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Big Cat said:
What I don't get, is why on earth anyone would pay £4 a drink when taking away from a pub, when you can get the same thing in Aldi for £1
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Big Cat said:
What I don't get, is why on earth anyone would pay £4 a drink when taking away from a pub, when you can get the same thing in Aldi for £1
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I think some of the purchases are to support businesses. We've been getting take out dinners from local restaurants for exactly that reason, even though part of me cringes at paying sit down prices for boxed up dinners.
 
Take out beers worked in April and May, not sure the same will be able to said in November.

Although that's for pints in glasses. My local brewery, which has a taproom, filled your own plastic bottles during the initial lockdown and under the initial rules this time they wouldn't have been allowed to. I visited them a few times as their beer is better than what you can buy in supermarkets and I also wanted to support a local business. If they do the same again this time I will probably partake.
 
Jtpetherick1 said:
I'm in Wales - not been near a football pitch since March 4th.
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And not likely to before Christmas. The Welsh "Firebreak" ends on Monday 9th November - after 2 weeks full lockdown - and the COVID rates are still going through the roof.
I wouldn't bet against another full lockdown early in the new year once the Christmas viral spread is done.
 
Working from home, watching BBC Parliament... the new norm... it was encouraging today, that Oliver Dowden said, 'grass roots sport will be one of the first things to return. Personally, I believe we will be back first week of Dec.
 
Big Cat said:
Working from home, watching BBC Parliament... the new norm... it was encouraging today, that Oliver Dowden said, 'grass roots sport will be one of the first things to return. Personally, I believe we will be back first week of Dec.
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I really hope so, it just worries me about Sunak extending the furlough scheme til March however I wonder if at the start of December hopefully the tier based system will come back and then the government will avoid the problems they had with Manchester last time and the reason he extended it is because they will pay 80% in tier 3 rather than the 67% they were paying before
 
BrumRef said:
I really hope so, it just worries me about Sunak extending the furlough scheme til March however I wonder if at the start of December hopefully the tier based system will come back and then the government will avoid the problems they had with Manchester last time and the reason he extended it is because they will pay 80% in tier 3 rather than the 67% they were paying before
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Seems like the furlough extension is a separate issue related to certainty for business. The overwhelming rhetoric is to return to tiers and the Govt. took a surprising amount of flack over grass roots sport in particular
 
The other factor in favour of the lockdown, as it stands, ending early Dec is that both Boris and Sunak have both pointed out that legally it HAS to end then. Obviously nothing stopping them setting out another lockdown and taking that to parliament, as they did for this one, but to emphasise the fact that it WILL end on Dec 3rd obviously means that is the government's strong preference.
 
Whilst it guarantees nothing, the fact that the FA are in the process of doing their December appointments (I got provisional appts for Boxing Day and Sat 2nd Jan this PM) is at least a positive sign. They didn't do that, from what I can remember, back at the start of the season when the start date was uncertain
 
I think that the UK will be open for a 3-4 week period before Christmas. Everyone will be out on their Christmas shopping & parties. The traditional Christmas Day with the family, sadly no Boxing Day live games. Then another lockdown will follow in late January / early February when the virus spreads around once again hence the furlough extending to March - when they are hoping a vaccine becomes available.
 
Texan said:
I think that the UK will be open for a 3-4 week period before Christmas. Everyone will be out on their Christmas shopping & parties. The traditional Christmas Day with the family, sadly no Boxing Day live games. Then another lockdown will follow in late January / early February when the virus spreads around once again hence the furlough extending to March - when they are hoping a vaccine becomes available.
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You could be on the money there Texan. Maybe they can use the old folk as Guinea Pigs for that new vaccine in January so we can swerve C'lockdown
 
not much dusting off required, i've only got 1 supply / contrib game in december despite full availability :(
 
es1 said:
not much dusting off required, i've only got 1 supply / contrib game in december despite full availability :(
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Better than me, I've been asked for my availability twice for one league so far, given it twice and not had any fixtures through.
 
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wazztie16 said:
Better than me, I've been asked for my availability twice for one league so far, given it twice and not had any fixtures through.
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it's so frustrating, all i want is games!

appreciate it's a unique situation / season where availability is close to 100% and there's less games to go around but it's frustrating having barely ever had a free saturday before
 
Good news if true - I have an Under 23 line, a school middle and two fixtures that clash on the 13th so far in December.
 
Sooooooo having read a summary of what's happening post Dec 2 I can't see any mention of grassroots sport - anyone seen anything?
 
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