Allow Fans Back In Petition

[jlo]

Its not odd. A lot of clubs will collapse without income very soon. The Prem League teams will be fine but start going down the Divisions and things are not so cosy. A lot of people, not just footballers, will be out of work. So of course they are wanting fans back in, safely of course, so they can start earning again

Agreed overwhelming on the need to support clubs. I don't think it should be left down to fans to do this by returning to stadium. There's enough money flowing about if those that wanted did something to support them.

 

[Alan]

Haven't you guys heard? Trump will have a vaccine before November 5th! We're saved!

 

[t3ch]

Agreed overwhelming on the need to support clubs. I don't think it should be left down to fans to do this by returning to stadium. There's enough money flowing about if those that wanted did something to support them.

yup

 

[The Saturday Boy]

I spent £110 on a flexible-ticket at Stourbridge. 600 capacity, plenty of space to socially distance and decent cheeseburgers. And it is live football. If Wolves weren’t great at the moment I could be tempted longer term and this is what will really kill off lower league teams in particular, people will get out of the habit of going and won’t return.

Yes, there are risks with people getting back into stadiums...but there are long term risks to communities if they are kept away.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Done

 

[Templeton Peck]

Anything that increases the spread of the virus is a foolhardy act, particularly right now. There is more than enough money in football to look after lower league teams if they so wish.

 

[Tony Towner]

Anything that increases the spread of the virus is a foolhardy act, particularly right now. There is more than enough money in football to look after lower league teams if they so wish.

..and if "they" don't wish?

 

[Templeton Peck]

..and if "they" don't wish?

They go bust I guess. Unless the govt helps out.

 

[Johnny75]

Anything that increases the spread of the virus is a foolhardy act, particularly right now. There is more than enough money in football to look after lower league teams if they so wish.

This is just silly. If you wanted to completely mitigate risk you would look everybody in their homes and not let them out. Of course that can't happen and so there will always be human contact and that will transmit the virus. If having fans in stadia is within those boundaries of acceptable risk then of course they should be let in. As TSB says it's about communities not just the virus.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Hospitals are 10 days from being 'critical' according to the govt. I think we can live without live football for the moment.

 

[pacamac]

Hospitals are 10 days from being 'critical' according to the govt. I think we can live without live football for the moment.

Is that the same government that produced some crazy graph a week or so ago showing what would happen if cases doubled every day even though that was never (and isn't) going to happen.

Another scare tactic from the vaccine invested government scientists I'd expect.

 

[pacamac]

Even more so even further down where we are probably talking a couple of hundred on a grass bank.

Clubs at that level are ok to let fans in, tier 7 and below is ok limited, but most are limited to more than they'd get anyway.

Its the one very tiny plus point of the whole shit show its actually had a positive effect on tier 7 and below clubs as other fans go there to get some sort of football fix.

I saw a graph of West Midlands Regional Premier League clubs social media followings and all had gone up roughly 20-60% post Corona.

I've been to a couple of Bilston Town games, its decent easily social distanced can have a pint round the pitch and its cheap.

Its the clubs above tier 7 that I really feel for as others have said loads of them could easily get the same crowd they'd usually get (and likely budgeted for) even with draconian social distancing measures.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

Northern Ireland v Austria tomorrow is going to have 600 fans in attendance.

At the moment the rate in the North is about 300 per 100,000 and rising rapidly so not great timing.

 

[AndyWolves]

Good idea, but not right now. The impact of students giving it to each other needs to level off first.

The more vectors we introduce the worse it will get

 

[Templeton Peck]

Schools are massively feeding this. Uni students will only make things worse. The idea we can watch live football at the moment is nonsensical.

 

[Tony Towner]

Whilst schools, colleges and universities remain open, the notion that you can contain the virus is what's nonsensical. The Government are very clear that they aren't going to change this therefore letting 3000 fans into a stadium which holds 30000 whilst not having the concessions underneath the stands open is not going to exaggerate the spread. For that volume of crowd the pub and public transport arguments are complete red herrings

 

[The Saturday Boy]

What Tony said. 600 people can attend a non-league match and the only requirement is to observe social distancing. 10% capacity in Premier League and EFL grounds won’t make and dent on the rate of infection.

 

[Paul]

So you're saying it's an acceptable risk then ?

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Sadly Ive realised over the last 12 months that my immune system isnt that great, so sadly and this hurts me a hell of a lot, Im not willing to entertain any half crowd until things are ok. On top of that Ive seen these socially distanced events and my god Id rather just stay at home.

 

[The Bear]

I'm at the other end of the spectrum. My immune system is probably too good. That's why I have an auto-immune disease (colitis). I get it from my mum who never had a single childhood disease, and neither did I. Even when I secretly hung around with my mate who had Chicken Pox I never got it.

Not that that makes me blasé about Covid. I still wear masks and sanitise my hands regularly at work.