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       #Post#: 54693--------------------------------------------------
       Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: never sleep
       Date: December 14, 2020, 8:57 am
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       Assuming that there won't be fans at the Stoop
       #Post#: 54694--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: Jus-Quin-Time
       Date: December 14, 2020, 9:16 am
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       I guess we sit tight and wait for the club to make an
       announcement.
       I haven't seen the restriction notice yet - there was some talk
       of a Tier 3 (Light) allowing some activities to continue, there
       was also a discussion about only North London being put into
       more restrictive measures.  Looking at the pictures of crowds
       along Regent Street yesterday it doesn't come as a surprise
       though.
       If attendance is cancelled it will be a real disappointment for
       everyone in the club working behind the scenes to put everything
       in place.
       #Post#: 54701--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: WellingQuin
       Date: December 14, 2020, 10:03 am
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       Tier 3 confirmed from midnight Wednesday. Agree that it would be
       such a disappointment for everyone who worked so hard to get
       everything ready for fans to return, but I can't see there being
       an exception in tier 3.
       #Post#: 54702--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: BedfordshireBoy
       Date: December 14, 2020, 10:29 am
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       According to Local Radio here "no attendance at sports events in
       Tier 3".
       #Post#: 54703--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: SwindonQuin
       Date: December 14, 2020, 10:34 am
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       looks like the minority of people breaking social distancing and
       going out getting drunk with the friends, rushing Harrods and
       behaving irresponsibly  have ruined it for the majority, as
       regularly happens.
       I feel for all of you who had match tickets.
       #Post#: 54705--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: Jus-Quin-Time
       Date: December 14, 2020, 11:01 am
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       --- Quote from: SwindonQuin link ---
       >
       > looks like the minority of people breaking social distancing
       and going out getting drunk with the friends, rushing Harrods
       and behaving irresponsibly  have ruined it for the majority, as
       regularly happens.
       >
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       A minority of people spoiling life for the majority.... are we
       sure those words came from you Swindon Quin?   ;D (I jest with
       you....)
       Truth seems to be that the virus has mutated and this is the
       cause of the sudden surge in numbers.  Sadiq Khan is asking for
       schools to be closed as the biggest surge is amongst 10-16yr
       olds who are symptom free and are carrying it to
       multigenerational families.
       #Post#: 54707--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: Kermitpower
       Date: December 14, 2020, 12:05 pm
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       --- Quote from: SwindonQuin link ---
       >
       > looks like the minority of people breaking social distancing
       and going out getting drunk with the friends, rushing Harrods
       and behaving irresponsibly  have ruined it for the majority, as
       regularly happens.
       >
       > I feel for all of you who had match tickets.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       At the risk of being political, I'd have to disagree with that.
       The problem isn't with people trying to live their lives, it's
       with the government telling them not to!   >:(
       In the first 6 months of the year, there were 40,645 Covid
       deaths from 127,380 hospitalizations.  In the second 6 months,
       there have been a further 23,280 from 109,053.
       Think back to the start of all this....  The streets were like
       ghost towns, people were scared, the rules were being obeyed by
       pretty much everyone... Whenever anyone posted that they'd been
       out for a fun ride on the MTB forums I visit they'd be ripped
       apart by the vast majority accusing them of being selfish
       because they might kill Covid patients if they made an ambulance
       come and pick them up from the trails instead.
       Now, though, we've been through "eat out to help out", the
       government has encouraged people back in to work, the shops have
       looked pretty much like normal, and the MTB forums are full of
       people complaining that trails in the Surrey Hills are going to
       be shut down because so many more people are riding them than
       they ever did before lockdown.
       If it was this behaviour causing the problems, then you'd expect
       hospitalisations and deaths to be increasing, but they're not!
       The number of people being hospitalised with Covid has fallen,
       and the chance of dying if you do catch it has dropped from 1 in
       3 for the first half of the year to 1 in 4.7
       If you then go and take a look at Twickenham itself on the link
       below, you'll see that Twickenham North, the home of the Stoop
       is being plunged into the highest tier of restrictions with a
       horrific infection rate of 56.7 per 100,000!  Widen that out to
       LB Richmond and that rises to 115.1 per 100,000 compared to a UK
       average of 173.5!
       Going back to those deaths, sadly 110 people had died within 28
       days of a positive Covid death in Richmond in the first 6 months
       of the year.  In the second half of the year?  Twenty-two!
  HTML https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/search?postcode=tw2+7sx
       The actions being taken now are a complete and utter joke!!!
       Right at the start of lockdown, the hospitals pushed loads of
       old people out into nursing homes to make space for Covid
       patients, not realising that many of them were infected and also
       infectious but asymptomatic, and as a result half the first
       40,000 deaths were amongst nursing home residents, of whom there
       were about 800,000 at the start of the year. meaning 1 in 20
       nursing home residents died, along with one in 3,300 of the non
       nursing home population as a whole, or one in 13,500 of the
       population under the age of 65.
       They screwed up at the start, and a cynic could be forgiven for
       thinking that everything since has been about trying to make us
       all accept that this disease poses a risk to the general
       population to try and disguise that fact.
       Remember Patrick Vallence announcing in late September that
       without further action the UK could expect to see 50,000 new
       cases a day by mid October  and 200+ deaths per day by mid
       November?  From then until mid October, the government basically
       took bugger all action, and what happened?  A rolling 7 day
       average of 17,592 new infections on October 15th, but 449 deaths
       reported on November 15th.
       At this point, of course, with a third the number of projected
       cases causing more than twice the number of projected deaths,
       maybe you'd think we should be panicking!  Then again, we're
       measuring deaths as anyone who dies within 28 days of a positive
       test, and every single person admitted to hospital is tested, so
       you could be taken in having lost both your legs in a freak
       smoothie-making accident, be tested as positive on the way in
       before bleeding out in theatre and you'd count as a Covid death
       even if you'd not had so much as a single symptom, but never let
       it be said they're just plucking the numbers out of their arses
       as they go along!
       Did I have Racing tickets, I hear you ask?  Yes, I bloody well
       did!!!  Am I gutted about missing out?  Absolutely!  I'm almost
       as gutted about that as I am about seeing how upset my 12yr old
       is about it.  Having said that, what right have I got to be
       bitter?  I've still got my job unlike millions, and haven't been
       given a terminal cancer diagnosis as a result of testing being
       suspended because of Covid, so I guess I should count my
       blessings...
       #Post#: 54709--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: BedfordshireBoy
       Date: December 14, 2020, 2:30 pm
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  HTML https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-on-phased-return-of-sport-and-recreation/elite-sport-return-to-competition-safe-return-of-spectators
       Outdoors:
       Tier 1 4000* spectators or 50% venue capacity, whichever is
       lower
       Tier 2 2000* spectators or 50% venue capacity, whichever is
       lower
       Tier 3 No spectators
       #Post#: 54710--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: raedarius
       Date: December 14, 2020, 3:28 pm
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  HTML https://www.quins.co.uk/news/update-on-racing-92-match/
       "Please be aware that as we want to give all our Season Ticket
       Members equal opportunity to attend future fixtures, we will not
       be giving any priority to those either successful or
       unsuccessful in the Racing 92 ballot in any upcoming ballots."
       #Post#: 54711--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Racing 92 - London into Tier 3
   DIR By: Harlequinade
       Date: December 14, 2020, 3:29 pm
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       London Irish have announced already that it has stopped selling
       tickets.
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