16-03-2020, 10:50 AM
Here is my suggestion, I'd be interested to hear if you think it would work:
1. Write off the next few months and plan to restart football in August.
2. In August, pick up the current season where we left off, continue with play-offs, promotion and relegation as normal. BUT all the remaining games will count TWICE - they will be applied to BOTH THIS season and NEXT season's tables.
3. Then after a break of a couple of weeks continue directly into the 20/21 season. No need to play the double-counting games again, just use the results we've already got. So next season won't get congested, it would just be the same as usual, except for the extra games that promoted and relegated clubs would need to play to catch up. Of course the games that were played by promoted/relegated clubs couldn't be carried forward.
So the teams that are promoted or relegated would have to play more games than the ones who aren't because their 19/20 results couldn't be re-used. I don't think the promoted teams would complain, but the relegated ones probably would, But overall it seems to be a good compromise . What do you think?
1. Write off the next few months and plan to restart football in August.
2. In August, pick up the current season where we left off, continue with play-offs, promotion and relegation as normal. BUT all the remaining games will count TWICE - they will be applied to BOTH THIS season and NEXT season's tables.
3. Then after a break of a couple of weeks continue directly into the 20/21 season. No need to play the double-counting games again, just use the results we've already got. So next season won't get congested, it would just be the same as usual, except for the extra games that promoted and relegated clubs would need to play to catch up. Of course the games that were played by promoted/relegated clubs couldn't be carried forward.
So the teams that are promoted or relegated would have to play more games than the ones who aren't because their 19/20 results couldn't be re-used. I don't think the promoted teams would complain, but the relegated ones probably would, But overall it seems to be a good compromise . What do you think?