Hibs fans at the Scottish Cup Final

[lucky]

Why has the Scottish Government stated it’s 2m social distancing? Public transport is 1m plus and has been for months and there are talks ongoing to remove it all together. Serious questions need to be asked why 500 fans can attend Morton’s home game with a capacity of 11111 yet Hampden has a capacity of 52000 and only 100 more fans can attend. I’m not sure why the Scottish cup final and St Johnstone and Hibs are being treated so poorly by the Scottish Government? Wembley this weekend for FA cup final have 12500. Sturgeon shouts all the time about treating Scotland fairly why is she not treating the Scottish Cup final fairly? This is an appalling decision by the Scottish Government

[Peevemor]

Not easy.

[green day]

As Grumpy Gibby the West Stand Hibby used to say - "loady pish"

Why did they even bother with the extra 50 bodies??????????

[kaimendhibs]

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How?

Looks like the Covid rate in Glasgow is 100 per 100k, bordering on L4 restrictions and definately not going down from L3 to L2 like the rest of the country now.

No traveling into or out of Glasgow is on the cards next week meaning the dispensation to allow 600 is a major concession. The South side of that coity has seen a 33% uplift in cases in the last few day. Guess which side of Glasgow Hampden is on.

In that case 600.max at the Euros shouldnt be a problem

[SteveHFC]

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Not easy.

We should just hand them out to players family and friends.

[HH81]

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Why has the Scottish Government stated it’s 2m social distancing? Public transport is 1m plus and has been for months and there are talks ongoing to remove it all together. Serious questions need to be asked why 500 fans can attend Morton’s home game with a capacity of 11111 yet Hampden has a capacity of 52000 and only 100 more fans can attend. I’m not sure why the Scottish cup final and St Johnstone and Hibs are being treated so poorly by the Scottish Government? Wembley this weekend for FA cup final have 12500. Sturgeon shouts all the time about treating Scotland fairly why is she not treating the Scottish Cup final fairly? This is an appalling decision by the Scottish Government

It is a joke. I am attending a sporting event at a ground the day after the final. It holds around 6000 at present and they have allowed 850 to attend.

[2belhaven]

Pointless. More folk in my Local Waitrose at the moment !

[MunsterHibee]

300 fans each is an embarrassment tbh. In a matter of weeks when Scotland play in the Euros there will be over 10,000 fans left into hampden.

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[hibbydad]

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It is a joke. I am attending a sporting event at a ground the day after the final. It holds around 6000 at present and they have allowed 850 to attend.

You are right it is a total joke will cost more to administer

[ABZHFC]

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Why be angry? Why not just finish the season with zero fans ready to start after the summer with decent numbers?

No, not 'decent numbers'. Full crowds. Have you seen where being reasonable and trying to beg the authorities for more tickets has got us? 100 extra briefs, a joke.

We will be playing a game of slow cat and mouse with the authorities otherwise. The only thing for it is to call for full stadiums to return in permanence once everyone in Scotland has been offered their first dose, anything less is unacceptable, and would only result in long, drawn out negotiations where we are 'allowed' to have 500 more fans in every week

[Moulin Yarns]

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600 fans in a stadium that holds 52,000.😂 This has been an absolute shambles from day 1. Let’s be honest, SFA and SG don’t give a flying xxxx about anyone but the bigot brothers.

Queens Park probably will disagree. I'm sure they would be happy with 600 fans in Hampden 😁

[The Baldmans Comb]

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Yet they will still have 12,000 fans there 3 weeks later for the Euros

I think this will be seriously in question and if its not and I lived in Glasgow I would demanding to know why.🤢😡

An Indian variant of Covid has resulted in clusters well in excess of recommended limits and the variant is so new that its still unknown if the AstraZeneca vaccine can cope with it. Pfizer and Moderna seemingly can.

12,000 sounds ridiculous and I hope the SFA has a standby get out clause and I say that as someone with tickets for all Hampden matches.

[Billy Whizz]

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We should just hand them out to players family and friends.

I disagree. I think Hibs should try and make sure every person who gets a ticket, is a season ticket holder
It’s the least they can reward fans, for a season of no football

There’s a lot of fantastic long term Hibs supporters out there, and I would be absolutely gutted for some of them, if all the tickets were given to staff and players families

[hibbysam]

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There are now a number of covid clusters in the south of Glasgow caused by the unknown Indian variant which may or may not be able to bypass the AstraZenca vaccine.

Numbers given for cases were 58/100,000 which people which is double the control level of 25/100,000.

There is a real question mark whether Glasgow as a whole will be able to move to level 2 next week.

I am surprised Glasgow Council and the Scottish Government moved at all on this and its going to be a huge dilemma for the Euros if these case numbers continue to rise especially based on last years example of exponential growth 🤔😥

Just like every other variant then eh. Strangely enough two weeks ago Leitch was telling everyone who would listen that cases would always rise when things were eased. The fact we have the vaccine sorts that out. Maybe about time the government sorted the vaccine rollout out, even more misgivings about that today regarding more technical issues preventing people getting it.

[Baader]

Less than the snooker and that was indoors

[JGS56]

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Queens Park probably will disagree. I'm sure they would be happy with 600 fans in Hampden 😁

Queens Park have nothing to do with HamDump. They sold it to the SFA.
Queens Park will use Lesser Hampden after groundsharing with Falkirk for part of next season.

[K-Zazu]

Fitbaw as we used to know it is done

[Wilson]

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Fitbaw as we used to know it is done

VAR or Covid?

[K-Zazu]

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VAR or Covid?

Both

[hibee]

This is embarrassing, our government are completely useless.

How can it be safe to sit in a stupid pub tent next to strangers with no distancing (even though they say there is) but we can’t sit in an outdoor stadium with someone a metre away.

I hope both clubs tell them where to go, allocating 300 tickets will cause more trouble than it’s worth.

[jeffers]

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I disagree. I think Hibs should try and make sure every person who gets a ticket, is a season ticket holder
It’s the least they can reward fans, for a season of no football

There’s a lot of fantastic long term Hibs supporters out there, and I would be absolutely gutted for some of them, if all the tickets were given to staff and players families

I get what you are saying, but the numbers are so small it’s not making much of a dent into all of the season ticket holders.

[One Day Soon]

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Less than the snooker and that was indoors

Seriously? That cannot be true surely.

[jgl07]

What a bloody shambles!

600 is a bloody insult!

[MWHIBBIES]

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Fitbaw as we used to know it is done

Hows that? Crowds will return to normal in time.

[K-Zazu]

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Hows that? Crowds will return to normal in time.

But what about the variants?

[hibby rae]

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Why has the Scottish Government stated it’s 2m social distancing? Public transport is 1m plus and has been for months and there are talks ongoing to remove it all together. Serious questions need to be asked why 500 fans can attend Morton’s home game with a capacity of 11111 yet Hampden has a capacity of 52000 and only 100 more fans can attend. I’m not sure why the Scottish cup final and St Johnstone and Hibs are being treated so poorly by the Scottish Government? Wembley this weekend for FA cup final have 12500. Sturgeon shouts all the time about treating Scotland fairly why is she not treating the Scottish Cup final fairly? This is an appalling decision by the Scottish Government

The statement reads to me like they haven't been given the whole stadium, maybe only access to the North Stand by UEFA?

Which would further limit space if that was the case.

[Brightside]

You can have 500 at any outdoor event from next week. I’m going to guess they are keeping it tight for this event due to their being spikes in positives cases in that area. Tbh I never thought for a second we would have anyone at this game. I’d rather we kept it to 500 at everything until next season.

[MWHIBBIES]

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But what about the variants?

what about them?

We're not going to stop events forever. It just isn't happening.

[Hibs Class]

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There's no point trying to judge unless we know the whole story, which we don't.

Unless we know enough to make an educated guess, which we do.

[wookie70]

Terrible decision. 500 allowed at tiny grounds and only 600 at a stadium holding 50K. I get the feeling this is punishment for all the issues players and clubs have created throughout the pandemic. Absolutely none of which our club caused. For me this says just keep society shut down for years to come. I'm going for my second vaccination on Monday but what is the point if we aren't really seeing much benefit from it. With such a ridiculously low number I think I would get together with St Johnstone and tell them to ram it. The SFA have been very poor too and should have used the final as a test event and tied it to the Euros to put pressure on SG.