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Both semis on the Sunday under consideration at hampden


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7 hours ago, Sweetheart said:

Who gets to play on the pitch first?

Will police be escorting fans in and out of the stadium?

 

7 hours ago, Sweetheart said:

Are we playing the earlier game or the later game?

 

7 hours ago, Sweetheart said:

Thank you. I'm happy the club has agreed to the first time slot.  Will police be escorting fans in and out of the stadium?

 

7 hours ago, Sweetheart said:

I just glad we have the first time slot so that we don't have to play on a messed up pitch. I agree carnage could await. I am also concerned about the provisions for our fans safety, which is why I asked would there be a police escort to and from the game. 

 

6 hours ago, Sweetheart said:

I can see these games being played behind closed doors at the last minute, if the police don't have a solution.

?????

1. The fixtures were announced and all over media, social media, this site, everywhere. Did you sleep through it all or were you, literally, on another planet.

2. To clarify, are you wanting your own officer to hold your hand on the way out the stadium only, or to your mode of transport, maybe directly to the pub or all the way back home? It will be typical segregation policing at the game with police dispersed also around the stadium, city, transport hubs etc.

3. We were given the 1st timeslot. As were the sheep. Read the statements including how unhappy they are being told they have early kick off. 

4. Escorting from where, to where, in what manner exactly isn't you think should/ will happen?

5. Closed doors? Wtf? Plod okaying this is why it's been agreed with the football authorities. 100k fans will be making arrangements to be in the city and you reckon plod will then decide to just go against their original decision and lock them out? What solution are the police still looking for having already agreed to police both games?

You really should have access to the internet removed for your own sanity.

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3 hours ago, Heshootshescores said:

Fuck Aberdeen. Part of being a football fan is travelling at all hours to all kinds of places to support your team. 

If they need any advice on this ask the bears who have plotted their way through Europa League qualifiers around remote parts of the Balkans and beyond...with no complaints. Its called being a Supporter. 

The furthest they’ve had to travel this season is East Lancs.

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2 minutes ago, Jeffrey said:

When did the agreement start that said they both had to be at Hampden? There has been semi finals played at Tynecastle over the last few years

I’m guessing because they didn’t want to use Murrayfield for the first round of fixtures after saying Hampden was to be the ‘home of Scottish football’

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6 minutes ago, Jeffrey said:

When did the agreement start that said they both had to be at Hampden? There has been semi finals played at Tynecastle over the last few years

When the SFA in a their wisdom took money from that cunt to buy Hampdump. They'll no longer be playing anywhere else but there, home of Scottish football and all that shit. SPFL are just doing what they're told.

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Revelling in the teuchters plight.
Haven't read through the rest of the thread as I know the majority on here will feel the same as me.
FUCK EM....
You can bet your bottom dollar if it had been the final they would be mumping "more tickets please".
Live with it ya horrible cunts.

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Here's what Craig Levein had to say about the plan that sees his side play celtic at Hampden on October 28 at 7.45pm, hours after Aberdeen and Rangers have met on the same pitch:

"It's the craziest thing I've ever experienced in football.

"How you can come to this decision based around what should be one of the... there are four semi-finals in the season in the two big cup competitions so it's a huge thing for Scottish football. So how they've come to this decision is beyond belief.

"It's just madness, honestly. There's so many things that could go wrong.

"The first thing is that we've not been to a semi-final for five years. We want to go and play at Hampden and we want our supporters to be there in numbers. That is my priority.

"I want 50% of the tickets. I want to go to Hampden and feel like we've got a huge Hearts presence there. There's one thing for certain: we're not getting that on a Sunday night at 7.45pm. We're not getting that.

"I've got players talking to me about how disappointed their families are that they can't come and watch their dad playing in a semi-final. That'll go for our supporters and for Aberdeen's because of the travel arrangements that affect us most with the very nature of when the game is.

"I just don't understand how they can come to that decision and think it's all right. That's the thing with me, it just doesn't compute.

"You need supporters to come to the game to make it what it is. And we're actually discouraging them from coming to the game. It's absolute madness.

"See if it goes ahead at 7.45pm on a Sunday night, I want us to get 50% of the tickets. If we get 25,000 tickets and we only sell 15,000 this club will take no responsibility for that. That will fall fair and square back at the feet of Neil Doncaster and the SPFL because they made the decision to put a game on that does not suit supporters.

"That's not true. We've told them it doesn't suit us and Aberdeen have told them it doesn't suit them. How does that suit Aberdeen? And I know that the Old Firm have support from all over the country and I know it won't suit some of their supporters either. The vast majority will come from the Glasgow area so it's easier for them.

"I believe that there isn't a train from Aberdeen that gets in before 15 minutes after kick-off. How is that the best option to suit the four teams?

"Here's an option for you: Our biggest advantage against celtic in this semi-final is celtic playing on the Thursday evening in Europe. In my opinion I would give that up to have 25,000 Hearts supporters at Hampden to help us.

"We play celtic the following week [in the league] so why don't we just cancel that game, reschedule it further down the line and play that day.

"What's wrong with that? Is that not a better solution?

"See when somebody says that the best option is X then I assume that they've looked at other options. If you're saying that's the best option then you must have looked at the rest.

"For me, why don't you just change the game against celtic to be the cup tie. Is that not a better option?

[The SPFL say there is a contractual obligation]

"Only if the Old Firm are involved, eh?

"And who wrote that? Who signed that contract?

"See if you looked ahead and you envisaged that celtic might not be in the Champions League and there's a chance they might be in the Europa League that would be a huge red flag immediately.

"So why would you sign a contract that said that? It just doesn't make sense.

"I'm getting annoyed. I just don't understand how this is the best option, and we've not really talked about some of the other things that could go wrong, like 100,000 supporters of four different clubs in Glasgow and it could be at the same time.

"And if something goes wrong, why would you tempt fate with so many things that could happen that would tarnish the name of Scottish football. This just defies any sort of logic.

"If it pours with rain then we have a situation that there's no way they could fix the pitch. There's no way, it just won't happen.

"Of course it's not. I really don't understand what the logic is behind this decision.

"I'm annoyed for the supporters and I'm annoyed for my players. I want half the stadium full of Hearts supporters when we play celtic. I want the best chance of that happening.

"I've already said I'm happy to give up a competitive advantage of celtic having played on the Thursday and us having no midweek match, to move to the following week when we would have both played midweek and we both play at the weekend. So that we have our supporters there in numbers.

[Would you give up part of the midwinter break to play that league game?]

"The scheduling of this game, surely we could find one date between now and April? That's all it needs to be.

[Could you see Hearts fans making a point of principle and not buying tickets?]

"I don't want that to happen either. It's turned what should be a magnificent experience for everybody into a situation where people don't want to go. It's farcical.

"Let me go back to this: If they are saying this is the best solution then they've not done their jobs properly.

"In fact, it could possibly be the worst decision."

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