Khaled El-Ahmad was right....

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  1. Red

    Red-Taff. Well-Known Member

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    Had the West Stand been closed in say July there would probably have been a lot of support for that due to the safety issues raised.
    Because it was closed mid season those safety issues are classed as spurious.
    Tad irrational methinks!
     
    Red-Taff., Oct 25, 2021
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    JV - if you're flogging the Menai Bridge in North Wales can I have first dibs. Most beautiful structure ever - have a picture of it next to my bed -- first thing I see every morning. As a Bangor student I walked over it every day - sometimes twice a day.

    COYR
     
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    ******** :)
     
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  4. Red

    Red-Taff. Well-Known Member

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    wot no personal insult included in your reply - a first!????
     
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    Nope

    What do you think to the club's excuse of having to close the stand due to complaints about it not being disabled friendly due to high refreshment stand counters, turnstiles and steps?
     
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    Go on I will bite, they have not closed it mid season they closed it after 5 home matches , a stand which was awarded a safety certificate suddenly becomes unsafe 2 weeks later , thats what you call irrational but suddenly a stand which could only support approx 2000 away fans then miraculously has this capacity doubled , now that is irrational methinks . I know you are sh-t stirring RT but you really do not understand the hurt & upset it has caused a lot of people, it has upset me personally beyond what you could comprehend & I would thank you to think carefully about how sensitive this subject is to many of our oldest & loyal fans before you embark on your wind ups .
     
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    When it's closed due to safety issues only to have that changed to operational issues after the council pointed out it had literally JUST passed a safety inspection then no I don't think it's irrational to call bullsh¹t on the reasons.
     
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    Not irrational at all when the council is forced to release a statement to inform ticket holders it is actually safe!

    If the council had agreed it was unsafe then yes of course. In the litigious world that we live in these days, do you honestly believe that BMBC would risk it if they didn't feel it was safe?

    It is nonsense.
     
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    And in the litigious world we live in does anyone honestly believe that someone so scared to death about health and safety that he unilaterally closed a quarter of his new companies stands just weeks into the job would risk over 100 people, including himself, sitting in it unnecessarily?
     
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    It's a wonder you weren't hit by a train. It's a busy line.
     
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    Had the Club identified safety issues and decided not to use the West Stand before any tickets had been sold for this season there would have been very little objection from the fans - fans would accept that the Stand was unsafe.
    (In fact many posters on this site want to see the stand demolished.)

    The furore is because the Stand has been closed mid season - tickets sold etc. - that is understandable.

    But it is irrational to say that because it's mid-season there are no safety issues whereas had it been close-season we would accept that there are concerns about safety.
     
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    New PPE for the directors in the west stand
     
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    SD where are you - there are two two bridges the Menai Suspension Bridge (roadway) -- 'my' bridge' -- and the combined road and railway bridge - one on top of the other - missionary position!
     
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    Not sure if you're deliberately missing the point or not but you're doing so spectacularly
     
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    Which one's on top?
     
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    the point is that there are ways wheelchairs with or without occupants can get into the ground.
     
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    How would a wheelchair with no one in it get to the ground?
     
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    not really. It snacks of excuses not reasons. The initial letter could easily have stated the relevant bits of the report, dates etc but it didnt.
     
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  19. Red

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    I accept what you say - and accept it is a sensitive issue for you.
    For many seasons we sat in the ESL near the away end and when the North Stand was a sell out we were asked to move and we always moved to the West Stand.
    My posts were not intended as a wind up or meant to upset anyone - as I clearly have upset you, I apologise.
     
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    someone pushing it? Doesn't have to be the wheelchair user necessarily. Like a pram would get into the ground without the user necessarily being in it.
     
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