The first time we are back and it is full!

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Meat 'n potato pie 'n a Bovril. I've got Bovril in the house but I haven't made one. Last one I had was at the last game!

 

[M12Blue]

If the latest tests on the new variant show the vaccine is still effective, i think it will be much sooner than that.
Once the hospital admissions start to lower in Feb/March, i can see a phased introduction starting from there.

I think it’ll be next season to maintain the integrity of the league (cough), assuming said vaccine does what it says on the tin.

sadly I think some of the previously alluded to familiar faces will no longer be there, that said it’ll be full and rocking, no better sight

 

[oakiecokie]

I think I`ll even appreciate a pint of Guinness ... in Mary D`s.

 

[richards30]

Have we missed a truck not doing work on the stadium? Not just the north stand but the general exterior of the stadium as well? We should be using the time to improve the outside and surrounding areas?

 

[citytill1die84]

How good will it feel?? Simply can’t wait to be at a packed Etihad with all this behind us and seeing all the old characters and faces. Will never not appreciate it ever again.

Agreed mate I can't wait. It's like waiting 18 months for an holiday you've booked lol.

 

[Saddleworth2]

It will be with a bit of trepidation and my first thoughts will be is everyone we know present and healthy. Once thats confirmed it will be wonderful. Even the pre match beer will taste so much better than it did. I have even missed the drive from Scotland, off the motorway at J20, through Blackley and Harpurhey, seeing the Etihad again as we drive down Turing Way, the feeling of anticipation rising just as it did when I was a kid.
Can't wait.

 

[willipp]

Meeting at the train station, quick pint. Into the Waldorf and a few beers there. Taxi to the ground and mary ds for a sing song and some warm san miguel. Over to 115 and belt out blue moon till i cant talk. Cannot wait. Some good lads around us in 115 around row c, just hope they are all there when we get back.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I can't see our stadium (or others) filling up too fast because many will will be too scared to go back, can't afford it or simply not bothered. I'm not missing live football this season and VAR is the main reason. I doubt we'll break into 50k for at least a year of being allowed back without restrictions.

 

[MancMagic]

I've heard the halftime chips will still be cold...

Just put it on me Twitter as this fully reminded me. But remember that home game about 10 years ago where they put on the big screens that we'd ran out of chips and everybody hit the roof?

 

[Del_Bosque]

Last game of the season is 23/05

There will definitely be some back in there by then

 

[leithblue]

It has never bothered me if the stadium is full or not, it seems to be a fairly new phenomenon.

yeah, I don’t get this weird obsession with counting the number of people not there, rather than the number that are

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Reckon a full stadium is at least 2 years away myself.

 

[gorton guvnor]

I can’t wait either. Still gonna fuck off at 78 mins though!

 

[baggy]

Reckon a full stadium is at least 2 years away myself.

Yep, 2022 at best I reckon. Once the majority of the 'at-risk' population have had the vaccine... That's what 2021 is all about, unless they f*ck that up as well or make up some other bollocks that means our freedoms are restricted still.

 

[blueparrot]

Meat 'n potato pie 'n a Bovril. I've got Bovril in the house but I haven't made one. Last one I had was at the last game!

Got a box of pies from the company that supply them and were selling off all those made in the first lockdown. Weren’t cheap but they are decent pies.
Anyway can’t wait myself. Think it will be start of next season, just hope I can get a ticket for the first home game.

 

[blueparrot]

Yep, 2022 at best I reckon. Once the majority of the 'at-risk' population have had the vaccine... That's what 2021 is all about, unless they f*ck that up as well or make up some other bollocks that means our freedoms are restricted still.

All over 50 s probably over 40s too and those at risk under 50 will have been done before August. Expecting open stadiums for next season.
Edit just re read that what do you mean make up ? You thing covid is made up ?

 

[baggy]

All over 50 s probably over 40s too and those at risk under 50 will have been done before August. Expecting open stadiums for next season.
Edit just re read that what do you mean make up ? You thing covid is made up ?

No, I dont think Covid is made up just the way it's been handled (globally) has been nothing short of a disaster. It's something we are going to have to learn to live with, no doubt, but only time will tell how much this is going to cost economically and on our freedoms. Its got to the point where it's hard not to be somewhat sceptical about just how 'normal' things will ever be again.

 

[mrbelfry]

Cant wait to tell Mahrez he's a work shy individual who's mother had a questionable profession from the third tier of the Colin Bell. Watching on tele is so impersonal

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Yep, 2022 at best I reckon. Once the majority of the 'at-risk' population have had the vaccine... That's what 2021 is all about, unless they f*ck that up as well or make up some other bollocks that means our freedoms are restricted still.

Much will depend on whether the virus can still be caught and transmitted by vaccinated people or not, and that is a big unknown fact at this stage. It will be summer before the data can begin to shed light on that. Then come Autumn there will likely be the need for booster vaccinations. The news that getting the virus leads to around 5 months protection might suggest the vaccine gives a similar length of protection.

Also, nobody is yet discussing what happens when everyone starts mixing again with regard to other viruses that we used to share freely and unknowingly, but have been doing much less of. Our immune systems will be less resistant to those and could lead to other issues for some.

We'll get fans back in next season, but a full stadium could be years off yet.

 

[blueparrot]

Much will depend on whether the virus can still be caught and transmitted by vaccinated people or not, and that is a big unknown fact at this stage. It will be summer before the data can begin to shed light on that. Then come Autumn there will likely be the need for booster vaccinations. The news that getting the virus leads to around 5 months protection might suggest the vaccine gives a similar length of protection.

Also, nobody is yet discussing what happens when everyone starts mixing again with regard to other viruses that we used to share freely and unknowingly, but have been doing much less of. Our immune systems will be less resistant to those and could lead to other issues for some.

We'll get fans back in next season, but a full stadium could be years off yet.

The length of protection from a vaccination isn’t the same as that from having had covid so doubt they will be doing boosters in the autumn.
Also once vaccinations mean there are no more people needing hospital than in a normal flu season then it’s down to personal decisions whether to put yourself at risk by going to any event if you think you are at risk, same as it always was.
There has to be and will be a point where there is no threat of overwhelming the hospitals when we go back to normal and look after ourselves best we can. Think that will be from when everyone over about 40 or with underlying conditions has been offered vaccines. So should be around August.