What's the chances of fans going back in September?

[Keith_M]

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I’m in the minority here so I’m going to bow out. I’ve said what I’ve wanted say.

I don't think you are. I think the argument is quite evenly divided either way.

Some people are just more vocal on one side than the other today :-)

[hibee_girl]

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“Not a single Glasgow fan will be allowed into their @pro14 game v Edinburgh at BT Murrayfield on Friday. All 700 supporters will be from Edinburgh season ticket holder data base who live nearest BT Murrayfield due to Covid restrictions.“

Apologies if covered already but SRU restricting numbers and issuing tickets based on who lives closest to the ground.

As someone who lives on Lochend road I wholeheartedly back this idea should Hibs decide to use a similar system 😂

I’m using a laughing emoji but I can quite imagine just how raj people will go if we do use the same system. Hopefully there’s another fairer way of doing it.

I’d be delighted if that’s the case considering I’m next door to the stadium

My Grandad would end up moving in with me so he could go to games 😂

[hibbysam]

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100+ in Perth. There are not more than 100 cases in Perth. I've already said that yesterday.

100+ in Perthshire, which is where the outbreak happened.

[The dalmeny]

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“Not a single Glasgow fan will be allowed into their @pro14 game v Edinburgh at BT Murrayfield on Friday. All 700 supporters will be from Edinburgh season ticket holder data base who live nearest BT Murrayfield due to Covid restrictions.“

Apologies if covered already but SRU restricting numbers and issuing tickets based on who lives closest to the ground.

As someone who lives on Lochend road I wholeheartedly back this idea should Hibs decide to use a similar system 😂

I’m using a laughing emoji but I can quite imagine just how raj people will go if we do use the same system. Hopefully there’s another fairer way of doing it.

they aren’t restricting numbers based on who lives closest, I suspect this was the limit put in place in conjunction with SG

[04Sauzee]

CONFIRMED

The UEFA Super Cup, on 24 September in Budapest, will be played with a reduced number of spectators – up to 30 % of the capacity of the stadium - in order to study precisely the impact of spectators on the UEFA Return to Play Protocol.

[Col2]

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CONFIRMED

The UEFA Super Cup, on 24 September in Budapest, will be played with a reduced number of spectators – up to 30 % of the capacity of the stadium - in order to study precisely the impact of spectators on the UEFA Return to Play Protocol.

This is very interesting.

I think the best we can hope for - for Cup Semi in late October is something like this. But it would need to be Murrayfield given stadium far easier to handle social distancing and importantly it would limit travel significantly. Would allow c20k fans which would make a difference.

Has the SFA confirmed Hampden must be used or not?

[hibbysam]

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This is very interesting.

I think the best we can hope for - for Cup Semi in late October is something like this. But it would need to be Murrayfield given stadium far easier to handle social distancing and importantly it would limit travel significantly. Would allow c20k fans which would make a difference.

Has the SFA confirmed Hampden must be used or not?

They said both games would be at hampden when they announced that they were still going ahead with the dates.

[Juniper Greens]

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This is very interesting.

I think the best we can hope for - for Cup Semi in late October is something like this. But it would need to be Murrayfield given stadium far easier to handle social distancing and importantly it would limit travel significantly. Would allow c20k fans which would make a difference.

Has the SFA confirmed Hampden must be used or not?

20,000 Hibs fans then as the Hearts fans will be keeping their maroon pounds away from the corrupt SFA, who actively seek out opportunities to kick them. Disgusting the way they have been treated...

[ancient hibee]

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Our hospitals were never bursting at the seams. There was always capacity to deal with it. It’s not that we’re not seeing the levels of deaths, we aren’t seeing any deaths whatsoever. And to say vulnerable people aren’t going to pubs isn’t true, I’ve seen many over 60’s (just one strand of ‘vulnerable’) in pubs. But like I said, it wasn’t just vulnerable people dying and getting seriously ill, as we kept being told. Many healthy, young people also lost their lives we were told. Of course the risk is greater for the vulnerable group, but I’d say that group are out more now than they were then, after all they were shielding back then and aren’t now.

Like I said, I’d love to see the figures of ages broken down from our positive cases list.

The English CMO said there isn’t enough evidence to say its weakening, not that it isn’t, just that they can’t prove that it is.

There were 28 deaths among people under 45 out of 4200 so not really the many that you say.

[we are hibs]

I dont envisage any way in which they could play the semi at Hampden infront of fans who have travelled from Edinburgh when theres a stadium in Edinburgh (with a higher capacity) that could do the job for 1 game at least.

[danhibees1875]

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I dont envisage any way in which they could play the semi at Hampden infront of fans who have travelled from Edinburgh when theres a stadium in Edinburgh (with a higher capacity) that could do the job for 1 game at least.

I can imagine one way it could happen. If the SFA were in charge.

[The 90+2]

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I dont envisage any way in which they could play the semi at Hampden infront of fans who have travelled from Edinburgh when theres a stadium in Edinburgh (with a higher capacity) that could do the job for 1 game at least.

I think it will be easier now the SFA own the stadium and not contracted to play all Scottish Cup Semis at hampden.

[Moulin Yarns]

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100+ in Perthshire, which is where the outbreak happened.

At last. As a resident of Perthshire, I can tell you that the cluster associated with the 2 Sisters food plant covers people in 3 local authority areas. Perth and Kinross, Angus and Dundee, so the figures are not 100+ in Perth or even Perthshire.

But keep making things up.


You asked for information on ages saying that many young people have died, the links give an insight.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html

[hibbysam]

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At last. As a resident of Perthshire, I can tell you that the cluster associated with the 2 Sisters food plant covers people in 3 local authority areas. Perth and Kinross, Angus and Dundee, so the figures are not 100+ in Perth or even Perthshire.

But keep making things up.

😂😂 You can be as pedantic as you like, the original point was always about the numbers from the large outbreaks. Not everyone out in Aberdeen would be from there, not everyone that worked in Lanarkshire would be from there. Simple facts are the outbreak happened there and that’s how many cases are associated with that outbreak.

[Keith_M]

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I think it will be easier now the SFA own the stadium and not contracted to play all Scottish Cup Semis at hampden.

I can't see them choosing to pay the SRU money to host the match when they have their own stadium.

I'm not saying that's the right decision but, from a cost perspective, it's a strong argument that will probably sway them.

[lord bunberry]

Given that there’s no restriction on travel in Scotland I can’t understand why they would need to only allow fans who live closest to the stadium to attend at first. I could drive to Inverness and go to the cinema, why would they stop fans from attending Easter Road if they’re not local? I understand the no away fans as you’d want to get as many of your own season ticket holders in, is this another one of these things like not allowing the away team to use the away dressing room.

[B.H.F.C]

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I can't see them choosing to pay the SRU money to host the match when they have their own stadium.

I'm not saying that's the right decision but, from a cost perspective, it's a strong argument that will probably sway them.

If playing it at Murrayfield as opposed to Hampden was the difference between getting fans in, or not, they’d be happy to pay the SRU a fee I think. Would give them an opportunity to make some money as opposed to playing in an empty Hampden.

[Sir David Gray]

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Given that there’s no restriction on travel in Scotland I can’t understand why they would need to only allow fans who live closest to the stadium to attend at first. I could drive to Inverness and go to the cinema, why would they stop fans from attending Easter Road if they’re not local? I understand the no away fans as you’d want to get as many of your own season ticket holders in, is this another one of these things like not allowing the away team to use the away dressing room.

I was going to say this too.

I haven't seen anything official that this will be the case when football crowds start to return so I'll hold off with my outrage for the moment but given that Edinburgh Rugby fans need to live locally to get a ticket for Friday's match, I'll be pretty annoyed if I'm denied the chance to attend a game just because I can't see Easter Road from my kitchen window.

It's been nearly 2 months since the 5 mile limit on travel was lifted. I could almost see the point in it if there was no limit on the numbers that could attend but there will be so what difference does it make if the several hundred (or whatever it ends up being) who are allowed to attend initially come from Edinburgh or further afield?

[lord bunberry]

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I was going to say this too.

I haven't seen anything official that this will be the case when football crowds start to return so I'll hold off with my outrage for the moment but given that Edinburgh Rugby fans need to live locally to get a ticket for Friday's match, I'll be pretty annoyed if I'm denied the chance to attend a game just because I can't see Easter Road from my kitchen window.

It's been nearly 2 months since the 5 mile limit on travel was lifted. I could almost see the point in it if there was no limit on the numbers that could attend but there will be so what difference does it make if the several hundred (or whatever it ends up being) who are allowed to attend initially come from Edinburgh or further afield?

We’ll just have to wait and see what they do but it wouldn’t make any sense to do it by postcodes.

[erin go bragh]

Up to 1000 Celtic fans could return to Celtic Park for the visit of Motherwell this weekend. Decision due tomorrow after meeting between SPFL and government. Still very much in the balance.

Just been tweeted by a bbc journo

[3pm]

How have Celtic been chosen?

[erin go bragh]

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How have Celtic been chosen?

Largest stadium capacity is my guess

[hibbysam]

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How have Celtic been chosen?

Other clubs have been quiet, so presumably the only club that’s proactively trying to get fans in ASAP.

[Iggy Pope]

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How have Celtic been chosen?

Because they’ll keep distanced, behave themselves, wash their hands and won’t jump about wave flags about and do the Poznan or that.
Huns next.
Wee Jimmy Krankie loses respect if she tests it out with this lot.

[Iggy Pope]

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I was going to say this too.

I haven't seen anything official that this will be the case when football crowds start to return so I'll hold off with my outrage for the moment but given that Edinburgh Rugby fans need to live locally to get a ticket for Friday's match, I'll be pretty annoyed if I'm denied the chance to attend a game just because I can't see Easter Road from my kitchen window.

It's been nearly 2 months since the 5 mile limit on travel was lifted. I could almost see the point in it if there was no limit on the numbers that could attend but there will be so what difference does it make if the several hundred (or whatever it ends up being) who are allowed to attend initially come from Edinburgh or further afield?

Get outraged but with an Edinburgh postcode you know it makes sense.

[Moulin Yarns]

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😂😂 You can be as pedantic as you like, the original point was always about the numbers from the large outbreaks. Not everyone out in Aberdeen would be from there, not everyone that worked in Lanarkshire would be from there. Simple facts are the outbreak happened there and that’s how many cases are associated with that outbreak.

Yes, but they don't all live in Perthshire so the cases by health board that Sir David Gray posts daily have a total for Tayside, not all of them are in Perthshire. Pedantic? Or just wanting accuracy.

[B.H.F.C]

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How have Celtic been chosen?

I don’t think they’ve been chosen as such. More that they’ve actually pushed to try and make it happen. They’ve been quite vocal about it for quite a while.

[Sir David Gray]

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Get outraged but with an Edinburgh postcode you know it makes sense.

Why does it make sense?

I can travel up to Shetland to watch a film at the cinema, why wouldn't I have the same chance as any other season ticket holder to attend games whenever it becomes possible?

It's either safe to travel over 5 miles for leisure purposes or it's not.

[hibbysam]

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Yes, but they don't all live in Perthshire so the cases by health board that Sir David Gray posts daily have a total for Tayside, not all of them are in Perthshire. Pedantic? Or just wanting accuracy.

In reality, what I was talking about, it doesn’t matter one bit where they come from, or where it even started for that matter. It was all about the overall number of cases emanating from these outbreaks. You knew that though. You also can’t say for certainty that they aren’t from Perthshire considering they don’t post names and addresses of those who have tested. But again, that’s beside the point and totally irrelevant to the points i was making. Have a cracking day.

[Iggy Pope]

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Why does it make sense?

I can travel up to Shetland to watch a film at the cinema, why wouldn't I have the same chance as any other season ticket holder to attend games whenever it becomes possible?

It's either safe to travel over 5 miles for leisure purposes or it's not.

OK, OK don’t get really really outraged yet save it for a bit, just a laugh for now, keep your Falkirk postcode. Wouldn’t recommend the Shetlands for the pictures though.