Not much point in getting a season ticket.

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Berkshire Blade said:
Seems like old, diabetic and fat fans are going to be discouraged from coming. Make the turnstiles even tighter so large people can't get in. Problem solved.

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Obese, diabetic and elderly fans may miss out when sport finally reopens its doors

Grounds may only allow a third of capacity once fans are allowed back
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Easy solution. Trials held at the Lane, two laps round the pitch, sprint up the kop steps and then round to the ticket office. First 11000 get a ticket.
I really ought to work for the government.
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Karaoke Blade said:
Easy solution. Trials held at the Lane, two laps round the pitch, sprint up the kop steps and then round to the ticket office. First 11000 get a ticket.
I really ought to work for the government.
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Pre season terror Tuesday needed to be completed to get in the ground. By October we'll be the fittest fans in the league and ready to kidney punch those russian steroid taking hooligans in the euros
 
There could always be the chance that they increase attendances in stages depending on the development through the winter months. If no spike in cases let a few more go, it might also come down to locality of the cases, like with Leicester on Lockdown, they'd be lucky to get many in at all but somewhere its mostly gone but for a few cases, they could start to increase. I would imagine no away fans for the foreseeable, so as to contain breakouts, and also not picking one teams fans over another's just because of local cases to that team plus with Manure and most of the other big sides their fans come from all over.
I think it would go to a ballot, where when you get picked you aren't in the draw for the next 1 or 2 matches, depending on the allowed attendance at the time.
 
Sheffsteel said:
They‘s unlikely to be any national lock down. If the virus was so contagious like they say...,then surely half the population have already had it or have it?
But then if so many millions have it it had it...the death rate is so low that it‘s threst level is low.
So there’s a contradiction right there. It’s impossible that a virus can be both contagious and so deadly....if the death figures are so low (relatively speaking).

To be honest it’s an argument that can’t be won either way because people have different thresholds regards whats acceptable, success or failure.
It‘s an emotive subject...even though there are 65 million in the UK......if 50,000 (majority already close to death) die from a virus ...then it‘s still a tragedy.
It’s difficult to convey context or nuances of communication via a written forum.....making it difficult to discuss via a forum.
I remember the Ched Evans case.....I choose my words carefully about Ched’s potential innocence and I received the odd vile abusive reaction.
They’d read my words and made big assumptions......it’s the same with the Black Lives Matter discussions.
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There’s now contradiction at all there was a national lockdown 3 months ago which shows how contagious it is. The whole point of wearing masks etc is to stop it getting to levels like before where a lockdown is neeeded and life/the economy can stay relatively normal until a vaccine is found.

It’s nowt like snowflakes banging on about BLM/Ched
 
i will be renewing if we get the chance because ive had that seat since 2002 & i dont want to lose that & start having to move permanently. as has been said they should let all this seasons ST holders renew if they want to. if we have alternate & only go to 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 so every gets a game. that what happens

Sheffsteel said:
Another issue is the match experience going to an almost empty stadium with no away fans.

Will the bars and toilets be open?
If they are open then service will be severely restricted meaning massive queues.
It might be a total nightmare using the kiosks and/ or toilets.
It might be a total nightmare entering and exiting the ground....with slow and long queues everywhere.
Attending matches next season might be a really negative experience....just not the same.
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nothing in concourse will be open because they dont want congregating it will a thing of just get it in the ground like what they say in pubs. that only 2 times your allowed to get up is leaving & toilet. but until (potentially) January this is what we got to deal with
 
sheff_blade90 said:
i will be renewing if we get the chance because ive had that seat since 2002 & i dont want to lose that & start having to move permanently. as has been said they should let all this seasons ST holders renew if they want to. if we have alternate & only go to 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 so every gets a game. that what happens



nothing in concourse will be open because they dont want congregating it will a thing of just get it in the ground like what they say in pubs. that only 2 times your allowed to get up is leaving & toilet. but until (potentially) January this is what we got to deal with
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Not everyone will have the same seat though. You may be able to get a season ticket for the games you can see but they will have 1 in 3 seats being used so they will literally issue you a general area (near where you had your tickets last season I guess) - its not going to work if everyone wants to keep the same seat
 
bromtom said:
What about the people that aren't worried, catch it, and then spread it?
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Aren’t those people risking catching it anyway by going to the shops, pubs and whatever else they are getting up?
 
Deadbat said:
Not everyone will have the same seat though. You may be able to get a season ticket for the games you can see but they will have 1 in 3 seats being used so they will literally issue you a general area (near where you had your tickets last season I guess) - its not going to work if everyone wants to keep the same seat
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I am probably over simplifying things but...
Treat next season as an exception and guarantee current season ticket holders their seats for the season after (as long as they renew).
For the coming (exceptional) season simply allocate a certain number of tickets in each part of the ground to season ticket holders, have available seats marked up and let people sit where they want to (on those seats). We could also make the whole Bramall Lane end open to Blades fans. (No away fans). This might also encourage people to get in the ground earlier.
Not sure on numbers, but possibly allocate tickets for every other match.
I ,for one, wouldn't mind sitting in a different seat, or even a different part of the ground. (At least I wouldn't have to put up with the moaning git who usually sits behind me!)
 
Karaoke Blade said:
Easy solution. Trials held at the Lane, two laps round the pitch, sprint up the kop steps and then round to the ticket office. First 11000 get a ticket.
I really ought to work for the government.
😊
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with thinking like that .... I suspect you are a full blown Whitehall Manderin ...

Sir Humphrey ?
 

There is no pandemic, pestilence, asteroid hitting the earth, major earthquake, chance in hell that I wont be renewing my season tickets. this will be my 62nd year as a blade.
 
With no away fans there will be a massive advantage to the home sides next season , and surely they will let home fans sit in the away end next season instead of having it empty?
 
Division 4 veterans back in first. But for us not turning us backs, wouldn't be no back to back promotion, double whammy, Wembley appearances
bouncing day, greasey chip butty song, kidney punching ---kers at the Lane.
None of it!
 
Sell 1st half and 2nd half season tickets....11k each half = 22k.....job done😉
 
Looking at the income for the Club based on what we know so far

Season starts 12th Sept ......... dont think crowds are gonna be allowed in at that time ....... maybe end of Oct

thats about 3 home games gone

The Club owe us Credit for this Season just gone missed matches, 4 games if I remember correctly, thats 7 games gone income wise

If we A & B it for the rest of the season, the Club aint gonna make a deal from that, that would be 12 games to share

6 for A and 6 for B, so a Season ticket would be for 6 Games, not a lot of money into the coffers
 
Deadbat said:
Not everyone will have the same seat though. You may be able to get a season ticket for the games you can see but they will have 1 in 3 seats being used so they will literally issue you a general area (near where you had your tickets last season I guess) - its not going to work if everyone wants to keep the same seat
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yeah im expecting to not be sat in the same seat next season but more the same stand but for administrative purposes because they got to play tetris with fitting in the bubbles of families, but im thinking if i renew. that seat for future seasons should still be effectively mine but if i dont renew then surely i will be considered a returning or new customer & will have wait for 2nd stage of ST sellings in 2021/22. someone else could be sat in my seat by that time
 
LondonRoad said:
At least if there only ends up being 10,000 season ticket holders, I'll be guaranteed a seat at the games:) Going to the game will happen again and i want to be there when it does.
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I fully understand that but at the same time watching a Prem League game with a League Cup crowd isn’t going to be great.

It’s a bit like what’s happening with pubs at the moment. They are open but it’s just not the same and I think this is a bad thing. Because if people go and don’t get the same buzz and vibe they had before it changes their experience of it and ultimately will change their desire to go at all.

I’d prefer fully shut or fully open, rather than this half way house arrangement.

At some point the risk of catching coronavirus, to non high risk groups, will fall below that of seasonal flu or measles. It may even be at that point now? So should we stop in forever just in case? Or should we make the risks clear to everyone and allow them to make their own decisions?
 
Cerberus Blade said:
I fully understand that but at the same time watching a Prem League game with a League Cup crowd isn’t going to be great.

It’s a bit like what’s happening with pubs at the moment. They are open but it’s just not the same and I think this is a bad thing. Because if people go and don’t get the same buzz and vibe they had before it changes their experience of it and ultimately will change their desire to go at all.

I’d prefer fully shut or fully open, rather than this half way house arrangement.

At some point the risk of catching coronavirus, to non high risk groups, will fall below that of seasonal flu or measles. It may even be at that point now? So should we stop in forever just in case? Or should we make the risks clear to everyone and allow them to make their own decisions?
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In Sheffield 0.71% of the population have tested positive for coronavirus. How many of those who have tested positive actually still have it? So where is the risk?

How much better are we realistically expecting it to get? It seems like we’ve got to wait for zero before we can go to the Lane again.
 
"True Blades are at the lane".
Even a broken clock....
 
I'd say with my points i'd be in the top 11k however I've got no problem what so ever with rotating the games around with all the other season ticket holders.

It might be a long drawn out ball ache with getting in and out of the ground and other protocols next season but I'd take that, I'm not doing anything else on a Saturday.
 
They might get a League cup size crowd in but it's not for a League cup game and with fans spread all around the atmosphere will be better and certainly better than with no fans in.

There were times in the 80s when we got sub 10k crowds (this was at a time when the lane held not far off 50k) but there was still a cracking atmosphere in the Lane.
 

The club aren’t going to sell full priced season tickets to 26k fans like coronavirus never happened and then turn it into some kind of Royal Rumble Scenario as to who gets in on match day.

I don’t understand why anyone would think they would.
 
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