Gary Mackay: Hearts must ensure they are not caught out by another shutdown
My gut feeling is that the SFA has brokered a deal with the Scottish Government that if they allowed the top two divisions to continue they would suspend everything else.
Is it the right thing to do? It's a really difficult one because you see people continuing to be irresponsible in day to day life, and you look a how irresponsible Celtic were, and you just wonder.
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Hide AdThe last thing we would need now is anything to impact on the Championship with regards to a club or a number of clubs having a larger number of people affected by Covid. That's the worry.
If you have the odd one, which we've had ourselves at Hearts, then outsiders looking in can handle that. But if you go to a larger number then it becomes very difficult for the powers that be.
They've given the Championship clubs an opportunity and hopefully these clubs accept it and try to do the best they can to follow all the relevant guidelines.
The important thing now for Hearts is to make sure they stay clear at the top of the table. There was a feeling of being unjustly treated at the end of last season and that was when we were at the bottom of the league.
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Hide AdIf things were to stop we need to make sure we accumulate enough points so that we have a decent gap.
It would be great if we were going into this weekend with an eight-point lead having had a victory at Dundee. It wasn't to be, but we have to make sure come Saturday at quarter to five we have another three points on the board against an Alloa side who have already proved difficult, particularly on their artificial surface.
The players who were there at the end of last season, and the feeling they had when they were demoted, are the ones who have to encourage the players around them and make sure there's no opportunity for us to be left out if there comes a point when the season does stop.