Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:58 am  

CM, is it possible the capicity could be reduced permeament if the health & saftey there on Friday feel we didn't perform or handle the game well enough?

[Sadfish]

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:53 am  

St pete wrote:

CM, is it possible the capicity could be reduced permeament if the health & saftey there on Friday feel we didn't perform or handle the game well enough?

Abosolutely, and think it probably will be and a good thing too, I think we need to get it right before someone is injured. Especially the southwest corner problem, of course if they put in the cladding in the west stand first then they be as far round as the northwest corner by the match, ifs and buts which might stop the problem occuring.

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:00 am  

Sadfish wrote:

Absolutely, and think it probably will be and a good thing too, I think we need to get it right before someone is injured. Especially the southwest corner problem, of course if they put in the cladding in the west stand first then they be as far round as the northwest corner by the match, ifs and buts which might stop the problem occuring.

I think it is more the case that the turnstiles are in the southwest corner where the majority of fans walk in and up? I certainly did, i didn't pick that corner because it had shelter i just walked up the first lot of steps?
If the turnstiles were in the middle of the West stand they would not have had a bottleneck in the southwest corner as shown on Friday night?

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:06 am  

Sadfish wrote:

Abosolutely, and think it probably will be and a good thing too, I think we need to get it right before someone is injured. Especially the southwest corner problem, of course if they put in the cladding in the west stand first then they be as far round as the northwest corner by the match, ifs and buts which might stop the problem occuring.

The west stand was over packed and dangerous. The fact you could by tickets for north and south stand and still stand up in west is a problem, I know people who couldn't get tickets so they bought seating tickets and stood in west stand with mates.

The fact the is a chance you can get drenched if stood in north west corner means everyone tried to pack in to the south west corner meaning it was to full.

You could see the stewards moving people from west stand up to the north east corner of the stadium.

If I'm being honest, I think Friday was a total cock up and could cost saints revenue in reduced attendance.

The cladding not being out up seems to have come back and bit saints on the bum.

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:35 am  

A lot of people are saying it could be solved by stewards checking tickets,can you imagine everyone showing their ticket every time they left and returned for refreshments. People won't like it but the only answer is to keep supporters in their allocated stand and concourse.

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:56 am  

roader wrote:

A lot of people are saying it could be solved by stewards checking tickets,can you imagine everyone showing their ticket every time they left and returned for refreshments. People won't like it but the only answer is to keep supporters in their allocated stand and concourse.

That's the solution but how do you do it?

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:56 am  

Surely the answer is to have walls/barriers between the sections of the ground and your ticket/swipe card only allows you into the areas that you have paid for. It's hardly rocket science. To have stewards checking which areas you are going to will slow things down and cost more money in the long run.

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:21 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Surely the answer is to have walls/barriers between the sections of the ground and your ticket/swipe card only allows you into the areas that you have paid for. It's hardly rocket science. To have stewards checking which areas you are going to will slow things down and cost more money in the long run.

We wont pay to build walls

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:29 pm  

I was in the West Stand near the NW corner and there was a metal barrier with stewards seperating the North and West concorses as the game kicked off but it had disappeared by the end of game.Didn't notice at what point it was removed but surely they have to remain in place to stop supporters accessing the wrong stand leading to overcrowding?I'd have thought this would be basic H&S practice.

Re: My review of the stadium... : Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:42 pm  

From the north stand it looked like there was plenty of room in the west, people just grouped together at the sw corner as thats where they got in and the nw corner is wet