A couple of non league snippets

[Reading Rebel]

Pointless exercise imo.

[Reading Rebel]

13 hours ago, Irishadrian said:

RR That's  more or less his situation since he joined either a sub who gets on late or an unplayed sub

If he gets a fair crack of the whip I'm sure he'll prove his worth.  

[Curtis]

I missed it, but this was announced on 21st December 2020:-
 

‘BT Sport will continue to show live coverage of the National League through to the end of the 2023/24 season

BT Sport has renewed its exclusive rights to broadcast the Vanarama National League for a further three years until the end of the 2023/24 season, with more games set to be broadcast than ever before.

BT Sport has been broadcasting live and exclusive coverage of English football’s fifth tier since 2013 and the new deal will see live National League matches shown every week in a regular Saturday slot. 

BT Sport’s coverage, led by presenter Matt Smith, follows the regular season championship race plus the exciting end-of-season playoffs as 23 teams battle it out for two precious spots in the Football League.’

 

[Reading Rebel]

2 hours ago, Curtis said:

I missed it, but this was announced on 21st December 2020:-
 

‘BT Sport will continue to show live coverage of the National League through to the end of the 2023/24 season

BT Sport has renewed its exclusive rights to broadcast the Vanarama National League for a further three years until the end of the 2023/24 season, with more games set to be broadcast than ever before.

BT Sport has been broadcasting live and exclusive coverage of English football’s fifth tier since 2013 and the new deal will see live National League matches shown every week in a regular Saturday slot. 

BT Sport’s coverage, led by presenter Matt Smith, follows the regular season championship race plus the exciting end-of-season playoffs as 23 teams battle it out for two precious spots in the Football League.’

 

Shame it doesn't include the NLS.

[Irishadrian]

Ollie Bayliss has published on his twitterfeed a communication  dated today which is the latest response to the ongoing situation  Take a look ( or if one of the computer savvy members would like put it on here)

Basically confirms grants  will be a available to any club which can show a real need  they will be subject to scrutiny of accounts and records as part of the process

[GlenSTFC]

What club can prove they need the grant more than the next club? Aside from a couple who have wealthy backers the rest of us are fairly similar in that we rely on fans for income. Will it only be those who already heavily in debt get a grant and then is that fair at all?

[GlenSTFC]

 

[Shredding Green]

29 minutes ago, Irishadrian said:

Ollie Bayliss has published on his twitterfeed a communication  dated today which is the latest response to the ongoing situation  Take a look ( or if one of the computer savvy members would like put it on here)

Basically confirms grants  will be a available to any club which can show a real need  they will be subject to scrutiny of accounts and records as part of the process

"Once there's clarity on needs across clubs, we'll process help quickly. No decisions can be made, for loans or grants, until clubs have opened their books" Nigel Huddleston has written to National League clubs. They're invited to meet with Sport England to discuss the support.

[Shredding Green]

21 minutes ago, GlenSTFC said:

 

Sorry Glen. By the time I had finished making my post, you had made yours. I did manage to make the script of the letter bigger!

[GlenSTFC]

38 minutes ago, Shredding Green said:

Sorry Glen. By the time I had finished making my post, you had made yours. I did manage to make the script of the letter bigger!

We’re cool SG ?

[Reading Rebel]

Taken from the Ollie Bayliss twitter account.

Clubs will be asked to vote on Monday on what happens to the rest of the season.

At this stage clubs have not been told the specifics of what they will be voting on.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55848918

 

[Curtis]

[Curtis]

Club statement:-
 

‘We have yet to receive any assurances as to how we may mitigate against our inability to test our employees and volunteers for COVID’

Are our employees and volunteers not permitted to use the mass rapid test COVID-19 test centre at Arbour Park?
 

Or is it only in place temporarily?

[Matt]

11 minutes ago, Curtis said:

Club statement:-
 

‘We have yet to receive any assurances as to how we may mitigate against our inability to test our employees and volunteers for COVID’

Are our employees and volunteers not permitted to use the mass rapid test COVID-19 test centre at Arbour Park?
 

Or is it only in place temporarily?

It’s in place there until Saturday and is open to anyone. There have been others in and around Slough. 
I don’t think that’s the point in any case. The statement refers to regular testing of players and others from the club they are in contact with. 

[Neil Baker]

29 minutes ago, Curtis said:

Club statement:-
 

‘We have yet to receive any assurances as to how we may mitigate against our inability to test our employees and volunteers for COVID’

Are our employees and volunteers not permitted to use the mass rapid test COVID-19 test centre at Arbour Park?
 

Or is it only in place temporarily?

Yes we can do that, however what most sensible clubs are asking for is that testing is done centrally, as otherwise you leave it down to the individual clubs or players to go and get tests, you are working on trust, and unfortunately people will not always do the right things.

If done centrally at least we know everyone is having to follow the same protocols, and everything is transparent, it’s surely not that hard to understand?

Just so you know we MADE everyone get PCR tests on the Sunday before we came back against Braintree, ahead of training, of which three tests were not back by the Tuesday and therefore the players were not allowed to train with the squad.

We again did this the day after Braintree and before Ebbsfleet..... however as our players asked, are they doing the same, to which our reply is unlikely, but we don’t know.

We continue to do what we feel is right, and our integrity is firmly in tact.

Edited January 28, 2021 by Neil Baker

[Curtis]

10 minutes ago, Neil Baker said:

what most sensible clubs are asking for is that testing is done centrally, as otherwise you leave it down to the individual clubs or players to go and get tests, you are working on trust, and unfortunately people will not always do the right things.

If done centrally at least we know everyone is having to follow the same protocols, and everything is transparent, it’s surely not that hard to understand?

Neil,

No that isn’t hard to understand.

Is it hard to understand that is very different to ‘an inability to test our employees & volunteers for COVID’? 
 

And apologies if I’ve missed it, but this is the first time I have seen you, the Club or any other club propose this central testing protocol for all clubs.

[Neil Baker]

4 minutes ago, Curtis said:

Neil,

No that isn’t hard to understand.

Is it hard to understand that is very different to ‘an inability to test our employees & volunteers for COVID’? 
 

And apologies if I’ve missed it, but this is the first time I have seen you, the Club or any other club propose this central testing protocol for all clubs.

Nope we have been talking with the NL since before Christmas about the need for protocols akin to what the other elite leagues are doing, however not everything is played out in the public domain.

[Curtis]

OK thanks for the clarification.

[Irishadrian]

There will be two votes on Monday (although Monday not 100%) one for the NL  and one for  NLS/ NLN  Opinion is that NL will vote to continue  Since only 16/43 signed the letter although they were all invited to opinions differ on the NLS/ NLN outcome

[Reading Rebel]

Surprised only 4 clubs from the NLS have signed the statement.