Trouble in d or c block?

[The tall one]

yeah he is that tall one

I'm tall, but not in the way you envisage.

 

[cjd]

I have been in the past, but not now.

Yes, thought so......we have crossed swords in the past.

I remember thinking then, that you had little in common with the average supporter............nothing you,ve posted since has changed my mind.

Wouldn't you be happier in a library on a Saturday afternoon....?

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

I'm tall, but not in the way you envisage.

In what way then? Sideways? In your imagination? Genuinely curious as to how one can be tall but not height-wise.

 

[The tall one]

yeah he is that tall one

Tall but not how you envisage.

 

[The tall one]

In what way then? Sideways? In your imagination? Genuinely curious as to how one can be tall but not height-wise.

I'm not as tall as you think. It is just a username I thought up!!.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

So to clarify. You're tall but only in so much as you're not tall, you just call yourself tall.

The days must fly by.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I was a steward at Cheltenham and Wembley during my uni days. There are a large proportion that suddenly feel that their pitiful little lives have some importance when they don a yellow jacket and act like a hired thug. Withdean seems to have a fair proportion of them, sadly. I feel quite sorry for them.

All it needs is a bit of intelligence and common sense to deal with this sort of situation.

One particular incident springs to mind. I was in the 'Internet Stand' (Block X) and some chap was standing at the back - not obscuring anyone or causing problems in a stand that holds 80? It was quite close to half time and the chap refused to sit down. He was sitting at the far end of the row, so the stewards had to climb over numerous seats and disrupt the game for everyone.

Now, would you...

A) Wait until half time to have a word with him. Tell him about the rules and that he was being 'unreasonable'

or

B) Act like an A-Team wannabe and go steaming in with four stewards, trampling over other people and disrupting the peace for the rest of the stand.

Hmmm... I wonder which one the stewards chose.

 

[e77]

If you think the Withdean stewards are bad (personally I have never had a problem with them), pay £90 for a day at Lords.

Now that is a group of people common sense has passed by.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

If you think the Withdean stewards are bad (personally I have never had a problem with them), pay £90 for a day at Lords.

Now that is a group of people common sense has passed by.

I've been to Lords many a time and never had a problem, ditto Twickenham. Both infinitely more expensive than Withdean, but there has never been a mere hint of trouble with the authorities.

Granted, I have been to Withdean much more often than the two stadia mentioned, but I've never seen any bother (although they are much bigger, obviously).

 

[e77]

I've been to Lords many a time and never had a problem, ditto Twickenham. Both infinitely more expensive than Withdean, but there has never been a mere hint of trouble with the authorities.

Granted, I have been to Withdean much more often than the two stadia mentioned, but I've never seen any bother (although they are much bigger, obviously).

They tend to have common sense bypasses. A guy in front of me was using a mobile phone (which truth be told I didn't notice) so mid over they scrambled over several seats to tell him to stop, causing ten times the 'disturbance' he was.

Yes, he shouldn't have been doing it but it probably could have waited until the end of the over and a quiet word had.

Never been to Twickers for a Rugby match so can't comment.

 

[Caveman]

Another thing.
Why would you risk a ban from the club? by swearing.
To me that is like getting upset because you've been done
for speeding.
The supporter concerned made 2 errors of judgement today.
1 was swearing (Apparentally) and being the only in the
stand that did it!!.

Aren't you missing a point here? He wasn't swearing....!!!? Hence, part of the reason why he was upset.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Another thing.
Why would you risk a ban from the club? by swearing.
To me that is like getting upset because you've been done
for speeding.
The supporter concerned made 2 errors of judgement today.
1 was swearing (Apparentally) and being the only in the
stand that did it!!.

If he was the only bloke in the South Stand swearing then I'm a Dutchman. Everybody swears at football. It's one of those things. You have a pint before the game, a burger at half-time and you swear at the lino/the ref/ El-Abd / the opposition fans.

And have you considered that the stewards made an error of judgement? I wasn't in that stand so didn't see the incident but surely the correct call would have been a single steward slowly stroll up to where he was sitting/standing/cursing and just gently ask him to tone down the abuse?

Job done - message given - no one hurt - no one offended and if he doesn't stop the effing and jeffing then the stewards could then have said that they tried the reasonable approach first.

Seems like the stewards in the South Stand need to be rotated with the far more reasonable stewards around the other parts of the ground.

That's my two-pennyworth anyway.

 

[Washboard Didgets]

If he was the only bloke in the South Stand swearing then I'm a Dutchman. Everybody swears at football. It's one of those things. You have a pint before the game, a burger at half-time and you swear at the lino/the ref/ El-Abd / the opposition fans.

And have you considered that the stewards made an error of judgement? I wasn't in that stand so didn't see the incident but surely the correct call would have been a single steward slowly stroll up to where he was sitting/standing/cursing and just gently ask him to tone down the abuse?

Job done - message given - no one hurt - no one offended and if he doesn't stop the effing and jeffing then the stewards could then have said that they tried the reasonable approach first.

Seems like the stewards in the South Stand need to be rotated with the far more reasonable stewards around the other parts of the ground.

That's my two-pennyworth anyway.

This.

Common sense and reasonable.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

If he was the only bloke in the South Stand swearing then I'm a Dutchman. Everybody swears at football. It's one of those things. You have a pint before the game, a burger at half-time and you swear at the lino/the ref/ El-Abd / the opposition fans.

And have you considered that the stewards made an error of judgement? I wasn't in that stand so didn't see the incident but surely the correct call would have been a single steward slowly stroll up to where he was sitting/standing/cursing and just gently ask him to tone down the abuse?

Job done - message given - no one hurt - no one offended and if he doesn't stop the effing and jeffing then the stewards could then have said that they tried the reasonable approach first.

Seems like the stewards in the South Stand need to be rotated with the far more reasonable stewards around the other parts of the ground.

That's my two-pennyworth anyway.

That is far too sensible. As on the other thread - I am waiting for the stewards to take action against the family stand for saying to the keeper "you're shit".

The Club need to have a think about this. Bloom is not pumping his money in to create a stadium so the stewards can spoil people's enjoyment.

 

[Prodigal Son]

From where I sit in Block E, I could see that the Stewards were plotting this incident well before the end of the game. About six of them were stood behind the Albion dugout for about 15/20 minutes, appearing to point at various people in the South Stand. I even thought they were pointing at me at one point for shouting encouragement to the team.

They then moved down to D/C Block and were joined by at least three police officers. There was a tall, grey-haired steward, probably on loan from car parking duties at Asda and a big old slice, Steward number "451" who resembled a bulldog chewing a wasp. These two were the principles in this mini debacle.

I find it hard to believe that these stewards were able to single the fan out for foul and abusive language any more than others in the South Stand. There was no single voice that could be distinguished above the others in the crowd as there were a large number of fans expressing there dis-satisfaction with the ref and the lino, and quite rightly so IMO.

The Stewards got it wrong and needed the combined use of six brain cells to do it. I am not advocating that foul and abusive language is acceptable, but in this case, the fan in question had been targetted incorrectly, it would appear.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The Stewards got it wrong and needed the combined use of six brain cells to do it. I am not advocating that foul and abusive language is acceptable, but in this case, the fan in question had been targetted incorrectly, it would appear.

They have just got completely the wrong mentality. They are causing trouble rather then preventing it.

 

[clippedgull]

I find it hard to believe that these stewards were able to single the fan out for foul and abusive language any more than others in the South Stand. There was no single voice that could be distinguished above the others in the crowd as there were a large number of fans expressing there dis-satisfaction with the ref and the lino, and quite rightly so IMO.

When Steve (loud mouth) gets going it is extremely easy to single him out from the crowd!

 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Does anyone know if the same stewards will be used at falmer? Surely we can't have the current idiots ruin the falmer experience for home and away fans.

 

[Prodigal Son]

When Steve (loud mouth) gets going it is extremely easy to single him out from the crowd!

So was this the case yesterday?

 

[Prodigal Son]

Does anyone know if the same stewards will be used at falmer? Surely we can't have the current idiots ruin the falmer experience for home and away fans.

I don't think that the Stewards' "day release" terms allow them to travel outside of the City limits.