I don’t see 2022 being any easier than the previous 2 years. Maybe even worse for a period. There’s going to be rolling infection, sickness and death for some time. Omicron is just so super highly contagious affecting the masses beyond anything like Delta, plus it has a strong re infection capability. How long this goes on for, who knows. All depends on saturation of infection (herd) and it’s smoothed out nature or not, new vaccines and anti virals and accessibility and dispensing timelines associated with them and so on.
I hope the football club is acutely aware that Omicron infection control in 2022 is going to be as important as injury management - maybe even more so. If the story last week about us having 11 players infected was correct, that’d be disastrous in season.
The club that can manage Omicron risk the best this year will be at a decided advantage.
Gee I’m not even sure if the season might become farcical anyway…who knows.