After a frustrating few weeks, when it felt like football was a long way off, it has been good to see players back in the stadium and a return to contact training. Adjustments have been made around the stadium to ensure safety as far as possible for players and staff, and to facilitate the Covid testing that is required. Good news on that front is that the testing requirements will reduce from twice-weekly to once-weekly.
Staff have been utilising the 1869 suite, Legends Lounge and Media Centre as temporary office bases, to ensure social distancing can be put in place.
Calls have continued on a regular basis with the Football Authorities to plan for the start of the new season, and now that the fixtures have been published it feels like the actual return to matches is underway, albeit these will be behind closed doors to begin with.
At this stage we do not know how long the closed doors arrangements will continue but - on the basis of comments from the Scottish Government’s National Clinical Director - it looks unlikely that there will be any change before October. Nonetheless, we are already looking at how limited numbers of fans could be accommodated if and when we are allowed to, taking account what the current two-metre social distancing measures would allow, and also if this was reduced to one metre.
Additional hygiene measures would also be required, including hand sanitisers and waste disposal bins, and the Club is grateful to the Trust for constructive discussions on funding these. Directors are also grateful to for the continued ‘Trust In Killie’ monthly donation of £7,000, in addition to project funding, and once again Billy Bowie and Phyllis McLeish have asked me to thank everyone who has contributed.
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