Kell Brook wants to fight at Bramall Lane this year

[TJB.]

So it was the police who ordered them not to hand out bottles?

For fucks sake.

Besides ramming it down someone's throat or sticking it up someone's arse, what harm can really be done with a plastic bottle?

 

[Grappler]

Confirmed broken eye socket by the way, what shitty luck he's had

I hope he comes back from this, would be a gutting way for such a great boxer and undeniably great bloke to go out

That is really bad news, both eyes broken in the last two fights. Fair play to him for continuing as long as h did last night.

 

[Grappler]

For fucks sake.

Besides ramming it down someone's throat or sticking it up someone's arse, what harm can really be done with a plastic bottle?

 

[ForgeBlade]

A more coherent review of my night, now I've woken up and beat an almighty hangover into submission with some more beer (I love 3-day weekends )

Where I was (Westfield Corner) I thought the atmosphere was superb. Maybe it's the acoustics in that part of the ground (never sat there for footy) but the crowd noise was deafening at times (Sweet Caroline, the wall of noise for Kell's ringwalk, some of the Blades songs that got an airing etc). I'll definitely give it a try for at least 1 match next season, as the view is magnificent.

The organisation of the catering was worse than shambolic. I got in around 8, and told my mate I was off to the bar straight away. Joined the queue at 8:05...and made it back to my seat with 6 lukewarm Carlings that were at least 30% head at 9:40. I did see lots of people helping out by grabbing bottles/cups and pouring their own, or helping people with big orders to pour in order to speed things up very slightly, but overall it was disgraceful.

The fight...I thought was fairly even until Kell's eye shut. Once that happened his only hope was to see out 12 rounds and hope he'd done enough early on for a SD or a Draw (I don't think he had). I don't blame him at all for stopping, at some point, even in boxing, you have to think of your health. Kudos to Errol Spence - he fought well and was a deserved winner in the end.

Apparently we got lucky taxi-wise. We went from the lane to the beer engine for one, and then onto the washington for a couple more pints. Left there at just gone 2 and headed in the general direction of Corporation, as I assumed there would be a stack of taxis waiting outside the club. No such luck, so we set off walking again towards the bottom of the Moor. Black cab came round the corner, we flagged it down and got home (via a petrol station for a 4-pack of lager) in about 10 mins, at standard taxi price for the journey.

 

[Mesut Özil's Lawnmower]

For fucks sake.

Besides ramming it down someone's throat or sticking it up someone's arse, what harm can really be done with a plastic bottle?

And half of the bars were just handing out the bottles anyway

 

[Mesut Özil's Lawnmower]

A more coherent review of my night, now I've woken up and beat an almighty hangover into submission with some more beer (I love 3-day weekends )

Where I was (Westfield Corner) I thought the atmosphere was superb. Maybe it's the acoustics in that part of the ground (never sat there for footy) but the crowd noise was deafening at times (Sweet Caroline, the wall of noise for Kell's ringwalk, some of the Blades songs that got an airing etc). I'll definitely give it a try for at least 1 match next season, as the view is magnificent.

Was in BUT and could hear all Blades songs coming from corner haha, judging by twitter I think they could hear em on tele as well

Definitely would have heard GCB as it got belted out a fair few times though the unison was a bit off

My only issue with the crowd noise was that it trailed off in the middle few rounds of the fight probably when Kell needed it most

 

[Mesut Özil's Lawnmower]

That is really bad news, both eyes broken in the last two fights. Fair play to him for continuing as long as h did last night.

Like to see Eubank Jr justify his "swollen eye" comment now, that was nonsense even before it was confirmed broken

There aren't many that would have carried o as long as he did against both GGG and Spence, in fact there aren't many that would take those fights to begin with

Awful pair of injuries to have, if he can come back I hope he gets another title shot, or Khan stops dodging him

 

[TJB.]

My two penneth.

I've followed boxing a bit for a number of years but never stumped up the cash to attend a match. I've never wanted to risk paying £X for something that could potentially be over in 40 seconds.

Last night was obviously a different kettle of fish. The Lane looked beautiful under the lights and most of the crowd were superb.

Having said that, there were a lot of dickheads around. Why would you pay that much money to turn up and be a cunt? Why do people pay that much money to turn up and pay attention to the people being cunts whilst there's a fucking match on? And what's the connection between boxing and cocaine? It was everywhere!

I won't go into the catering debate. I don't need to. We know.

As for the main event, it was sad to see. It was relatively even on points before round 7-ish, but Spence Jr really started to shine after that. His hand speed was superb and I felt that the hype from across the pond was justified. I can't imagine how Kell must feel, but anybody who has the nads to step in that ring in front of all their home fans has my respect instantly.

 

[Foxy]

They're only phone snaps with a few Instagram filters so they're no use in print or anything. Feel free to use it for anything you want....

Yeah, he only stole one of them from Facebook anyway

Having said that, there were a lot of dickheads around. Why would you pay that much money to turn up and be a cunt? Why do people pay that much money to turn up and pay attention to the people being cunts whilst there's a fucking match on? And what's the connection between boxing and cocaine? It was everywhere!

Yep, absolutely. A good mix of people, but there was an underlying pattern of every section appearing to be have a large proportion of nobheads. The queues for the cubicles were the longest in the place, though some decided it was a waste of time trying to be discreet.

 

[Davalon]

A more coherent review of my night, now I've woken up and beat an almighty hangover into submission with some more beer (I love 3-day weekends )

Where I was (Westfield Corner) I thought the atmosphere was superb. Maybe it's the acoustics in that part of the ground (never sat there for footy) but the crowd noise was deafening at times (Sweet Caroline, the wall of noise for Kell's ringwalk, some of the Blades songs that got an airing etc). I'll definitely give it a try for at least 1 match next season, as the view is magnificent.

The organisation of the catering was worse than shambolic. I got in around 8, and told my mate I was off to the bar straight away. Joined the queue at 8:05...and made it back to my seat with 6 lukewarm Carlings that were at least 30% head at 9:40. I did see lots of people helping out by grabbing bottles/cups and pouring their own, or helping people with big orders to pour in order to speed things up very slightly, but overall it was disgraceful.

The fight...I thought was fairly even until Kell's eye shut. Once that happened his only hope was to see out 12 rounds and hope he'd done enough early on for a SD or a Draw (I don't think he had). I don't blame him at all for stopping, at some point, even in boxing, you have to think of your health. Kudos to Errol Spence - he fought well and was a deserved winner in the end.

Apparently we got lucky taxi-wise. We went from the lane to the beer engine for one, and then onto the washington for a couple more pints. Left there at just gone 2 and headed in the general direction of Corporation, as I assumed there would be a stack of taxis waiting outside the club. No such luck, so we set off walking again towards the bottom of the Moor. Black cab came round the corner, we flagged it down and got home (via a petrol station for a 4-pack of lager) in about 10 mins, at standard taxi price for the journey.

You were either stalking me or were actually with me by the sounds of it then

Actually no we went for one in the Clubhouse before the Washington. Beer Engine was before.

 

[wizadry]

Maybe people are talking up Spence to make the fight more attractive or maybe Kell has had his previous opponents carefully selected and hasn't actually fought many decent Welterweights. We'll see on Saturday.

I told you that you was speaking bollocks!

Oh no, that was me.

 

[wizadry]

The first time I've been to a big boxing event and to be honest I was slightly disappointed, although the day overall was a very good one.

The atmosphere was in dribs and drabs, I couldn't hear a thing from the speakers, the beer queue was shocking, loads of nobheads (our lass said I was one ) and Kell let me down for quite a large chunk of money, other than that it was a very good day.

 

[Dkc]

Arrived around nine, thought the 45 minute queue for beer was a bit crap but hearing about others' experiences we were lucky it wasn't longer. Got 4 each, took our seats in South Stand and saw the two big fights. Fanny's before, which had the support bouts on, and Crown after.

Buffer didn't say BDTBL btw

 

[snootyfenooty]

Buffer didn't say BDTBL btw

He did, before the Groves fight, clear as a bell on PPV, nearly wee'd meself.

 

[WhiteHawk]

#SpiritofSheffieldCabbies
Absolute chaos trying to get a taxi home tonight.
Flagged one down who wanted to charge £30 for a journey that's usually £15-£17.
Told him to F off
Two hours later reluctantly agreed to pay another cabbie £20 up front as all out of any other options.

We went to Cremorne for a couple after, left about 1.30 and took us about 20 minutes of wandering through town to get one. There were loads of empty ones driving past with their light off, one wanted to charge us £35 and one didn't want to give us a lift due to Ramadan. Eventually got one near The Wicker and it was the normal price.

 

[WhiteHawk]

great photo's those. Looks impressive. Such a pity the catering and sound system weren't up to scratch. I'm afraid Mr McCabe needs to sort this out or he won't be hosting any more.

Nothing to do with McCabe/Sheffield United. It was a Matchroom Boxing event and I think it was them who provided the catering staff.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Been told today by some watching on tv that the crowd came across as a total set of c**ts thanks to chants during the minute's silence for what happened in Manchester on Monday ... my reaction to that "what minute's silence?" Thanks to that PA system I never heard the announcement for the minute's silence as I guess most of those in the stands wouldn't have heard either.

If we're going to have events like this in the future at the Lane the problems with the PA system and the beer queues need sorting.

 

[Barry Butlin]

Went to the tripple G fight at the O2 and took me an hour to get a drink so think it's a problem at big fights full stop. The fight itself I thought Kell was flagging well before the eye injury so he wasn't up for 12 rounds, which takes us back to the Carson Jones fight. If he was thinking of fighting at welterweight again he should have started taking the weight off after the triple G fight and not just 8 weeks before the fight. I rate Kell but Spence prepared better and that's why he won UTB

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Went to the tripple G fight at the O2 and took me an hour to get a drink so think it's a problem at big fights full stop. The fight itself I thought Kell was flagging well before the eye injury so he wasn't up for 12 rounds, which takes us back to the Carson Jones fight. If he was thinking of fighting at welterweight again he should have started taking the weight off after the triple G fight and not just 8 weeks before the fight. I rate Kell but Spence prepared better and that's why he won UTB

This shouldn't be a problem that they can't overcome, more staff, keep the pints continually racked up ready to go as they do at cricket (long queues for beer used to be a problem there too). The only reason I can think of why they don't already is they want to slow down the number of people getting even more hammered.

 

[Beat Jedi]

Gutted I couldn't go due to being on nights but at least I saved myself being sent into a rage by the beer queue! Just knew it would be horrendous given what match days are like.

We seem to have got rid of the machines that poured multiple pints in order to put proper taps on the bar to make it look more like a pub (along with signs saying "craft beer" and then serving Greene King IPA). We didn't use those machines properly anyway instead of just having someone pre-pouring lager the staff would go over individually and just put 2 pints or whatever on it and then there'd be another staff member waiting to use if after for their own 2 pint order!

Problem with the pre-pouring is you will still get some old gits moaning "I don't want that one it's been stood out!" I have heard this with my own ears! Separate queues needed! Pre-poured pint queues and massive queues where they're all poured freshly to order if you're that fucking bothered!

So pre-pour them and get sturdier cups with lids like McD's. Just makes it quicker handing them over and for customers walking away from busy bars with multiple drinks because less spilling than with those bloody squishy plastic things. I've been to gigs where they've used pre-poured pints with lids and worked well. However the same issue with the moaning old gits will apply if you try serving them a pint in a big cardboard cup with a plastic lid!

Next option just do away with the taps and serve plastic bottles only. You're paying over the odds for fucking piss anyway it really doesn't matter if it's in a plastic bottle or plastic cup. Obviously you need to check with the police first to make sure they aren't going to come along on the day and make you pour them into plastic glasses anyway for some inexplicable reason.

 

[Jersey Joe]

I'm a fight fan and I've been to many events. Sadly got to say this is the worst organised regarding catering (beer) and the abysmal PA system. If I wasn't a Blade I wouldn't buy in to another gig at The Lane.

 

[Top Cat]

So...how many pints did you intend to neck?

 

[Jersey Joe]

So...how many pints did you intend to neck?

A few more than the one I managed, due to not being able to get back to the bar.

 

[diplomat]

Been told today by some watching on tv that the crowd came across as a total set of c**ts thanks to chants during the minute's silence for what happened in Manchester on Monday ... my reaction to that "what minute's silence?" Thanks to that PA system I never heard the announcement for the minute's silence as I guess most of those in the stands wouldn't have heard either.

If we're going to have events like this in the future at the Lane the problems with the PA system and the beer queues need sorting.

I was BLUT and couldn't hear the announcement and only twigged when those ringside all turned towards our stand and the corner because they were singing. Things like that should be communicated better, either well in advance by twitter or sky sports so everyone knows before they arrive or by having a PA that reaches more than 50 feet.

If anyone knew it was a minutes silence, as I suspect the instigator of the "shove your Isis up your" chant did, then I agree that it was very cunty. I think the England chants were from a section that had no idea about the silence and were just getting excited before a world title fight.

 

[diplomat]

This shouldn't be a problem that they can't overcome, more staff, keep the pints continually racked up ready to go as they do at cricket (long queues for beer used to be a problem there too). The only reason I can think of why they don't already is they want to slow down the number of people getting even more hammered.

Those machines at headingly are awesome at pulling nine pints at the flick of a switch. Good pints too. We had a cheap awful version of one on the south stand that actually made queues worse because it poured such an awful pint.

Some decent technology, a clear in and out lane rather than the self defeating scrum that developed at the bar and it should be easier than it is.

 

[WhiteHawk]

I was BLUT and couldn't hear the announcement and only twigged when those ringside all turned towards our stand and the corner because they were singing. Things like that should be communicated better, either well in advance by twitter or sky sports so everyone knows before they arrive or by having a PA that reaches more than 50 feet.

If anyone knew it was a minutes silence, as I suspect the instigator of the "shove your Isis up your" chant did, then I agree that it was very cunty. I think the England chants were from a section that had no idea about the silence and were just getting excited before a world title fight.

It seems like hardly anyone in the ground could hear what was being said over the PA. Curtis Woodhouse was on the floor close to the ring and even he has said that he couldn't hear anything.



I've seen comments from people sat in all areas of the ground saying that they couldn't hear anything over the PA.

 

[Dkc]

I had no idea that a minutes silence was asked for, and no one around us knew either

 

[Mesut Özil's Lawnmower]

Yeah knew nothing of this minutes silence

Was that when everyone started clapping cause I just joined in and assumed it was a minutes clapping instead, not a disrespectful alternative anyway, so don't understand the fuss

Manchester chants too

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

I was in the BLUT and didn't know anything about a minutes silence until I saw all the fuss next day

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Some observations on Saturday night :-
No stewards preventing the smog of fag and weed smoke in the toilets (John Street), as well as those loading up on coke.
Phenominal demand for beer which even the slickest operation would not have coped with. However the set up and service was abysmal in the extreme.
The PA system provided by the organisers was totally ineffective, and called into question safety implications had there been a serious incident.
The TV screens were far too small for the venue and distances involved.
The position of the ring needed to be nearer the Lane end. It also seemed to be nearer the South Stand than John Street.
Done properly, Bramall would be a good place for big fight boxing, but ????? if the weather isn`t kind.