Charlie Wayman

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.

We live in an age where everyone is scared witless of being sued by somebody else so people make 'decisions' accordingly. Hence the PL have suspended matches for 3 weeks rather than close down for the rest of the season simply to avoid any possible legal liability for compensation for clubs and TV broadcasters through allegations of breach of contract. So the PL are being forced to play the long game as they absolutely know that things cannot and will not improve by April or May, or indeed June but feel the need to fall back on the old ploy of force majeure. It is identical to what has just happened in Australia with the F1 GP, nobody willing to grasp the nettle until the 11th hour and 59 minutes when it became obvious that the event could not continue through the forced withdrawal of MaClaren which quite nicely got the promoters off the hook. It looks almost a certainty that this season is over. Promotion and relegation should be set aside and everything started again afresh next year. Of course there will be aggrieved and relieved but there is no other solution that would be any fairer. Everyone surely can agree that Liverpool should be Champions whatever the local angst. I for one couldn't stomach another 25 years of 'victim' memorials.

More to the point will ST get compensated for the lost matches?

Go broke hopefully

The UK government is playing catch-up as usual. Some experts think we are already a week or two too late to gain the benefits of social distancing in slowing the spread of the virus. (doubling rate of 4 days = out of control). Probably bordering on criminal if matches are played in full stadia this weekend.

Nice vid on the OS. Worth watching if you've not seen it.

With a COBRA meeting scheduled for lunchtime today it looks increasingly like this weekend's matches will be suspended. If that happens it will be several months without football unless they do it behind closed doors.

Norwich have a huge incentive to win this one and have improved of late. great win over Spurs after HT will give them a boost. Right now we are in a mess; even with players coming back we have lost our rhythm through all the enforced changes and have siloed back into sloppy habits at the back. Sadly, I cannot see past a defeat and probably 2-0.

A lot of people on here would love to see it happen 'though, wishful thinking or not.

Having a good day cloggy?

Easy to be cynical mate but smoke usually signifies something warming up. Unattributed rumours are often leaks for political gain.

Who?

It's probably fake news. The world's financial markets are in turmoil right now with the uncertainty over Covid 19 and the newly unleashed oil war between the Saudi's and the USA shale gas producers but both issues will be resolved within a year so any sensible investor will sit tight until the storm passes. Panic selling will ensure only that any seller of assets will lose out heavily.