Raingod Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 https://www.isthmian.co.uk/project-restart-63141 The league have published the above info this evening laying out 6 timing options for restart 1. Start Sep 19th ..decide by 21st August 2. Start 3rd Oct .. decide by 4th Sep 3. Start 10th Oct .. and play-offs replaced by top 2 promoted .. decide by 11th Sep 4. Start 17th Oct .. top 2 promote .. decide by 18th Sep 5. Just a proposal - split into 2 smaller divisions, then remerge at 1/2 way based on PPG - top 5 round robin 6. No details yet - Jan start My thoughts are 1. lots of dialogue so good - and seem eager to start ASAP 2. replace play offs with top 2 promoted - or a 5 way round robin - well it would be different I suppose? At this stage I think I would rather have play offs if it was my decision? 3 Option 5 - if this was a north v south split could be favourable to us ? - But I would be concerned over such a delay and would rather we started asap Any other thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crowing Cockerel Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 All pie in the sky until we can get fans through the turnstiles again, I'm afraid. Until then the only clubs able to survive are those with sugar daddies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph1 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Good post Crowing Cockerel. Until the government announce that more than 30 spectators can attend then the season cannot start on an economic basis. The longer the lay off continues people will get out of the habit of going to matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwilf Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53817206 Interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raingod Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 from the updates last night that suggest fans can attend at our level and below .. I am planning to be at Hertford away Friday night ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Katemon Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Despite the DCMS announcement clubs will still have to introduce measures to ensure a relatively safe Covid19 secure environment. This could mean access to some parts of the ground are limited to ensure social distancing , introduction of one way systems , cashless pay , and restricted attendances. And unlike Government announcements these things don’t happen overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnfieldTowner Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 The FA have now released further guidance:- https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/aug/19/updated-guidelines-for-return-of-spectators-190820 Doesn't start until Saturday so no fans for the Hertford Town game on Friday - I guess we'll have to wait to hear from Grays about Saturday. Seems that from 22/8/20 we can play matches with a maximum of 15% of capacity. From 31/8/20 that increases to 30% of capacity provided at least one match has been played at the 15% level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old towner Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 not being funny I think we could be more than 2 meters apart and still see the game and if we wear a face covering even better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old towner Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 if capacity is 15% that's 375 which was average last year so its all go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovely stuff Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Will there have to be a capacity limit behind the goals?As these are the areas that get most busy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnfieldTowner Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Confirmation now from The Isthmian League: https://www.isthmian.co.uk/the-return-of-spectators-63172 However, if you look at the table they've produced, it's not the capacity of the ground that's used but the minimum capacity for the league. For us at Step 3 that's 1,950 so 15% is 300 (presumably they've rounded the figures!). For Grays, at step 4, it's 1,350 so 15% is 200. Grays have tweeted to say they will announce very shortly their plans to allow spectators to watch their home games from this Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Lee Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I bought my season ticket online last night. It was order#220. Any idea if this number relates to just season tickets / or just onine / or not at all? What's the usual number of season tickets sold? I'd expect demand to be up if people want their fix but then I get the feeling lots of older folks aren't venturing out much yet. And we have a good smattering of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old towner Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 surely we must go by FA guidelines if they say capacity that must mean full capacity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyetfc Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Before the ground was enclosed at Brimsdown, I reckon our capacity would have been 100000 because the playing fields were huge! Just think, where would we get 15000 fans from?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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