email from club - NO MORE TICKETS ON SALE IN KOP - standing & wrong seat usage

[JJ Sefton]

They could have done that in the first place and then been told that they have the power to shut the stand / stadium down, subsequently not such a good idea

Says who?

 

[bertieblade]

Says who?

They grant the license, subsequently without the license you cannot host fixtures.
I don’t like it either and I don’t like them but unfortunately it is what it is.

 

[JJ Sefton]

They grant the license, subsequently without the license you cannot host fixtures.
I don’t like it either and I don’t like them but unfortunately it is what it is.

Rules are made to be broken.

 

[Panini]

Sit in the seat you have been given. How fucking hard is that?

For those who they're above being told what to do, it's impossible.

 

[A_Bladesman]

Can you let me know which bin?

Yes, I will load one up for you now.

 

[JJBlade]

Standing happens at every stadium in the country
There are some fans that refuse to sit point blank

The stewards in other cities just leave it because it's not worth the pointless, petty, shit that it causes

But not in Sheffield of course, the head of the little hitlers appreciation society, where the less important you are the more two faced shit you have to create.

 

[Sean Thornton]

It was hardly a flare, it was the equivalent of Roman candle from a box of standard fireworks.. it doesn’t make it right I know but how were the club supposed to stop someone from smuggling something that small into the ground?

All three were fired from just behind us. I can’t say what they were. Flare, firework? It was a projectile deliberately fired at Pig fans. I’m not quite sure who or what you’re trying to defend here. It was stupidity and indefensible.

I know her Dad. I saw the marks on her.

 

[Dkc]

United to STOP selling tickets on Kop amid warnings over potentially closing stands at Bramall Lane

Sheffield United have STOPPED selling matchday tickets for the Kop stand at Bramall Lane, after “issues” with fans not sitting in their allocated seats and congregating at the back of the stand.

www.thestar.co.uk

 

[Harry's Game]

All three were fired from just behind us. I can’t say what they were. Flare, firework? It was a projectile deliberately fired at Pig fans. I’m not quite sure who or what you’re trying to defend here. It was stupidity and indefensible.

I know her Dad. I saw the marks on her.

I am saying the punishment the club received was excessive.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

United to STOP selling tickets on Kop amid warnings over potentially closing stands at Bramall Lane

Sheffield United have STOPPED selling matchday tickets for the Kop stand at Bramall Lane, after “issues” with fans not sitting in their allocated seats and congregating at the back of the stand.

www.thestar.co.uk

This explains it again.
It isn't standing that is the problem.
It is congregating in an area AWAY FROM YOUR SEAT.

(Not you btw DKC)

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

I sit on the south stand & I genuinely never knew this was an issue? I dont understand how or why its a council issue either? Surely a football league issue but not council?

You will soon, when all the excluded fuckers off the kop come & stand in front of you (in your seat)

 

[Sean Thornton]

You will soon, when all the excluded fuckers off the kop come & stand in front of you (in your seat)

Based on @TJB s post, I hope they try it on SS H block first.

 

[John Cutsbushes]

Somethings got to change, its carnage on there at times, with Burberry clad mongs and pissed up Slavverchops doing what they like
Would love something to be done at away games, you get a good seat only for the usual bunch of cunts standing in the aisle while stewards sit on their £9.50 per hour doing nothing

 

[CrookesBlade]

What serious incident could possibly happen? Apart from I suppose scraped knees. The worlds gone mad, when you compare the near crushes we use to accept in the 80’s.

I’m all for free choice, if people want to stand then stand if people want to sit then sit. We should cater for the wishes of most fans and respect their wishes as long as it’s relatively safe of course.

If you want to take it to extremes the steps on the Kop are unsafe because you can fall down then and suffer injuries.

It’s not just the persistent standing that’s the problem, if it was just that it probably wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the fact that people who are allocated seats in other parts of the stand go and stand up at the top of one particular gangway causing a bottleneck in both directions.

I suspect it’s the view of the powers that be that this situation isn’t “relatively” safe and the need to take action. They will look at it from anywhere on the spectrum of somebody getting shoved down the steps and sustaining serious injury to how likely some kind of crush might be.

I get why people want to go and stand up there, better atmosphere etc but the licensing for all seater stadia is based on everyone sitting in their allocated seat.

 

[breeny]

You will soon, when all the excluded fuckers off the kop come & stand in front of you (in your seat)

 

[S64 Blade]

United to STOP selling tickets on Kop amid warnings over potentially closing stands at Bramall Lane

Sheffield United have STOPPED selling matchday tickets for the Kop stand at Bramall Lane, after “issues” with fans not sitting in their allocated seats and congregating at the back of the stand.

www.thestar.co.uk

A low point of my life, having one of my tweet’s copied and pasted by the Star.

Could they perhaps do some journalism and speak with the club/council?

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Ha. That would imply that they'd even noticed.

Do they get paid enough to wade in and attempt to remove 10-15 gobby teenagers? That's the other issue.

Not sure it’s (just) “gobby teenagers” if away games are owt of an indication

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Based on @TJB s post, I hope they try it on SS H block first.

Arthritis means they can’t sit down in the first place so plenty of space for another ‘standee’
BBC now means bones breaking & creaking

 

[WhiteHawk]

Took my nephew to his first game a few weeks ago and he loved it, he can't wait to go again. Now I'm not going to be able to take him unless I move my season ticket.

I couldn't wait to take him in the Kop and for him experience that

 

[west_yorks_blade]

You will soon, when all the excluded fuckers off the kop come & stand in front of you (in your seat)

But who’s to say how many of the ‘offenders’ are actually season ticket holders?

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Somethings got to change, its carnage on there at times, with Burberry clad mongs and pissed up Slavverchops

Have a like for ‘pissed up slavverchops’

 

[Bladesthorpe]

United should make the back 10 rows of the Kop safe standing. Do it now. It would be a quick and cheap intervention.

Assist anyone in this area to relocate season tickets if they want or need to sit. If you remain as a standing ST holder or buy a standing ticket you know what to expect. Manage this area properly, with experienced stewards and a couple of police officers, which would be at the club's expense. Check tickets, eject those that refuse to sit in their correct seats. This would allow those who want to stand to be able to do so safely.

Obviously there may be practicalities to consider, safety trials etc, that mean this takes some time to phase into full operation, but the club have just part closed the stand anyway, so need to do something now.

This can be monitored and more standing rows added in future to ensure standing capacity reflects demand and no one who wants to stand has to be in a seated area.

Fans have always stood at the back of the Kop, the fact safe standing here has not been implemented already is a massive oversight by all concerned if the issue has been known for a while, and would have prevented all this.

United spokesman said it would cost a six figure sum to install safe standing, who would be the first to complain when that money isn't spent on new players or the training ground.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Have the Kop season ticket holders' been offered alternative seats?

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

If not, then how can there reasonably be this step we now see (which has never been communicated as a next step, for non-compliance, as far as I believe)?

It doesn’t really matter what they’re paid. Their role is to prevent events from occurring and uphold safety and if they’re not doing that, then surely this is the crux of the issue.

If there had been a similar announcement to say something like “ we are investigating some known issues and stewards will be actively removing people who are persistent standers/ in the wrong seat. If this continues to be an issue, match day ticket sales will cease”, then that’d be fair enough. But it feels like it’s been a fairly silent operation with no fan engagement and no communication whatsoever around a failure to comply.

Aye
&when the stewards “actively” undertake “their role to prevent events from occurring and uphold safety” the entire kop will applaud & cry huzzah whilst passing the offending ‘n’er do wells’ over their heads towards the exits

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Rules are made to be broken.

Aye
As are limbs & necks

 

[S64 Blade]

Aye
&when the stewards “actively” undertake “their role to prevent events from occurring and uphold safety” the entire kop will applaud & cry huzzah whilst passing the offending ‘n’er do wells’ over their heads towards the exits

So what? If the suggestion is that the rules need to be upheld, then uphold them.

You can’t do nothing about it and the complain it’s continuing.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Who grassed us up to SCC ?

 

[Sheffsteel]

one of the problems is that we have a number of people who have had season tickets at the back of the kop ( singing / standing section ) for years. They have no wish to give up their seat as when people sit down it is a good seat, subsequently why should they move to a seat in an inferior position within the kop stand.
the only logical solution is to create a standing area at the back of the kop and then ask people to choose new seats for the whole kop, with those who have had their seats the longest to be given priority of choice from the start of next season.

But what about those people who used to stand on the Kop. Has there ever been a single serious safety incident regards anyone standing at the back of their stand at any club in the country.

Still find it weird that anybody prefers to sit when behind the goal. What’s wrong with giving as many people what they want?

Standing behind both goals and sitting in the side stands and BLUT.

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

I am saying the punishment the club received was excessive.

Aye
Maybe follow the Govts lead - a la Cruella - close ground for 6 days - Sunday to Friday inclusive- as long as there’s no mid week game

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

So what? If the suggestion is that the rules need to be upheld, then uphold them.

You can’t do nothing about it and the complain it’s continuing.

So…….
What do YOU do about “upholding the rules”