Saturday 18th December 2021

[Greenacres]

I have just received the following from our club in an email, trying to flog me tickets for the next couple of games;

Please be aware that from Saturday 18th December supporters aged 18 and over will be required to show a valid COVID passport or negative lateral flow test in order to enter the ground. More details will be posted on the website in due course.

Kind Regards,

FGR Reception Team

I assume that this will apply to everyone who wishes to enter the ground, not just home fans!

 

[valefan16]

I have just received the following from our club in an email, trying to flog me tickets for the next couple of games;

Please be aware that from Saturday 18th December supporters aged 18 and over will be required to show a valid COVID passport or negative lateral flow test in order to enter the ground. More details will be posted on the website in due course.

Kind Regards,

FGR Reception Team

I assume that this will apply to everyone who wishes to enter the ground, not just home fans!

Seems some confusion over this, we've not said this despite a bigger ground so guess its club choice on that from FGR? We've just advised about masks for example.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

I have just received the following from our club in an email, trying to flog me tickets for the next couple of games;

Please be aware that from Saturday 18th December supporters aged 18 and over will be required to show a valid COVID passport or negative lateral flow test in order to enter the ground. More details will be posted on the website in due course.

Kind Regards,

FGR Reception Team

I assume that this will apply to everyone who wishes to enter the ground, not just home fans!

Do FGR realise it only applies if there are 'expected to be' 4,000+ people standing?

 

[dedwardp]

There's nothing stopping them applying it if they choose though, in the same way that when I went to book some theatre tickets a couple of weeks back they also specified the same criteria before any of the new restrictions came about.

 

[Chris FGR]

I think clubs can enforce any rule they want on this can’t they? I mean it benefits no one for the omicron variant to be potentially spreading amongst the fans, whether there are 2000 or 4000 standing. So might as well go with it safety first and all that.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

I think clubs can enforce any rule they want on this can’t they? I mean it benefits no one for the omicron variant to be potentially spreading amongst the fans, whether there are 2000 or 4000 standing. So might as well go with it safety first and all that.

I suppose if it deters some of the nutjob population then it can only be a good thing.

 

[Devon_Lad]

I think clubs can enforce any rule they want on this can’t they? I mean it benefits no one for the omicron variant to be potentially spreading amongst the fans, whether there are 2000 or 4000 standing. So might as well go with it safety first and all that.

Hopefully you and the Govt will be slapped with unprecedented fines for enforcing discriminatory nonsense. Treating people differently based on their medical history and whether they've had a medical procedure or not. It's like living through the 1940s in Berlin ffs. I can't wait for all the court cases that'll come out of this over the next few decades.

 

[valefan16]

The way things are going having a pass may be irrelevant unfortunately, it does seem to be going downhill towards stadium closures again.

 

[Bone Idle]

Seems some confusion over this, we've not said this despite a bigger ground so guess its club choice on that from FGR? We've just advised about masks for example.

As a matter of interest were your fans asked to produce a covid passport or an up to date LFT to get into rodney parade last saturday?

 

[valefan16]

As a matter of interest were your fans asked to produce a covid passport or an up to date LFT to get into rodney parade last saturday?

I didn't go but from what I heard they were yes. They were certainly advised to before hand.

Its a tricky one, mandatory vaccinations etc and a whole different can of worms I guess! Certainly been a strange couple of years that I never expected to encounter in my lifetime that's for sure,

 

[Essex2Wessex]

Do FGR realise it only applies if there are 'expected to be' 4,000+ people standing?

The stadium manager has said on our forum that it's required because of a provision to cover "events with 500 people indoors", this capacity being covered by the two bars, boxes, Carol Embery Suite. Quite independently of the stands and terraces. He didn't sound absolutely certain about it and the only formal notice so far, I think, has been the email sent to season ticket holders, so I suppose we'll see...

 

[Chris FGR]

Hopefully you and the Govt will be slapped with unprecedented fines for enforcing discriminatory nonsense. Treating people differently based on their medical history and whether they've had a medical procedure or not. It's like living through the 1940s in Berlin ffs. I can't wait for all the court cases that'll come out of this over the next few decades.

Love to see on what grounds you would sue? I don’t see any laws being broken.

 

[Greenacres]

The way things are going having a pass may be irrelevant unfortunately, it does seem to be going downhill towards stadium closures again.

Sadly I have to agree with you...I could say that I am gutted because my team are playing the best football since I started watching them, and I would really miss being at games, but in reality I would prefer that as many of us are protected from this as possible.

I think the biggest threat to footy continuing at the moment is clubs having players/staff in isolation, due to testing positive, and being unable to fulfil their fixtures...if it can happen at clubs with massive resources, like Spurs and Man Utd, it can't be too long before it starts to affect clubs at our level.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Hopefully you and the Govt will be slapped with unprecedented fines for enforcing discriminatory nonsense. Treating people differently based on their medical history and whether they've had a medical procedure or not. It's like living through the 1940s in Berlin ffs. I can't wait for all the court cases that'll come out of this over the next few decades.

You sound like Marcus Fysh. When you start comparing anything to Nazi Germany you've lost the plot.

 

[northstandexile]

One of our players who was on the bench on Saturday has tested positive on Monday morning with a lateral flow test.

 

[coronakopite]

I think clubs can enforce any rule they want on this can’t they? I mean it benefits no one for the omicron variant to be potentially spreading amongst the fans, whether there are 2000 or 4000 standing. So might as well go with it safety first and all that.

Barrow have capped their standing capacity at 3,999 to avoid the requirement for Covid Passes.

The Abbey has more seats and less than 4,000 standing so it's not an issue for Cambridge.

 

[Huntsman94]

If we go back to the Back 5 against Orient then we’ll get popped like in the Cup game. If we stick with 4 at the back then it’ll be a good close game

 

[Boz]

I am not sure the cup game will have any bearing on Saturday's fixture. That match was a bit of an anomaly really, as we have otherwise been in good form in the last month, with three wins and a draw in the last four league games.

Mostly agree but if the same Orient strike pairing feature they might be as clinical as the Cup game. Hopefully we’ve learned some things from that game and don’t make the same mistakes again!

If we go back to the Back 5 against Orient then we’ll get popped like in the Cup game. If we stick with 4 at the back then it’ll be a good close game

Agree but with Knight-Percival out, we’d also be playing people out of position to go with that formation again.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

It's like living through the 1940s in Berlin ffs.

LOL, and he reckons other people are snowflakes. An inconvenient public health measure is really in many ways comparable to a racist genocide, err, not.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Hopefully you and the Govt will be slapped with unprecedented fines for enforcing discriminatory nonsense. Treating people differently based on their medical history and whether they've had a medical procedure or not. It's like living through the 1940s in Berlin ffs. I can't wait for all the court cases that'll come out of this over the next few decades.

Okay, I will bow to your William L Shirer-esque knowledge of 1930s/40s Berlin. Could you please point out precisely the examples you had in mind from Berlin’s history which apply now in the circumstances you describe? Supporting sources would help.

Ta very muchly.

 

[RLC]

Mostly agree but if the same Orient strike pairing feature they might be as clinical as the Cup game. Hopefully we’ve learned some things from that game and don’t make the same mistakes again!

I don't think the Orient strikers have been as prolific away from home. Given our general defensive record, I would say the chances of another thrashing are virtually nil (famous last words).

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Love to see on what grounds you would sue? I don’t see any laws being broken.

Bet you are 100% right. Apart from the specific Covid 19 legislation passed, I would be gobsmacked if the SoS Health has not used Statutory Instruments to exercise powers under the Public Health (control of disease) Act 1984. But I am sure DL knew that anyway.

 

[Boz]

I don't think the Orient strikers have been as prolific away from home. Given our general defensive record, I would say the chances of another thrashing are virtually nil (famous last words).

I’d agree re the thrashing likely to be off the table, but still expecting one of Smith/Drinan to feature on the scoresheet if they play.

 

[hellogregory]

Carlisle United have temporarily reduced Brunton Park’s capacity to 9,999 so that people won’t need to show a vaccine passport to enter.

 

[valefan16]

Sadly I have to agree with you...I could say that I am gutted because my team are playing the best football since I started watching them, and I would really miss being at games, but in reality I would prefer that as many of us are protected from this as possible.

I think the biggest threat to footy continuing at the moment is clubs having players/staff in isolation, due to testing positive, and being unable to fulfil their fixtures...if it can happen at clubs with massive resources, like Spurs and Man Utd, it can't be too long before it starts to affect clubs at our level.

It’s starting to look that way.

I envisage Westminster will try and get through Xmas (can’t really tell us not to enjoy that now!) and expect probably a lockdown of sorts through January unless the situation improves which it doesn’t look to be.

I don’t think they’d do one for months as per last winter but give time for the boosters to be complete and become effective and cut the infections post Xmas.

If that scenario is the case then mass gatherings would be off the table and behind closed doors for a month or so.

As it stands and from the wording used I don’t see a scenario which doesn’t lead down to that sort of path. Hope I’m wrong of course!

 

[GTFCfish]

Love to see on what grounds you would sue?

Ahh Christ don’t get him started.

 

[denzel ecfc]

I am started to get confused now. Why have Carlisle reduced capacity? I thought it was about attendance, which is why Port Vale aren't requiring them.
I have mine on my phone in any case

 

[Indian Dan]

Me too. No need to reduce capacity. Just restrict ticket sales.

 

[BarraMatt]

It's the same thing in essence?

 

[Devon_Lad]

Who'd have thought this nasty old tory over here is siding with Jeremy Corbyn and the leftie muppets are siding with 'the worst and most right wing Government ever'

heheheh