Beer in the stands

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Stuart_Learys_Boots said:

Call me old fashioned but I thought beer was banned from the terraces. Apparently not in the upper west any more. Don’t want to be a party pooper but this surely isn’t on. The standard of stewards reflects very badly on the current administration of the club. Possibly an indication of badly managed cost cutting?

But it should be. Rugby fan? No worries. Cricket? Get stuck in. Darts? The more the better. Football…?

Big_Bad_World said:

May go some way to explaining the very loud boo-ze at the end of your match 👀

My challenge to you is to get this into a third thread 😂

Chunes said:

Went to PSV Eindhoven recently and everyone was drinking beer peacefully in the stand. Plus more revenue for clubs. I thought I read a while back that the rule was being reviewed 

Don’t have to travel that far..
Any National League North/South, or below, is OK.

Stuart_Learys_Boots said:

Personally I would love beer back in the stands. My point is that the stewards don’t give a toss. Beer policing is only part of their job. What would happen if they actually had to take some action with regard to safety ???

The beer in the stands is harmless. 
It's the amount of Charlie consumed in the bogs you should worry about. 

SporadicAddick said:

Stuart_Learys_Boots said:

Personally I would love beer back in the stands. My point is that the stewards don’t give a toss. Beer policing is only part of their job. What would happen if they actually had to take some action with regard to safety ???

They would fail. They are largely minimum wage and will have basic training. 

If there were an emergency, would you listen to them or would you use your own common sense?

they are there to make up the numbers required by law, but serve no useful purpose.

apologies to any stewards on here.

I'll worry when we get that shit, even the stewards start drinking in the stands...

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

Stuart_Learys_Boots said:

Call me old fashioned but I thought beer was banned from the terraces. Apparently not in the upper west any more. Don’t want to be a party pooper but this surely isn’t on. The standard of stewards reflects very badly on the current administration of the club. Possibly an indication of badly managed cost cutting?

Not digging you out at all here, but why do so many people call seated areas ‘terraces’ ?  

Would you prefer us to call the seated areas stands?!!!

The rows of seats in the stands are terraced, as opposed to on a level ground, so terraces seems accurate to me.

N01R4M said:

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

Stuart_Learys_Boots said:

Call me old fashioned but I thought beer was banned from the terraces. Apparently not in the upper west any more. Don’t want to be a party pooper but this surely isn’t on. The standard of stewards reflects very badly on the current administration of the club. Possibly an indication of badly managed cost cutting?

Not digging you out at all here, but why do so many people call seated areas ‘terraces’ ?  

Would you prefer us to call the seated areas stands?!!!

The rows of seats in the stands are terraced, as opposed to on a level ground, so terraces seems accurate to me.

It’s not that deep, but I always thought a terrace at football was something you stood on ? 

blackpool72 said:

Stuart_Learys_Boots said:

Personally I would love beer back in the stands. My point is that the stewards don’t give a toss. Beer policing is only part of their job. What would happen if they actually had to take some action with regard to safety ???

The beer in the stands is harmless. 
It's the amount of Charlie consumed in the bogs you should worry about. 

How are the stewards supposed to see this, with all that smoke 🚬 in there?

R0TW said:

Chunes said:

Went to PSV Eindhoven recently and everyone was drinking beer peacefully in the stand. Plus more revenue for clubs. I thought I read a while back that the rule was being reviewed 

Don’t have to travel that far..
Any National League North/South, or below, is OK.

And if you don’t fancy travelling at all, just wait 2 or 3 years for the rules to not be applicable at the valley.

Email the stadium bloke at the club and he'll quietly sort it out
Had similar last Christmas/New Year in our bit of the Curbside and it stopped as soon as I raised it.
Our views on whether it's good/bad/anything else are irrelevant all the while it's actually illegal.  Only needs some local authority or plod busybody to spot it and the club's in for a world of hassle.  The 1% tosser element in every crowd will inevitably ruin it for the rest of us.

Todds_right_hook said:

msomerton said:

It is about the number of stewards in the upper West and the lack of training for the one or two who are around. On the 23rd of December I had a large group of east Europeans in front of me. They just walked up down during the match buying larger and coming back to their seats.
I had to ask one of them to stop vapping  immediately in front of me as I did not want to breath in his flavoured vapour.
I guess it is all part of the new owners cost cutting to make the club break even.

If I was a new owner, I would reduce the reduce the number of stewards down to the minimum permitted aswell. Why spend money when it's not needed?

Do you think Jimenez, Duchatelet and Sandgaard didn’t all do this? And pay them the absolute minimum, meaning we struggle to get them to turn up at all when they can get more at other grounds and events?

Like it or not, stewards are required under the safety certificate for the benefit of those attending, as opposed to the employer. Recently we seem to have some people who cannot conduct a worthwhile bag search or open a gate properly at the end of a game.

Meanwhile, the safety officer who retired nearly two years ago is still doing the job, because the club has failed to replace him…

Todds_right_hook said:

msomerton said:

It is about the number of stewards in the upper West and the lack of training for the one or two who are around. On the 23rd of December I had a large group of east Europeans in front of me. They just walked up down during the match buying larger and coming back to their seats.
I had to ask one of them to stop vapping  immediately in front of me as I did not want to breath in his flavoured vapour.
I guess it is all part of the new owners cost cutting to make the club break even.

If I was a new owner, I would reduce the reduce the number of stewards down to the minimum permitted aswell. Why spend money when it's not needed?

I suppose it’s one of those things you don’t really see the need for until there’s something they’re needed for. 

CAFCTrev said:

Im my time as a ST holder in the upper west Ive seen it myself, usually from tourists and you get a lot in the west upper because they will ask the ticket office for the best seats when they pop down for their English footy day trip and that's what the TO tell them to buy.

Last time I saw it was a season or two ago, bloke smoking a fag and enjoying a beer at his seat. I didn't clutch my pearls and mutter "how dare they!!" under my breath or anything, I was just surprised that the stewards didn't do anything about it as it was pretty obvious.

Having a beer not so much, but I would have an issue if someone was smoking a fag next to me and my kid. If you want to give yourself lung cancer thats nothing to do with me, but I don't fancy breathing in your second hand smoke if you cant hold on for 90 mins.

I used to be more relaxed, but after seeing my Mum (30 a day smoker) dying in the way she did.... it was horrific. Not something I want my lad exposed to.