Stewart Regan: Scrap the winter break and play youths to finish the season

uneasydaz

uneasydaz

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FORMER SFA chief executive Stewart Regan would cancel next year's winter break and force cup matches to be played by reserves and youth team players in a bid to ensure that the season can be completed despite the coronavirus crisis in UK football.

The former Hampden supremo and Yorkshire Cricket Club managing director has taken to social media to unveil a new seven-point plan to ease an issue which could this week see all football banned until the summer.

A joint SFA and SPFL working group - acting on government advice - took the decision to scrap all Scottish football indefinitely, including the third league meeting between Rangers and Celtic which was scheduled for Ibrox tomorrow.

While it is anyone's guess when government advice will allow mass gatherings to take place again, Regan hopes it is possible to play football again as soon as possible.

He would pick up the season again where it left off, squeezing the league season into a "tighter time-frame" by freeing up fixture dates currently occupied by cup games.

If the league cannot be completed by the time next season's European club competitions are designated to start, then European slots could go to the teams who held those positions when the league was postponed.

Next season's cup matches should be played midweek and involve "non first-team players", allowing for opportunities for young players.

The normal 'end of season' could also be extended by two weeks to give the leagues further capacity.


Reports claim that Regan's successor Ian Maxwell and his SPFL counterpart Neil Doncaster will thrash out a joint UK-wide approach on a Thursday meeting with the EFL and the Premiership, amid speculation that the season could be scrapped immediately and shut down til AUGUST.

For now, next year's campaign is scheduled to get under way with the BetFred Cup in July 2013, but it is anyone's guess right now how long the pandemic will take hold.
 
And when a team gets a player diagnosed with the virus and god knows how many of their teammates etc have to self isolate meaning they will not be able to fulfill their fixtures or be at a disadvantage of fielding a weaker side?

Imagine if roles were reversed and we were 13 points clear, doubt there would be the clamour there is for the season to be played to a finish.
 
uneasydaz said:
FORMER SFA chief executive Stewart Regan would cancel next year's winter break and force cup matches to be played by reserves and youth team players in a bid to ensure that the season can be completed despite the coronavirus crisis in UK football.

The former Hampden supremo and Yorkshire Cricket Club managing director has taken to social media to unveil a new seven-point plan to ease an issue which could this week see all football banned until the summer.

A joint SFA and SPFL working group - acting on government advice - took the decision to scrap all Scottish football indefinitely, including the third league meeting between Rangers and Celtic which was scheduled for Ibrox tomorrow.

While it is anyone's guess when government advice will allow mass gatherings to take place again, Regan hopes it is possible to play football again as soon as possible.

He would pick up the season again where it left off, squeezing the league season into a "tighter time-frame" by freeing up fixture dates currently occupied by cup games.

If the league cannot be completed by the time next season's European club competitions are designated to start, then European slots could go to the teams who held those positions when the league was postponed.

Next season's cup matches should be played midweek and involve "non first-team players", allowing for opportunities for young players.

The normal 'end of season' could also be extended by two weeks to give the leagues further capacity.


Reports claim that Regan's successor Ian Maxwell and his SPFL counterpart Neil Doncaster will thrash out a joint UK-wide approach on a Thursday meeting with the EFL and the Premiership, amid speculation that the season could be scrapped immediately and shut down til AUGUST.

For now, next year's campaign is scheduled to get under way with the BetFred Cup in July 2013, but it is anyone's guess right now how long the pandemic will take hold.
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So in Regan's tiny mind,youths are immune to the coronavirus!.
What an idiot that man is.
 
This fuckin c unt was only binned because he got fed up backing the mentally challengeds claims over punishing Rangers further. He is not relevant to the current situation and is still a complete rat bastard.
 
BobbyShearer said:
It’s not the fact that they’re so transparently trying to make it happen for them, it’s just the knowledge that if we were clear at the top the silence would be fucking deafening.
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It wouldn’t mate , it would be full on sporting integrity mode .
 
uneasydaz said:
FORMER SFA chief executive Stewart Regan would cancel next year's winter break and force cup matches to be played by reserves and youth team players in a bid to ensure that the season can be completed despite the coronavirus crisis in UK football.

The former Hampden supremo and Yorkshire Cricket Club managing director has taken to social media to unveil a new seven-point plan to ease an issue which could this week see all football banned until the summer.

A joint SFA and SPFL working group - acting on government advice - took the decision to scrap all Scottish football indefinitely, including the third league meeting between Rangers and Celtic which was scheduled for Ibrox tomorrow.

While it is anyone's guess when government advice will allow mass gatherings to take place again, Regan hopes it is possible to play football again as soon as possible.

He would pick up the season again where it left off, squeezing the league season into a "tighter time-frame" by freeing up fixture dates currently occupied by cup games.

If the league cannot be completed by the time next season's European club competitions are designated to start, then European slots could go to the teams who held those positions when the league was postponed.

Next season's cup matches should be played midweek and involve "non first-team players", allowing for opportunities for young players.

The normal 'end of season' could also be extended by two weeks to give the leagues further capacity.


Reports claim that Regan's successor Ian Maxwell and his SPFL counterpart Neil Doncaster will thrash out a joint UK-wide approach on a Thursday meeting with the EFL and the Premiership, amid speculation that the season could be scrapped immediately and shut down til AUGUST.

For now, next year's campaign is scheduled to get under way with the BetFred Cup in July 2013, but it is anyone's guess right now how long the pandemic will take hold.
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A UK wide solution with no mention of Ireland or the FAW?
Does this mean England and only England?
Is this because, if reports are accurate, the English League are looking to simply award Liverpool the title, this giving them the excuse they’re desperate for?
 
Ridiculous idea. SFA and SPL have a duty of care to it’s members and this flies in the face of that.
 
2 options. Season stopped and declared null and void. Or season stopped and positions now declared.
 
Leagues will be abandoned all over Europe. The main footballing decisions to be taken are what happens then - null and void, titles awarded, who gets relegated, who gets the Euro places. That's the 'real' battle'. Leagues will NOT be played to a conclusion this Summer.

Separately the money men will need to thrash out how much the various leagues are going to lose through not fulfilling their contracts. That will filter down to clubs.
 
Hardly heard a cheep from this clown when he had the power to do something.
Now that he is where he should be, out of office, he suddenly and strangely feels the need to start bumping his gums.
When this sort of intervention appears out of the blue, I always smell a rat, a dirty big one, involving an agenda we are as yet unaware of, but given his history, could guess.
 
What’s it got to do with that corrupt arsehole?

So he has no regard for youth players health?

Well he had no interest in protecting youth players when he was at the SFA so he can phuck off with his ideas they are not welcome
 
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