This is not a football club

The CEO along with his colleagues have done the Risk Assessment - and closed it.

 

Spot on. I've been bleating on about this for a long time. The owners are NOT interested in the fans for their own sake or interested in being custodians of the club for its own sake. They are here simply to lever money. If that translates to us fans eventually gaining benefit from wheeling and dealing of managers and players that benefit will be coincidental to the owners grand scheme. BFC is a vehicle for making money. That is all. It's a real shame.

 

I get that but no ones been in the stadium for months. I just feel.the Bradford fire is a bit of a red herring until we've actually seen what reports have been made.

 

I could find risk in almost anything We know that's the reason he's given, granted.

 

They've had 18 months to clear the crap from underneath the stand when nobody was sat in it. They didn't see it as important then but as soon as they can't get enough stewards to allow them to flog £40 tickets to more Dee dars it becomes so important that they shut the stand shift our supporters and miraculously by complete accident they have enough stewards to fill the north stand with blunts fans wow how wonderfully convenient for them.

 

Surely the west stand is nowhere near the safety risk that the bradford stand was? It passed a quite recent safety inspection, does that mean the people that did it are incompetent?

3-4 months if the issues had literally just been dropped on them, the improvements must have been known about for months/years.

I'm surprised they haven't come out with any references to stadium disasters actually, just to back up their decision.

 

I would have thought risk assessments were done pre-season to allow the club to focus its efforts on the pitch. An ad hoc inspection by Khaled, a couple of months after the stand was granted a safety certificate, looks to have more than a tad of agenda about it IMO.

And the comparison I draw, I was at a UC convention a month or so in Birmingham, a 3 day event. All due diligence and compliance was done in advance. Imagine the furore among exhibitors and attendees if they'd closed it after day one?

They'd have been as happy and joyful as I feel this week

 

Not that I like what I've read... just that I agree. Thought I'd get that out there lol.
It's bloody galling, and wrenching, to see those happen !

 

If I remember rightly the biggest problem wasn't the wooden stand itself but the rubbish underneath (as you say) allied to a roof covered in highly flammable materials.

 

I thought the wood flooring is actually laid on top of the concrete sub floor,, which makes it warmer then just plain concrete

 

The muppet show.
Sorry insult to muppets

 

Sorry I can't agree. How exactly does a hole in the floor of the 100+ year old upper tier justify the closure of the 25 year old concrete lower tier? It just doesn't.

How can a wall which was damaged and repaired last season justify the closure of the stand this season 'just in case the rest of it is unsafe?' if there's any doubt that the perimeter wall is unsafe then that should have been inspected immediately and either take down, repaired or left if it was safe.
Had the stand been left open it would have been walked past internally a grand total of around of around 70 hours between the decision being made and the end of the season. Just 70 hours that it could have crushed a spectator yet since the decision was made to close the stand but do féck all else about the wall members of the public have been allowed to lean against its exterior for about 380 hours and counting. 380 hours that they haven't given a toss if it crushes a granny. Walls don't stand there and think 'id best fall away from the road'.

Then there's the none safety excuses. Refreshment stand counters too high for disabled people. So why are the other stands open? Turnstiles too high. So why are the other stand opens? Steps. So why are the other stands open? Alcohol consumed in sight of the pitch. So why are the other stands open?

They aren't reasons, they're excuses. The only reason out of all those given that makes any sense for closing ANY of the stand is the hole in the floor and that doesn't justify closing the lower tier.

Isn't the directors box floor wooden too? Presumably rich people must float in mid air in the event of the floor collapsing.

******** excuses made up by a ******** CEO enjoyed by ******** owners and swallowed up by ******** arselickers who don't think rich men can do any wrong.

 

The Ownership are Businessmen with little or no interest/knowledge of Football but they know how to make themselves money. Everything they are involved with is a potential item on the Profit/Loss account, no more than that.

 

It could be a smoked Mackerel.

 

You're not codding!

 

Indeed!

 

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/barnsley_council_inspection_of_o#incoming-1894414

 

The whole concept of a professional football club died in 1992.