2020 Close Season Thread

[The Night-Owl]

3 hours ago, prowl said:

I don't mind Liverpool winning the Premiership title, they have been outstanding. Their supporters are a different matter. 

 

Pigs, tough.

 

Deserving it or not is immaterial, plenty of teams have fallen away or missed out on winning things they seemingly deserved, over the years. There have been European bans and wartime suspensions and things, that have halted numerous players, club and international teams momentum in the past.

 

If the season can't be completed, which looks increasingly likely, then it should be cancelled fully and made null and void. Because awarding teams for partly completing a season would be tricky territory with future implications and would lessen the achievement.

Edited March 14, 2020 by The Night-Owl

[prowl]

1 hour ago, The Night-Owl said:

 

Deserving it or not is immaterial, plenty of teams have fallen away or missed out on winning things they seemingly deserved, over the years. There have been European bans and wartime suspensions and things, that have halted numerous players, club and international teams momentum in the past.

 

If the season can't be completed, which looks increasingly likely, then it should be cancelled fully and made null and void. Because awarding teams for partly completing a season would be tricky territory with future implications and would lessen the achievement.

You are a hard man. 25 points clear and the next team only have 30 points to play for.  I can accept your general point though.

 

If they were say 5 points clear it wouldn't be an issue.

[The Night-Owl]

4 minutes ago, prowl said:

You are a hard man. 25 points clear and the next team only have 30 points to play for.  I can accept your general point though.

 

If they were say 5 points clear it wouldn't be an issue.

 

My way of seeing it, is if the season can't be completed then it should be cancelled. No matter how many games have been completed or how many points have been awarded and yet to be awarded or fulfilled. If all the teams can't complete their fixtures, then it devalues the competition and renders it void. For example, if there were was a war, they would probably ban certain countries or teams from competeting and some tournaments would be unfeasible to complete. Also contracts; pre-season, next season and future competitions have to be taken into account too.

 

Or take other sports as an example, like track and field, motor sport or horse racing for instance, if a race was partly completed but halted before the finish line by an intruder or freak accident or something. That prevented, all the racers from crossing the finishing line, would it be fair to award medals based on where the athletes were at the time of the intervention? Or would it be fairer to re-run the race, cancel the race or event altogether and just run it again the following scheduled date cancelling the result of the uncompleted race?

[Kew Owl]

25 minutes ago, The Night-Owl said:

 

My way of seeing it, is if the season can't be completed then it should be cancelled. No matter how many games have been completed or how many points have been awarded and yet to be awarded or fulfilled. If all the teams can't complete their fixtures, then it devalues the competition and renders it void. For example, if there were was a war, they would probably ban certain countries or teams from competeting and some tournaments would be unfeasible to complete. Also contracts; pre-season, next season and future competitions have to be taken into account too.

 

Or take other sports as an example, like track and field, motor sport or horse racing for instance, if a race was partly completed but halted before the finish line by an intruder or freak accident or something. That prevented, all the racers from crossing the finishing line, would it be fair to award medals based on where the athletes were at the time of the intervention? Or would it be fairer to re-run the race, cancel the race or event altogether and just run it again the following scheduled date cancelling the result of the uncompleted race?

Excellent idea, Liverpool don’t win the league and the pigs don’t get into Europe, and our relegation fight is cancelled - yes, looks really good from where I’m sitting !

[kobayashi]

25 minutes ago, The Night-Owl said:

 

My way of seeing it, is if the season can't be completed then it should be cancelled. No matter how many games have been completed or how many points have been awarded and yet to be awarded or fulfilled. If all the teams can't complete their fixtures, then it devalues the competition and renders it void. For example, if there were was a war, they would probably ban certain countries or teams from competeting and some tournaments would be unfeasible to complete. Also contracts; pre-season, next season and future competitions have to be taken into account too.

 

Or take other sports as an example, like track and field, motor sport or horse racing for instance, if a race was partly completed but halted before the finish line by an intruder or freak accident or something. That prevented, all the racers from crossing the finishing line, would it be fair to award medals based on where the athletes were at the time of the intervention? Or would it be fairer to re-run the race, cancel the race or event altogether and just run it again the following scheduled date cancelling the result of the uncompleted race?

At last year’s Tour de France the penultimate stage was cut short due to a freak snowstorm in the Alps. They didn’t award a Stage win but they fix take the times for the overall race at an intermediate point.

 

For this season the fairest point to take the intermediate time would habe to be when each club had played each other the once- which conveniently enough was the weekend before Christmas. So it’s congratulations to West Brom and Leeds and a promotion play off match against Brentford for SWFC to prepare for over the coming months. 

 

[Ever the pessimist]

Might pop over to this on Friday seeing as we are having a few weeks (minimum) off matches.