EFL matches suspended until April 4th

Cos like most business,money better in their account than yours at this time.

Interesting stuff going on in Scotland.

Partick being relegated when winning their game in hand would have seen them out of the relegation spot, being one.

Yeah, that's gone right through the roof 

I bought Charlton away and have a home ST. As someone else has pointed out before, they will offer refunds once the game has been re arranged. If you can't make the new date then you would get a refund.

Playing Devil's Advocate here, how much pre season training will they need before being ready to perform to their best? How many teams have players who are not currently in the country due to lockdown in the countries they are in? How much of the NHS and emergency services should be set aside for football when there is already such a shortage of frontline workers they are trying to get people out of retirement to help? Assuming every person who will be at these "behind closed doors" matches has to be tested and cleared for C-19 before a ball is kicked, how wrong is it to use those tests when there are so many more deserving of that test? 
Without the use of a crystal ball it is impossible to know just when the deaths will cease, or a viable vaccine created, but I would be surprised if it was anytime before the start of the next season. More and more we are seeing the various leagues being voided and I suspect that eventually that is what will happen throughout the divisions, including the EPL, otherwise there will be legal backlashes for years. 
I know the club have said they will honour any outstanding tickets bought, including S/T's, but if it meant the difference between me losing a few hundred £££'s or QPR going out of business I think I would rather see the club stay in business. 

Good post esox. However, I would say that assuming (and it is a big assumption) we get up to 100k tests by the end of April then I don't think it should be a problem using some of those tests on football squads and incidental staff. By the time we are ready to start then there should be adequate tests for NHS staff, carers etc. The goodwill benefit to the nation of starting some sport shouldn't be underestimated imo.

feel exactly the same not fussed if I get refund or not

Yes all fair points. However, season should restart whenever medical advice says they can play - with crowds or without. If that is May, July, October....doesn’t matter. Then make next season 50% of games. Next season should start whenever the current one is finished. Maybe give players, 2-3 weeks off.

Surely we could finish the season whenever and have one shorter season whereby teams only play each other once, in order to enable them to get back to complete normality the season after.

Having said that, what the hell is normality going to look like on the other side of this? I expect it to have changed in many ways. It’d be quite refreshing for the leagues and clubs to start thinking about enforced salary caps, clubs needing to operate within their means etc., or face the possibility of complete closure, like other sectors. I’m sure if £10k pw maximums were the option as opposed to no professional football, arms could be twisted. 😂

It’d be interesting to know how football fans reacted to the curtailment of the 1939-40 season, when only 3 games had been played. Would it have been much different had we entered the war the following March? I guess back then many people were more likely to have seen things in perspective?

The wikipedia page for all the leagues that season are here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939–40_Football_League

We drew 2-2 with a team known as Bournemouth and Boscombe !! 😂

EDIT:
Interesting page here too:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939–40_in_English_football

Another “Honour” we probably weren’t aware of. 😂

Yes but it’s luck of the draw. Exceptional situation, everyone needs to adapt and just get on with it.

Or we squeeze season into less months by sacking off league cup and doing games Saturday, Wednesday

I think the issue is that it’s easier to have a new competition with slightly different rules, than cancel all the hard work and effort put in so far.

Leeds aside, obviously. 😂

I think the main problem with that solution will be the swathes of legal actions from clubs who have already had their seasons sacked off, including some who had already won promotion. IMO, it will be easier for ALL leagues to be voided in line with action already taken. This would also have the benefits of giving the clubs longer to prepare when this is over and the frontline emergency personnel the chance to devote all their efforts into stemming the wave of deaths from C-19.

It’s not confrontational at all. It’s got nothing to do with cost. We’re 80% through season. Lot of effort from all sides to get to positions their in. The only way to decide who goes up and down is to finish the season.

Why does it matter when the next season starts? It should only start when the current season finishes.....whenever that is.

Why reverse them after 80% complete? Why rush to start next season? What happens if this thing comes back again? Just finish this season and then think about the next one.