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Missiles being hoyed all game from North Stand Upper

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viccarlton said:
There’s no kudos to be had from tweeting about yesterday, he’ll be keeping his head low.
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That’s not fair mate. There’s a lot to to pull together in terms of understanding events and talking to other ‘bodies ‘ ie police, FA, etc and Saturday night is not the easiest time to tie people down.
They then have the unfortunate position having to consider what to do next in terms of the last two games.
Will other fans mimic yesterday and how will the club react?

Kagsie66 said:
The bloke you need to complain to is Steve Neill. He’s the safety officer for SAFC.
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He won’t be for very long I suspect. The response to a foreseeable event was pathetic.
 
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Chewit said:
That’s not fair mate. There’s a lot to to pull together in terms of understanding events and talking to other ‘bodies ‘ ie police, FA, etc and Saturday night is not the easiest time to tie people down.
They then have the unfortunate position having to consider what to do next in terms of the last two games.
Will other fans mimic yesterday and how will the club react?
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Agreed, the interest is in whether there is a response tomorrow, the end of the week, the end of the month or not at all.
 
Hank Scorpio said:
The thing is though mate; if you read the Coventry board, some just think we are bad losers :lol:. When in reality, yesterday was the worst trouble I’ve seen inside the SOL since it opened.

Whilst the club may be liable, they also have a duty of care towards the fans in that stand. Yesterday they failed and today they need to make some sort of statement and put pressure on Coventry to sort out their support. Make no mistake, it’s pure luck that no one was seriously hurt yesterday.

It’s pretty worrying, when you turn from your seat and just see bottle after bottle being chucked.
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Totally agree.
 
TravellingMackem said:
I’m absolutely furious still, so I’m taking the time to wait and make a considered report on Monday when I’m back at work, rather than get myself into bother now. No good can come from firing off emails or calls when you are still emotional
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Sometimes to show the emotion can work in favour.
Remember we are the people in the right here.
I messaged my lengthy statement in at 7am.
It was to the bone but fair.
 
JohnKay said:
A bit more fuel to the fire, my BiL who sits opposite end of the north stand to me (hanks side), his lass was hit by what they are presuming was a coin just after half time. She has a cut on her eyebrow and just got it clipped up, thing is how f***ing close is that to a 30 year old mother of 2 losing an eye. Fuck you Coventry and fuck the gormless mags who think its funny to go in the away end.
Possibly the most pissed off I've ever been with the club this, the police and stewards we're worse than useless today. Truth is they were calling people liars and even threatened to arrest our fans for having the nerve to complain.
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Dreadful that marra. Hope she’s ok.

The issue appeared to be that we didn’t have enough police or stewards available. This game should have been treated like a derby rather than any other normal match.

The club seriously need to review their policies regarding away fans. I moved back to the North Stand this season but there’s no way I’ll be back there next year if this isn’t sorted.
 
Its been awful reading this thread. We sit in the East Stand (towards the South corner) and didn't see what was happening. Obviously the blame lies both with the away supporters and our club who have failed to keep our fans safe. What is the point in the Stewards if they do nothing at all to stop trouble like this when its happening? And the Police.... what are they actually meant to do in these circumstances? I find it disgusting that both looked on and did nothing. If Coventry fans think we are sore losers and making stuff up or whatever, the CCTV will prove that it did happen.

I trust Stewart Donald and think he will come and out and condemn what they did. And then he really needs to put measures in place so this never happens again.
 
Chewit said:
Don’t agree Cat. There was a match commander. He should have taken action by stopping the game and removing the sunlun fans from the stand as he could not guarrentee their safety.
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I agree with you.
The invidious position tbe club put them in was the location of the away fans, the narrow pass to the seats, selling away tickets on the day etc
If I was there I'd have gone on to the pitch or tried to anyway to get them to stop the match.
When the safety of so many is at risk stop the f***ing game.
What is their remit? To kettle SAFC fans or to protect them?
 
two left feet said:
Agreed, the interest is in whether there is a response tomorrow, the end of the week, the end of the month or not at all.
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Must admit I am a bit surprised/ disappointed that someone at the club hasn't even acknowledged that something happened. Doesn't need to be anything that would prejudice an investigation, just a simple "we've heard the reports and are looking into it" but aye, hopefully that will come in due course.

The Coventry forum is pathetic, plenty saying they doubt it happened even when some of the decent ones on there have confirmed it and condemned it. Needs to be criticised by all because all this is going to do is further stoke ill feeling. I'd hate to see what would happen if they went on a good run and we ended up meeting them in a play off. Trouble is, as always, the little wankers who were throwing shit yesterday would no doubt get away with it whilst some poor fucker just taking their kids to the match or something would end up caught up in it.

I haven't been that angry at a match for years, seeing the lad a couple of rows behind me pulling his daughters hoods up on their coats to try and protect them a bit while there were police and stewards in the away section just looking gormless and doing fuck all. There was a lot of anger in the stand and I half expected it to properly kick off outside, of course if it had some normal fans would have ended up banged up with banning orders. Hope we go up, they fade into obscurity and we never play the fuckers again
 
SAFC1962 said:
I can remember a few years ago (I think when Paul Weir was in charge of security) a big "show" on local tv of how powerful the cameras were, and that if you threw anything they would find you. Surely after the first few missiles (especially the flare) they should have zoomed in and wound back and sent about 5 plod in to get each offender(s). Once the Coventry (and no doubt Portsmouth to come) saw arrests being made it would stop. There was also certain individuals hanging over the top goading the whole North Stand - surely they did enough to be removed/arrested?
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They did enough for the police and stewards move them back a few rows , as you’d expect they took the easy option.
 
sidneyeric said:
The club are not at fault for a bunch of shit fans throwing stuff man, blame the wankers throwing stuff, Other than restrict them next time I'm not sure what the club could have done.
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They are responsible for the safety of fans within the stadium
Away fans should not be located there
Away fans should be searched
If missiles are being thrown at children YOU STOP THE MATCH IF YOU CAN'T GET IT UNDER CONTROL
 
Rip Van Fish said:
Supposedly nigh on 100 cameras in the ground mate.
These cowards should be brought to book for this.
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This. They should be identified.

Chucking things from a height at kids and women where no one can get to them.

Coventry =cowardice scum.

Come and do it face to face with men.

They have to go back and live in Coventry. It is a punishment but the police need to identify them and get a lot of them banned.
 
DH1 said:
Saw this, was over the moon with the North stands reaction. Lost faith a bit with our support not backing each other up over the years OK the odd occasion it has flashed up around the country but the mass condemnation of that was class to see. Hopfully Coventry feel repercussions of this for there last few games of the season and the efl reducde there allocations or something.


Two orange stewards right at the front of the upper.
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Hopefully they go out of business and we can scrape the crap off our shoe.
 
Is Mick Smith still at the club?

When I had some bother a few years ago he was excellent getting back to me.
 
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