I've been thinking about this since we got back into the top 3, if we go up this season how many of the players on loan would want to sign for us if they were released from their current employers? Sterry, Cass, Bennett, Armstrong? they would all need replacing to improve the squad but wouldn't it be great if we kept them all.

From the sound of things Newcastle won't be releasing Cass. With the other 3 you'd like to think they would sign if offered a good deal.

one way i,d love to see them all in a pools shirt next season. however i have my doubts about bennett and armstrong. the former was released by port vale last summer and was armstrong a regular starter for salford before his loan. is this their level and can challinor make em into division 2 players.

Let’s just concentrate on getting back in the football league for now. The most important person for me to keep hold of is Dave Challinor - when we get back where we should be I’d put my trust in DC to make the right decisions regarding his playing staff.

Is there a huge difference between the leagues?

YES!!!!!!!!

This team would do well in the league above, it’s just a shame we probobly won’t be able to keep them. Let’s just keep winning and worry about it next season. Challinor will get us promoted eventually if he is given the funds to do it.

THIS ^^^^

agree. if we do go up there will be hundreds of players looking for a club with loads teams want to send out on loan. challinors recruitment has on the whole been good since coming here and i,ll trust him. 12 months ago i doubt many of us had heard of the players being mentioned now.

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It's a bit too early to contemplate buying a season ticket, in my opinion.
Last season was a blind investment, the previous season was curtailed prematurely and next season is surrounded by uncertainty. The experts are already predicting that there could be further significant covid outbreaks later on in the year.

if anyone can afford the money they could think of it as a donation to the club with the possibility of watching pools live as a bonus. having a season ticket has never been my thing and nothing to do with being 80 odd miles from the vic. at this moment of time i doubt anyone knows in august what the situation with attending live may mean. i for one will not attend having to wear a compulsory face muzzle or two yards away from another fan.

As far as the face masks etc goes, the govnt have already said all being well by June 24th or whatever the date was all social restrictions would be lifted, so no need for masks or social distancing. Not that our hapless stewards would police it anyway

hope you are right but i have not read anything about the distancing or muzzles though stopping on that date.

Boris said yesterday that the experts are forecasting the possibility of further surges later on in the year and remember his road map always has the proviso that it will only happen if it is deemed safe to do so. We could get a variant that puts usback to square one.

If we don't make it up this season another 2 big clubs being relegated from LG.2 in Southend and Grimsby.

think most know that another variant may be on the cards come next winter. remember that old disease flu that covid irradicated. that changed every year. you think boris would try to install a bit more hope in the population rather than his road map having pop up severe road works on it as well as bridge closures.

The main reason for the drop off in flu victims this past year was because of the drop off in transmission because of hands, face, space. Don't worry it'll be back. I suppose you could add the fact that more people took up on the flu vaccination offer.
Boris is giving us hope as long as we ALL do as we are told and therein lies a major problem along with other major global problems which are out of his control, like the rest of Europe lagging behind in the vaccination roll out and their desperate attempts to put the brakes on our magnificent effort. We would have no road map at all if our progress had matched that of our European "friends". Boris is performing remarkably well so far with his road map, so much so that the AA has asked him to design their next one !!!!!! But seriously it has been a remarkable team effort involving medical experts, scientific experts, key workers, the armed forces, the 84,000 volunteers (of which I am proud to say my daughter is one) and the Government. I can also add the opposition parties who have helped enormously by keeping away from the front line of covid fighting and sticking to their point scoring agenda,(which nobody apart from the media is interested in), thus allowing the "Main Team" to get on with the job without having to carry passengers. The alternative would have been to let Corbyn, Abbott and McDonnell et al run the show,
Shiver Shiver Shiver......the Sun has just gone behind a dirty great black cloud at the very thought of that scenario.

[quote="derwent"]. I can also add the opposition parties who have helped enormously by keeping away from the front line of covid fighting and sticking to their point scoring agenda,(which nobody apart from the media is interested in), thus allowing the "Main Team" to get on with the job without having to carry passengers. The alternative would have been to let Corbyn, Abbott and McDonnell et al run the show,

whatever one thinks of the virus or johnsons decisions i for one think the oppositions have come out of the whole affair much better than some think. all this lack of opposition is a total nonesence. the three amigos or stooges you mentioned would have griped all the way through these months in fighting with no plans much different. too many big numbers also for diane to get her head round.

Would imagine come Oct/Nov and the government will be preaching for nation to get the Third Jab which will most probably have to be paid for at a lot higher rate than the flu jab.

think the third jab has already been mentioned. can see this being a yearly occurance like the flu jab but on a much wider scale.

In the Newspaper that from 21 June facemasks will be optional.
But could become mandatory in Autumn/Winter depending on the amount of cases.
Also sports stadiums up to at least 50% capacitys for next season and possibly later stages of the Euros.
So called normality slowly but surely on its way back.

The government has borrowed about £300 billion in the last year..Diane's rescue package to get the country back on it's feet will be well worth the wait mr accy.

wonder if away fans will be allowed back in next season. if we have to have em i hope they,ll be in limited numbers as we,ll need the rink end for our own. bit pointless having a whole end for a handful of say eatleigh fans when we sell out.

I'd change the away end if we go up the South East Corner.
300 seats
700 terrace
Easy to segregate and let poolies have all town end for games when only 300 or less away fans are expected which will be most of the time.

if we stay in the NL next season only notts county, chesterfield and stockport really warrant an away end. halifax and wrexham would bring a few if they are doing well on a saturday but some of the others are not worth talking about. doubt the gang of 7 from boreham wood are going to create havoc at the vic and go on a rape and pillage viking style across the town.

Can't see any restrictions on away fans next season considering the tier system has long been ditched.

Theoretically, there is nothing to stop us lot turning up at Sutton, unless they themselves want to do something about it.

If it means anything, I'm aware of a man from Liverpool attending one of their games in December with no issue. Don't see why a club would snuff at extra cash in a time like this.

Heard from a poolie who bought a ST last week.
And wanted to buy a ticket for Weymouth game that tickets not on sale yet and that the capacity will be limited to 1700!.
Thought it was gunna be 3928.

that must be like the EFL for their play offs then. a percentage of SEATS available with no away fans or standing.

100% capacity at the Snooker final albeit with facemasks on.
Yet outdoor sporting venues look like running at 25% capacity.
Anyone heard or know what the crack is to get into the Vic v Weymouth n play off game.???!!!!

That rumour is from what I can tell almost certainly true.

Heard from Halifax they can't accommodate every ST holder. If that's the case at the Shay, then we'll get a man and his dog crowd at the Vic.

Pretty much the nail in the coffin for me and elite football. May as well go to North Korea and support April 25 with the shite I've seen online lately.

Chandy said on the commentary yesterday a statement will be made next week, but I wouldn't get your hope's up, and I'm sure those tickets will be taken up by the lackeys and grunts of CAW CAW CAW, if you know what I mean...

#cottonnotsilk

Update on the post below - Just found out from the BBC site that Victoria Park is apparently classed as a 'large outdoor venue' (must be for the first time ever) and is therefore restricted to 25% capacity. But this still should allow 1,966 rather than the 1,700 the Club are saying.


I don't understand the limitation to 1700 (one of the many things I don't understand, admittedly)!

Here is a quote from the 'Latest Government Guidance' page of the Sports And Recreation Alliance https://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/news/covid-19/latest-government-guidance:

"Step 3 will start from 17 May at the earliest ... Outdoor events will be able to take place at a capacity of 50% or 4,000 people, whichever is lower. For large, outdoor venues, crowds will be permitted up to 10,000 people or 25% of capacity, whichever is lower."

If our capacity is 7,865 then this suggests we should be able to have a crowd of 50% of that, i.e. 3.932.

Does anyone have more info or a link to anything stating the 1,700 restriction please?

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Here is a quote from the 'Latest Government Guidance' page of the Sports And Recreation Alliance https://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/news/covid-19/latest-government-guidance:

"Step 3 will start from 17 May at the earliest ... Outdoor events will be able to take place at a capacity of 50% or 4,000 people, whichever is lower. For large, outdoor venues, crowds will be permitted up to 10,000 people or 25% of capacity, whichever is lower."

If our capacity is 7,865 then this suggests we should be able to have a crowd of 50% of that, i.e. 3.932.

Does anyone have more info or a link to anything stating the 1,700 restriction please?

think it was either the saturdays stream that mentioned this or someone on here. the government has only given a guideline to the maximum number of fans allowed. this can be lowered by either the club, league or the local council as they see fit. the annoying thing is we should have been back a month ago if you look at covid figures. they,ll be quick to shut grounds overnight when the figures do go up next winter. virus figures and not dates should be what is actually be worked on.

Just read that for the FA Cup final this Saturday.
The Leicester fans have to pass a covid test 48 hours before the game and then anutha covid test at Wembley.
Tickets only available to fans who travel on the official coaches which will be half full for social distancing plus facemasks must be worn.

Hopefully these restrictions are relaxed a bit after next Monday's phase of ending lockdown.

The snooker final is part of an experiment to find the affect of having full venues and collecting data to see adverse reaction if any. The scientists are behind this experiment in order to be able to determine what best advice they can give the government. Monitoring indoor events is crucial to how cinemas, theatres, other live indoor events etc etc. can be re opened.