Only one gripe from yesterday

After the match, the only gates open for the car park were two small ones. This meant all the fans from the East Stand wishing to enter Grove Street and all the fans wanting to enter the car park were funnelled through these two narrow gates, only wide enough to allow two people through at a time (one when the person is a big, fat slob like me). All a bit daft when there's the big gates available at the very top, next to the turnstiles.

 

You should know Kev we only manage traffic and people into the ground. Its all for yourselves when leaving !!

 

It just seemed to create a problem where one needn't exist. Perhaps someone simply forgot to open the large gates, rather than it be a deliberate act.

 

"Forgot" is a likely reason I reckon. Our traffic and fan management at the end of a game is pretty poor often enough. Contrast that with the situation at Glanford Park where they hold back cars leaving the car park until just about everyone has walked down the road towards that same car park. After the JPT it was ludicrous to watch a trickle of fans - literally ones and twos - heading that way while people sat in their cars unable to move. Common sense never seems to have any place outside football grounds. How someone hasn't been killed crossing Pontefract Road is a mystery to me.

 

Do you mean no gates for cars were open at the bottom? Or do you mean that at the top there were only single pedestrian gates open and no wider gates?

 

Yeah I noticed that yesterday.it seems people in authority can't multi solve problems they have a meeting every week to solve a problem they created the week before solving another problem.
It may get solved next game kev but guarantee I'll create another and so it goes.
Seems common sense is a thing of the past and group discussion is the norm

 

So you're going to cause the problem are ya Marlon

 

You tinkerD

Saw it too late and it wouldn't let me edit.

I am slowly getting better with this spell checker thingy though but it does have a tendency to correct me wrong.

 

The large gates at the very top, next to the turnstiles, were locked, meaning all the fans going in opposite directions in that area had only two narrow gates to negotiate.

 

I could be wrong but didn't the club say recently that they were going to keep them locked so cars couldn't use them to go through instead of using the proper ones at the bottom?

If that's the case they could do with buying a few retractable bollards to sink into the ground. In fact they should buy 6 anyway to put 3 in where the main double gate is (between the two pedestrian gates) and 3 at the corner of ponty and east to replace the barrier they use there. Would help with fans walking out of the ground immensely would that and you can get 6 for about 500 quid as well.

 

Cars can't use those gates I'm saying were locked. They're the large pedestrian ones on the pavement next to the surrounding wall and turnstiles. I'm not talking about the gates used by folk paying cash to park in the car park.

 

Last week cars were driving through this gate and along the footpath to get out of the car park. Not only dangerous but illegal too. I would imagine that was why they were locked yesterday

 

I wasn't aware of that.

 

Auto correction as caught me out s few times pal

 

You mean the two big ones at the very top don't you? Can't cars get to them from the carpark then? I've not been in that area of the ground for a long time but I thought cars could just drive up there and out if they wanted (though not allowed)

 

I've not seen that happen. But, hey, if it's deemed to be safer doing what was done yesterday (especially in a few weeks' time when it'll be dark at the end of every game), then fair enough.

 

I wasn't sure if it was possible or not (ie if there were barriers or not) but if there aren't then they really should invest in a few telescopic bollards. Lift them up for general use, drop them down to let a vehicle through if they need to. For such a low cost its definitely worth it imo

 

Then either place some bollards there to prevent it, or get members of Traffic Management to stop the vehicles.

 

Fire an email mail to Benji

He is the man for all problems Barnsley FC!

Ps Don't mention the Early Bird!

 

It was to stop cars going onto Grove street out of the top of the car park.
Should just put a couple of stewards there though , one guy in a wheelchair was struggling to get through.

BFC don't seem to be able to think basic decisions through.