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The Safety of Fans in the North Stand

Steve 10 said:
Fair comment, although banning orders have prevented people in the past with hooligans.

Just think people pelting things from above when there are families etc below is disgusting & it could cause serious injury.

They should chuck the book at the perpatrators
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I agree 100% marra
 

viccarlton said:
Have often wondered how this can even work, for instance if I got banned I’m sure if I wanted to I could get someone else to get me a ticket, actual prevention from getting into a stadium wouldn’t be a problem as the local police/stewards wouldn’t know me from Adam.
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I have seen police operating with booklets of photos of known trouble-makers to look out for at matches

I would also suspect that were you to be banned and then be found or arrested at a match then the sanctions could be escalated eg to include a custodial sentence

It is unfortunate that for those of us of a certain age this creeping pathetic hooligan fringe at matches is bringing back awful memories of the witless behaviour we had to endure in the 70s and 80s which brought such shame to our game
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
Must admit, it made me think twice about renewing mine and the bairns seats there. Wanted to move but there's 9 of us so there wasn't anywhere else decent in the lower bowl that we could have gone to. They need to do more though, it's shit constantly having to worry about that when you're just trying to get the bairn interested in safc
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Is it something RAWA are going to press the club in again?
 
Steve 10 said:
Fair comment, although banning orders have prevented people in the past with hooligans.

Just think people pelting things from above when there are families etc below is disgusting & it could cause serious injury.

They should chuck the book at the perpatrators
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How about they actually prevent it happening in the first place? A banning order will be scant consolation to someone whose child has been seriously injured, or worse.
A glass bottle has been thrown from up there this season and by chance, the bloke and his Daughter were on holiday were it landed.
Tha should have been immediately actioned by the club that form the first game of next season, away fas are on the same level as home. Sadly that berk Davison just paid lip-service to the fans groups and did absolutely nothing.

Those rigorous serches are doing the trick eh Steve (not you, Davison)? I mean, those smoke bombs can easily be hidden in the little pocket of a pair of jeans!
 
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Hank Scorpio said:
I’ve sat in the North Stand for years, but we’ve called time for next season and moved elsewhere in the SOL.

It’s a shame as it’s a good seat but I can’t be arsed anymore with the risk of stuff being chucked.

As I posted last night, it was pure luck the smoke bomb didn’t land in the home end
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I sat in the north stand for years as well but this season we moved to the west stand,the amount of stuff that gets chucked down from the north stand is ridiculous ,remember a smoke bomb landing at our feet once been chucked from the away section
 
st joes lad said:
I sat in the north stand for years as well but this season we moved to the west stand,the amount of stuff that gets chucked down from the north stand is ridiculous ,remember a smoke bomb landing at our feet once been chucked from the away section
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What will it take - being blinded by a missile coin thrown or burned by a random flare, before the club will listen?
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
Must admit, it made me think twice about renewing mine and the bairns seats there. Wanted to move but there's 9 of us so there wasn't anywhere else decent in the lower bowl that we could have gone to. They need to do more though, it's shit constantly having to worry about that when you're just trying to get the bairn interested in safc
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There will be after the deadline.
 
As much as Guiness Guzzler and the rest do a sterling job giving up their free time to take the supporters concerns to the management, the pertinent points that are brought up regarding supporter safety are bizarrely not taken seriously. Unfortunately a lot of people who voice concerns about the safety at the match will not be part of the RAWA but never the less the RAWA and other groups should be heard but its a closed shop at those meetings and it is now coming to a stage of what's the point. Where the club and any other public brands get hurt is through social media shaming through twitter, they've come out and responded after certain twitter posts started trending before. It just needs to be written by the RAWA or someone of notoriety who have plenty of followers and once it gains traction the club will take notice.
 
Does any know what Man City has done following the teenager getting scarred for life earlier this season when the pint pot hit her head when chucked from above by the Liverpool fans earlier this season.
 
TravellingMackem said:
Parabolic curves my friend. Parabolic curves
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loadabolic curves by the sound of it, at best from the middle of the north upper to the middle of the north lower will be no more than 50 ft and taking parabolic curves out of the equation as forward momentum will be overridden by gravity then the solution is two fold, 1 move the away supporters, 2 put up a f***ing net/screen
 
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