Jamie_M Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Attendance curbed to 500 from Boxing day. Likelly for an initial 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONofmemories Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Absolute fucking farce. TIME FOR CHANGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Disgrace. Any grants will not touch the sides for most clubs including Morton who don't have that many season ticket holders. The SPFL should be telling the FM to ram it unless she can make up every penny. Peter Weatherson is the greatest player since Ritchie, and should be assigned 'chairman for life' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 So that's limited Morton fans at: 26/12 H QOS 08/01 H Dunfermline Most likely no Morton fans at: 29/12 A Kilmarnock 02/01 A Partick 15/01 A Ayr And that's if they keep it at the 3 weeks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deego Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Do we have 500 ST holders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRVMP Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Not to be excessively yer da here... but... The first lockdowns made sense at the time. It seemed a sensible way of dealing with a pandemic the scope of which still wasn't well understood. It is clear now, with the benefit of a large data set from across the world and no small measure of hindsight, that it didn't really help prevent transmission, and that severity of locksdowns didn't correlate with either transmission rates or death rates in the long term. But, again, that's hindsight: it made sense to do it. But we're now the best part of a year into a very successful mass-vaccination program, one that has contributed significantly to preventing the overloading of the health service - that, rather than case numbers in isolation, being the impetus for the lockdowns in the first place. We're also now facing what is apparently a virulent but very mild variant of the virus. Any sober analysis has to call these two things big wins - mass vaccination has been a mitigated success, and a variant that spreads easily but results in very low hospitalization rates is, in the absence of vaccine- or acquired immunity, the best way for the virus to mutate. So why, given that lockdowns don't actually work, and we have two very good reasons not to try them anyway, are we back to this shit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madton Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 The players will be buzzing with this news... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 22 minutes ago, Deego said: Do we have 500 ST holders? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunning1874 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 An absolutely hysterical and baseless government decision, but over to the SPFL to get the games postponed. Playing for several midweeks to make the games up won't be great, but the big issue would be the Premiership and they have the sensible option of shifting the winter break - it would be workable for every other division. Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Oh Lord, Brian Wake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 So with players, staff and hangers on, that would likely mean 400 season ticket holders allowed if the club can be bothered with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChampTon Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 A mass gathering at the carpark for home games now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoonTon Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Let's hope they postpone the leagues for 3 weeks, give Imrie time to settle in and maybe shake up the squad a wee bit. I'm absolutely gutted about it, and I don't think it's true right approach to take, but it might not be awful for us on the pitch if we can get the break. I'm trying to see the bright side but, honestly, just scunnered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bewilderedbeast Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 16 minutes ago, ChampTon said: A mass gathering at the carpark for home games now? You bring the wine, I'll bring the cheese and we'll call it a cabinet meeting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_the_builder Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 minute ago, The Bewilderedbeast said: You bring the wine, I'll bring the cheese and we'll call it a cabinet meeting Don't forget your suits! here today, gone to hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, The Bewilderedbeast said: You bring the wine, I'll bring the cheese and we'll call it a cabinet meeting MCT members = 900 'co-owners' of the club, so they are not spectators. Their attendance can be deemed a work function for which there is evidently no rules. Restricted to 400 spectators should be enough to pretty much cover the rest of our regular crowd. Business as usual it is then. Grow a pair MCT and make this happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnbru Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 3 hours ago, dunning1874 said: An absolutely hysterical and baseless government decision, but over to the SPFL to get the games postponed. Playing for several midweeks to make the games up won't be great, but the big issue would be the Premiership and they have the sensible option of shifting the winter break - it would be workable for every other division. Aye, think the best bet is to have a break. Games are being cancelled for players having covid too so works all round. Good for us too and allows Imrie to settle. I caught covid at the last Scotland game (or assume it was there anyway since don't do anything else that week) and wasn't in a good way despite having the vaccines. Quite a few in my work with similar stories too so, with the new varient being more transmissible and cases shooting up, I can see why larger events have taken the hit. Might have turned out the deaths and hospitalisations didn't go up at all but would have been a gamble. The announcement is a bit short notice but if games can be delayed and we're avoiding major restrictions I can live with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ton in Shawlands Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Currently isolating, wasn't great myself last week despite 3 jabs & having had it in July (when, unlike last week, I'd no symptoms). I get why they're doing this, the data isn't in on this variant, it's just got here & it's spreading fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRVMP Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 2 hours ago, Ton in Shawlands said: Currently isolating, wasn't great myself last week despite 3 jabs & having had it in July (when, unlike last week, I'd no symptoms). I get why they're doing this, the data isn't in on this variant, it's just got here & it's spreading fast. Unless this has mutated in a truly horrifying and novel fashion, this variant's extremely mild, hence despite the huge number of cases in South Africa their deaths have, pardon the expression, flatlined. So far in the US there are no confirmed deaths from Omicron and under ten speculated deaths, and it's been here for weeks. Restrictions on outdoor events are a complete nonsense in light of the above and the fact that they demonstrably didn't even work last time we tried them. At some point people less insane than myself are just going to start ignoring the public health experts who are pushing this stuff, and when that happens it's bad news for all of us because next time a lockdown might actually be required. But they're spending their credibility on a variant that, if the South African figures are reliable, is really an answer to our prayers: high transmissibility, but low hospitalization and even lower deaths. That means a spell of natural immunity for those who get it without too many ill effects in the vast majority of people. If COVID is going to be with us forever, this is exactly what you want it to look like. Yet here we are, back in the time machine, flattering the curve for two more eternal weeks. (Or rather, here you are. Where I live, in a very left-wing neighborhood, even here they've given up all pretense of caring. Mask mandates aren't enforced and nobody's distancing.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 9 hours ago, Ton in Shawlands said: Currently isolating, wasn't great myself last week despite 3 jabs & having had it in July (when, unlike last week, I'd no symptoms). I get why they're doing this, the data isn't in on this variant, it's just got here & it's spreading fast. Then they could have closed the schools that have been churning out most infections until 'the data is in', as opposed to outdoor events based on nothing more than their upper middle class snobbery. The site is supposed to be a place for the extended 'family' of Morton supporters - having an affinity with people that you don't know, because you share a love of your local football club. It's not supposed to be about point scoring and showing how 'clever' or 'funny' you are, or just being downright rude and offensive to people you don't know, because you can get away with it. Unfortunately, it seems the classic case of people who have little standing/presence in real life, use this forum as a way of making themselves feel as if they are something. It's sad, and I've said that before.. So, having been on Morton forums for about 15 years I guess, I've had enough... well done t*ssers, another Morton supporter driven away. You can all feel happy at how 'clever' you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LargsTON Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I'm currently isolating too after 2 jabs but I agree that further restrictions are the last thing we need at this stage of the game. It has to be allowed to run its course now. "CORNBEEF IS A BELLEND" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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