Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[invergowrie arab]

8 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

Typical DABs picking the wrong team.

Downfield Derry Rhumba.

You not had enough of the Marrs? 

It's usually Harp i would have gone to in the past but the new ground leaves me a bit cold and NE means I can still drink at Frews.

Already decided  that when we are able I'm going to do at least one game at every ground next year and see if any of them take my fancy.

6 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Any enclosed ground with a gate is already legally bound to control numbers. No idea if that applies to DNE.

My post looks foolish now.

[DA Baracus]

13 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:

If there is no fans at Premier and championship Dundee North End will end up getting about 15000 at their games.

My local junior team. A 10 minute walk from where I stay. I walked past their ground twice yesterday, on the way and the way back from Tesco.

[welshbairn]

2 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:

My post looks foolish now.

Not at all, just hope they don't use that as an excuse to stop Highland League games going ahead.

[Ludo*1]

1 minute ago, invergowrie arab said:

You not had enough of the Marrs? 

It's usually Harp i would have gone to in the past but the new ground leaves me a bit cold and NE means I can still drink at Frews.

Already decided  that when we are able I'm going to do at least one game at every ground next year and see if any of them take my fancy.

My post looks foolish now.

Downfield is the closest to my parents house so could swing by a game there and visit the maw beforehand before heading to Docs (Not been there in years - any good these days?)

I'd probably do a wee tour of the lot as well. Lochee United's park seems a quagmire. Always had a wee soft spot for Dundee Violet purely based on the fact I used to drive past the ground every day.

[tamthebam]

20 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said:

Senga?

Elvis- Return to Senga

[D.A.F.C]

3 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

Elvis- Return to Senga

The sengalise national anthem 

[tamthebam]

6 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

The sengalise national anthem 

Isn't that "Papa Diouf's got a brand new bag"? I also hear they quite like Pink Floyd's "Dakar Side of the Moon" too 

[Donathan]

Let's be pessimistic and use the absolute minimum pitch size allowed under SPFL rules (95m x 60m). If we're sticking with the 2m distance then you could get 47 people along each touchline and 31 behind each goal, giving a total of 156 people (31+47+31+47). You'd therefore only need 3 or 4 "rows" of people to get over that 500 number, which means that as long as the stands are at least 6m deep, you could manage absolutely fine. Of course, most pitches are a bit bigger and you'd probably get a few more round them thus needing only 3 rows of people (and 4m space).
Obviously some stadia have weird layouts, but that's a sort of rough estimate.

Mad idea, stick the premiership games in league 1/2 grounds, where you can play behind closed doors and earn TV revenue

Then play the seaside leagues in the premiership grounds with fans. You can have the usual number of fans in the ground, but the stadiums are big enough for everyone to socially distance.

I’ve had a few beers but I think I’m on to a winner.

[Forest_Fifer]

If only! Doncaster painted a bleak forecast on Scottish football on the STV news there 

Why, is he extending his contract?

[Thistle_do_nicely]

44 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

Isn't that "Papa Diouf's got a brand new bag"? I also hear they quite like Pink Floyd's "Dakar Side of the Moon" too 

Mame's and the Papas

[paranoid android]

In the current circumstances, with a virus kicking around, If a  ned on drugs faced you up in a shop, and pushed you, would you hit/fight him?

Happened to a pal of mine the night.

Mental, eh?

[Benjamin_Nevis]

1 hour ago, Ludo*1 said:

Typical DABs picking the wrong team.

Downfield Derry Rhumba.

I used to go and see Downfield occasionally when Dundee were away somewhere I couldn't be arsed with, or not playing. Cracking side back in the late 80s/early 90s. My uncle played for them in the 60s as well. 

[Enigma]

Isn't that "Papa Diouf's got a brand new bag"? I also hear they quite like Pink Floyd's "Dakar Side of the Moon" too 

These puns are Senegalling.

[coprolite]

4 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

500 fans could not fit in to a lower league ground with social distancing.

If folk had dimensions of stands I could prove it using straightforward maths.

100m along the side of the pitch, 50 folk every 2m. If you have a person every four rows (3 rows space) you would need two side stands 20 rows deep or one 40 deep. If you can let in household groups, even less space needed. 

And people said hearts new stand was a waste of money. 

[The Moonster]

13 hours ago, pozbaird said:

What’s weird about it? What’s weird about me disliking people telling me that life as we know it has gone, and we are facing a ‘new normal’.  My experience of life recently has been one of people shitting themselves if someone coughs or sneezes twenty feet away from them, and staring daggers at you if you aren’t exactly 2m away from them. People walking around wearing masks and gloves. Shop workers wearing perspex masks. Queuing for a pint of milk with tape on the pavement. Want me to go on?

So, what’s weird about me railing against this current way of life being described as  normal at alll? In any way, shape or form, it is far from normal.

Head gone over a word.

[dundeefc1783]

My post looks foolish now.

Where do Lochee Harp play now

[dirty dingus]

9 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

My local junior team. A 10 minute walk from where I stay. I walked past their ground twice yesterday, on the way and the way back from Tesco.

This sounds like a brainstorming scene setting session for the next gritty Peter Mcdougall Play for Today.

[Granny Danger]

Virtual queuing at supermarkets seems a sound idea.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-asda-trials-virtual-queuing-as-it-plans-for-longer-term-social-distancing-11991278

[pozbaird]

27 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Virtual queuing at supermarkets seems a sound idea.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-asda-trials-virtual-queuing-as-it-plans-for-longer-term-social-distancing-11991278

Reading that story, and many others of the same nature, it’s going to be a long slog for those of us who simply aren’t shitting themselves about going to a shop, or doing anything normal. I received a lengthy questionaire from Bannatyne’s Gym today, asking what I think they should do, to make me feel safe returning to their gyms. My reply was simple. I would feel safe if I could return tomorrow, as long as they continued with their normal cleaning routine. I felt safe there in the two weeks of lockdown lite.

Going to be dragged down by swathes of shitebags for month after month by the looks of it.

[cyderspaceman]

13 hours ago, Donathan said:

 

I believe this is how it works:

Alice tests positive, she provides details for her 9 contacts.

The tracers contact the 9 and advise them to self-isolate for 14 days, and ask them for their Contacts.

Those second degree contacts only self-isolate if someone that they’ve actually met falls ill.

 

Thanks but it still doesn't seem right.  The second degree contacts will take days to show symptoms and in the meantime, as was said, there will be overlaps. It's a labyrinthine operation which is bound to fail and be quietly dropped.    We'll see.   Thanks to all who tried to educate me.