[Official Site] PITCH INCURSIONS UPDATE

Benson got poked in the eye by a fan during the celebrations of last goal,so it’s a bit dangerous to go so close to fans ,but it did look mint though

 

Hang on a minute. We have a paid employee filming the crowd in the two places that encroachment is likely to happen. We celebrate their behaviour by editing together a video and putting it out on YouTube. Well into injury time one of the players scores a pretty special goal heads directly for the area encroachment may happen, hurdles the advertising hoardings and jumps into the crowd. Again, this is filmed, celebrated and published on social media. It's clearly being actively encouraged. It's being made to look cool. The players are egging the crowd on. But then that footage is used to prosecute people? It's entrapment. It's outrageous behaviour by everyone involved with the club. Our fans are getting criminal records for acting in a manner that you're willing them to do while filming them and supplying that footage to the police? Shame on you.

 

So by doing that you are stating that players encourage fans to invade the pitch???? What utter nonsense. Fans KNOW they are not supposed to encroach on the pitch, or even go over the wall.
The fans that do so need banning AND fining.

 

They're clearly encouraging them and the club are filming it and putting it on YouTube. They put out a video that isn't match highlights, it's crowd highlights and it's concentrated on the areas people may go on the pitch. "Get yourself over the barriers and we'll make you a social media star."

Entering the field of play is wrong. I've been using this forum for 25 years and for the most of them I've spent the last couple of weeks of the season pleading with folk to stay off the pitch for the final game to the point of becoming a boring toohat and sounding like a broken record. I've not been alone in that. What the club are doing is the exact opposite of that. It's clearly inciting people. The presence of the camera pointed at the crowd, the resultant video posted to social media, players jumping into the crowd, what on earth did they think would happen?

 

I do think you have a point here. Not the entrapment bit, as I believe that has to have a level of intent and I don’t think for one second that the club sent Kitching in on purpose/post the YouTube vids to cause the behaviour purely so they can report it. It is deeply irresponsible though to film the crowd’s reaction in that corner, edit it together and then post it on socials as a great thing when we’ve got such a problem with behaviour that we’re heading for an almighty fine or closed doors matches. Obviously people are going to try and one up their celebrations to make it on to the videos, they probably even believe that that’s what the club wants and the announcements are just to cover their own backs.

 

3 or 4 Cheltenham fans were on the pitch after the 2nd went in in their last match. Maybe it's the Wednesday effect.

 

Entrapment is probably a bit strong but when they're using the same footage that they post to social media to celebrate the behaviour, when they're stood there with a camera egging people on because those people know it will be posted to social media, so they're playing up to the camera, and then that same footage is used to help identify people and they get a criminal record... It certainly feels like it.

 

It's funny innit.....we revel in those old TV clips of fans pouring on the pitch when teams are promoted, win cup ties or just score amazing goals and everyone agrees it's ace. How often does Ronnie Radford's FA Cup strike get shown and we all enjoy seeing those hundreds of kids in snorkel parkas streaming onto the pitch? Are we denying today's fans that rush of absolute euphoria around moments like that? I was on the pitch after the Clarke & Hunter promotions and only by virtue of being in the ESU was I in my seat for the Bradford game in '97.

It's a weird one.....

 

I don't think that the construction of the wall or the location of the stands perimeter is really an opinion thing, it's a fact.

 

I always thought it was papia mashay.

 

I don't think that's how you spell it


Papier maché.

 

I like his version more though

 

It is ironic that the most lauded & probably most viewed piece of footage from this season, is being used to incriminate people.
There should an amount of discretion used, in the relative giddiness of the situation..
We had just tw4tted Wednesday, after all.?

 

Toushay

 

No need to be padentick

 

Turtle.!!

 

I don't think it's talking about fans getting a bit giddy after the match ended. It's the people doing a swan dive on the penalty spot in the middle of the game and running around the 18 yard box