GAA Response to Coronavirus

[thewobbler]

Ok 92% , well most recent studies showing masks are effective ! Also people do need to shop, do they need to be at a footie game in a pandemic! I'm only throwing it out there, not saying I'm right but the inconsistencies are staggering at this stage

But my base point is that no amateur sportsman needs to play their sport in a pandemic. If that is okay in the eyes of government then their policies on spectator attendance should reflect, not oppose.

[the goal was on]

I'm all for spectators but they have to adhere to the guidance issued , it seems though that there is little or no effort by the majority at the games to do this.

[armaghniac]

It makes sense that people can go along to large stadiums, but they have to spread themselves out in the space that those stadiums provide and not crowd together.

[Rossfan]

There were certainly (again) loads sitting together at the Tyrone games tonight.
Maybe the average family in Tyrone consists of around 40?
The 2nd half of ET in the Dungannon game was some excitement.

[seafoid]

 https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/cowardly-government-hide-behind-nphet-as-fans-remain-locked-out-1.4347903

On any brass tacks reading of things, getting people into grounds for sporting events very obviously doesn't matter. Even the most goggle-eyed sports fan understands there are more pressing priorities. If you haven't been into Dublin city centre in the past six months, for instance, you would be genuinely shocked to walk around it now. Injecting the life and people and boldness that drives a city back into it will take years.

That's the sort of gargantuan task that a government ought to be facing questions on. Stupid, picayune little things like meals in pubs and people at matches should have long since been out of the way by now. They take up airtime because people don't buy the thinking behind them. Lose the people and you lose your authority.

This is going to come to a head now, particularly as we try to squeeze a year's sport into the next three months. It will start with county finals, the Pro14, the inter-county scene, all the way up to internationals in soccer and rugby. The contrast between the wide open spaces of stadiums with no fans in them and the pubs into which those fans will instead pour to watch the games will be stark.

You alienate those you treat as fools. Everybody's behaviour has changed in the past six months. Mask-wearing is at 90 per cent in the general populace, 97 per cent among young people. We socially distance, we wash our hands, we don't see anywhere close to the amount of people we used to. Everyone's lives have become smaller, tighter, more concentrated. Most of all, everyone is more careful of their interactions.

[An Fhairche Abu]

It makes sense that people can go along to large stadiums, but they have to spread themselves out in the space that those stadiums provide and not crowd together.

This is obviously a rudimentary requirement for allowing spectators to return and if done correctly then it should be quite safe for people once other guidance while travelling to/from the match is adhered to and good access/egress procedures are in place.
Why you would even want to huddle up in a cluster at a match in the current COVID-19 environment is beyond me but yet there are still people doing it.

[delgany]

There doesnt seem to be the same level of spectator management. NO SIGNAGE to show where fans can / cannot sit
No seating plans etc . It ain't difficult to organise

[Rossfan]

Going by TV pictures from Omagh in recent weeks there appears to be NO SPECTATOR MANAGEMENT certainly as far as seating goes.
Such scenes won't help in efforts to get spectators back in the 26.

[armaghniac]

It makes sense that people can go along to large stadiums, but they have to spread themselves out in the space that those stadiums provide and not crowd together.

This is obviously a rudimentary requirement for allowing spectators to return and if done correctly then it should be quite safe for people once other guidance while travelling to/from the match is adhered to and good access/egress procedures are in place.
Why you would even want to huddle up in a cluster at a match in the current COVID-19 environment is beyond me but yet there are still people doing it.

If these eejits won't do it in their own interest then give them a seat number.
The GAA should be seen to make an effort in this regard in its own interest but they are not showing that they can manage this. Why?

[imtommygunn]

It is probably harder in standing only but definitely in crowded stands it looks bad. Seats need to be cordoned off so people can't all sit on top of each other. I dunno what you do it in - blocks of ten or so - but definitely it looks bad when watching and all these people huddled on top of each other.

[GetOverTheBar]

Going by TV pictures from Omagh in recent weeks there appears to be NO SPECTATOR MANAGEMENT certainly as far as seating goes.
Such scenes won't help in efforts to get spectators back in the 26.

Right, well first of all. It's not a GAA issue. It's a Government issue so there isn't much point yapping about it in here. A thread on GAA Response because the Govt. in the South have adapted such a stance.

Second of all, Tyrone (Mid Ulster and Fermanagh/Omagh) have the lowest rates or lowest 2/3 in the North which would encompass all the teams involved on Saturday night TV. So I suppose, maybe we should be rewarded for actually bothering our holes to take it relatively seriously and have such low transmission rates?

[Cunny Funt]

Going by TV pictures from Omagh in recent weeks there appears to be NO SPECTATOR MANAGEMENT certainly as far as seating goes.
Such scenes won't help in efforts to get spectators back in the 26.

Right, well first of all. It's not a GAA issue. It's a Government issue so there isn't much point yapping about it in here. A thread on GAA Response because the Govt. in the South have adapted such a stance.

Second of all, Tyrone (Mid Ulster and Fermanagh/Omagh) have the lowest rates or lowest 2/3 in the North which would encompass all the teams involved on Saturday night TV. So I suppose, maybe we should be rewarded for actually bothering our holes to take it relatively seriously and have such low transmission rates?

Can you post up the six counties case totals the last two weeks.

Cases in the ROI last two weeks

Dublin 831
Kildare 186
Limerick 111
Tipperary 102
Cork 45
Meath 44
Wexford 44
Wicklow 38
Carlow 38
Offaly 36
Clare 36
Waterford 34
Donegal 34
Kilkenny 28
Monaghan 28
Louth 25
Laois 25
Kerry 19
Cavan 17
Galway 16
Roscommon 13
Longford 12
Westmeath 11
Mayo 4
Leitrim 4
Sligo 2


Plenty of counties there that could be "rewarded" but that's not the way this government work.

[GetOverTheBar]

Agreed, but not much point in sitting taking a swipe at people going to a game...who are allowed by the Government, who are all 100% traceable.

Seems like a lazy dig, especially when it makes no sense whatsoever. The Southern Government have shown they aren't influenced by anyone, least of all, the Northern assembly with regards to Covid Regulations so what happens in Healy Park, Omagh will have no bearing whatsoever in what they decide to do going forward.

[Rossfan]

Tyrone is (unfortunately ) still part of the GAA.
A GAA County Board making no obvious effort to keep spectators a social distance apart, no word of censure from a Provincial Council on it, no word from a Central Council.
Then the CC goes asking the Public Health Team and Minister/Govt to end the spectator ban.
The first thing the PHT or Minster will say is.....ye're not ensuring social distancing among the spectators in the North. Come back to us when ye are.

[armaghniac]

It is probably harder in standing only but definitely in crowded stands it looks bad. Seats need to be cordoned off so people can't all sit on top of each other. I dunno what you do it in - blocks of ten or so - but definitely it looks bad when watching and all these people huddled on top of each other.

You issue tickets on the app with seat numbers. If you buy 4 tickets then you sit together, then two spaces then the next group of tickets, and leave alternate rows free. It isn't rocket science even in Tyrone.
Anyone not in their sold seat is not allowed come again.