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theonlywayisup
03-04-2020, 03:54 PM
Obviously, no-one knows when the restrictions will be lifted and we're able to resume what is considered to be normal every day life.

There's obviously no right or wrong answer for this poll, but what's your gut feel when we'll be able to watch the Hibees play some competitive football.

theonlywayisup
03-04-2020, 03:58 PM
Hoping it will be August, but I've gone for September.

Pretty Boy
03-04-2020, 03:59 PM
Early September, the opening game of a new season.

hibbyfraelibby
03-04-2020, 04:01 PM
First Saturday in October. In a derby match gainst our nearest league rivals...Livingston

Sir David Gray
03-04-2020, 04:14 PM
I think the season might start in about 6 months behind closed doors but I think it might be next year before fans are allowed back.

Mick O'Rourke
03-04-2020, 04:18 PM
Although some restrictions may well be relaxed some time in the near future, i do not think the ban on mass gatherings will be lifted until a vaccine is found .

Sir David Gray
03-04-2020, 04:32 PM
Although some restrictions may well be relaxed some time in the near future, i do not think the ban on mass gatherings will be lifted until a vaccine is found .

Yep that's why I've predicted next year before fans will be allowed back.

There's no way thousands of people will be able to attend events until they have a way of controlling the virus.

Steve20
03-04-2020, 04:42 PM
I definitely don’t see there being any football in the next 6 months.

Realistically it’ll be next year I think.

CockneyRebel
03-04-2020, 05:12 PM
I definitely don’t see there being any football in the next 6 months.

Realistically it’ll be next year I think.


Sadly I have to predict the same.

Keith_M
03-04-2020, 05:19 PM
Saturday, 5th September

Crab apple
03-04-2020, 05:22 PM
No relaxation to the current lockdown until at least 30th June. After that only a managed and gradual relaxation. Televised Football to start in September but without crowds.

HibbyAndy
03-04-2020, 05:25 PM
August

TelaStella
03-04-2020, 06:03 PM
May. 21st for the bonus point.


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Eyrie
03-04-2020, 06:27 PM
September.

It'll take some time to get past the peak and see cases reduce to an "acceptable" level before football can re-start.

hfc rd
03-04-2020, 06:56 PM
I’m hoping it will be September but I think it realistically looks like being next year

Lago
03-04-2020, 07:48 PM
I’m hoping it will be September but I think it realistically looks like being next year
Agree, September would be great, but just can't see it happening, I think January 2021 at best.

theonlywayisup
07-04-2020, 12:13 PM
From the BBC, "La Liga could resume as early as 28 May in the best-case scenario as the league discusses its options, says its president Javier Tebas".

Unlikely, but would be interesting to see if that happens!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52198036

Tebas revealed three start dates are currently being discussed with Uefa, saying: "Of all the different scenarios we have been looking at with Uefa to go back to competing, the most probable ones are 28 May, 6 June or 28 June," he said.

Keith_M
07-04-2020, 12:18 PM
From the BBC, "La Liga could resume as early as 28 May in the best-case scenario as the league discusses its options, says its president Javier Tebas".

Unlikely, but would be interesting to see if that happens!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52198036

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He's having a laugh, surely

Onion
07-04-2020, 12:21 PM
Until a vaccine or a drug that dramatically reduces mortality of Covid is found, large gatherings will be prohibited by the Government. We cannot go through this again !

H18S NX
07-04-2020, 12:23 PM
Next year for me,it's going to take a long while for all this to recover i think.

lord bunberry
07-04-2020, 12:27 PM
I think the next game will be August, but I don’t think there will be any fans at games for a good while after that. We may even have a situation where we have a limited number of supporters in the stadium.

WhileTheChief..
07-04-2020, 01:28 PM
March 2021.

Might be able to start earlier but can’t see them starting a new season in Jan or Feb.

Sir David Gray
07-04-2020, 05:04 PM
From the BBC, "La Liga could resume as early as 28 May in the best-case scenario as the league discusses its options, says its president Javier Tebas".

Unlikely, but would be interesting to see if that happens!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52198036

Tebas revealed three start dates are currently being discussed with Uefa, saying: "Of all the different scenarios we have been looking at with Uefa to go back to competing, the most probable ones are 28 May, 6 June or 28 June," he said.

I would be astonished if that was to happen.

Lancs Harp
07-04-2020, 06:27 PM
August optimistically, September more likely for me.

The 90+2
07-04-2020, 06:52 PM
November time.

Del Boy
07-04-2020, 06:54 PM
I think September, but probably with no fans

Smartie
07-04-2020, 07:01 PM
I think September, but probably with no fans

August with no fans, we'll get in in September or October.

The 90+2
07-04-2020, 07:02 PM
August with no fans, we'll get in in September or October.

Can’t see games behind closed doors in Scotland.

Smartie
07-04-2020, 07:17 PM
Can’t see games behind closed doors in Scotland.

There is a good amount of goodwill from fans towards clubs (see our own fans stepping up and buying season tickets). I don't think fans will be too hard to reason with if clubs came to them with a proposal that we started football again behind closed doors and they got to attend in person a month or two later.

Clubs will be desperate for cash, they'll need tv money. TV companies will be desperate to screen something, anything, and will want to get something not our screens asap so they can start charging subscriptions again.

The very existence of a number of clubs/ leagues depends on being up and running as normal asap but possibly in a limited capacity even sooner.

Money will drive this and we'll be back probably a little sooner than is safe.

The 90+2
07-04-2020, 09:03 PM
There is a good amount of goodwill from fans towards clubs (see our own fans stepping up and buying season tickets). I don't think fans will be too hard to reason with if clubs came to them with a proposal that we started football again behind closed doors and they got to attend in person a month or two later.

Clubs will be desperate for cash, they'll need tv money. TV companies will be desperate to screen something, anything, and will want to get something not our screens asap so they can start charging subscriptions again.

The very existence of a number of clubs/ leagues depends on being up and running as normal asap but possibly in a limited capacity even sooner.

Money will drive this and we'll be back probably a little sooner than is safe.

Definitely in the premier league yeah, but in the leagues below they would struggle massively financially to host games behind closed doors with no income at all.

Phil MaGlass
08-04-2020, 05:14 AM
Next year for me,it's going to take a long while for all this to recover i think.

I went for October for closed door matches,but, I think you may be right. January 1st?
Hopefully the virus doesnae pop up again.

theonlywayisup
09-04-2020, 06:32 PM
@ScottishFA confirm all football in Scotland to be suspended until at least June 10 - SFA also say 6 weeks of training required needed prior to any competitive matches being played.

So that would be 18th July as an earliest start.

Greenworld
09-04-2020, 06:51 PM
August 10th

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ancient hibee
09-04-2020, 09:43 PM
Y
August 10th

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this year?

theonlywayisup
20-04-2020, 09:33 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52355228

Scottish football should not expect to hold matches in front of fans "any time soon", says Nicola Sturgeon.

She also states if a match is still on TV, the danger is people will congregate together to watch, so even behind closed doors may not happen.

Sir David Gray
20-04-2020, 09:45 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52355228

Scottish football should not expect to hold matches in front of fans "any time soon", says Nicola Sturgeon.

She also states if a match is still on TV, the danger is people will congregate together to watch, so even behind closed doors may not happen.

I know what she's getting at but what happens if/when other popular sports start being televised again? Even staying with football, what happens if the Premier League in England starts back behind closed doors and there's a match involving Liverpool for them to win the league. People in Scotland will still want to watch that so the same risks apply.

Obviously England may have the same concerns as us and they may not want to play any football at all until it's safe for fans but then you also have other sports getting played abroad.

I think we can forget fans in stadiums for a very long time after today's announcement but I'm not entirely convinced that a ban on matches being televised behind closed doors would be too effective.

Scouse Hibee
20-04-2020, 10:30 PM
August 2021

Casey1875
20-04-2020, 11:12 PM
I think that once people are back at work all social distancing will be out the window and people will socialise regardless of advice purely on the basis that they could be going to and from work on a train with 200 people to sit in an office with another 200 people. As has been said if any big leagues go back, people will gather to watch it, mainly because they are bored without it.

mjhibby
21-04-2020, 07:54 AM
From what various folk from youth to senior level have intimated september is my guess though i think im being optimistic. If no sign of playing by mid july then never mind reconstruction we might have to curtail next season.

Since90+2
21-04-2020, 07:58 AM
Around late August / early September.

CockneyRebel
21-04-2020, 08:28 AM
August 2021


Reluctantly, I have to agree. I fear this season and the 2020/2021 season to be lost. A vaccine well into next year and then testing/testing/testing and gradual relaxation of social distancing and returning to full time work will easily take us to the summer of 2021. Pessimistic - yes. Realistic - I think so. Never mind the politicians and the football associations, regardless of good intentions, it is the predictions/advice from the medical professionals that should and must prevail.

I hope with all my heart that this toxic cloud blows away faster than a Hearts budget but, fellow supporters, it's not an easy fix.

Since90+2
21-04-2020, 08:34 AM
Reluctantly, I have to agree. I fear this season and the 2020/2021 season to be lost. A vaccine well into next year and then testing/testing/testing and gradual relaxation of social distancing and returning to full time work will easily take us to the summer of 2021. Pessimistic - yes. Realistic - I think so. Never mind the politicians and the football associations, regardless of good intentions, it is the predictions/advice from the medical professionals that should and must prevail.

I hope with all my heart that this toxic cloud blows away faster than a Hearts budget but, fellow supporters, it's not an easy fix.

If football isn't played until then the Scottish League as we know won't exist. Every single club , with the possible exception of Celtic , including Hibs is at risk of ceasing to trade if your prediction comes true.

CockneyRebel
21-04-2020, 08:50 AM
If football isn't played until then the Scottish League as we know won't exist. Every single club , with the possible exception of Celtic , including Hibs is at risk of ceasing to trade if your prediction comes true.

The future of every business, and eventually every country, around the globe is at risk. I hope I am massively wrong but the possible global economic impact is frightening.

theonlywayisup
30-04-2020, 07:25 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52493649

There are fears fans will not be able to attend English Football League games until January 2021, according to a leaked recording heard by the BBC.

The leaked recording also suggested that three teams would be promoted from each EFL division but with no relegations, leading to a 23-team Premier League for 2020-21 and then extra relegation spots in future seasons throughout the pyramid to balance the numbers back out. Can't see many happy with that.

Eyrie
30-04-2020, 09:39 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52493649

There are fears fans will not be able to attend English Football League games until January 2021, according to a leaked recording heard by the BBC.

The leaked recording also suggested that three teams would be promoted from each EFL division but with no relegations, leading to a 23-team Premier League for 2020-21 and then extra relegation spots in future seasons throughout the pyramid to balance the numbers back out. Can't see many happy with that.
Can't see that working. They'd need 46 game days once you include the bye and it's going to be difficult enough to fit in a normal season if there is any delay to it starting.

Paul1642
30-04-2020, 11:31 PM
Can't see that working. They'd need 46 game days once you include the bye and it's going to be difficult enough to fit in a normal season if there is any delay to it starting.

Agreed. Also the teams who get relegated despite coming above 5 teams might not be to pleased about it, especially if it’s a team like wolves or Sheffield Wednesday who go down and a team like Norwich who have been saved then survive the drop that year.

scooby
01-05-2020, 12:22 AM
The future of every business, and eventually every country, around the globe is at risk. I hope I am massively wrong but the possible global economic impact is frightening.

In 2010, the Rockefeller Foundation produced a paper titled "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development," which sought to predict the course of the world over the next 20 years. The document is still available to download online. Their scenario is playing out nicely and with frightening accuracy, which suggests that this is a manufactured crisis. It details the lockdown, government responses and the next stage. We all need to wake up if the next stage is to be avoided.

mjhibby
01-05-2020, 01:53 AM
October is my best guess. League cup knockout and season shortened ironically finishing after three rounds of games. Once we get past September something will have to give.