We will all soon need counselling because our matchday experience has been lessened by the searches and ticket checks!! Come on guys ,give the club a break ! ,they are only trying to protect our wellbeing ,have we all turned into moaning wimps!!!
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Back in the day, women, on both sides of the divide in NI, used to courier weapons because they knew they were less likely to be stopped and searched. Probably the same the world over wherever there is conflict. The answer is to treat everyone the same just in case granny is couriering in a weapon.
There we go meet, that's why your mum is searched!
She could be carrying a smoke bomb for the TCE.
She could be carrying a smoke bomb for the TCE.
I was pulled out of line for having spare change in my pocket entering the Mayflower whilst Wigan fans were able to get a smoke bomb into the away end. That proves to me that the searches are completely pointless.
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I also think a winning football team will make fans more tolerate of the off the pitch issues, whereas a defeat (and 3 defeats in a row) will give license to fans to vent and have their say.
In truth the chaos at the turnstiles has been happening all season.
Also, the pandemic has left people and society in general a little bit edgy and anxious.
In truth the chaos at the turnstiles has been happening all season.
Also, the pandemic has left people and society in general a little bit edgy and anxious.
I think his name is Ray,and yes, he was good at organizing/advising the queues on a regular basis along the lyndy side,even joining in with good banter,i see he sits in the lyndy now,maybe retired or replaced with others that do not do their job as good as he did.
Why? It’s obvious. If you are a wrong ‘un and you want to take contraband into a location but don’t fancy being caught yourself, you will try all sorts to do it including sticking it in Granny’s handbag, Junior’s backpack, or your mate’s pocket while they aren’t looking.
Get him back, or some other old boys or gals who sit in the lyndy, who know how to make people welcome and 'sheepdog' them to the right place.
The club surely welcomes feedback like this. Yes hard core fans will put up with pretty much anything but marginal supporters will be influenced by the quality of the experience. Better experience, more paying customers.
The biggest disappointments to me though are that we had a “sell out” in a newly refurbished stadium with over 3,000 unsold seats and encouraging the rowdies to stand in zoo corner rather than the Devonport, which makes scuffles like Saturday far more likely
It doesn't. It proves that they were effective in checking what you and the many others who were searched carried into the stadium but ineffective in preventing at least one person from taking a smoke bomb in. The searches might have stopped all manner of weapons getting into the ground (I don't suppose they did but they could have done) so they were not pointless at all. Also, there is the deterrent factor. I people know that there are significant checks likely to be made prior to entry to the ground then they are much less likely to try to take weapons in at all. So the checks are not just protecting us all on the specific occasion they are made but they are also helping to make Home Park a safer venue to go to more generally (at all times).
As far as I can tell the checks cannot even be looking for smoke bombs which are very small so will not be picked up by pat-down searches and will have no (metal) signature that a wand scanner will pick up. It must surely be VERY easy to take a smoke bomb into a ground - anyone with an ounce of imagination could do that - and it is unreasonable to think that searches might pick them up.
Surely the idea isn't to check every single person to detect every single possible issue - the threat level doesn't justify that. Surely the idea is to set a pattern whereby people attending the ground know that anyone (and everyone) COULD be checked and thereby minimize the chance that anyone would try to carry some kind of weapon into the ground. To accomplish this there has to be a lot of searching so that it's always possible any individual could be searched but it's not necessary to rigorously search everyone and everything (as is done at airports). I think the point really is whether the balance is right at the moment. I'm not sure that every person in a line needs to be checked - some kind of random sampling could be used. But then, imagine the scenario where someone does take a knife into the ground and attacks people - then everyone would be howling that there were not enough checks being made and the security company/club would probably end up being hauled through the courts or insurance claims for failing to ensure customer safety. So really, the club and the security company can't win can they?
As far as searching old people, kids etc. is concerned, it's pretty obvious that if you WERE trying to get weapons into the ground you'd give them to someone less likely to LOOK like the kind of person who might carry a weapon. That's certainly what I would do. Mind you someone once did say that I would make a very dangerous criminal...
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If my asthma pump (smaller then a smoke bomb) can be picked up from a pat down, then a smoke bomb can