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With crowd limits of 50, Welsh rugby wants to know what they are supposed to do about lower league matches on council land where anyone can turn up, should they end up with rather more than 50 people there, like once happened with Packet House.
I suppose it'll be like in that 1942 film "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" when they were only allowed 200 people at the match in occupied Holland and the German police demanded that 50 leave! Never mind, three weeks to flatten the curve...

It's very similar to the rules in England during part of last spring when spectators were not allowed at all at football, and other sporting events, at private grounds, but were allowed on public land  as there is nothing to stop them. I remember going to a game at Old Alts, as they play on a public recreation ground at Crossford Bridge, and elsewhere to other games.

I also went to a Welsh Cup game in the summer at Ruabon Rovers on a public ground when 220 were there, but only 100 were  then permitted, but it was on open public land.  No problem, nothing happened. Although you and I might disagree with Boris Johnson and Mark Drakeford, they are not actually Nazis!

Maybe we can't afford new players due to the fact the club are now having to pay for stewards SIA from an outside agency since #Grassgate

Odd statement considering we have just paid an "undisclosed fee" for a new player.

I am a little bit worried we could gradually, gently slip down the table, getting the odd brave draw here and there, and suddenly find ourselves 21st in the final week of the season. There is plenty of time yet, but we surely have to start with a striker, from somewhere, sooner or later.

I was suspicious too about Wrexham's  game being called off when capacity was down to 50, but it's not just the big clubs. Boreham Wood, the smallest club in the  division, are also off on the 26th following positive tests among their players.

I can't see the game on the 28th being on, or questions would have to be asked. Agree it would be good to see the rules or protocols for postponements put forward in public,

The new project got off to a flying start on Saturday as Bedford lost 6-1 to Sileby Rangers!

Another strange this about is that Bedford are not even the leading team in Bedford; that's Bedford Town who play next door.

Quote from: distancetraveller on December 13, 2021, 07:58:25 PM

Blyth in the FA Cup on a bitterly cold January day a few years back. We travelled up to ML from Shrewsbury and got on the fans coach. Bloody freezing afternoon.

Closely followed by Southend  a couple of weeks ago. I was still shivering and  I was in Bowdon before I started to warm up

I might have to rethink this, I went to a game at Blyth, the year escapes me, there was about 5" of snow in Newcastle but nothing on the coast but was it cold! In fact I remember the Alty fans behind the goal singing "It's Very Cold....Very Very Very Cold......"
I didn't think Ryhope was all that bad but the girl I took along seemed to think it was, she whinged non-stop for two hours. Never pleased are they?

Oh, yes, I remember an Easter Monday game at Blyth when the conditions were so bad travelling back that I thought it was worth calling my mother to say I had got back  okay, This may well have been 1998 when we drew 3-3?

It would be the York game for me, (I think only four FA Cup matches beat the weather that day) although I didn't go to that Tow Law match in the early eighties. I did attend our game there a few years later when it was merely  staged in  a gale and pouring with rain but not freezing.

The coldest I have ever been at a game was probably at Buxton  against Colwyn Bay when our game at Macclesfield was a late call off in the mid nineties. More or less for a joke, I phoned Buxton from a phonebox - "I assume the game is off," "No, it's still on." - so we set off over the Cat and Fiddle to  Silverlands for a game which, even if it should have started, should not have finished. Mark Dempsey, I think before he joined us, played in this match, but was substituted suffering from mild hypothermia.

Quote from: cheshire cat on December 09, 2021, 06:53:16 PM

1) How do you know the number of attendees unless you can control sales on the gate?

I'm hoping for a good game on Saturday just to take everyone's minds off this crap.

1) That's why I think it's capacity, not actual gate. You sell xxx tickets and nobody needs to bring anything, but sell xxx +1 and everyone needs to be contacted and told they need to bring some proof with them. I don't really know, I just assumed it would have to be based on capacity.

2) Yes please.

Beer time.

The answers do indicate the uncertainty of this benighted idea, which was down to a panicked Boris Johnson trying to secure his position, regardless of the consequences. Possibly, as most of Meadow Lane will be closed when we visit Notts County, the capacity will be reduced so it won't apply anyway, but who knows?

For what it's worth. some have compared the new regulations to what already applies in Wales. I went to a Cymru Premier game rather than to Adershot on Saturday, but everything at the match, although Cefn Druids were really not very good at all, and in the pub and on the train beforehand, were just like normal.

Quote from: One Foot in the Grave on November 30, 2021, 09:06:09 PM

Quote from: Derek Stubbs on November 30, 2021, 07:33:59 PM

What's wrong with a lunch time kick off, everyone can get there AND get home.

7.30pm is simply a joke

Nottingham Police couldn't cope with two sets of fans, one lot leaving the ground as another set are making for the neighbouring stadium. If County are playing on Tuesday, it looks like this is as good as it gets unfortunately.

Didn't Everton play at Goodison Park the same day we played at Anfield?

Very different times.

They did, and Manchester United and Manchester City were both at home at the same time too. As you say, different times,