Grassroots football back for all ages

[Dadnotamum72]

Announced yesterday by the Fa, full contact training in groups of up to 30 from now and matches from 1st August, with leagues restarting in September. ( with relevant rules / guidence)
Excellent from childrens wellbeing perspective or is it to much to soon and will it make school bubbles pointless if different schools or ages mix at the weekends.

I haven't seen this, off to find it.
Our matches are played over a large geographical area so that will be a lot of mixing.

www.thefa.com/news/2020/jul/17/grassroots-guidance-for-competitive-football-restart-in-england-170720

I've just downloaded and skim read the guidance, not sure about the coughing sneezing /spiiting into upper sleeve not envy. I think that clubs will have to insist on a guardian being present in case of injuries as the guidance for helping in case of first aid is difficult. I'm not sure about the insistence of SD before arriving, during half time etc and then sending the players in for a match free for all-how do you explain to children that you have to wear a mask in shops, you can't hug granny, you have to stay 2m from your friends before you play but during the match it's fine.
Interesting the repeated use of 'should try, where possible,'
I'm glad I'm not a volunteer coach in a club run by volunteers who already give up an inordinate amount of time to allow children to play football.

Saw the announcement yesterday and just read the guidelines. It’s great for the kids and sensible precautions in place but does question the whole school bubble idea. Basically life seems to return to normal when children start the new term. Bubbles are pointless as children will be mixing outside school whether it be football or something else. All before winter..not convinced this is gonna have a happy ending!

The first aid bit seems to indicate, parents for minor stuff and they should stay nearby and only first aiders for limb and life issues using higher grade ppe.
The where possible thing seems to be in every industry.
Bubble wise looks like it will be farcicle regarding the schools, quite a few good players often play for the year above as well.

We have players that are spread over five senior schools, I've just looked up the numbers and that's 1,260 children across the year group across the schools. This doesn't include siblings. The risk of exposure seems to be 15 minutes and our players all play a minimum of 40 minutes in a match. Some bubble.

I think training is fine but there are too many matches at the best of times. They'd have been better reducing the number of fixtures for the younger ones and concentrating on more training - with or without covid.

It's interesting though that football is fine, with contact, larger groups and people running around in all directions, but England Athletics is saying runners can only train in groups of up to 6 even though they all run in the same direction and are not coming into contact with each other. Seems back to front to me, but football is clearly far more important (along with cricket).