Lord Willard Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 1 minute ago, OutByEaster? said: It's London! It has the best transport system in the country (at the expense of the rest of the country) and it's very used to having large numbers of visitors on special occasions it easily has the infrastructure to cope with that. Don't get me wrong I'm annoyed we aren't playing. We needed this game to see where we stand regarding our manager, leaving us in purgatory for longer than needed. Used to large numbers yes but this is the Queen dying. The biggest "event" in the last 70 years in the UK. This will be unusual amounts of numbers and numbers never seen before. Policing events that don't necessarily need to go ahead have been cancelled. The police that would probably worked those events will be transferred to London to help control things there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 15 minutes ago, Lord Willard said: Do people forget that there are teams in London? It'd be carnage/near impossible to go ahead from a travel and policing perspective Not sure why games taking place hundreds of miles away should be impacted and lumped in. Villa v Southampton must be in bottom 5 in the categories West Midlands Police rank for our home games (unless anyone on here can remember flashpoints with their fans at VP in recent seasons). Given it's Friday night I assume they'll also struggle to sell out their allocation so may just take the bottom tier. You don't need endless police resources to fulfil that fixture even with 40k crowd so while I can understand the feeling as to why this weekend's games had to be called off I can't see the same reason for next weekend and you have to apply match by match decisions for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 4 minutes ago, Lord Willard said: Don't get me wrong I'm annoyed we aren't playing. We needed this game to see where we stand regarding our manager, leaving us in purgatory for longer than needed. Used to large numbers yes but this is the Queen dying. The biggest "event" in the last 70 years in the UK. This will be unusual amounts of numbers and numbers never seen before. Policing events that don't necessarily need to go ahead have been cancelled. The police that would probably worked those events will be transferred to London to help control things there. Can only go by news but seems many people milling around Buckingham Palace gates are either London residents or tourists visiting so think next weekend or whenever funeral takes place will see the mass exodus down for the day from other parts of the country. I doubt all of that will be taking place next Friday evening so it really shouldn't be impacting on our next scheduled fixture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 It would make more sense to call off next week's football before the funeral. If they cancel next week's as well they have to shoe horn in 2 rounds of football in a condensed season already. And that is before any matches being called off due to any poor weather. 24 hours before a game is not ideal. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero7 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Am I being a bit thick here, if our next two matches are postponed, does it mean we still play Leicester and Southampton next and reschedule all the other remaining games or will we play Leeds followed by Forrest and try and fit the two missed games in somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wict01 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 With the international break as well, are we going to end up having gone about a month without a game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 3 minutes ago, Zero7 said: Am I being a bit thick here, if our next two matches are postponed, does it mean we still play Leicester and Southampton next and reschedule all the other remaining games or will we play Leeds followed by Forrest and try and fit the two missed games in somewhere. The Premier League will schedule them for a time that is inconvenient to all teams and fans. They don't care as long as they make money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 5 minutes ago, wict01 said: With the international break as well, are we going to end up having gone about a month without a game? And then 6 glorious weeks off in November and December. Basically we have about a month and a half's football left this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Just why? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted September 9, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 9, 2022 24 minutes ago, Lord Willard said: Used to large numbers yes but this is the Queen dying. The biggest "event" in the last 70 years in the UK. This will be unusual amounts of numbers and numbers never seen before. Policing events that don't necessarily need to go ahead have been cancelled. The police that would probably worked those events will be transferred to London to help control things there. I'm comfortable with the game having been cancelled as a sign of respect; that's the pageantry that comes with being British I guess. But in terms of numbers travelling to London this weekend, I'd bet it's a lot less than the two million that attended the Notting Hill carnival a couple of weeks ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted September 9, 2022 Administrator Share Posted September 9, 2022 Locked as completely off topic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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