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What has changed since we both got the full away end?

There’s has been no event that I can think of that would cause this change in recent seasons.

This exactly,

A Leeds fan assaulted Chris Kirkland on the pitch, and still they get the full away end.
If one of our fans had done that SAG would be pushing for a complete away fan ban.

Would love to know why the allocation has been cut, despite no incidents.
 



The event is the outcome of the Hillsborough Inquiry.

SAG, SYP and SWFC, I suspect, are all terrified of the consequences of another incident at Hillsborough - except of course if it could be directly attributed to bad behaviour of fans.
 
Why did SAG determine that it was fine to have pigs in the lower tier last season but there must be no one in it this season?

Apart from bouncing trauma, there was no bother before or after on leppings lane.


They didn't release lower West Stand tickets to their fans until ten days before the Bouncing Day game. And only after they said the Kop and North had sold out and South tickets were limited. Something which doesn't appear to have happened yet.

The SAG reasoning could be correct, but has anyone actually come out and said this?
 
And yet again, answer is there none. That’s your standard type of comeback when some one comments on the laughable output - or in this case non output - of your employer.

Feel free to look for grammatical errors or the time of posting - is that relevant in any way, are there restrictions I’m not aware of- in order to dodge the subject matter.
I'm not wasting my breath anymore. If you want to debate, let's go for a pint sometime. Your modus operandi, with the benefit of anonymity, is trolling and sharking. Do it to someone else
 
I'm not wasting my breath anymore. If you want to debate, let's go for a pint sometime. Your modus operandi, with the benefit of anonymity, is trolling and sharking. Do it to someone else


You've been asked questions by others as well. Shall we all have a meet up so you can tell us in private what your employer won't cover on its pages. You're more than happy to put people straight when theysuggest things like transfer fees etc. How come your modus operandi only works one way?

If you're unable to defend the indefensible fair enough but why bring in irrelevancies as a reply?

Your newspapers reluctance to deal with issues local people find important doesn't make me a troll. Grass verges excepted of course. Were you a troll when casting doubt on others journalistic endeavours without having a single clue about the facts?


You're hardly wasting breath when you don't answer legitimate questions. Your replies though are hot air.
 
You've been asked questions by others as well. Shall we all have a meet up so you can tell us in private what your employer won't cover on its pages. You're more than happy to put people straight when theysuggest things like transfer fees etc. How come your modus operandi only works one way?

If you're unable to defend the indefensible fair enough but why bring in irrelevancies as a reply?

Your newspapers reluctance to deal with issues local people find important doesn't make me a troll. Grass verges excepted of course. Were you a troll when casting doubt on others journalistic endeavours without having a single clue about the facts?


You're hardly wasting breath when you don't answer legitimate questions. Your replies though are hot air.
What’s the issue with revealing actual transfer fees exactly?
 
Derby and Forest fans, who hate each other separated by two rows of seats and 2 lines of stewards
Sheffield Derby at each ground. Separated by 100’s of netted off seats
Hillsboro on Monday will be 4 to 5000 short of capacity of 34k by the looks of it
 
Derby and Forest fans, who hate each other separated by two rows of seats and 2 lines of stewards
Sheffield Derby at each ground. Separated by 100’s of netted off seats
Hillsboro on Monday will be 4 to 5000 short of capacity of 34k by the looks of it
The most violent game in Britain - the Glasgow derby, the fans were separated by 4 rows and a line of stewards.
 
OK I'll offer an explanation. SYP have already been exposed as incompetents in running a major football match and there's stuff still going through the courts relating to the Hillsborough disaster, i.e. their ex-honcho on a manslaughter charge. Combine this with a football ground not fit for purpose and we have the situation we're in now. This is not an excuse, this is it folks, pure and simple and no one will challenge SYP/SAG's decisions because it's a poisoned chalice and would be professional suicide for anyone who intervened. We're the sorry fuckers in the middle.
Fair comment but why give Leeds 4600, some of the most horrible fans in the country
 
Fair comment but why give Leeds 4600, some of the most horrible fans in the country

After the trouble at that game it won't be repeated, it will merely be used as an argument to reinforce SYP/SAG's position. Maybe it was set up that way?
 
Chancer likes his Tarpaulins, have one at the away end ....

pointing out the seats are empty due to Sheffield City Councils SAG

£80,000-ish down the drain
 



They didn't release lower West Stand tickets to their fans until ten days before the Bouncing Day game. And only after they said the Kop and North had sold out and South tickets were limited. Something which doesn't appear to have happened yet.

The SAG reasoning could be correct, but has anyone actually come out and said this?
Thanks Sean.
Surely it’s safe or it isn’t to put people in there. Why would it depend on how many other tickets they’ve sold?

It can’t suddenly just become safe because they’ve nowhere else to put people. It’s all nonsense.
 
I would also love to know more info regards the Safety Committee.
The Star should do a question and answer session with them.
How is it chosen? Who decides what and how?

Always made me wonder why often we’ll have a set of home fixtures.
We’ll give Reading 2,231 tickets, Ipswich 2,190, Rotherham 2,240, Villa 2,110, Forest 2,290.

Why does the away allocation figure keep changing by small amounts for every single match with no pattern or logic?
Why do we have so much netting all over the place, with front rows of the Bramall Lane tier and Bramall Lane upper tier never sold?

The whole thing is shrouded in mystery.

Think the only real answer I can think of for the slight change in allocations could be something to do with how many have been set aside for players and staff family and friends. But saying that not sure how that works or how they get to request them so who knows but it would make logical sense I suppose.
 
From the Star on line

"In 2017, South Yorkshire Police revealed that the force does not decide on ticket allocations or the capacity of stadiums. Speaking in September of that year, Chief Superintendent Shaun Morley said: “Sheffield United's standard away allocation is 2,339 so as a result of that, Sheffield Wednesday have reciprocated what they know is going to be their ticket allocation so they've only issued Sheffield United with the same amount. "So there is no safety issues from us, that's a decision relating to the two clubs and it's not a South Yorkshire Police matter."

Read more at: https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...ans-let-into-hillsborough-for-derby-1-9619454
 
Perhaps someone could unfurl a banner at the front of the upper tier.

A big arrow pointing straight down and a suitable caption such as ‘look at these empty seats. Massive my arse’


Won't that counter the effect of the tarp on the outside holding the place up ?
 
From the Star on line

"In 2017, South Yorkshire Police revealed that the force does not decide on ticket allocations or the capacity of stadiums. Speaking in September of that year, Chief Superintendent Shaun Morley said: “Sheffield United's standard away allocation is 2,339 so as a result of that, Sheffield Wednesday have reciprocated what they know is going to be their ticket allocation so they've only issued Sheffield United with the same amount. "So there is no safety issues from us, that's a decision relating to the two clubs and it's not a South Yorkshire Police matter."

Read more at: https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...ans-let-into-hillsborough-for-derby-1-9619454
What they don’t seem to understand and it’s been stated what seems like a gazzilion amount of times is that we didn’t give them anymore as we sell them ourselves and give the lower tier to every single team in the league, they can’t sell them and are doing it out of spite as there is no other reason and it should be brought to everyone’s attention in the footballing world in some sort of capacity how damn right stupid it is to leave all those seats in the ground empty when they could be sold 3 times over by us.
 
From the Star on line

"In 2017, South Yorkshire Police revealed that the force does not decide on ticket allocations or the capacity of stadiums. Speaking in September of that year, Chief Superintendent Shaun Morley said: “Sheffield United's standard away allocation is 2,339 so as a result of that, Sheffield Wednesday have reciprocated what they know is going to be their ticket allocation so they've only issued Sheffield United with the same amount. "So there is no safety issues from us, that's a decision relating to the two clubs and it's not a South Yorkshire Police matter."

Read more at: https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...ans-let-into-hillsborough-for-derby-1-9619454

Total madness.

Just imagine if and when we expand the South stand and Kop stand, our capacity will be 42K.
We’ll probably give the whole Bramall Lane end + most of the corner stand to away clubs, that’s a 7,000 ticket allocation to away fans.

So McCabe insists we are allocated over 7,000 tickets at Hillsboro instead of the 4,600 they normslly offer. They say they can’t because that would mean their own fans can’t get tickets.

Imagine the local media reaction if there’s space for over 7000 away fans at Bramall Lane but we choose to lower the SW allocation to 4,600 out of spite. You wouldn’t expect an owner to be so unprofessional debilberstely choosing to lose much needed revenue.

If this happened at the Lane I’d be criticising my club, if there’s space, then away fans should always have the tickets.
 
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Decent report that Danny, thanks.

I know the real reason is that Wednesday fans don’t want a large number of United find making a big noise in their stadium.
So Chansiri is trying to curry favour with his fan base because there’s a risk they could be embarrassed in their own back yard.

But to be honest this type of stuff belongs in the playground.
I don’t like large away followings coming to Bramall Lane as you get situations where they can out sing the home support causing shame and embarrassment but “that’s life” and we do benefit from extra revenue.

If this happened the other way round I’d be criticising McCabe for being childish.
Also I’d be saying “if we can’t sell our own tickets then give some to Wednesday”, as long as it’s safe, of course.
 



Wouldn’t surprise me.....but then why the inconsistent treatment of SU fans
Makes you wonder if there are SW fans on the Satety Committee.
Would love to read their minutes, if they have them.

The Saftey Commitee should be professional and consistent making allocation decisions based on facts/ history to ensure safety.
It’s not their job to appease Wednesday fans and help them save face.
It’s not their job to appease United fans either, they should be neutral and logical.


Like most Health & Safety officials and regulators in most industries, they create more problems and expense that far outweighs any good intentions they might have
No sorry, I'm being unfair, they have no good intentions except to their own expansion and their own pockets
 

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