19 September v The Rangers - first game with fans?

[Jamesie]

That certainly sounds like a possibility from the First Mknistes's statement.

Circa 10,600 STs in a 20,421 capacity stadium. Would seem sensible for the club to reach out and ask any fans who would not - for whatever reason - wish to attend the first x number of games so they know how many fans they will be dealing with and take it from there.

[Keith_M]

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That certainly sounds like a possibility from the First Mknistes's statement.

Circa 10,600 STs in a 20,421 capacity stadium. Would seem sensible for the club to reach out and ask any fans who would not - for whatever reason - wish to attend the first x number of games so they know how many fans they will be dealing with and take it from there.

If everybody wears a mask (and maybe gloves?) and we only use every 2nd seat, then you never know. I honestly can't wait to be taking some of my many nephews/nieces to games with me.

Not getting my hopes up, though, as there's going to be lots of twists and turns before we get back to normal.

[The dalmeny]

Doubt it

[PaulSmith]

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Doubt it

Doubt what?


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[Hibs Class]

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If everybody wears a mask (and maybe gloves?) and we only use every 2nd seat, then you never know. I honestly can't wait to be taking some of my many nephews/nieces to games with me.

Not getting my hopes up, though, as there's going to be lots of twists and turns before we get back to normal.

Presumably family groups could sit together and we'd have something more than 50% occupancy, although exiting would be the main pinchpoint (which masks may well adequately mitigate).

[Diclonius]

No Huns in the stadium I'm guessing. Excellent.

[Keith_M]

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Presumably family groups could sit together and we'd have something more than 50% occupancy, although exiting would be the main pinchpoint (which masks may well adequately mitigate).

I posted on that previously and it's logistically not possible to increase capacity by sitting in groups, because the seat in front of someone will always have to remain free.

The basic premise is that if you use three quarter of the seats in one row, then you've just made three quarter of seats in the row in front of that unusuable.

[Onceinawhile]

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If everybody wears a mask (and maybe gloves?) and we only use every 2nd seat, then you never know. I honestly can't wait to be taking some of my many nephews/nieces to games with me.

Not getting my hopes up, though, as there's going to be lots of twists and turns before we get back to normal.

Not as simple as every second seat though, can't use the seat behind or in front. Not sure about diagonal either.

In the other hand, surely family groups could be accommodated? I'd be a bit frustrated if I could attend, but couldn't take my sons.

[Daydreamer]

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Not as simple as every second seat though, can't use the seat behind or in front. Not sure about diagonal either.

In the other hand, surely family groups could be accommodated? I'd be a bit frustrated if I could attend, but couldn't take my sons.

Every second row and every second seat. Should be a metre between persons.. Would even sit in the south.

[lyonhibs]

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Not as simple as every second seat though, can't use the seat behind or in front. Not sure about diagonal either.

In the other hand, surely family groups could be accommodated? I'd be a bit frustrated if I could attend, but couldn't take my sons.

If things stay as they are, then it's 2 meters in all directions. With masks, maybe that can be reduced to 1 metre or whatever but honestly, who wants to watch a football match, against Rangers no less, wearing a mask? Probably a fair few folk but were I in a position to be a ST holder/regular walk up, I'd be waiting until things were properly back to normal, at least no mask required, before I went back.

[dangermouse]

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If things stay as they are, then it's 2 meters in all directions. With masks, maybe that can be reduced to 1 metre or whatever but honestly, who wants to watch a football match, against Rangers no less, wearing a mask? Probably a fair few folk but were I in a position to be a ST holder/regular walk up, I'd be waiting until things were properly back to normal, at least no mask required, before I went back.

I wonder if for policing we would be allowed to use masks? Not so easy to identify people using CCTV should there be incidents like the arse that allegedly attacked a The Rangers player last season. Granted, with a reduced capacity and no away support that sort of thing is unlikely to happen.

[blackpoolhibs]

Parts of England going into partial lockdown again, over 4 million in greater Manchester alone. Yet Goodwood is letting 5000 race fans in tomorrow for the last day of racing there.

It is difficult times, damned if you do and all that.

[tamig]

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I wonder if for policing we would be allowed to use masks? Not so easy to identify people using CCTV should there be incidents like the arse that allegedly attacked a The Rangers player last season. Granted, with a reduced capacity and no away support that sort of thing is unlikely to happen.

The government will insist on masks. I don’t think there will be any doubts around that. The police won’t have a say in it. In the current circumstances it would be a ludicrous decision anyway.

[Since90+2]

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That certainly sounds like a possibility from the First Mknistes's statement.

Circa 10,600 STs in a 20,421 capacity stadium. Would seem sensible for the club to reach out and ask any fans who would not - for whatever reason - wish to attend the first x number of games so they know how many fans they will be dealing with and take it from there.

What did the FM say?

[Sir David Gray]

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What did the FM say?

Limited numbers may be able to attend sports events from 14th September.

[makaveli1875]

They could probably open the FF lower right away , theyve been practicing social distancing in there for about 10 years

[ABZHFC]

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They could probably open the FF lower right away , theyve been practicing social distancing in there for about 10 years

Brilliant

[Diclonius]

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They could probably open the FF lower right away , theyve been practicing social distancing in there for about 10 years

Amazing

[Newry Hibs]

Irish cup final on Friday night at Windsor park is allowing 500 spectators.

Will be interesting to see how they are seated (has a c18,000 capacity).

A lot of tickets are for family / friends and then season ticket holders.

[CMurdoch]

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Limited numbers may be able to attend sports events from 14th September.

Word limited not defined, one mans limited is 1,000 and an others is 10,000
Mine would probably be 10% of capacity in September and if all goes well gradually scale it up to 25%. We need to start somewhere and that would be a start.

[B.H.F.C]

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Word limited not defined, one mans limited is 1,000 and an others is 10,000
Mine would probably be 10% of capacity in September and if all goes well gradually scale it up to 25%. We need to start somewhere and that would be a start.

I don’t think it’ll start that low. When they do let folk in I think we’ll be able to accommodate a fair percentage of season ticket holders who want to go.

First things first, there will be people who don’t want to go so identify them.

Presume Hibs will do a bit of analysis on who is from the same household (per what is on the database) which would obviously help limit the number of seats kept empty as they don’t need to distance from each other.

Even putting every season ticket holder in the stadium only has it a bit over 50% of capacity so there is plenty room to work with.

Appreciate that is a bit simplistic because you can throw up the scenario of what happens at half time and so on but people need to be creative to make this work. And people will adapt to what they need to do as well.

[tamig]

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I don’t think it’ll start that low. When they do let folk in I think we’ll be able to accommodate a fair percentage of season ticket holders who want to go.

First things first, there will be people who don’t want to go so identify them.

Presume Hibs will do a bit of analysis on who is from the same household (per what is on the database) which would obviously help limit the number of seats kept empty as they don’t need to distance from each other.

Even putting every season ticket holder in the stadium only has it a bit over 50% of capacity so there is plenty room to work with.

Appreciate that is a bit simplistic because you can throw up the scenario of what happens at half time and so on but people need to be creative to make this work. And people will adapt to what they need to do as well.

I don’t think that approach will be possible in September though. The way things are going at the moment I can see things going backwards for a spell before we can look at getting reasonable numbers inside grounds again unfortunately.

[04Sauzee]

Even if it was home fans obviously in stadiums and it was limited to 5.5k fans and we could only see every 2nd game (might be difficult to impliment) but it almost see it working. Just under 1400 in each stand (more In the east and the west) maybe im just getting my hopes up to much

[Skol]

In theory it is possible if you occupy every second row and have a spare seat or two between family groups.

The issue would be people wanting out and having to get past people between them and the stairs.

I can’t see it being possible

[danhibees1875]

Fingers crossed that social distancing can be brought down from 2M to 1M for businesses - is that already the case for pubs/restaurants?

That would make a big difference and probably allow all STs access.

Not sure how they'd then distribute people. Presumably an online booking system for STs to access, put in however many client ref numbers are in their household bubble and can sit together (the more of these, the more we'd get into the stadium) and then be allocated seats based on that.

All in all it sounds positive!

[18Craig75]

‘A contact’ is counted as being within 2m of someone for 15minutes. That means walking past people shouldn’t be an issue. Implement a traffic light system for the toilets.

Hopefully we can make it work, will need compliance from us lot which might be the hard bit. They don’t like singing either, which means loud shouting as well I guess.

[soul_driver]

There was a test event at the County Cricket at the weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/53544599

Fans were spaced by alternate rows and two-seat gaps per group in two stands. About 30% of the seats in the two open stands at The Oval were filled.

[Partyraiser]

Were we not told a couple of months ago we could use murrayfield? Not ideal and id rather the games were at easter road, but we could accommodate all season ticket holders, and some more in the home of the egg chasers!

[Monts]

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Were we not told a couple of months ago we could use murrayfield? Not ideal and id rather the games were at easter road, but we could accommodate all season ticket holders, and some more in the home of the egg chasers!

I don't think they were offering it free of charge

[SingaporeHibs]

Have you been watching the news?

Scotland is doing well up to now after the lockdown but why would anyone believe that this problem is anywhere near over? It’s not over by a Long shot so don’t get your hopes up. Call it wave 2 or wave 3 as some places are calling it but COVID is far from over and normal life is far from coming back. This isn’t going away anytime soon. The Relaxing of rules and summer travel Is going to see another ramp in cases, then there will be winter and the question of have i got COVID or the general flu/cold etc.

The MSM are at fault here (along with a weak government), they make you believe the world is ending, then it’s all ok and then .........what i just described above.

It’s not going away, we’ll not be back in ER this season (unless a vaccine comes) . Less disappointed faces when we face reality.

Australia thought they skipped it and they had very strict travel rules (unlike the uk). Vietnam thought they skipped it (they didn’t), Hong Kong are on wave 3 which is worse than the previous. Spain, Germany,......I actually can’t write about everywhere that’s struggling again. So tell me why Scotland is going to be ok? Is it the same reason that Scotland wasn’t going to be impacted the first time?

Time to wake up folks.