Play Offs 2020

[Tricky]

You could get plays offs done in 2 week max. If this season is to finish it will be rapid anyway. 2 games a week g so five weeks to finish season and while European and Cup competitions complete that is when you fit in the playoffs. None of this benefits us by the way as I can't see squad coping but then few probably will.

Ultimately there is no way we are playing in April or May - this will be the peak across UK and europe. Likelihood we will play through the summer months with 2020 euros cancelled until 2021 - July and August more likely. New season being pushed back until late september/early October.

Obviously this throws up issue of out of contract players but they have time to sort that out - how, I do not know.

There will also be a way that they work all this around the 2022 winter world Cup.

Obviously, the whole thing is pure speculation and if this virus does untold damage for months then who knows what the future holds

Yep, generally agree with all of that.

Realistically the sporting competition can only resume when all clubs have access to all players. It'd be incredibly unfair if the playoffs were lost because one team had half its playing staff unavailable.

Its just a nightmare scenario with no clear and fair way ahead.

It's like every other aspect of everyday life at the present time. We do not know! We do not know how long this virus is going to be around. We don't know when, or if it will peak. We don't know if schools, colleges, universities, shopping centres, theatres, music gigs/festivals will be cancelled. We just do not know!! 

With that in mind, we cannot expect the ruling bodies to come up with a plan of action for a situation nobody knows how long it will last for. We could speculate that the season will re-commence on 3rd April, but according to Government estimations, the crisis will not have even peaked then. We don't know! If this situation does escalate into the summer, the ruling bodies will have not alternative but to null and void this season.

Legal challenges? There is no precedent ever been set before to give a ruling one way or the other with regards to situations like this happening before. Apart from the world wars of course.

Yes it will be unfair on those clubs that are in with a shout of promotion or winning a title or cup, but what we have to realise here is that this has not come about as a result of some bureaucratic balls up but as a result of a killer virus that is not just affecting the UK, but the world. But contrary to popular belief, there are some things more important than football and life is one of them!