Charlie Wayman

Black; Ramsey - Rochford; Smith - Webber - Mallett; Day - Curtis - Wayman - Bates - Wrigglesworth What a team that was. Walked Division 2 in '49.... not End of story sadly. Great work FF

Unsurprisingly I looked up my "own" history first!

Isn't that self evident anyway. Even in the most optimistic of forecasts it'll be the middle of 2021 at least before a vaccine is available and in sufficient quantity for enough people in the over 70 age groups to be vaccinated. Even that assumes that the current research discovers an effective vaccine. Govt propaganda at the start of the Great War was to spread the belief that "it will all be over by Christmas", to keep people's morale high and to encourage enough idiots to volunteer for active service. Right now it is best to assume that HMG's propaganda on vaccine research will be publicised for exactly the same reasons. No right thinking over-70 - and there are 8.8 million of them - is going to venture outside unless or until an effective vaccine does emerge, so the idea that self isolation will be an imposition is wrong. Many in that group will feel that it is there only hope of staying alive long enough to see it through.

Sadly it isn't quite that simple. Millions of people in this country can barely afford to put food on the table for their families and were it not for food banks and the kindness of donors we would have people starving to death in the world's 6th largest economy. Any increase in costs of food production will heap more misery on more and more people.

That is not a policy 'though, it is called serendipity. Some might call it sitting on the fence for fear of making any sort of decision.

Whereas I love the bloke. It's the sanctimonious BBC lot that get right up my jacksie!

Thi avoids the Times and heir bloody paywall.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52274265

...or indeed mathematics!

Yeah but glass half full and all that. As Lighthouse said we haven't lost a game since which is remarkable really.

...and he had been doing so well. Cracks beginning to show now. Somebody on high has obviously asked him "Why is this still an issue, Hancock" One can surmise that Mr Hancock had thought that each person only needed one set of PPE. !!!!!!!!!

There is also a huge amount of research into medicines that can reduce the severity of the symptoms or even cure patients who have contracted the virus. It is a two pronged effort. Prevention is better than a cure (as they say) but there is no life long immunity with flu vaccines and many thousands die each year from that. A new flu vaccine is developed each year.

I am certainly not a special case so hopefully 'yes' unless it is people of a certain age

The Club phoned me yesterday to check that we were Ok and offering any help they could during this crises. A wonderful gesture that we appreciate very much. That is the sort of community spirit that once marked this club out and it is good to know that it has not been completely forgotten in this cynical.moneyed age. Thank you SFC.

That is terrible news, you must be going through hell. Stay strong. I am sure many on here will join me in praying for your Mum's full recovery.

It seems to me that too many people are not facing up to the reality of just how serious this situation is. Things will not be back to normal until well into 2022 at the earliest if then and by normal I mean when it really will be safe to allow crowds to assemble and football matches to be played and people have stopped worrying about infection, contagion and the like. Of course they can play football behind close doors if all involved have been tested and proved negative but even that is a long way off as football hardly qualifies as an essential service when we are currently unable to test more than a small proportion of NHS front-line staff. This season will inevitably be abandoned and there is a better than evens chance that the 2020-21 season will also be scrapped. The Covid-19 genie is out of the bottle and presumably is here to stay. It will remain a threat to many even when effective vaccines are fully deployed just as flu strains are now despite universal vaccination. That will continue to deter a huge number of people from assembling anywhere so even if stadiums were re-opened would anybody take the risk of going there. I wouldn't for sure. Any 'freedom that we are likely to be granted' this year and next may amount to little more than being able to visit the homes of close family members and vice-versa again all subject to testing and passports. What on earth is confounding the world's footballing authorities about all of this and their meaningless uttering of "cracking on" dand so on defeats me, its nowhere near being rocket science. Of course all of this presents a bleak prospect but we are living in the bleakest of times.

Matt Hancock is shaping up very well, we are all in this together but it still amazes me to find a caring Tory MP who has empathy and compassion for real people and their problems. Maybe we will return to the one-nation style of conservatism that we thought might have disappeared for eve. By 'we' I mean those who are left when this storm has passed through.

Is Maya Yoshida still living at Ocean Village? We met him and his family in one of the restaurants there a couple of years ago.

Car park gates in the New Forest are locked. The forest is not out of bounds but you have to walk there. Good for villagers but not others.

No. Football is a simple game so keep it simple. Abandon this season, start again. No other sensible solution. Will keep the lawyers fully employed at least, working from home of course. Just adding a sobering statistic here, in 2017/18 winter 26,500 people died from flu virus roughly 1000 p wk, yet nobody noticed except the poor families involved. Even though a vaccine was available!

He was truly fantastic striker in that wonderful forward line of the early sixties. Probably saw him play 100 times and he rarely let us down. Loved him.

I guess you are in reality socially distancing, the other term seems to be applied more to people who are actually infected. What do you guys do about shopping now that all the delivery slots have been gobble up by greedy sods who've never shopped on line before? Best of luck to you and try to avoid the endless torrent of doom and gloom news about the virus. We know it's bad for goodness sake. Nice to have your memories of past Saints glories on film.

Ridiculous comments. Wake up to the reality of how serious this situation is.

Yes, probably a good idea. Also the chance to consider starting future seasons in March and play football through the summer months until October. Howls of protest from cricket and tennis fans but the prospect of better more skilful football and more comfortable spectating for fans

remain cautious

There is no chance of returning to normality until a vaccine has been developed, fully tested and produced in large enough quantities to vaccinate the whole population. We are looking at 18 months minimum. Until then people who contract and recover from the virus may be more cavalier in their attitudes but people who have escaped infection will remain curious and still be self isolating or social distancing. Sadly there will be no quick end to this.