Another Beevor Court access thread

2nd home game in a row now the gate is firmly shut. Obviously for emergency access, which is understandable, but why can’t pedestrians walk through?

Plus they have repaired the fence at the top of that dirt hill.

Absolutely ridiculous, the club seem to be finding ways to stop fans attending! Or that’s how it feels!

 

Bonkers

 

Was going to post similar. That fence has had a gap in it for what, ten years? Fifteen?

Now magically repaired, solely to stop people accessing ponty rd that way.

The Beevor Court gate is firmly locked for ‘safety reasons’ apart from for the corporate clients who have to arrive before 1:30pm. Only they place stewards on the gate to open it for any corporate clients who arrive by car late… Emergency rendezvous point only. Unless you’re in the dear seats.

I’m not having this is in the name of safety. Making everyone who’s going back up ponty rd go down the car park isn’t safer. They don’t even keep the gates locked for five/ten mins after full time anymore, so we are left to walk in the dark down the car park competing with moving cars trying to manoeuvre out. Last game I was nearly hit by a car trying get out near the burger van when there wasn’t room.

It’s an absolute joke. Episode 5000 of doing everything possible to inconvenience fans.

It honestly feels like an intentional act to piss fans off. Like there’s an ulterior motive.

 

Yep, I share the anger.

It's an utter joke. Not safe to walk through a double carriageway sizes opening spanning a road or crowding everyone through a gap at bottom by the burger van.

I'm getting close to just chalking f#ck on it. It shouldn't be made consistently more of a chore every week just to get into the ground.

 

Spoke to the two lads guarding it, they seem to think there’s a petition out to sort it & the building 200 yards away is a drug rehabilitation centre & they can’t even get access to it. Something dodgy is afoot, because the club don’t actually own the road so don’t have authority to close the road off anyway! Unless the council are involved in some way.

Either way it’s a disgrace, Iv been walking that way for years, and I’m not alone.

 

More like forever, certainly 30+ I'd say.

 

I had a feeling that might happen after this post the other day:

 

Ah so it’s Mr Badger’s fault then…

 

Eh? I just said I had a feeling it would happen, not that it was anyone's fault.

 

Haha I was only jesting JD!

 

Absolute ****** what they’re doing here, just pissing off fans heading in that direction

 

All adds to the fantastic match day experience as promised by Khalid

 

It doesn't affect me as I never go that way but what a shambles of a PR disaster this is.

If it's a safety concern, allowing pedestrians through a gate that is an emergency exit, then what the heck is that absolute disaster waiting to happen at the bottom of the car park. I walk up Oakwell Lane and am amazed that no one has ever been killed crossing Pontefract Road or walking up the Lane. It is bound to happen one day, sadly, and what will the authorities say then? "Not our fault". "We do all we can to ensure the safety of our supporters". Absolute tosh!!

 

I've never gone that to Oakwell but it does sound like a shambles. Have to admit the fiasco with he railway bridge was a small factor I my decision not to renew. So these things can contribute.

 

Remember folks. The emergency services need a clear rendezvous point in case there's a terrorist attack and pedestrians could so easily block the access for ambulances.

Now can someone tell me how exactly are the ambulances getting to beevor court when Pontefract road 8s gridlocked?

And can someone also tell me how the side of the ground furthest from the hospital and police station is the best place to put a rendezvous point because to me it makes no sense.

I think there's ulterior motives in trying to make fans dislike Oakwell so when a move to a smaller new out of town stadium is announced fans agree with it

 

The experience of queues for catering reaching the exit gates, changing the pre game tunes, playing noise when we scored, still no Toby Tyke and the utterly stupid idea of interviewing former players at half time when hardly anyone is in their seats.

 

It's sacrilege to say it but perhaps a move to something like the size of Rotherham's ground would make more sense, if the finances add up. It's unthinkable to most of us that Oakwell should disappear altogether but the ground is definitely too big for us. I'd love to think that we might fill it regularly one day but I think we all know that's probably never going to happen. If it did (as in the Premier League single season) it would only be a short-term thing again. What possessed the board to build up those three sides as big as they did while allowing an antique, almost unusable side to remain, is anybody's guess.

I know we get all sentimental about the old stand but time moves on. As for the away end - 6,000 seats and how many in it today? 150 maybe?

 

Let's face it, the half time "entertainment" is pretty dire every match. It's time they dropped the stupid cross bar challenge seeing as most attempts barely get off the ground and those that do sail into the net about half way up. Pointless really, isn't it? How are people, especially kids, meant to have a meaningful attempt at it while wearing the wrong footwear for a slippery, grassy pitch?

I like the old players on the pitch bit but it's actually hard to hear what they are saying and if you are going back as far as Gary Fleming then many fans in the ground will be saying "Who?". You're right though about many people having vacated their seats at that time so the interviews are played to a very small number usually.

 

That’s exactly what I meant by ulterior motive in my first post on this thread.

They are making it an absolute chore to come to games.

 

The rendezvous point for police and ambulance is Belgrave Road, Beevor Court is fire and rescue, but don't let facts get in the way of your bizarre conspiracy theories, they're a good laugh.