Outrageous behaviour from our stewards today.

cafckev said:

PopIcon said:

guinnessaddick said:

PopIcon said:

Blown out of proportion, this happened right on front of my eyes.

Happened in front of me, not sure what part of grabbing a customer by the scruff of the neck is acceptable.

I never said it was acceptable, I just said the whole thing had been blown out of proportion.

I support the person with the banner and feel they should be able to express their feelings.

Sadly their banner wasnt fire-retardant and blocked advertising.

Neither of which is cause to be dragged out of the ground, so which bit has been blown out of proportion?

The young lad wasn't dragged out. He walked out on his own.

Did anyone intervene?

Not a judgment, but why did the stewards in question feel it was safe for them to do this?

Perhaps an air of increased hostility at matches would make them rethink their risk assessments.

Airman Brown said:

The club is unlikely to ban anyone over this unless the steward was assaulted. It's standard practice to force the fan to have a discussion with the club, but it doesn't mean he'll be banned. He'll get his ticket back. If the steward assaulted the fan, I agree it should be pursued.

Watching from the east stand, it seemed like a silly over-reaction by the club that could have provoked more trouble than it did. The banner was harmless. The advertising excuse is so much nonsense. If the club wanted to provoke fans into bringing many more banners in future, well, it just did.

It has

Tavern said:

Airman Brown said:

The club is unlikely to ban anyone over this unless the steward was assaulted. It's standard practice to force the fan to have a discussion with the club, but it doesn't mean he'll be banned. He'll get his ticket back. If the steward assaulted the fan, I agree it should be pursued.

Watching from the east stand, it seemed like a silly over-reaction by the club that could have provoked more trouble than it did. The banner was harmless. The advertising excuse is so much nonsense. If the club wanted to provoke fans into bringing many more banners in future, well, it just did.

It has

And it will

NomadicAddick said:

The more I read about it and what the lady has put on Facebook page the more i infuriated it is making me. I am adamant we have to have banners at the next home game.

At all stands!

I hear the club has the whole episode on video and will review.

JohnnyH2 said:

Airman Brown said:

The club is unlikely to ban anyone over this unless the steward was assaulted. It's standard practice to force the fan to have a discussion with the club, but it doesn't mean he'll be banned. He'll get his ticket back. If the steward assaulted the fan, I agree it should be pursued.

Watching from the east stand, it seemed like a silly over-reaction by the club that could have provoked more trouble than it did. The banner was harmless. The advertising excuse is so much nonsense. If the club wanted to provoke fans into bringing many more banners in future, well, it just did.

Need to make Bristol City banner day

More banners than Game of Thrones.

Badger said:

If you take a banner in and then keep passing it round it will be harder for the stewards to get it back, also just obstruct the stewards from getting near it, make yourself busy stand in the way play them at their own game it's OUR protest nothing to do with them.

A banner being passed up and down, through the center of a block, would be a complete and utter nightmare to stop. Plus, any form of movement gets more attention, and more attention means a rather more thoughtful response.

I heard the guy had his season ticket taken.

I believe there is something in ground regulations banning banners of a certain size. In which case I assume the club will also be pursuing the Blackburn fans who draped a great big flag over upper Jimmy Seed plus the fans who had CAFC flags either side of N Lower (one of which I think is Seb).

I have pics of the other flags but lack the ability to upload after a few post match beers.

By the way, great to see/ meet lots of you today.

Covered End said:

I went down to the concourse to help him and it seemed to me, that there were more than one, getting ejected. Although they could have been leaving "willingly" with him, it appeared to me that the stewards were ejecting them.

His mum and brother came back but not sure if that's who you are talking about.

I doubt the stewards wouldn't have acted on their own initiative to remove the banner, after all they wouldn't be able to see it stood at their posts in the north upper. I can only assume they have been instructed by the club safety officer who has clocked the banner from the control box. The club and stewards have a responsibility to prevent objects being thrown, pitch incursions and racist, homophobic or obscene chanting. Their is nothing in the FA's stadium safety best practice guidance about criticism of club ownership and to my mind the club have acted outside of the guidance just to prevent their own embarrassment (and only made it more embarrassing in the process).

The club should be getting their grovelling apology to their 'customers' in order right now.

Look at what it provoked - bloody ridiculous. They could have left it in place, it was hardly offensive and ludicrous to claim it as a health and safety issue - but why not just confiscate it until the final whistle? Are they oblivious to the current mood? Do we have to make it more obvious?

Good point but it's OUR protest not theirs, Safety in numbers, keep them away from the banners,and get the message accross we can look after ourselves.

You customers should realise that no form of protest will be allowed under our great leaders regime , it works in North Korea so why not The Valley , it's only 2% unhappy anyway