So, What Happens . . .

[Bob's Orange]

Just to clarify. The financial future of the club is more important than a refund for match tickets that are not 'life or death' for us. If we have to wait until after October or whenever the club is ready then so be it.

I was just interested in what the club were doing/likely to do.

[Panda Paws]

Yeah, I guess that's what Walsall mean when they say 'when the stadium opens'. Seems fair enough. October will be crunch time though good lord I hope we get into football before then.

Oh.. Good luck. You didn't pay on Credit Card did you?

Funnily enough, they didn't accept payment by card. Bank transfer only.

[Peter Venkman]

Just to clarify. The financial future of the club is more important than a refund for match tickets that are not 'life or death' for us. If we have to wait until after October or whenever the club is ready then so be it.

I was just interested in what the club were doing/likely to do.

Absolutely, but, I think fans are well within their supporters rights to want a refund for away match day ticket refunds as its not our club that has grabbed the money.

As for ticket refunds with our own club then thats is an entirely individual basis IMO.

Some fans can easly accept the loss and can basically afford to write it off, some fans with low paid jobs and being furloughed or worse, may well be in a situation that they could do with the money back.

[pauld]

Anything like refunds will means bringing ticket office staff off furlough, so I'd imagine that'll only happen when we start selling STs for next season again.

I'm £600 down on hospitality with Macc on the last day. Of all the clubs to try and get money back from....

Ouch, suspect you've got the proverbial 2 Hopes there

[Peter Venkman]

Funnily enough, they didn't accept payment by card. Bank transfer only.

Ouch.

[JBZ]

Bog standard consumer advice is use credit cards where you can

[horlock07]

Funnily enough, they didn't accept payment by card. Bank transfer only.

Sadly I assume your cash has gone the same way as the cash the Supporters Trust lent them.

[Batch]

Bog standard consumer advice is use credit cards where you can

but he couldn't.

but if a bugger but the game was probably safe until covid came along

[Batch]

Just to clarify. The financial future of the club is more important than a refund for match tickets that are not 'life or death' for us. If we have to wait until after October or whenever the club is ready then so be it.

I was just interested in what the club were doing/likely to do.

as said, that's fine and dandy for those of us still in work.

[theakston2k]

I’m starting to think crowds will be back at games next season much sooner than we expect. With talk of the 2 metre guidance being reduced I wouldn’t be surprised if crowds are back probably with restricted capacities around September time.

[JBZ]

Assuming we haven't had another spike in the meantime

[Batch]

I’m starting to think crowds will be back at games next season much sooner than we expect. With talk of the 2 metre guidance being reduced I wouldn’t be surprised if crowds are back probably with restricted capacities around September time.

I think<2m in small groups is a lot different to 7000 in a sporting arena!

things change pretty fast though. Spain are in a hundred (s) of new cases a day  now from the several thousand

[pauld]

I’m starting to think crowds will be back at games next season much sooner than we expect. With talk of the 2 metre guidance being reduced I wouldn’t be surprised if crowds are back probably with restricted capacities around September time.

Change that to end of Sept and I wouldn't be surprised. Think my main bet is still on Jan and don't think it's likely to be properly safe until then but given how utterly reckless the govt have been in their treatment of health vs economy throughout this (to the very great detriment of both), they'll be pushing to get everything back to normal ASAP. So my bet would be either season starts late Sept BCD but no crowds until Jan or season restarts in front of crowds late Sept but is then put on hold again in Jan when we get a second (or third or whatever) wave combined with usual winter ailments.

[theakston2k]

I think<2m in small groups is a lot different to 7000 in a sporting arena!

things change pretty fast though. Spain are in a hundred (s) of new cases a day  now from the several thousand

I did say restricted capacity, I just think with the existential threat to clubs, the economy and the perception of people needing some positivity by end of September some allowance for fans will be made.

[michael]

Social distancing must put an extreme stress on fire safety protocols in stadiums. If you're in the back row of the Shrivvy Road stand you already find the floodlights being switched off before you make it down to the concourse, imagine if it was single file with any kind of gap between each person!