Albion have always believed players should be fully informed during the last two and a bit months.

They reckon that wealth of information and communication – not just from them – will be rewarded in the next three weeks.

All Seagulls players are on board with the plan to resume the season although one has some health concerns at home.

That unidentified individual is being given all the time he needs to make decisions.

Otherwise, though, the return to something closer to normal work and the prospect of Arsenal at the Amex in three weeks’ time has put a spring in steps.

It is a spring based on the solid foundation of seeing all but a very few Covid-19 tests conducted around the Premier League in the past fortnight come back negative.

And by the promising restart to the campaign in Germany with other European nations now following suit – or soon to do so.

Paul Barber, Albion’s deputy chairman and chief executive, has sat before the media via Zoom on ten Thursdays now.

He chairs such press conferences in times of crisis. The aftermath of the Shoreham air disaster in 2015 was a good example.

Yesterday’s session was, hopefully, the last of its kind for some time.

He will happily hand over the central role to head coach Graham Potter barring a dramatic U-turn in the momentum that seems to be building in football and across the nation.

The hope is it will all be about the football from here on in.

Barber said: “One of the good things that happened over the last few weeks, when you think back to discussions we’ve had, we said what was critical was that we brought the players with us.

“We gave them plenty of time to hear what they were being asked to do, plenty of time to ask questions about what they were being asked to do and plenty of time to get comfortable with all of it.

“They have had a lot of information, they have had a lot of conversations amongst themselves, they have got the confidence from stage one to move into stage two.

“They have seen what’s happening with the Bundesliga.

“I think the low levels of positive tests have reinforced that we’ve probably created environments at the training ground and soon to be at the stadium which are probably among the safest environments you could possibly go into.

“What we can’t control, and to some extent what the players can only control themselves, is when they come out of our bubble and into their normal domestic life bubble, what they do in it.

“In this part of the world we’re very lucky that we’ve got a seafront, beautiful parks and countryside.

“When the weather is as good as it has been, those areas get very crowded.

“We just have to rely on our players and our staff that they stay in a bubble that is not going to put them at greater risk and then not put that risk into the training ground.

“From that point of view, I think slowly but surely they’ve gained a lot of confidence. Of course there are still some nerves.

“We have one (squad member) in particular who needs that extra bit of shielding. We will make sure they get it as far as we can.

“Of course, we’ll be very respectful if it comes to the point where they feel the risk is too great for them or their family.

“That’s something we will deal with on an individual basis and do the right thing for the player.

“(The player) is involved but, at the moment, we’re still operating in such a way that he doesn’t have to be directly involved in everything we’re doing.

“He’s maintaining fitness, he’s maintaining sharpness, but doing different things to the others.”

It has not just been about communication and co-operation within one club.

Barber believes it has happened across the league – and when the league have gone to other bodies.

He is grateful for the way the police and government came together to allow matches to be played on home and away venues, for example.

In three weeks, those clubs will be going hard at each other on the pitch.

But Barber reckons some of the collective spirit will remain even when sporting rivalry is resumed.

He said: “It is a fair question. For me, and I cannot answer for other clubs, this has been a very significant and stark reminder of how fragile we are, not just football, but generally.

“This period has been as strong a reminder as I have had in my life that one day things can seem to be normal and going along at an even pace – the usual ups and downs you have to cope with – and one day it all just seemed that overnight we had all been thrown into a world that none of us seemed to have seen before or could have imagined.

“It will take a long time for people to forget what it has been like in the last two months.

“And we are going to have a reminder for many weeks and months to come when we play football in empty stadia, of just how difficult these last few months have been.

“And how many more months will be difficult, too.”