Oldham and Bournemouth

Both had pitch invasions yesterday.

 

were we the only team in the championship that had one?

 

I have no idea, I just saw the two pitch invasions on the Championship just then.

 

surely the important point though is

we have been repeatedly warned re this sort of thing, sooner or later it will come back to haunt us

 

the club made ZERO effort yesterday to stop the muppets getting on the pitch

pathetic

 

Our Stewards Are Laughable

They stand at the front which I assume is to stop people getting on the pitch and then the whistle blows for full time and they let people walk past them.

 

The idiots were lined up 5 or 6 deep all way along the front of the Ponty End waiting for the final whistle. There was no way the stewards could possibly have stopped them. This included couples in 30/40s and one dad who didn't go himself but lifted his 8/9 year old son over the wall.

 

Spoke to players after the game

they are sick of it , they want to walk on and thank fans without hinderance
Its about time we took action , why every season are a mindless minority allowed to ruin it for the majority , go take a walk in locke park if you want to walk round like a moron on grass every april.

 

to be fair to the stewards themselves....

.. there's not much a few 14 year old lasses can do.

 

Response to stewards are laughable...

Why do you look to blame the stewards? Surely there must be some personal responsibility taken, there were people of all ages going on to the pitch blatantly disregarding requests not to go on, and looking for confrontation with the stewards. Not so long ago people were criticising stewards for taking action to get people off the pitch. A lot of the people on thepitch were children with their parents. What would you have said if the children had been dragged off as well? It all boils down to selfishness. My 2 girls, the oldest being twelve commented on one 25 year old looking fat bloke who got Brian Howards training top. She said, "Dad, why do people who do stuff wrong always seem to get what they want?" I had no answer. It is the cancer of this country, that since Thatcher, people only seem to give a stuff about themselves and their selfish gain! Strong stuff eh? Foz

 

Not strond enough in my eyes

they are just selfish morons...........fact.

 

RE: Spoke to players after the game

It's the nanny society that we live in now, kids do just what they want and with the encouragement of their parents. Police messages should have been tanoyed around the ground warning parents with kids that they would be heavily fined if they went onto the pitch. I don't know what the real solution is, probably should start in the classroom, and teach kids more respect, bring back classroom punishment and the birch.

 

RE: Not strond enough in my eyes

Totally Agreed.

I saw Luke Steele lean over a group of kids to pass his pair of gloves to a much younger child probably 6 - 7 years old & some other child, much older looking around 9 - 10 years old tried to take both gloves, but only got away with one glove.

 

Surely if the FA said a mandotory 3 point deduction for each and every

occurence of MASS pitch invasion throughout the season should do it. Also that should cover poor stewarding as if an pitch invasion wasnt considered a MASS one, then on such occasions poor stewarding has to be at fault and subject of a fine for poor security.

 

What would happen if.....

one of the players was injured in the mad scramble.
A foot gets stamped on and toes broken etc.
Tony Adams once broke the arm of Steve Morrow celebrating "wildly" so accident do happen in these circumstances.

Muppets the lot!

 

Think I was stood very near you, just happened in front of me...

the little lad who initially got the gloves looked amazed that anyone had the audacity to do such a thing! Don't know what the answer is tho, there'll always be the same old selfish people and if we ring Oakwell with stewards etc then it's overkill!

 

I dont think a point deduction or fine for the club would have made any difference yesterday, the morons didn't care. A dozen or so of the first over the wall were sat row in front of me, at half time one asked "Is it still one nil" - it took a lengthy discussion between them to come up with the right answer.

 

RE: Response to stewards are laughable...

(Y) (Y) (Y) It doesn't help matters when a number of our players hand over stuff to the criminals who go on the pitch. Excellent post Chris. Maybe more of us should run on in future and try our luck at getting a players shirt as well (like him who got JCRs).

 

the stewarding was a bit daft as there were as many stood across the practically empty west stand at the ponty surley they could work that out, i think as the first group of muppets started climing on the wall getting ready to run on on of the steward should have pushed them of back onto the concret to send the message to the others, a reckon a couple of police dogs should do the trick next season

 

how about not selling the first couple of rows of seats and putting some sort of meshing across them like they do in the north stand, that and a few dogs might stop them