Bookies reopening

Should not be allowed reopen

Wretched shiyrholes, the customers arriving in next week should be walked straight into counselling rooms

Its quite hard to see how a bookies can reopen to its old ways in the foreseeable future. Even the leaving out of pens and dockets carries an element of risk to it and its very hard to see people been allowed to sit down and watch the racing. The machines are also a potential health hazard unless they're cleaned after every use like the self-service checkouts in Supermarkets.
One possibility could be that you go to the counter, place your bet with the worker writing down the docket for you, then returning the docket to the customer who then leaves immediately but it still doesn't account for a lot of factors and would be hard to enforce.

Sleety_Rain wrote: »

Should not be allowed reopen

Wretched shiyrholes, the customers arriving in next week should be walked straight into counselling rooms

Why would they need counselling?

Yes I think your right it will be impossible to try and police social distancing , some guy losing heavily and the bookie girl telling him to stop running up late with dog bets won't end well .

I presume any bookies that don't have the screens up to protect the staff will sort that out.

Pens they could have behind the counter that you have to ask a staff member for one and then keep it or bin it when finished with it .

Most important will be hand sanitizer stations inside the door .

Hopefully they come up with some sort of times that you can't hang around , just place a bet and go ,, 10:00am till 12:30pm something like that ,
Plenty of people won't want to be going into a busy bookies and would be happy with that .

Talk is training this week and reopening 15th. That's one of the big bookmakers. I presume they'll all do the same.

https://twitter.com/BoyleSports/status/1270031749309964288

Not that we didn't believe you Roger

To answer my own question, I was in Boyles in Boroimhe and t'was grand altogether. A bit of hand gel at the door and you're away. I even lost a fiver on lunchtime 49s to get the juices flowin.
Great to be back to normal!

RivetingRoger wrote: »

Was in bar one and boyles today and it was all as before
No noticeable changes
PP not open yet

Well Boyles at least had hand sanitiser at the entrance, every other chair was gone, toilets locked, Markings on the floor. betting terminals separated by perspex screens ,the staff protected also, so nothing like it was before.

Barone and Boyles are still open at the moment .

RivetingRoger wrote: »

All shops, of any sort, with a streetfront were allowed to open
they are no different

Exactly my thoughts. They didnt just sneakily open when nobody was looking, they announced it on social media last week. Waiting two more weeks aint gonna make a difference.