Covid, isolating and our European jeopardy

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A St Mirren player tested positive for Covid and now a Hamilton player is self-isolating after ”coming into close contact with a player from another club who has tested positive”, presumably the unnamed St Mirren player.  Due to their age, footballers are largely immune to the worst dangers of Coronavirus, but you can see where the jeopardy lies for clubs.

If St Mirren are able to stop the disease spreading to the rest of the squad it is a testament to their safety procedures, but it is likely many others at the club were in close proximity to the player during the incubation period.

This is going to be a feature of the season; players will be required to isolate, some fixtures will be postponed.  In Europe, it will be different.  Our Europa League qualifier two weeks from today cannot be postponed by more than a couple of days.  The final qualifier is three weeks today, between now and then every precaution must be taken to limit exposure for the players and backroom staff.

With pubs open for business to show Saturday’s Ross County – Celtic game, the need to run tests to learn what is achievable has never been greater.  Cancelling controlled tests with no more than 300 spectators, where every piece of medical and scientific evidence assures us would all be entirely safe, would be classic bad government.  We need to test practically every aspect of society for its health implications.

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  1. pesky new phone

     

    Oldtim

     

    if you are not up for a chat just pick up and say so

     

    know where I am

  2. I’m a veritable tech Luddite and I just logged – in…….effortlessly ( as I do often ! )

     

     

     

    :))))

     

     

    HH

  3. Fairhil Bhoy

     

    apols not for here but a good friend of Scottish football

     

    did not know there was a Gerry on here

  4. Belmont Brian

     

     

    Hi mate.sorry to hear of your loss.i think we all knew of someone like your Aunt .truly the generation that gave us Celtic from the heart

     

    and followed Celtic thro thick and thin.

     

     

    Nan Phee rest in peace.

     

    HH

  5. in ither news……………

     

     

    Scoddland celebrates Erin Hickey’s decision to ” snub” The Tims and instead head to Pizzaland………

     

    And if we failed to get the message – scoddland’s hun poster boy wee Nasty is quoted as havin’ had a word in the boul’ Erin’s shell-like…..

     

     

    Oh Aye!

     

     

    HHH.

  6. FAIRHILL BHOY

     

     

    If you think GFTB is the most annoying CQN’er yer no oan here often enough!

     

     

    This place drives me to distraction sometimes and well before Gerry turns up!

     

     

    Hope you and your wonderful lady are better than good!!

  7. Whitedoghunch-no apologies needed buddy.looking for somewhere nice in Edinburgh to eat .Any ideas 😉💚

  8. Great tribute to Jock Stein there on Alba TV. The sadness of losing the Big Mhan will never ever go away, and neither will the impact he made at Celtic Park and elsewhere. But especially at Celtic Football Club. And not just in the 1960s and 70s, but in the first half of the 1950s. Great contributions from Bertie, John and Danny.

     

    God bless Big Jock and his Captain Big Billy. RIP both forever and a day.

  9. Celtic Mac

     

    Loved how my favourite ever Celtic player respectfully referred to Mr Stein continually.

     

    Drumchapel’s greatest ever son is Daniel Fergus McGrain.

     

    Great contributions from Graeme Souness and Archie McPherson too. They spoke from the heart.

     

    Mr Stein RIP

  10. TET……………………………

     

     

    As the night;s shorten here in Hibernia and an autumnal feel spreads, how’s THAT pool????

     

     

    :))))))))

     

     

    HH

  11. Globally, food deprivation still claims a child’s life every three seconds and nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition, is there a daily briefing for that? por cierto

  12. delaneys dunky

     

     

    Pat Stanton and Alex Edwards too. Jock’s Hibs team beating Real Madrid 2-0 in 1964. Big John McNamee at centre half. Impressed too with Archie, and indeed with Graham Souness.

     

    Walfrid, Maley, McGrory, McNeill and Jock Stein.

     

    The company that you keep

  13. IMO,…………. obvs………… the execrable Souey is a Beast.

     

    A duplicitous sleekit.

     

    In Irlande we are subjected to his passive aggressive guff thanks to so many Liverpool Fc fans here, so he is often on RTE with hardly a warning or care raised.

     

     

    For aw that an’ aw that a hun’s a hun for aw that!

  14. Burnley 78

     

    Very sorry to hear of your health issues this recent past. Best wishes to you and your wife and family for a full recovery and better times ahead.

     

    YNWA HH

  15. Belmont Brian

     

    Condolences. RIP to your Aunt Nan Phee, she sounds like a great character, and in the spirit of the moment, she had a good innings.

     

    HH

  16. TSATC

     

    No sorry, your uncle did not appear on the documentary, but his mate Pat Stanton did. Think it was Pat that mentioned your uncle’s name?

     

    BTW. How good a Celtic player was Pat Stanton?

     

    Just wish we signed him years earlier.

     

    Fantastic player.

  17. The Star above The Crest on

    Delaneys Dunkey

     

     

    Thanks for the info

     

     

    Pat Stanton was a fabulous player I’m told. Also an excellent guy too. My cousin speaks highly of him.

  18. Fairhill Bhoy

     

    Martin Wishart

     

    the jewel in his crown in Leith

     

    did an eat Edinburgh weekend recently for a friend and he has contenders though

     

    will post a couple when I’m at laptop

     

    Table for 2 with somebody I loved

     

    Martin Wishart

     

    go to dishoom for breakfast

  19. Good morning cqn from a very dark but dry at the moment Garngad

     

     

    Let’s get a left back and winger added.

     

     

    Bring on The Staggies.

     

     

    HH

     

     

    D :)

  20. BELMONTBRIAN, RIP, Aunt NaN

     

    FAIRHILLBHOY, try Waldorf Austoria bottom of Lothian road on princess street !

  21. Good morning, friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry but grey and gloomy East KIlbride.

     

    So, just 1 more sleep till the real football’s back. And for the limited numbers that manage to catch tomorrow’s game please do remember to vote for your top 3 players. Overall numbers are expected to be low so, more than ever, your votes and your support really do matter. cqnpoty@gmail.com

     

    I had hoped that Celtic TV would offer a ‘free to all’ rerun of the whole game late on Saturday evening but no news of that.

     

    Time for work….

  22. KINGLUBO on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2020 4:04 PM

     

    BIG JIMMY

     

     

     

     

    Sorry about your ongoing health problems, but if as “they” say your heart could not take a by-pass, then what do they suggest.

     

     

     

     

    I don’t know you, but you sound to me like a real tough old bird and I think you should persist with the triple bi-pass. But, I am no medic.

     

     

     

     

    All the best to you.

     

    …………..

     

    Sorry, Ive been Offline and Ive just seen your Post from yesterday.

     

    I was in hospital in January this year and that is when they told me that, I should have a Triple Heart By Pass…but they felt that it would be too risky and my heart wouldnt take it ?

     

    I had NO SAY in the matter.

     

     

    A couple of months later another Doctor told me that they probably wouldnt risk heart surgery because I am a Smoker ( for 50 years) ?

     

    I pointed out about all the THOUSANDS of Pounds that I had paid in Tax for cigarettes to various Governments over the years, and that I shouldnt be denied any surgery for ?

     

    I also pointed out that, “If I was a Junkie”…the Hospitals wouldnt hesitate in giving me as much help/surgery as possible” ….but yet because I am a “Smoker” ?????

     

     

    HH Mate.

  23. Sorry, that should have read…

     

     

    ” I shouldnt be denied any surgery from The NHS….after ALL the THOUSANDS of Pounds that Ive paid in Tax via cigarettes” ?

     

    HH