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[Hugh]

(I.E. potentially ML). No blooming comment.
Enjoy

[Mick]

Luckily those good guys at Trafford Council - the ones who preside over disgusting dirty pavements, full of litter, leaves that fell off trees 10 weeks ago, blocked drains, pot holes, uneven flagstones and numerous areas of standing water - have graciously re-assessed capacity at 3999

[Seth]

Luckily, for sporting events its 10,000.

[Saughall Robin]

Am I correct in thinking that we'll get the reassessed capacity for the JDS from the Council some time on Friday?

[cheshire cat]

Luckily, for sporting events its 10,000.

Where do you get that from? BBC sources say "4000 unseated outdoors"

I can't see us getting 4000 even for the Stockport match.

[Silent but Ledley]

Never mind the dirty pavements, litter everywhere fallen trees, smelly drains, pot holes etc etc etc they write amazing corporate policies, have amazing risk assessments and procedures which matter zero to Joe public! SBL

[AltyTunnelSteward]

If I read it right it's unseated outside events of 4,000 and all events of 10,000

[Saughall Robin]

So we're ok with 4000 standing plus the 1300 odd seats? If so, that'll be plenty!

[Seth]

Luckily, for sporting events its 10,000.

Where do you get that from? BBC sources say "4000 unseated outdoors"

I can't see us getting 4000 even for the Stockport match.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/59575982

[cheshire cat]

Thanks Seth. I think you need to read as far as paragraph 6. Whoever produced the piece obviously doesn't realise that there are still football grounds albeit outside the football league that have terracing where standing is the done thing

[CRT Butty]

That is measured on capacity, not the actual turnout, or am I being a bit dim?

[cheshire cat]

It talks about crowds over.......   so I think it means attendees. How do you know the number of attendees unless you can control sales on the gate?

It's mad. Obviously The Etihad or Old Trafford will get over 10000 but what about somewhere like The Macron? They might on Boxing Day but possibly not for a normal league fixture.

And then you get Boris saying you can attend if you have a negative lateral flow test. There's no way that can be policed. Are you supposed to do one at the ground or bring one along that you did earlier, bought from a friend, found lying in the street. It's a total farce.

With any luck this will be one headache our board won't have to worry about.

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

[Sarf London Alty]

It talks about crowds over.......   so I think it means attendees. How do you know the number of attendees unless you can control sales on the gate?

It's mad. Obviously The Etihad or Old Trafford will get over 10000 but what about somewhere like The Macron? They might on Boxing Day but possibly not for a normal league fixture.

And then you get Boris saying you can attend if you have a negative lateral flow test. There's no way that can be policed. Are you supposed to do one at the ground or bring one along that you did earlier, bought from a friend, found lying in the street. It's a total farce.

With any luck this will be one headache our board won't have to worry about.

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

There’s no way they’ll be checking all 75,000 at Old Trafford for example for their Covid status, otherwise the game wouldn’t start until Midnight. They’ll just do spot checks at random on people. I don’t think it will be too over zealous.

[CRT Butty]

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.

[Sale Holmfield]

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.