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I bought a season ticket for Clyde this year and obviously haven't attended any games. I'm sure there are many fans of Queens and others who are in exactly the same situation. To see folk like Galloway, or in our case a club chaplain, attend games at the invite of the club is a bit of a kick in the stones to actual fans who have kept their clubs in business for decades.

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Genuine question here because I'm not really following the stuff on twitter: do we know it was a director who invited him in?

I saw a photo where the Galloways are sat alone in the stand, no directors present. I'm wondering if it could have been a wee underling who didn't really consider the implications.

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13 minutes ago, oldbeforetime said:

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So if he had been sensible he should have self isolated for at least 10 days especially as he almost certainly came from a place of higher infection. Almost as if he doesn't care if he gets the backs up of his new community.

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I feel for QoS fans in all this, that club statement is basically a middle finger to them. Although it's titled apology it really isn't and its  such a brazen breach there is likely to be a consequence for the club. All so that fedora wearing mess could attend. It beggars believe.

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Right, this all looks pretty incredible.

Obviously, it's receiving such attention due to the identity of the individual concerned.

 

For me there are two questions:

a) Is this actually allowed?  Was admitting him to the match a breach of the rules?

b) If allowed, why was it done? Why so indiscrete?  why such a mealy mouthed statement?

 

Actually, it raises loads of questions.  Can anyone definitively answer the first one though?  It'll tell us whether the club have behaved very badly here, as opposed to unspeakably stupidly and extremely badly.

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Just now, Monkey Tennis said:

Right, this all looks pretty incredible.

Obviously, it's receiving such attention due to the identity of the individual concerned.

 

For me there are two questions:

a) Is this actually allowed?  Was admitting him to the match a breach of the rules?

b) If allowed, why was it done? Why so indiscrete?  why such a mealy mouthed statement?

 

Actually, it raises loads of questions.  Can anyone definitively answer the first one though?  It'll tell us whether the club have behaved very badly here, as opposed to unspeakably stupidly and extremely badly.

I just don’t see how it can be allowed. Does this mean all clubs can invite season ticket holders and their families to games? 

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Right, this all looks pretty incredible.
Obviously, it's receiving such attention due to the identity of the individual concerned.
 
For me there are two questions:
a) Is this actually allowed?  Was admitting him to the match a breach of the rules?
b) If allowed, why was it done? Why so indiscrete?  why such a mealy mouthed statement?
 
Actually, it raises loads of questions.  Can anyone definitively answer the first one though?  It'll tell us whether the club have behaved very badly here, as opposed to unspeakably stupidly and extremely badly.

The SFA protocols (posted by Flash further up) says the answer to a) is that this is not allowed.

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/7440/scottish-fa-return-to-matches-protocol_spfl-championship_league-12.pdf
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2 minutes ago, CallumPar said:


The SFA protocols (posted by Flash further up) says the answer to a) is that this is not allowed.

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/7440/scottish-fa-return-to-matches-protocol_spfl-championship_league-12.pdf

Yes, that certainly seems to be the case and it was entirely my assumption before today.

There was plenty talk on here earlier though, of all sorts who don't seem covered by such protocols being admitted at various clubs.  

If it really is a clear breach, then that Queens statement just gets weirder.

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11 minutes ago, HMIP said:

You people are a disgrace.  

A great man like George Galloway has returned to the land of his birth to lead his people to glory, and what does he face?  

Nothing but small minded, petty parochialism.  

I read this in his voice 

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We all miss seeing our clubs, we all miss seeing the regulars at the games.  We all spent time on Christmas talking to on the phone to family who would otherwise have been there, we'll all be doing the same again on Hogmanay and Ne'er Day.  We've all ploughed thousands into our clubs over the years, I'm sure.  I miss going to the cinema, I miss going to my church, I miss going to parents' for tea every few weeks, I miss visiting my friends.  We all do.  But we all have make sacrifices because there's a highly contagious disease spreading like wildfire that's killed thousands in this country already, and it's better to miss those things than to lose them forever because of Covid.  So we grumble a bit, we pay for our livestreamed games and we put up with it on the understanding that if everyone does, then we have those things back sooner or later.  It needs trust and solidarity across the country or it doesn't work.  It needs trust and solidarity or it's just millions of people feeling lonely and miserable for no reason.


Before he decided that the breathing binfires that are union flag twitter das were the easiest group to grift and he decided to fully embrace reactionary nationalism, George Galloway was something of a socialist.  He's probably given a few speeches about solidarity in his time.  But he's behaving just like the Marquis of Bute here, who has just been in the news for hosting private parties.  They're indistinguishable, really - they're big and (self) important, so the rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to them.  And for some bizarre reason we should be grateful to them for it, and not be so rude as to question it. 

And that's before getting to that club statement, which is just atrocious.  When a team is doing that badly on the park, its board need all the goodwill from the fans they can get.

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Also just to remind the Queen's fans who their board are buttering up/ jumping into bed with. This is a man who got punters to hand over £10k for a by-election that never happened for a party that doesn't seem to exist.

I would hope that Queens take this as a warning shot and to of course let him be a fan and a sponsor but not to give him anything that the other fans don't get.

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George Galloway will most likely get a few hundred votes in the next election and not come anywhere close to getting elected.  I wonder what the chances are of him continuing to sponsor QotS next season and renewing his five season tickets after he has been electorally smashed. 

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