Will be interesting to see if anyone else follows suit. Guess it’s only really doable for lower league teams, with standing areas and lower attendances.
Our current owners are being extremely innovative in trying to reduce attendances. Shutting down stands, buying players some of whom are permanently injured and making sure that the Reds lose virtually every game are all far-sighted tactics and will ensure that come next season not a single Barnsley fan will contract covid as there will be no one except the cleaner left in the stadium.
There will have to be a recount of season ticket holders at Grove Street. Instead of 11000 you may find there's less than 10000.
is it based on venue capacity though, rather than attendance? genuinely not sure, I could be totally wrong, but thought it was based on capacity. I don't think it would be enough just to drop the attendance figures to <10k, if the official venue capacity was >10k. would have to do both. I could be wrong
I'm sure when the club initially (which was then scrapped) worked on the reduced capacity it was based on concourse area size. I'm not sure how it's worked out now though. Remember Beth telling me they'd spent hours and hours calculating it all only for the footballing powers that be to change the rules.
no idea mate. guessing it's not just as easy as changing your capacity. probably only certain clubs can do it. fair play to Carlisle though, for being on the ball. p.s. hope things are all ok your end. restrictions must be an absolute mare for you and your lass, heading into Christmas.
They do right. The extra cost for way more stewards to make sure everyone is checked is an expense a lot of clubs cannot afford. Whoever we play in the FA Cup surely we won't need a vaccine passport because neither possible opponents will get anywhere near a 10,000 crowd.
just had a look at the guidelines, and it does read like I was wrong, i.e. it's attendance, not venue capacity. reads like seated attendees at a football match DO NOT need to be counted for attendances <10k, but DO need to be counted regardless, for attendances above >10k the logistics of trying to avoid COVID regulation for one-off matches though, just feels too hard, given that we tend to hover around the 10k mark. I guess you would have to be absolutely sure there weren't going to be more than 10k. so you'd probably have to make these games all-ticket, with a cap on sales. pay on the day would just not be workable in my opinion. what happens if more than 10k ended up turning up? would be nigh on impossible to control that on match day. we'd get absolutely hammered as a Club. possibly even points deduction territory. there's then the philosophical debate. how would this reflect on the Club's stance on following COVID guidelines and supporter safety? to many it could come across as the Club just trying to 'get round the rules' for one game only. could also possibly suggest that the Club don't support COVID guidelines and are following them only because they have to. which is a whole new hornet's nest. feels like it would be really tricky all round to relax the rules for the sake of one match, rather than just implementing for all games.
Passport and lft This includes unseated indoor events with 500 or more attendees, unseated outdoor events with 4,000 or more people and any event with 10,000 or more people present. Carlisle have reduced the standing capacity to 3,999 and seating capacity to 6000 taking advantage of the rules. Average gate 8,000
yep. pretty safe bet for them. no realistic possibility of them coming anywhere near 10k. out of the FA Cup too, so no potential big home tie to consider.
https://www.carlisleunited.co.uk/news/2021/december/club-what-plan-b-means-for-carlisle-united/ It makes good business sense for them.
