With Catalans playing their home game behind closed doors, it must now be a distinct possibility that as the virus infection level raises that our games would be either postponed or played behind closed doors.
As a club like ours and a few others with limited financial resources would not be able to survive without live spectators and the income they generate

More like "most others" rather than "a few" !!!

yes not only can some not recover from the virus it will no doubt take some businesses out too

I know we have a case in Pinders at the present

I’m not made of money but if the club have to play games behind closed doors, I’m prepared to still a buy a ticket just to keep the club going. I hope others would do the same, obviously I realise some have shelled out for season tickets.

And some have shelled out for trips to Catalans and/or Toronto !!!

This is gonna escalate pretty quickly, my guess is the season will be postponed for a couple of months and Magic weekend cancelled.

Im with you on this and dont understand why goverment dont just be proactive and put country on lockdown now before it gets worse.i do worry bout the effect it will have on the club financially as it will stop any incomings and what will it do to sponsers.

Think we are likely to see some massive disruption to sports events, music events etc. Hoping it doesn't come to that but we'll just have to see how rapidly the situation escalates if indeed it does.

Put the country on lockdown? What the hell does that mean? We can all mingle with each other but no one is allowed in or out of the UK??

JINJER Lets wait and see about the virus before panicing .At my age I need the toilet paper and I can only carry one roll at a time

Same as there doing right now in italy why wait till it get worse also im due to fly to vegas in 6 half weeks lets get it out of way

Lets not compare ourselves to 3rd world countries like Italy.

Plenty of football league clubs are panicking about this, could send a few under.

Not sure if we could cope to be honest

The thing is getting quite big now, and a a concern, that is for sure

I'm due to fly out to Sri Lanka in 7 days, back for a week, and then Greece.

Just seen a news thread that the gym is a place of high risk. Think I've done my last session for a while

Any vacancies at your place

Cinemas, restaurants and shopping centres too surely.

Pubs

not so long as you drink John Smiths - Antiseptic on tap.

Ha ha.

The Sri Lanka trip is a second honeymoon, so only me and Mrs EW going. Been booked a long time.

We were booked to go there in 2005, but had to change it due to the Tsunami. Hoping to take in a day at the Galle cricket test.

The second trip is a bit of Easter sun for the whole family

lets hope there's plenty of runs

I could have, if I eat too many of them kottu rotti's.

It means 1984 will soon be a reality if the scaremongering continues

Good for the toilet paper biz alteast.

Or France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, USA, China etc, etc
Because people are so mobile these days, it is just a matter of time before the UK is something close to Italy, in respect of the virus.
Even though there would have been massive resistance, the travel bans should have been in place already.

It looks nailed on that sporting events will be hit and the "closed door" option will probably be the only way to have games going ahead and even that may not be possible.

Everything that I've seen and read, suggests that we may be in a similar position in the next couple of weeks.

Then, it will be a case of waiting to see just how long it takes for things to peak and then start to improve.
It could be a few weeks but, more likely to be a few months.

In the grand scheme of things RL and sport in general aren't important and we will just have to see how the situation develops.

Your comparison to Italy could well come back to haunt you though.
They may be close to the peak but, we have barely started the ascent.

Because it's been too early thus far - you don't manage the peak if you go all out too soon; ICU's end up full of people, then you have no facilities to deal with those cases that come later. As far as I understand it, the phased process is about flattening the peak, and enabling the health system to deal with cases in a gradual way, rather than all at once. There is also the social and economic impact to consider - for example, if you close schools and all the Dr's and Nurses suddenly have kids at home who need childcare, who staffs the wards?

I suspect that after today's COBRA meeting, we'll be officially in phase 2 - Delay - which means you might get some of the things you want; school closures, cancelled events etc etc.

Agreed
The only aspect where we should have moved more quickly is on international travel.
There would have been huge implications in cost and the survival of the travel companies but, it seems crazy to allow people to travel into the affected areas and then have the difficulties in repatriation and isolation etc when they return.
I know this would be massively unpopular with families going on holiday etc but, it does seem ridiculous that people were still allowed to travel to places like Italy when the problem was mushrooming.