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I continue to be amazed how some people seem to feel that going to a game of football or having a meal is more important than their own long term health. I still have family and members of my team at work with long covid, they may never be the same again, Mother in law died with it. Not going to a match won’t kill anyone.

Anyone else get sick of reading pish like this?

Over reaction to a declining issue what a feckin ridiculous statement to make about a virus that kills people and leaves others still struggling health wise a year later, have a look at yourself FFS. Public health and people's lives are more important than going to a football match, oh and the "wee crankie" patter is honking, get a grip.

Burrows' supposed reason for wanting the games off was losing money on Boxing Day. Guess what we are losing it. The reason we are losing it is because Celtic need to play at least 1 fixture to prevent a possible pile up for them. We have been shafted and instead of seeing this coming he was punting the Parkhead line on TV all day.

I’d happily let fans who have came home for Christmas and don’t normally get to see the team on a regular basis get first shout

Dunno what is the more depressing news. The shutdown due to a raging global pandemic or the outbreak of rampant fannyism in the Motherwell area. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk

How do we allocate seats to the 500 allowed in. All in one stand or 175 in each stand or 250 behind each goal. Anywhere as long as your 1m away from anyone else . Will there be a singing section. Will the pie stalls be open or do you bring a packed lunch . Will there be one in one out in the toilets. These are all questions that need answers. Answers on a postcard to , wee crankie ,c/o bute house ,edinburgh. Dont worry she wont read them as she hates all football supporters anyway.

Aye big Charles was excellent. Curtis not so much but well done anyway.

I can’t help but feeling that this has only happened because Celtic wanted it to happen. Had they not been so vocal in pushing for this then it would have been thrown out straight away. But that’s Scottish football these days, what Celtic want, Celtic get. As I said yesterday, I don’t see what this will achieve. The virus won’t have gone away by mid January and if anything case numbers will be a lot higher by then they are just now due to Christmas/New Year household mixing, so I would have thought it would have been better to just play the scheduled games bcd, as shite as that is. As it is we are looking at a major backlog in fixtures when we do eventually resume - which I am 100% certain will be without full crowds.

Yes, Covid has touched many families including my own. I agree about the 500 figure, but in fairness any limit is going to be arbitrary. In terms of the reasons behind such a restriction I agree that the actual stadium attendance is the lesser of the 2 risks, but surely the dangers of transmission are far greater in a smaller ground like say New Bayview (500 occupied seats out of 1,980 - 25.3%) than in say Pittodrie (500 occupied seats out of 20,866 - 2.3%)? In terms of the greater risk, that is the effect on public transport, I doubt that 500 fans would make much difference. Most of those 500 will not travel to stadia by public transport; probably considerably less than half will. Of those who do, not all will have the same trip origin. Whilst agreeing that public health must be our priority, I doubt if this restriction to 500 attendees at football matches will make much difference health wise, but it will make an economic difference. However, scale that up to say 20,000 and over thats where a real difference could kick in. 50,000 going to Ibrox or Parkhead would create a huge risk for those travelling by bus or train or underground. All that said, public transport will be much reduced on Boxing Day anyway. In my view this is a very blunt measure which, on balance, may do more harm than good. Thats not to say that some kind of crowd restriction shouldn't be introduced in a more targeted way.

Whatever happened to those Covid passports we were all so keen on?

Im not a fan of a pre-determined winter break. Weather could be terrible at any point from Nov - March. Pre covid it was a lottery - close in January when weather is ok and face a build up of postponement in feb/march. Now in a covid world even more uncertainty. If safe for players we should continue to play. I'd rather we keep the season going and roll with the punches, if weather or covid stops play so be it - re-arrange as/when we need to.

Watt won't turn a contract down from us then end up at dundee,if he stays up here it will be with aberdeen or hibs but even then I don't see it,I think he has ambitions of moving down south again.

Yes, as I said a few posts back honking patter.

I see AB is in favour of bringing the winter break forward, a position being taken by several other clubs it seems. I’ve got to say while I see where they are coming from, the virus isn’t going to have gone away after three weeks and there is no chance of it going back to anything like full crowds by then. Generally since the beginning of the pandemic they set measures out with three week review times but they are not simply going to remove them after that time, if anything they will strengthen the measures at that point if not before. So bringing forward the winter break in the hope that by the time we resume crowds will be back is nothing but fantasy.

The über fans, Twitter groupies and fleece wearers who think they should be on the board will say different demanding the lion share.

Typical of wee crankie, lot of BS over reaction to a declining issue, heh ho will just need to go to the pub then….

just to add fuel to your fire, I'll be a pedantic fanny...if it's a pandemic , it cant be anything other than global, just what people say to ramp it up even more

Travelling to the pantomine, cinema or shopping centre is fine though.....

The Scottish Parliament sits two days a week, 36 weeks a year. The only easier job in Scotland is held by Mi'chel Parker.

Members of my family have been in intensive care with Covid. It's no joke. Personally my booster appointment isn't until after Christmas and the extreme infection rate of this variant is probably going to be a big problem. I thought hard about going to the last game. It was most likely games were going to be cancelled anyway from player infections like they have down south (which is a bit ahead of us in terms of infection spread). It's football. We can park it for a while. I wish everything was like it was pre-virus but it isn't and we have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Stay safe everyone.

Don't talk shite it's not a vendetta against football it a public health emergency, people are dying and this new covid variant is rampant so action had to be taken, stopping hundreds of thousands of fans mixing all over the country was a no brainer.

The Scottish Goverment and particularly Sturgeon hate football fans.

I noticed on Sportscene that Livi wore an all-black away kit on Saturday with Ross County wearing what looked like the Livi home kit, all yellow. I know they have agreements in place about the number of times they can wear away kits but I'm old school, unless the first strips clash then just wear them.