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

[Gerritforud]

Agree with every word. I am proud to be from Sheffield not proud of the city as it is today. We should close Meadowhall and push all retailers back to the centre with the lure of cheap rents for a couple of years. Create a buzz in the city again. Develop the infrastructure and modernise. Meadowhall and the subsequent atrocious council leadership have destroyed the city centre. I walked down Fargate at the end of November about 7pm and was genuinely shocked at how bad it is. Quite intimidating for people I would think.

Town is dead.... when was last time you used town for shopping? November 7pm.
Shut Meadowhall.... Classic!

 

[Joe Boltons Left Foot]

I moved away from Sheffield 15 years ago - but if i am honest i still feel like i am coming home whenever i get back. I know its far from perfect but i also visit all the other major cities in UK and around europe with my job and very few of them are perfect. That said i still thing fondly of how the city centre was in the 80s and i think its much better now than it was then.

Does anybody else think that the bad publicity from the pigs / barcodes game will also have an impact on us making a stand with the SAG?

 

[Bartleby]

He isn't keeping them in work. It's not his company. They work on a site for a subby. He acts as 'number 1 bricklayer' (he isn't) and pays himself as such. I'm not privy to his wages either, but considering I know prices and the work that gets put down (£700/1000 bricks and it being easy for 2 brickies to do that before dinner time), it's easy to guess based on knowing what he pays the others. Earns, grosses, does it matter when he's haggling like he does and sneaking in?

Sounds a reyt parasite. Hope the club find him out for sneaking in for nowt and ban him.

 

[JJBlade]

Agree with every word. I am proud to be from Sheffield not proud of the city as it is today. We should close Meadowhall and push all retailers back to the centre with the lure of cheap rents for a couple of years. Create a buzz in the city again. Develop the infrastructure and modernise. Meadowhall and the subsequent atrocious council leadership have destroyed the city centre. I walked down Fargate at the end of November about 7pm and was genuinely shocked at how bad it is. Quite intimidating for people I would think.

Yes, anybody criticising anything becomes a hater on this website

I don't necessarily agree that Meadowhall has ruined the city centre though

All cities nowadays have large shopping malls and their city centres aren't ruined.

Ask a pub landlord which he'd prefer,
To be the only pub within ten streets, or having a pub on a street where there are ten other pubs.
A pub on a street with ten other pubs wins every time because it creates a busy pub crawl type atmosphere.

Meadowhall should enhance Sheffield City Centre, the only reason it doesn't is because Sheffield City Centre has nothing to offer and nothing of interest

 

[cahill]

To my knowledge, there’s a watching brief for the next couple of games before then further recommendations/communication will come out.

When I say further recommendations, please don’t read into that sanctions or changes, but more a debrief on what they’ve found for the temporary tweak and how they’ll go forward.

Put simply, throughout, the intimation was if people behaved (again, the stopping of overpopulation/blocking of safety exits - not specifically standing), things would be fine, if they don’t they’d have to tackle until people did.

The club didn’t want it to go on any longer than it ‘had to’.

Sounds sensible

 

[Digs blade]

I love Sheffield. There is room for improvement but it’s our city

 

[Gareth Kay]

Quite true, The people of the satellite towns around Sheffield hate Sheffield. And it doesn't offer them anything more than their little satellite town does.



Sheffield is just a larger version of the toilet they come from



I once got friendly with a man and his family whilst on holiday, a Leeds fan.



Every word was Leeds this, Leeds that, Leeds the other, the city, not so much the club.



It wasn't until late in the holiday that one of his kids told us they were all from Castleford



Can you even imagine somebody from Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Worksop or the Peak District towns having such glowing tributes about Sheffield ?



Let alone saying they come from SheffieNorth Anston , Rotherham but always say I'm from Sheffield ld when asked

I'm from

 

[Gareth Kay]

I'm from North Anston which is classes as Rotherham. I always say I'm from Sheffield

 

[Digs blade]

Ok I did the leg work for you... Considering that Burnley and Rotherham matches were already sold out when this was introduced. It's been in effect for just 2 yes 2! home games. No wonder you pissed off under your rug claiming you can't be arsed to debate.... Idiot?

The announcement was made on 26.10. Burnley wasn’t sold out so that was the first match that restrictions were made.

Thanks for doing the leg work for me but if you are going to do that then at least get your facts right or it makes you look a bit foolish, some might say an idiot.

My point remains that 2.5 months on it wouldn’t be unreasonable for the club to provide an update. Rather then give a sensible reply you just chose to be pedantic but each to their own I suppose

 

[JJBlade]

I'm from North Anston which is classes as Rotherham. I always say I'm from Sheffield

I have customers in Swallownest, Dinnington, North and South Anston, Kiveton and even over the other side of Rotherham at Thorpe Hesley

When I send them mail I always address it as Sheffield and none of them have said any different

I suppose being Rotherham "Technically" or "Sort of" doesn't really make them feel like they belong to either Rotherham or Sheffield.

But if I addressed a letter as Sheffield to someone living in Kimberworth or Masbrough I'm pretty sure they'd correct me fairly quickly

 

[S64 Blade]

I have customers in Swallownest, Dinnington, North and South Anston, Kiveton and even over the other side of Rotherham at Thorpe Hesley

When I send them mail I always address it as Sheffield and none of them have said any different

I suppose being Rotherham "Technically" or "Sort of" doesn't really make them feel like they belong to either Rotherham or Sheffield.

But if I addressed a letter as Sheffield to someone living in Kimberworth or Masbrough I'm pretty sure they'd correct me fairly quickly

That whole area from Swallownest to Dinnington is a bit of an odd one. Technically Rotherham, but a non-Rotherham postcode and quite often a Worksop dial code. Like you say, most people form there who I have met have more of an affinity with Sheffield.

 

[robbiez666]

We are not behind Liverpool, Nottingham and Leicester though I am not having that.

Liverpool is lightyears ahead of us. There are reasons for this. They got a lot of EU funding, but they've developed the docks and made the most of their history.

 

[BushBlade]

That whole area from Swallownest to Dinnington is a bit of an odd one. Technically Rotherham, but a non-Rotherham postcode and quite often a Worksop dial code. Like you say, most people form there who I have met have more of an affinity with Sheffield.

Just checked my cousin’s address. North Anston, Sheffield. That’s the address she gave me. And she grew up in Rotherham.

 

[S64 Blade]

Just checked my cousin’s address. North Anston, Sheffield. That’s the address she gave me. And she grew up in Rotherham.

It’s Rotherham council though.

Which just highlights the pointlessness of administrative boundaries to define a place. Especially given the urban sprawl of cities, making places like Swallownest, closer to Sheffield physically than Rotherham.

 

[Bartleby]

I have customers in Swallownest, Dinnington, North and South Anston, Kiveton and even over the other side of Rotherham at Thorpe Hesley

When I send them mail I always address it as Sheffield and none of them have said any different

I suppose being Rotherham "Technically" or "Sort of" doesn't really make them feel like they belong to either Rotherham or Sheffield.

But if I addressed a letter as Sheffield to someone living in Kimberworth or Masbrough I'm pretty sure they'd correct me fairly quickly

When I still lived in Sheffield, people I knew in Thorpe Hesley and even in Blackburn just under the bridge from Wincobank, mostly identified with Rotherham - supported the Millers and went drinking in Rotherham centre rather than Sheffield centre (which I found odd).

 

[alcoblade]

Agree with every word. I am proud to be from Sheffield not proud of the city as it is today. We should close Meadowhall and push all retailers back to the centre with the lure of cheap rents for a couple of years. Create a buzz in the city again. Develop the infrastructure and modernise. Meadowhall and the subsequent atrocious council leadership have destroyed the city centre. I walked down Fargate at the end of November about 7pm and was genuinely shocked at how bad it is. Quite intimidating for people I would think.

The council don't have the power to close Meadowhall, and nor should they have that power.

There's also a bit of a false argument that Meadowhall shouldn't have been allowed, and that it's presence killed shopping in the center. Whilst the latter is to a large degree true, Meadowhall (or similar) was getting built on the M1 corridor, locally. If Sheffield council had refused, Rotherham or Barnsley would have approved it, and it would have been a double whammy for Sheffield.

 

[alcoblade]

When I still lived in Sheffield, people I knew in Thorpe Hesley and even in Blackburn just under the bridge from Wincobank, mostly identified with Rotherham - supported the Millers and went drinking in Rotherham centre rather than Sheffield centre (which I found odd).

People to the east of the city (Kiveton, Anston, Dinnington etc) very definitely identify (on the whole) as from Sheffield, despite being under Rotherham council.

And these days, in my experience, many people form the centre of Rotherham will say they're from Sheffield (when away). That's more driven by embarrassment about what Rotherham's become, I'd guess.

 

[S64 Blade]

People to the east of the city (Kiveton, Anston, Dinnington etc) very definitely identify (on the whole) as from Sheffield, despite being under Rotherham council.

And these days, in my experience, many people from the centre of Rotherham will say they're from Sheffield (when away). That's more driven by embarrassment about what Rotherham's become, I'd guess.

Originally from Swinton and would always say I’m from Sheffield, mainly as more people would know of it than Rotherham (plus I never did much in Rotherham. Any leisure time was spent in Sheffield, pretty much so I’ve always felt more of an affinity here).

That said, I’m not embarrassed to be from Rotherham, although I’ve not lived there for a long time.

 

[Bartleby]

That's more driven by embarrassment about what Rotherham's become, I'd guess.

I can imagine that. Both have gone downhill since the 70's IMO, but Rotherham more so.

 

[alcoblade]

Originally from Swinton and would always say I’m from Sheffield, mainly as more people would know of it than Rotherham. I’m not embarrassed to be from Rotherham, although I’ve not lived there for a long time.

I bumped into a group of women form Kimberworth on a recent holiday who said they were from Sheffield. When it later became clear they were from Rotherham I asked why, and they said "nobody wants to admit they're from there now". I think to was more to do with the child abuse scandal. But anyway sadly, whatever problems Sheffield has, there at least seems to be a plan (and investment) being made to tackle it. Rotherham just seems to be falling into an abyss.

 

[alcoblade]

I can imagine that. Both have gone downhill since the 70's IMO, but Rotherham more so.

I think most of Sheffield has improved significantly since the 70's. It's the shopping element (with associated local streetscape) that's on its' arse. There's hundreds of millions being invested to improve that at least - let's hope it works.

 

[S64 Blade]

I bumped into a group of women from Kimberworth on a recent holiday who said they were from Sheffield. When it later became clear they were from Rotherham I asked why, and they said "nobody wants to admit they're from there now". I think to was more to do with the child abuse scandal. But anyway sadly, whatever problems Sheffield has, there at least seems to be a plan (and investment) being made to tackle it. Rotherham just seems to be falling into an abyss.

Seems to be. I’ve not been in Rotherham town centre since we last played them at their place. Nobody about on a Saturday afternoon and this was a month or so before Christmas.

 

[Bartleby]

I think most of Sheffield has improved significantly since the 70's. It's the shopping element (with associated local streetscape) that's on its' arse. There's hundreds of millions being invested to improve that at least - let's hope it works.

It was the retail side in the centre I was particularly thinking about. There was a study in 2019 that showed Sheffield as having the 4th biggest decline (in terms of store closures in the centre) in England and Wales (after Stoke,Eastbourne and Blackpool - Rotherham was 5th)) - and that's before the pandemic hit.

I do hope this investment pays off.

 

[The Crab]

There you go!

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He wants to be careful at his age, that's how Elvis met his maker.....

 

[VictoryBlade]

Liverpool is lightyears ahead of us. There are reasons for this. They got a lot of EU funding, but they've developed the docks and made the most of their history.

Yes but they are scouse **stards

 

[tyke1889]

I have customers in Swallownest, Dinnington, North and South Anston, Kiveton and even over the other side of Rotherham at Thorpe Hesley

When I send them mail I always address it as Sheffield and none of them have said any different

I suppose being Rotherham "Technically" or "Sort of" doesn't really make them feel like they belong to either Rotherham or Sheffield.

But if I addressed a letter as Sheffield to someone living in Kimberworth or Masbrough I'm pretty sure they'd correct me fairly quickly

Wouldn't bother me, I'm from Sheffield, but live in Kimberworth.
I used to go out with a lass and when I was working away I would always address her letters as:

Wingfield
Rotherham
Near Sheffield
South Yorkshire

Used to drive her family mad

 

[Westran]

The whole 'other cities are light years ahead of us' whining is pathetic, its jealousy laced with self loathing and denial of historical context.

We are where we are, it isn't through lack of a plan or mismanagement of the city or lack of ambition, its politics, industry, and geography.

The city is heading in a good direction, there's a lot going for us at the minute even in these circumstances, what will hold us back is the backwards attitudes of those who think that we need to be Leeds, Manchester or Liverpool. We'll never get anywhere by trying to imitate, we'll just end up second best. Sheffield can build itself based on its own heritage and it is doing.

The Outdoor City, greenest city in Europe, having the Peak District in our city boundaries, industrial heritage, creative industries and a thriving small business community. Leeds might have a thousand chain resteraunts, but we've got thousands of independent ones that are amazing and put money straight into the Owners pockets, not into a multi nationals over inflated bank account.

 

[Gerritforud]

The whole 'other cities are light years ahead of us' whining is pathetic, its jealousy laced with self loathing and denial of historical context.

We are where we are, it isn't through lack of a plan or mismanagement of the city or lack of ambition, its politics, industry, and geography.

The city is heading in a good direction, there's a lot going for us at the minute even in these circumstances, what will hold us back is the backwards attitudes of those who think that we need to be Leeds, Manchester or Liverpool. We'll never get anywhere by trying to imitate, we'll just end up second best. Sheffield can build itself based on its own heritage and it is doing.

The Outdoor City, greenest city in Europe, having the Peak District in our city boundaries, industrial heritage, creative industries and a thriving small business community. Leeds might have a thousand chain resteraunts, but we've got thousands of independent ones that are amazing and put money straight into the Owners pockets, not into a multi nationals over inflated bank account.

We're all those things. Even without the fallacy that "the place to be is a growth economy".
I despair at people judging where they live by how many shops are in the town centre.
What really matters is, how is your immediate neighbours/street/estate/community.
People moaning about airports, shopping in town(even though they don't shop there) or the way the country is ranked in the UK, well they're just moaners enjoying moaning.
Sheffield is a great place to live and work, especially if you make the effort where you live.

 

[bladesmanluke]

I took my car into Rotherham town centre for an MOT recently and mulled about for a few hours. I'm not even taking the piss, because it wasn't funny. The place is tragic. Barely an open business to be seen and a lot of people that you'd go nowhere near. Really quite sad

 

[Gerritforud]

I took my car into Rotherham town centre for an MOT recently and mulled about for a few hours. I'm not even taking the piss, because it wasn't funny. The place is tragic. Barely an open business to be seen and a lot of people that you'd go nowhere near. Really quite sad

Sounds like Manchester city centre...