No fans from Boxing Day

[PSumbler]

I've never read/heard such a load of bollox. We can travel away to watch but not at home???
Never been big on conspiracy theories, but kin hell, there is something definitely not adding up to all this. This variant is apparently mild in comparison to the Delta one.....and having seen last year that the scientists who produced the vaccine assure us that any variant could be combatted by tweaking it, this is now a complete load of bullshit. Perfectly healthy people double/triple jabbed still dying. Just what the fck is in this vaccine?? And with literally no financial help to business ' now....this will cause total carnage and the death toll will rise not through covid but people just giving up.

The travel will change and stadiums in England will be shut by the end of the week as well IMO

I'm genuinely not sure what some of the people this morning on Twitter expected but this was going to be the only decision they can make - you simply cannot have tens of thousands of people mixing freely right now.

From a personal perspective I wouldn't have gone next week anyway and thats not a reflection of the people I sit next to .... :lol:

 

[Cooperman]

I’m not surprised by the decision and for a number of reasons. I think it’s still a little too early for scientists to judge the full impact of Omicron and whilst some of the signs are positive, it is suggested that more data is needed and this it going to take another week or two. Secondly, we have already seen protocols put in place in Wales that don’t apply in England, an example being vaccine passports where England is only now catching up.

Whether I agree with the decision is another topic altogether and I think it’s a little step too far. What’s wrong with the combination of:
- closed concourses
- pre admission temperature checks
- mandatory LFT’s
- vaccine passports

Gutted to have Boxing Day live sport taken away.

 

[MrSwerve]

Was always going to happen - I’d rather closed doors than postponements.

People will just mix in houses instead now to watch the game - I assume the club will make it available on swanstv...

 

[MrSwerve]

I’m not surprised by the decision and for a number of reasons. I think it’s still a little too early for scientists to judge the full impact of Omicron and whilst some of the signs are positive, it is suggested that more data is needed and this it going to take another week or two. Secondly, we have already seen protocols put in place in Wales that don’t apply in England, an example being vaccine passports where England is only now catching up.

Whether I agree with the decision is another topic altogether and I think it’s a little step too far. What’s wrong with the combination of:
- closed concourses
- pre admission temperature checks
- mandatory LFT’s
- vaccine passports

Gutted to have Boxing Day live sport taken away.

I’m beginning to think that all of these lfts/vaccine passports, etc., are worthless. I’ve done everything that I need to do in terms of jabs and documentation, etc.

Apathy is starting to creep in now.

 

[sainthelens]

I've never read/heard such a load of bollox. We can travel away to watch but not at home???
Never been big on conspiracy theories, but kin hell, there is something definitely not adding up to all this. This variant is apparently mild in comparison to the Delta one.....and having seen last year that the scientists who produced the vaccine assure us that any variant could be combatted by tweaking it, this is now a complete load of bullshit. Perfectly healthy people double/triple jabbed still dying. Just what the fck is in this vaccine?? And with literally no financial help to business ' now....this will cause total carnage and the death toll will rise not through covid but people just giving up.

The travel will change and stadiums in England will be shut by the end of the week as well IMO

I'm genuinely not sure what some of the people this morning on Twitter expected but this was going to be the only decision they can make - you simply cannot have tens of thousands of people mixing freely right now.

From a personal perspective I wouldn't have gone next week anyway and thats not a reflection of the people I sit next to .... :lol:

May I ask you Phil....you say you wouldn't have gone cos it's safer not to ? But have you been to any supermarkets at all? Indoors/ hundreds at a time touching/coughing over everything. And that's indoors.....footy is outdoors.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Correct decision again, by a leader trying to be proactive to protect us. Just a shame the bumbling idiot across the water doesn’t have the bollocks to do the same.

No doubt Drakers will get pelters for it, but I applaud him.

 

[Cooperman]

I’m not surprised by the decision and for a number of reasons. I think it’s still a little too early for scientists to judge the full impact of Omicron and whilst some of the signs are positive, it is suggested that more data is needed and this it going to take another week or two. Secondly, we have already seen protocols put in place in Wales that don’t apply in England, an example being vaccine passports where England is only now catching up.

Whether I agree with the decision is another topic altogether and I think it’s a little step too far. What’s wrong with the combination of:
- closed concourses
- pre admission temperature checks
- mandatory LFT’s
- vaccine passports

Gutted to have Boxing Day live sport taken away.

I’m beginning to think that all of these lfts/vaccine passports, etc., are worthless. I’ve done everything that I need to do in terms of jabs and documentation, etc.

Apathy is starting to creep in now.

Stick with it. What you’ve been doing is following the common sense approach that all of us need to follow, it’s the quickest and easiest way out of the mess that we find ourselves in. Also, it’s not really causing any hardship to download a passport onto phone etc. etc.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I wouldn’t have gone on the 29th anyway with the way things are. I’d rather this than a blanket no sport ban like there was at the start of all this. Broadcast arrangements will be interesting.

 

[dickythorpe]

We need to keep our spirits up.....how we do that is the thing.
I find this week very odd. Normally this Xmas week is full of cheerfulness plus a bit of rushing around but this year it's flat.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Correct decision again, by a leader trying to be proactive to protect us. Just a shame the bumbling idiot across the water doesn’t have the bollocks to do the same.

No doubt Drakers will get pellets for it, but I applaud him.

And many of the same people chucking them pelters will suddenly change their mind when England does the same thing in a week or so. Such as it ever was.

 

[cmajack]

Granny Drakeford basically confirmed that the jabs/booster don't work along with covid passes.
NHS already fcked. When my Mrs collapsed a week before she died, 999 said there was a 4-6 hour wait for an ambulance FFS. And when she passed certain sections wanted cause of death as covid. It wasn't covid at all.
Yes I'm bitter, and very very sceptical.

You have every right to be bitter, the waiting time for an ambulance when people need it in their hour of need is totally unacceptable.

 

[John102]

This week around 100,000 unvaccinated are allowed to meet indoors at shops, retail parks, supermarkets. Just saying.

 

[PSumbler]

The travel will change and stadiums in England will be shut by the end of the week as well IMO

I'm genuinely not sure what some of the people this morning on Twitter expected but this was going to be the only decision they can make - you simply cannot have tens of thousands of people mixing freely right now.

From a personal perspective I wouldn't have gone next week anyway and thats not a reflection of the people I sit next to .... :lol:

May I ask you Phil....you say you wouldn't have gone cos it's safer not to ? But have you been to any supermarkets at all? Indoors/ hundreds at a time touching/coughing over everything. And that's indoors.....footy is outdoors.

Of course you may, I try generally to avoid supermarkets at the best of times- I have been to some in past months in the same way that I have been to football.

I will be doing all I can to avoid them going forward again although I would also add that whilst the match is played outside, social distancing is minimal and the concourses are generally rammed.

All sports stadia will close - expect the announcement before Christmas IMO

 

[3swan]

So Swans fans free to travel to London where this variant is most prevalent but not to watch a home game, OK

All rules should be the same for the UK and not have differing positions. That aside Swans fans can think for themselves and question whether they should take the risk of travelling to a high risk area.

 

[Darran]

Correct decision again, by a leader trying to be proactive to protect us. Just a shame the bumbling idiot across the water doesn’t have the bollocks to do the same.

No doubt Drakers will get pellets for it, but I applaud him.

And many of the same people chucking them pelters will suddenly change their mind when England does the same thing in a week or so. Such as it ever was.

I’m not having a go at this decision I wasn’t going either but as things stand at the moment thousands of people can go to the panto in Swansea and all over Wales indoors on Boxing Day.
How does that make sense? It doesn’t.
It’s like passports,my wife and I went to the cinema a few weeks ago,we had to show a passport and there was six people in there.
Called in Costa on the way home there was over twenty people in there and you didn’t need a passport,how does that make sense?
Some said on Twitter just now that there’s another announcement later and they fully expect theatres to be shut but how does shutting down outdoor events before indoor events make sense?