10:44:37 PM
Quote from: larryin89 on October 21, 2020, 10:35:52 PM
Rossies have a case , some players now isolating

Any county team that doesn't get at least 1 positive case over the next few weeks will be extremely lucky.
Either very lucky, or just won't have tested!

Saffrongael

Quote from: Hound on October 22, 2020, 09:51:41 PM
Quote from: Blowitupref on October 21, 2020, 10:44:37 PM
Quote from: larryin89 on October 21, 2020, 10:35:52 PM
Rossies have a case , some players now isolating

Any county team that doesn't get at least 1 positive case over the next few weeks will be extremely lucky.
Either very lucky, or just won't have tested!

Or test & say f**k all
Let no-one say the best hurlers belong to the past. They are with us now, and better yet to come

dublin7

Offaly hurlers have given Kildare a walkover this weekend in the hurling after they confirmed they can't field a team due to Covid-19.

Paul Flynn and the GPA are demanding improved testing now as well. With cases at such a high rate who knows how many more players will be affected if/when they start a proper testing program

magpie seanie

Seems crazy that all the panel were deemed close contacts (Offaly). The guidelines, if followed, should ensure no one is a close contact.

Blowitupref

Quote from: magpie seanie on October 22, 2020, 10:26:16 PM
Seems crazy that all the panel were deemed close contacts (Offaly). The guidelines, if followed, should ensure no one is a close contact.

Yes it's a strange one, most players should be causal contacts.
Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose

DuffleKing

Quote from: magpie seanie on October 22, 2020, 10:26:16 PM
Seems crazy that all the panel were deemed close contacts (Offaly). The guidelines, if followed, should ensure no one is a close contact.

Correct. Baffling

twohands!!!

Quote from: magpie seanie on October 22, 2020, 10:26:16 PM
Seems crazy that all the panel were deemed close contacts (Offaly). The guidelines, if followed, should ensure no one is a close contact.

Not all the panel were deemed close contacts.

QuoteThe HSE has deemed almost every member of the Offaly panel as a 'close contact' of a player with Covid-19.

https://offaly.gaa.ie/2020/10/22/statement-offaly-hurlers-unable-to-fulfil-christy-ring-cup-fixture/

https://twitter.com/RTEgaa/status/1319390817426038786

Sounds like Offaly messed up in how they ran the training session, given that the HSE have done contact tracing for a number of county panels and this is the only county who seem to have an issue relating directly to how a training session was run.

Should be a warning to other counties.

Hound

Quote from: twohands!!! on October 22, 2020, 11:59:01 PM
Quote from: magpie seanie on October 22, 2020, 10:26:16 PM
Seems crazy that all the panel were deemed close contacts (Offaly). The guidelines, if followed, should ensure no one is a close contact.

Not all the panel were deemed close contacts.

QuoteThe HSE has deemed almost every member of the Offaly panel as a 'close contact' of a player with Covid-19.

https://offaly.gaa.ie/2020/10/22/statement-offaly-hurlers-unable-to-fulfil-christy-ring-cup-fixture/

https://twitter.com/RTEgaa/status/1319390817426038786

Sounds like Offaly messed up in how they ran the training session, given that the HSE have done contact tracing for a number of county panels and this is the only county who seem to have an issue relating directly to how a training session was run.

Should be a warning to other counties.
From what I read it seems the only lads who weren't close contacts were the lads who missed training.

It's very odd. Either HSE have gone nuclear on what is a close contact as opposed to a casual contact - in which case there's no point in continuing the season.

Or (presumably more likely) Offaly fecked up in the way they ran the session (e.g. everyone was huddled together in a changing room for tactical discussions)

Lar Naparka

I'm afraid that it's becoming increasingly likely that the championships will have to be called off.
If a significant number of counties, say, 5 or 6 have players in isolation and have to pull out of games, the competitions will become meaningless and will have to be scrapped, like it or not.
I think that will be a great pity because, right now, only Tony Holohan can stop Mayo this year.  ;D
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