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       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: honkytonk
       Date: September 23, 2020, 4:50 am
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       > The DCMS have announced this evening there will be no
       supporters at any sporting event until at least March 2021. It
       looks like they want to end most of sport in our great country.
       Can it be long before there is general unrest over these
       damaging restrictions?
       >
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       I thought they told the Sports to "prepare" for no fans until
       March 2021, but the situation will remain under review.  Way I
       understand it, that has been the case through out this whole
       thing, constant  reviewing.  That was what lead to fans being
       allowed back in for test events.  If the new measures introduced
       start to have a positive effect, I would not be surprised to see
       test events back up and running before xmas
       #Post#: 50164--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: DOK
       Date: September 23, 2020, 5:29 am
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       I see the testing centre at HQ is remaining open now that there
       won't be crowds for Baa-baas or presumably the other games
       supposed to happen after that.
       #Post#: 50166--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: MadMax
       Date: September 23, 2020, 5:38 am
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       --- Quote from: harlequins link ---
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       > The DCMS have announced this evening there will be no
       supporters at any sporting event until at least March 2021. It
       looks like they want to end most of sport in our great country.
       Can it be long before there is general unrest over these
       damaging restrictions?
       >
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       We have all seen there are a significant number of idiots in
       society and I'm sure they will cause some unrest.
       #Post#: 50167--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: Uncle Arthur
       Date: September 23, 2020, 5:55 am
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       --- Quote from: DOK link ---
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       > I see the testing centre at HQ is remaining open now that
       there won't be crowds for Baa-baas or presumably the other games
       supposed to happen after that.
       >
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       Confimed that testing will cease day before and day after each
       event
       #Post#: 50169--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: Mr_B
       Date: September 23, 2020, 5:58 am
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       no real incentives to get rid of the older corona's, I may be a
       pessimist but the cost of developing and approving a cure
       doesn't out way what they already sell every year with cough
       meds and the like for flu's etc, perhaps they don't want to try
       that hard. This covid version is somewhat different with the
       death rate as it is and definitely money to be made by the one
       who finds the cure first.
       our trial fan run went well and they thought 5k fans workable, I
       hope if we can control this spike they will get back to that,
       depends if we get a grip on the spike quickly.
       #Post#: 50170--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: Saintquin
       Date: September 23, 2020, 6:00 am
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       --- Quote from: MadMax link ---
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       > We have all seen there are a significant number of idiots in
       society and I'm sure they will cause some unrest.
       >
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       Yep, they would be the idiots running round rioting and looting
       spreading the virus even more.
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       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: honkytonk
       Date: September 23, 2020, 6:29 am
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       Another thought. A friend of mine has been missing his footy
       desperately. Last night he got a ticket for a non league
       friendly.  Crowd capped at 1000.  After the announcement
       yesterday he expected it to be blown out, it wasnt.  The gov etc
       gave their blessing and game went ahead with about 6/700 people
       there.  My own opinion, fans will be back in trialling events
       soon (ish)**.  might not be enough for some clubs/sports but
       thats my prediction
       **this is based on the new measures slowing the increase and
       getting it bac down.  I see no reason for 6 m onths
       #Post#: 50173--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: DOK
       Date: September 23, 2020, 6:35 am
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       Sport by sport: what new lockdown regulations will mean in UK
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/22/sport-by-sport-what-new-lockdown-regulations-will-mean-in-uk
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       > Rugby union
       > Rugby union remains among the most vulnerable major sports if
       the pandemic continues to prevent spectators from attending
       major games. The Rugby Football Union, which largely funds the
       English game, derives 85% of its income from sold-out Twickenham
       internationals and its chief executive, Bill Sweeney, has now
       said the sport needs an urgent government bailout. In a
       statement, Sweeney said playing this autumn’s Tests and the Six
       Nations behind closed doors would see losses spiral above £100m.
       The other home unions are in a similar boat with an increasing
       possibility that, with Cardiff’s Principality Stadium
       unavailable, Wales will be forced to face England at a deserted
       Parc y Scarlets in November. The finances of the club game are
       even more precarious, with Exeter’s Tony Rowe suggesting every
       Premiership club is currently losing an estimated £1m per month.
       Further down the pyramid none of the other leagues in England
       have been permitted to restart and Sweeney said that the
       community game would lose up to £86m in revenue as fans are
       forced to stay away. The RFU’s losses, the statement continued,
       would make it impossible to invest in elite women’s rugby and
       the community game . Robert Kitson
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       #Post#: 50181--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: Only Joe Quin
       Date: September 23, 2020, 9:39 am
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       > Saintquin, I’m not sure of the context of your post. Do you
       mean you would rather there was no rugby in order to protect
       your loved ones? If you do then we must stop absolutely
       everything and stay at home and starve. For example, a friend of
       mine who lives on his own locked down in his flat only going out
       to get food from his local supermarket once a week. He didn’t
       speak to anybody and kept his distance in the store taking all
       the precautions. He still got Covid in May. It was tested
       positive and he’s fine now luckily as he keeps himself fit. He
       seems to have done everything and been unlucky. The only way he
       could have been more careful would have been to not go out or
       have anything enter his flat. That’s how to be 100% safe.
       >
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       But I thought the point of the restrictions was less about
       protecting yourself and more about protecting others?
       #Post#: 50184--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The end of rugby?
   DIR By: JammyGit
       Date: September 23, 2020, 10:24 am
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       > There has never been a vaccine for any Coronavirus. Deaths of
       Corona account for 1% of deaths. Boris can’t tell us what he is
       trying to do - reduce hospital admissions to what? Reduce
       ‘deaths’ (of people in their 90s with severe issues) to zero?
       Reduce cases to zero? What is he trying to do?
       >
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       1% of deaths?
       In less than a year, COVID-19 has killed somewhere between
       44,000 and 53,000 people in the UK this year. There have been
       around 271,000 registered deaths.
       In the USA, COVID-19 is now one of the deadliest events in the
       nation's history.
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