Should the 2020 championship be cancelled?

[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

[Blowitupref]

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.

[dublin7]

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]

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]

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

[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]

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.

[DuffleKing]

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!!!]

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.

The 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]

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.

The 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.