aberdeen1970 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 minute ago, Don Shula said: Completely agree but that's not what I said. The whole point of doing test events is to "prove" we can handle bigger numbers (Cormack has spoken about crowds of 7,500). All a test event will "prove" is how it does or doesn't work inside the stadium. It will do fuck all to "prove" my point on buses, trains and pubs. She won't let non essential offices back to work because of extra people on public transport so I won't hold my breath that she will allow 7,500 fans to Pittodrie, a fair proportion of which travel by public transport or indeed say 20,000 travelling to watch celtic/sevco Fair enough, I agree. I thought we were discussing whether the pilot would go ahead rather than the broader piece. My mistake. Link to comment
RUL Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, Don Shula said: Completely agree but that's not what I said. The whole point of doing test events is to "prove" we can handle bigger numbers (Cormack has spoken about crowds of 7,500). All a test event will "prove" is how it does or doesn't work inside the stadium. It will do fuck all to "prove" my point on buses, trains and pubs. She won't let non essential offices back to work because of extra people on public transport so I won't hold my breath that she will allow 7,500 fans to Pittodrie, a fair proportion of which travel by public transport or indeed say 20,000 travelling to watch celtic/sevco What choice does she have? She can't keep football locked down forever. Link to comment
Don Shula Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said: Fair enough, I agree. I thought we were discussing whether the pilot would go ahead rather than the broader piece. My mistake. Apologies, I didn't read the earlier posts so I may have dragged the conversation down a rabbit hole. Given I imagine she will want to slow down the timing of when bigger crowds get back, I wouldn't be surprised if she delays test events so as to not raise expectations. Given celtic and sevco are banned from test events for at least a coupe of weeks anyway I can't imagine anyone from the sfa fighting our corner (as well as Ross County) too hard Link to comment
afc1903mad Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 10 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said: I hardly think 300 people arriving at the stadium from completely different directions, many of which will be by car due to the parking available with smaller crowds, will put much pressure on any single bus journey , let alone the bus service as a whole. Gotta watch for the total fuck up the council made of the Esplanade. Love how they just put the dual cycle lanes round the burger van 1 Link to comment
Don Shula Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, RUL said: What choice does she have? She can't keep football locked down forever. She couldn''t give a flying fuck about football I'm afraid. She will just stall for time Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, afc1903mad said: Gotta watch for the total fuck up the council made of the Esplanade. Love how they just put the dual cycle lanes round the burger van ACC making a cunt of something? in other news, water is wet. On the subject of fans going back, I understand the caution, but 300 is a ridiculously low number. That said, here’s hoping it goes with no hitches on Saturday. Been a long time coming with this international shite getting in the way. Link to comment
Tord31 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, afc1903mad said: Gotta watch for the total fuck up the council made of the Esplanade. Love how they just put the dual cycle lanes round the burger van Can someone please confirm this ridiculous idea is temporary? Cyclists on the pavement has been one of my major pet hates of Covid-19. I've not been on a bike for years and years but if I decided to I would go either off road or on the road. It would not cross my mind to cycle on the pavement. Folk should be shot. 1 Link to comment
afc1903mad Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Just now, Tord31 said: Can someone please confirm this ridiculous idea is temporary? Cyclists on the pavement has been one of my major pet hates of Covid-19. I've not been on a bike for years and years but if I decided to I would go either off road or on the road. It would not cross my mind to cycle on the pavement. Folk should be shot. £2M for a temporary measure, get real, this will become adopted. The esplanade already has a significantly wide path, plus there is the lower tier option as well. They could have created a cycle lane on the top tier and still had a space for walking on the two tiers. If they were so desperate for cycle lanes along the length I agree, cycling elsewhere should be on the roads if in town Link to comment
Ramandu Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 hours ago, CityCentre said: Have we had confirmation that the 300 can attend on Saturday yet? This is Sparta / Pittodrie. Link to comment
daytripping Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 31 minutes ago, afc1903mad said: £2M for a temporary measure, get real, this will become adopted. The esplanade already has a significantly wide path, plus there is the lower tier option as well. They could have created a cycle lane on the top tier and still had a space for walking on the two tiers. If they were so desperate for cycle lanes along the length I agree, cycling elsewhere should be on the roads if in town In Denmark a lot of the pavements have a line down the middle, one side for cyclists, the other pedestrian. Pretty simple idea that would have been prefect for the beach. Now with little parking they've discouraged people from going down there for exercise and to spend money, lunacy. 1 Link to comment
Bamber Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 what its done is turn the 4 lane supposedly 20mph esplanade where most people travel at 50mph into a 2 lane road that will probably be closer to 30mph. That is the main aim The cyclist is the excuse I live in the area and enjoy cycling along the lower tier which is admittedly quite busy recently - Why the lower tier? it tends to be a sun trap and is quite war any breeze from offshore is diverted over the berm and from on shore doesnt come down quick enough so the lower tier is a bit of a sun trap. every one will still walk/cycle along the bottom tier for that reason all its done is removed one lane of parking on the golf course side Link to comment
Fridge Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Has ACC ever not fucked anything up. UTG being the prime example Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 hour ago, WesthillWanderersFC said: ACC making a cunt of something? in other news, water is wet. On the subject of fans going back, I understand the caution, but 300 is a ridiculously low number. That said, here’s hoping it goes with no hitches on Saturday. Been a long time coming with this international shite getting in the way. ? Lazy bastards could have asked for the burger van to be moved to the pavement surely? Link to comment
Sheepo Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Was down the beach Yesterday and saw no bikes using bike lanes but plenty bikes on the pavement as usual Link to comment
RUL Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I was down beach on Saturday and didn't see one bike using the bike lane. Link to comment
afc1903mad Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said: Routing them through the burger van would have been more difficult though ? For £2M, I would have expected a ramp and a bridge 1 Link to comment
brownie Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 5 hours ago, Bamber said: all its done is removed one lane of parking on the golf course side That's going to be a shambles as soon as any significant crowds return to Pittodrie. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Thank fk. back to league football. Link to comment
muttonhumper Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 16 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said: The ball just gets wiped before it goes back on the field of play by someone wearing gloves. Simple. Squirt some hand sanitizer on it before a free kick from a dangerous position. Get that ba' nice and slippery. 15 hours ago, RUL said: What choice does she have? She can't keep football locked down forever. She can't? Will we ever have full stadia again? Will these circumstances ever change? Seriously be fucked if I know. 15 hours ago, afc1903mad said: Gotta watch for the total fuck up the council made of the Esplanade. Love how they just put the dual cycle lanes round the burger van Mental. Absolute fuckwits. 14 hours ago, Sheepo said: Was down the beach Yesterday and saw no bikes using bike lanes but plenty bikes on the pavement as usual If this is the case, one would be 100% justified to boot the retarded fucks from the pavement into the cycle lane. Fucking mutants. Link to comment
CityCentre Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 18 hours ago, RUL said: I was down beach on Saturday and didn't see one bike using the bike lane. ACC are genuinely the biggest group of idiots you'd ever meet. Link to comment
jamiesd Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 That bike lane photo is hilarious. Deffo one for Have i got news for you? Link to comment
strachanmcgheegoal Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 At least they didn’t put one lane side and one the other. Credit where it’s due. Link to comment
Tord31 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 The Dons don't seem bothered to push the Ppv options on these early games. I think the Livvie game was announced with 2 days to go and looking similar for this game Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, Tord31 said: The Dons don't seem bothered to push the Ppv options on these early games. I think the Livvie game was announced with 2 days to go and looking similar for this game Suggests to me that they're not making much of it at all, so not too bothered. Link to comment
Geoff_Tipps Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 That's me received email confirming ticket for Killie game. Top fan. Link to comment
CityCentre Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Still no word from the SFA/SPFL about the test event on Saturday? Link to comment
Tord31 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Still no word from the SFA/SPFL about the test event on Saturday. Link to comment
RUL Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Seems unlikely it'll get go ahead based on what we are hearing about cases? Link to comment
CityCentre Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Confirmed: https://spfl.co.uk/news/confirmation-of-fan-pilot-matches Link to comment
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