porcupine wrote:Not sure that the Club's statement has been fully thouht through. Whilst I understand that Season tickets can't be sold juist now, it appears that the only option when/if football restarts is that we all PATG. ST's are then financially disadvantaged.
Is it dangerous to assume someone in charge has worked out the ground capacity based on social distancing? If so, what's the new Home capacity? And how do the club control the OF supporters, who are generally uncontrollable in normal times, refusing to sit, sectarian songs etc? Imagine the scenario when half or totally sherbeted OF fans turn up and are told they can't get in because of Social Distancing and the Away end is full.
With no electronic turnstiles, who will know how many have entered the ground, either Home or Away?
I suspect, with the crowds we have been attracting for some time, that the Home Stand could probably 'do' seating 2 metres apart, but that means not sitting with friends, which is part of the day out. How does the Club decide whether two or more sitting in adjacent seats are all family members from the same household, or people just ignoring the recommendations?
Far too many unanswered questions in the statement.
But a good discussion point for these strange times, eh?
Although it is a good discussion point I'm not sure that it's realistic or reasonable to expect answers to any of the above questions in the Accies statement released today. We are months away from fans being allowed into grounds, much will change from now until that happens and most of the above will not be decided on a club by club basis anyway.
In terms of the decision to go for PATG given the number of variables and level of uncertainty it seems like a good decision. It will be interesting to see what the pricing is for PATG but it's difficult to see how fans of other clubs who are buying season tickets just now with no guarantee of football in 2020 will be financially advantaged.