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This, and with the best guess estimate of 18 months for a vaccine to be developed and manufactured and the news that the Olympics cannot be guaranteed to be staged in 2021 by the Tokyo organisers, I think a proposed vote to terminate a season in the second week of April 2020 by the Scottish Football League administrators really defies any logic.

It would be great if this idea is tried, and found to work …. certainly worth the gamble. I read the Ebola vaccine took almost 5 years to develop, and that was a 'fast-tracked' effort. If someone can get positive results by the end of this year it would be both astonishing and very, very welcome!

The SPFL seem to be living in a vacuum, they are trying to tidy up a series of unfinished leagues on the assumption that we can restart the season for 2020 / 2021 on schedule. Meanwhile the organisers of the Olympics in Tokyo are saying they cannot, at this time, guaranteed the games going ahead in 2021. Why can they not give those guarantees? because the virus is the one thing that sets the agenda. The UK is getting close to 1000 Covid-19 related deaths per day, I don't think now is the time to be trying to work out the fixtures for next season!

For sure the whole situation can change, it could change for the worst, but hopefully it will change for the better. What I think may happen is there will be a 'new normal', but within that 'new normal' I don't think the UK will be anything like the country we remember from before Covid-19. I think we need to have a vaccine created, tested and distributed worldwide before we really get back to what we all remember as normal.

That's way too subtle

Everything you have said is subject to a big question mark … what politician would think to open the schools only to find that the corona virus has yet again mutated and starts to infect younger kids? The government we have now is hardly the most intelligent, but they are savvy, streetwise and cunning enough know that any relaxation must be a Europe wide decision. Regarding football …. at what point do you allow football matches to proceed if you are trying to enforce social distancing? Could you consider a contact sport like football to go ahead even if it is behind closed doors Jet2 can announce any 'resumptions of services' date they want, if the European governments say there is a ban on all but essential flights they will go nowhere.

couldn't have put it better

This is a decision made far too early in the course of this epidemic to warrant serious consideration by the Scottish football authorities. They appear to think that they are setting the agenda for the rest of the 'current' football season, and the start up of the next football season in Scotland. They have no clue whatsoever what will happen to Scotland, the UK and Europe in general with regards this virus, because the virus sets the agenda. Why they [the Scottish football authorities] think getting their ducks in a row regarding the 2019 / 2020 season and the start of the 2020 / 2021 season has any merit is beyond me. There is every chance there will be no football [or any type of mass participation gathering of any description] until there has been a vaccine developed, and tested, that can truly control this infection. It could be the progress towards controlling the infection will be 12 months, possibly more.

More that might be of interest:- http://glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/partick-thistle-early-grounds.html

I have to say first off, I am not historian of PFC, PTFC or WoSRFC. The rugby club [formed 1865] used to play in blue until 1871 when they decided to switch to red and yellow. Partick FC were formed in 1875 [according to wiki] so if PFC played in yellow and red, it may have been influenced by WoSRFC playing in those colours, not the other way. https://www.westofscotlandfc.co.uk/about/club-history/ PTFC for a time played in blue shirts, and I believe white sleeves [a bit like the Hibernian strip today] and only in the 1930's did they start wearing a red and yellow strip and that colour combination came from an association [or simply borrowing strips?] from WoSRFC

no. 'before the club reverted to the predominantly blue kits in 1909. In season 1936–37 they changed to, and settled upon, the red-yellow-and-black attire for which they are best known, this change having been triggered initially by the club borrowing kits from the local rugby union team, West of Scotland.' If you google Partick Thistle you will find more of the same

worth a read:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partick_F.C.

I can see the thread in question.

was a subject discussed last week [page 198 of 'who are the Jag players in this photo' ] there are a few more links to internet pages that might be of interest?

I can understand the League 1 split between north and south as this would help with travel for teams who are a majority of part time players, but the idea that splitting the Championship in the same manner as the Premier would have us assume the present Premier League 'top six / bottom six' split is popular and makes for good quality football. It's not popular and it doesn't produce quality football.

venture capitalists or asset strippers? …. or something in between? or just good guys interested in investing and building a football club to serve the community?

Gordon, I agree with what you say, this virus is ripping up the rulebook in many ways, and it would be nice to think that something good might come out of something so destructive. Perhaps the obvious [IMO] would be an opportunity to rearrange football in Scotland better to serve communities, and perhaps one of the more obvious one is the ideas coming from the Juniors / Lowland leagues to establish a functioning pyramid system for men's football and woman's football, this is something I think could benefit the Scottish game massively and move us away from leagues of only 10 teams ………………… or will just end up with the bigots from Govan and the bigots from Parkhead calling the shots?

the early years of PTFC and their use of the old strawberry field / Muir Park are written up here:- https://ptearlyyears.net/grounds1/muir-park interesting stuff, and if we are going to be confined to our houses for a few months, we can do worse than investigate the origins of the team

Yes, I think the article makes it pretty clear there were two 'Partick' teams for a while

It is fact, plenty to read here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partick_F.C. More about Fergus Suter:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_Suter

A tournament we won …. there is a photo of the winning team on the Partick Thistle History Archive.

I think option 2 on a good quality black cotton tee would be excellent. I could see long and short sleeved versions being popular.

With this virus there is no known timetable, so speculation on when the season restarts is just that …. speculation. The season may be cancelled for 4 weeks or 12 weeks, or it could be a much longer period of time …. for example, until a vaccine is made and approved for human use. We are still at a stage where we are looking at other countries to see how they are managing the disease and hoping we can glean something from their experiences … if we look at S Korea we may have more optimistic outlook, but if we look at North Italy, the next 6 weeks are looking quite bleak. We may simply benefit from having the peak numbers of infections when the weather is better.

BB, I wonder if sometime down the line there might be someone making those enamel pins? I think your design would be a winner

To be honest, the Sun is not a newspaper I would rely on for broadminded and balanced reporting, they write headlines to sell units, nothing else. Something that may be of interest to us all is an animation issued by Worldwide Engineering, shows the infection numbers of this virus from early in the year till now. The plan is they will update this animation weekly