Fans Back At VP - A Plan

Tell me how fans back at VP will help the club financially enough to cover stewarding costs for example ?
No food kiosks will be open as far as i can recall. So where is the revenue coming from that they dont already receive.
I have never said that people in the ground is unsafe if they are socially distanced etc.
And would you want to wait ages to be allowed to leave the ground? Be like away fans in the 80's.
And for entry. Say your admittance time slot is 2pm. Sit in your seat and dont move, unless you need the loo, and get let out at say 5.15pm
Nope not doing that.

 

Fans would do that. As I say fans have been allowed back in other countries and it works.

Look. it's the long term picture. Fans are switching off Bradford City already for example and if you think it will be easy to get 14k fans back then you're mad. Season ticket sales have decreased this season and will next if fans are not allowed back in. The damage this is doing to the club short term and long term is massive.

Just because you wouldn't attend in covid times that's up to you but others would and if operated right it should be up to people if they want to attend or not.

We're in this situation because the government has failed the country with no leading track and trace and poor testing but for football no fans can't carry on for much longer.

 

As I say I see no reason if doing a tier system why in Norwich they can't have fans.

My head is firmly behind understanding that football won't have fans in because I never believe the government wanted to have fans in.

 

City are losing fans due to the product on the pitch.
Europe is slowly locking down and so will we soon. It is inevitable.
Bradford will be tier 3 soon. How on earth you can justify opening VP up I just don't know.
No fans will be back at VP until at least next April.

 

Not necessarily, people will of course travel at different times to the ground and go to different areas of the stadium along different routes. There's an argument to suggest that recommended routes of access to the individual stands would ensure that very few fans actually cross paths with fans in other areas of the ground which of course massively limits contact between supporters.

The pubs, cafés and fast food places are all open anyway and should employ their own social distancing procedures so that point has minimal relevance as to whether the stadium should allow access or not.

 

There were fans in the FK Krasnodar stadium watching the game against Chelsea which is strange as the infection rate and deaths in Russia are going through the roof, rather ironic as Russia announced weeks ago they'd found a vaccine.

 

Fair points all based on the assumption that fans will do as they are told or are able to comply with the rules set down by the club. How would you manage people parking and going to the ground only by set routes? That would be a challenge and how would it be policed? Extra stewards maybe. Hiring hundreds of crash barriers? Road closures? More cost to the club though with no real financial return.
What happens if you travel by public transport and are dropped off on Manningham Lane but you have to walk all the way around the ground to get in to Midland Road stand for example. It would be virtually impossible not to cross other fans.
All that hassle and then you have to sit on your hands during the game and not raise your voice etc. The risk definitely outweighs the benefits and sadly, I doubt I will set foot inside VP probably until the start of next season.

 

People have already...I don't need too.

Also, I don't know who he listens too these days do you?

 

It would be self policed in the same way the rest of society is at the moment. If a pub, cafe or other such business is caught flouting the rules it can be fine or immediately shut down. The same would apply to a football stadium.

Look, I understand the replies I give don't fully solve the problem, if I could do that I wouldn't be on here chatting to you. All I'm doing is suggesting realistic solutions the club could take if the decision of the government was to allow fans back inside the stadium.

Regardless of whether I'd reopen them or not if I had the power I still fully believe it would be safer than many of the leisure activities open at the moment such as Cinemas, Gyms and especially local pubs where from experience social distancing is, at best, partially observed.

 

Well the hope is UTD announced a statement yesterday and today Liverpool have about ready to get fans back in.

Utd even put a number on it the amount of fans it can now hold with safety measures. As I say this is what clubs need to be doing.

 

They really weren't told that. That's how the media portrayed it but it's not what the actual meeting minutes say.

In general let's just forget this discussion. The idea that they're going to loosen up any rules with regards to hospitality at a time when the infections are going up and everywhere else is tightening restrictions is completely pointless. Not happening.

 

I agree might it's not but it's worrying for football and the hospitality/events industry.

 

Fully agree and just going back to football as I say both Utd and Liverpool have updated fans on what they're trying to to do to allow fans back in and they would have been talks with the government and PL before making measures.

So, as you say it's the economy first now in this country at the minute for sure but yes the government just needs to be honest with everyone.

 

Its a messy situation whichever way you look at it.