The stewards at Plymouth

grecian greg said:

I feel sorry for most of the people the stewards



were heavy handed today. I'm sure there were reasons for them doing this. Even when the students seemed satisfied they weren't. I think they increased the tension in the ground. What does everyone else think? I haven't felt that nervous at a game for a long time. Then the stewards came and stood in front of me, even when there were dogs on the pitch.

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Nik Saunders said:

I was almost sat behind the goal in the front of the stand and the stewards were kicking fans out for wanting to get back to their seats, one steward (Number 112 SIA) was the main leader and was getting a real kick out of it, I'm sure they had a book running on how many fans they could kick out.

Stewards were getting in the way all of the time and not willing to move out of the way.

I only saw 60 minutes of todays match and I did at one point really loss my rag and to the city fan who asked if I paid to watch the game today when being moved, the answer is 'yes'. Just because I'm in a b****y wheelchair, I still have to pay like everyone else and rightly so.

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grecian greg said:

I feel sorry for most of the people the stewards were heavy handed today. I'm sure there were reasons for them doing this. Even when the students seemed satisfied they weren't. I think they increased the tension in the ground. What does everyone else think? I haven't felt that nervous at a game for a long time. Then the stewards came and stood in front of me, even when there were dogs on the pitch.

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Nik Saunders said:

I was almost sat behind the goal in the front of the stand and the stewards were kicking fans out for wanting to get back to their seats, one steward (Number 112 SIA) was the main leader and was getting a real kick out of it, I'm sure they had a book running on how many fans they could kick out.

Stewards were getting in the way all of the time and not willing to move out of the way.

I only saw 60 minutes of todays match and I did at one point really loss my rag and to the city fan who asked if I paid to watch the game today when being moved, the answer is 'yes'. Just because I'm in a b****y wheelchair, I still have to pay like everyone else and rightly so.

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John William said:

As I see it the problems arose because:

(a) A lot of the younger City fans were well oiled
(b) Quite a few people arrived late
(c) There was no attempt to either enforce allocated seats or explain that it was pick your own
(d) There was not enough room to apply PYO - this only works if there is 5-10% surplus places so people who want to sit in their allocated seats can, the lads can congregate standing at the back, and some flexibility is shown by the stewards
(e) When (d) became plain the stewards didn't have the brains or flexibility to move the sheet penning the City fans in a few rows further over. They could easily have done this without compromising crowd separation. When I tried to raise this with them they just blanked me, they must have instructions not to engage with the enemy...

ps Greg, sorry for startling you as I walked by...

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