Looks like no full stadiums next season.

[KingKirk 25,633]

 

How Jason Leitch envisions away supporters returning to Scottish football grounds next season

Jason Leitch believes Scottish football grounds will be able to welcome in away supporters next season but reckons it could be a slower process than the return of home fans.

The National Clinical Director expects a cautious approach over the first few weeks of the campaign but, if things go smoothly this winter, then clubs may again adopt an open-access policy with regards to ticketing.
Once the country reaches level 0, which is expected to come in late June, 2,000 spectators will be allowed into stadiums with bigger crowds initially possible on an application basis to the Scottish Government, such as this year’s European Championships which will see around 25 per cent of Hampden’s 50,000 capacity in attendance.

If cases and deaths continue to drop then this will open further. However, with clubs still getting used to safety measures in the first few weeks and months, Leitch imagines the return of away supporters will be a more gradual process.

He told Off the Ball: “I can imagine the start of the season being like that, where everyone is still getting used to how it works: to make sure one-way systems are working, the car parks are safe, all of that.

“If I were in charge of a club I’d be thinking that this is a big change, this is everyone coming back, we’ve got to do this correctly. Let’s think only home fans for the first six weeks. We’ve got their names and addresses. Then, maybe, you allow in away fans as part of a supporters group, so you’d know who they all were. So it’s still not open ticketing.

“With regards to the whole season, it depends on what happens in winter. The winter is a little bit of an unknown for us in terms of the virus. We’ll probably need more vaccinations and a surge of the virus globally, so winter is a bit tricky.
“But I can imagine a scenario where we start with home fans, move into away fans who we know, and then maybe later in the season we start getting that open access for everybody.
“The big unknown just now is physical distancing. If we still need to have physical distancing then basically the whole country has to have eradicated the virus to make it safe.”

[KingKirk 25,633]

What's the point in a vaccination programme if we still require physical distancing. 

Raves happenin down south in a controlled invirement this weekend. No social distancing masks or anything. 

Yet this clown is giving it the winter the winter. Sick to death of it all now 

[BridgeIsBlue 66,606]

Load of pish. 

[Monkey Butler 23,020]

I bet the Bar72 season ticket holders are glad they renewed last week. 

[Nameless Ghoul 6,054]

Had both my jabs so was hoping i'd be first in the queue as well 😂

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,530]

That is absolutely ridiculous. I think there will be a massive backlash if they don't make a massive effort to get as many people back in as soon as possible

[Brubear 2,920]

His car parking comment is ridiculous. There is no control of car parking at shopping centres and supermarkets. Other than entry and exit football grounds are effectively outdoor. Clubs and tha SPFL better be lobbying the SG to get grounds opened up for start of next season. 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,530]

I don't understand his point about knowing all the home fans names and addresses?

If you make both home and away ends ticket only what is the difference?

[KingKirk 25,633]

5 minutes ago, tm91 said:

There was a rave in Liverpool this week and every seat will be sold out and used for the World final in Snooker, but they're talking about a couple of thousand in stadiums and taking it slowly in Scotland?

Ridiculous. Everyone should be vaccinated by the winter. There are worries about the need for a booster or a resurgence of the flu but this is far too cautious.

It's a disgrace mate. There will be a spike of covid this winter just like there is with the winter flu. 

This is here to stay we need to live with it and get back to a normal life ASAP 

[KingKirk 25,633]

3 minutes ago, PM Boab said:

I don't understand his point about knowing all the home fans names and addresses?

If you make both home and away ends ticket only what is the difference?

Control that's what it's all about this clown has everyone dancing to his tune and he loves it. 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,530]

Just now, KingKirk said:

Control that's what it's all about this clown has everyone dancing to his tune and he loves it. 

It's going to backfire big time, if there are big crowds down south and we are pissing about with a few thousand whilst in level 0 there will be uproar

[KingKirk 25,633]

11 minutes ago, Nameless Ghoul said:

Had both my jabs so was hoping i'd be first in the queue as well 😂

Get my next in 3 weeks just waiting on the letter 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,530]

I actually can't believe he's said that

Utter scumbag who is loving this

[Monkey Butler 23,020]

Legal challenges will swiftly put this no-mark clown in his place. 

[KingKirk 25,633]

It's gonna take every spfl club to come together and push hard for change on this. 2000 fans at level zero is a bad joke ffs

[SuperLeeMcCulloch 2,330]

10 minutes ago, KingKirk said:

It's gonna take every spfl club to come together and push hard for change on this. 2000 fans at level zero is a bad joke ffs

The logical step is to let a limited amount of fans in for the last games of the season and the cup, a test event before the euro's happen can get processes tied down so everything runs smoothly, sadly nothing they do now is logical. 

[goaaaal 946]

A simple NHS Certification number  confirming vaccination via an App would suffice .

 

That is what the clown alluded  to last week when questioned on it.

He couldn't give a timeline to get such a simple thing up & running despite the fact we are told over 2.3 million people in Scotland have had one or more vaccinations to date.

Given we are 2 months from the Summer 5 months from the start of the football season it really sums these useless cretins up in that they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery .

[KingKirk 25,633]

Another 3000 fans at a rave in Liverpool tonight. No masks distancing or anything required. 

Maybe 1 day that'll be us 

[Ivybank 4,580]

The dentist talking/shouting shite again

[Nameless Ghoul 6,054]

21 minutes ago, KingKirk said:

Get my next in 3 weeks just waiting on the letter 

For both of my jabs I've just had a call the day before from the surgery seeing if i'm free. Seems to vary quite a bit how it's been rolled out

[Swagger 7,919]

From the guy who said he was happy for his family to go to a concert right back at the start of the pandemic 

Another of Sturgeons puppets. Sick of the sight and sound of the clown 

[KingKirk 25,633]

1 minute ago, Ivybank said:

The dentist talking/shouting shite again

You've got to wonder how he got this job. How does a dentist end up the guy plotting our route through a pandemic. 

[don logan 8,062]

I think this will change massively as we continue into the summer and get all adults vaccinated. There are 4 concerts scheduled for August at Wembley stadium plus TRANSMT confident of going ahead in September. The promoters would have consulted with the government before pushing ahead with these.

[gazza27 15,283]

He talk

1 minute ago, don logan said:

I think this will change massively as we continue into the summer and get all adults vaccinated. There are 4 concerts scheduled for August at Wembley stadium plus TRANSMT confident of going ahead in September. The promoters would have consulted with the government before pushing ahead with these.

Exactly he's full a shite 

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,775]

36 minutes ago, KingKirk said:

Another 3000 fans at a rave in Liverpool tonight. No masks distancing or anything required. 

Maybe 1 day that'll be us 

The raves are controlled test events.