Club Statement

LASHER said:
Is there not an exit from east stand under the press area to get to the ad alleyway adjacent back Henry St?
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You’d struggle to walk past someone coming towards you in that tunnel, let alone send hundreds/thousands of fans out of it. Plus, the rooms in there would be trashed immediately.
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
Instead of exiting away fans at the North east. Why not exit them from the south and the home fans in the south exit out of the west
No easy answer to this until the east stand is redeveloped really
Never going to please everyone
Or put some sort of hoarding up at the north east where the netting currently is so away fans exit at the back of the hoarding and can’t be seen. Might help. I dont know what the answer is really
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You couldn’t send the south out the west for public safety reasons, surely? It’s mayhem to leave the ground as it is don’t want to add another couple of thousand out of 1 gate - as everyone would go for the first one.
 
I liken the North East corner to running the gauntlet,it cant be a nice experience for families with children witnessing that level of intimidation added to missiles and disgusting language flying around.Couldnt a screen be erected in that corner which blocks out supporters vision of each other?.Closing off blocks or sections of the North would be a disaster.
 
I would willing wait 10 minutes for the away fans to disperse , I am a season ticket holder in the South and realise it would help OUR Club
till the East is developed.
A small price too pay for everything that's happening at the Club now .
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
Instead of exiting away fans at the North east. Why not exit them from the south and the home fans in the south exit out of the west
No easy answer to this until the east stand is redeveloped really
Never going to please everyone
Or put some sort of hoarding up at the north east where the netting currently is so away fans exit at the back of the hoarding and can’t be seen. Might help. I dont know what the answer is really
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Because a lot of the fans in the South want to go down Bloomfield Rd which takes them to where the away fans would be exiting.
 
BFC59 said:
I would willing wait 10 minutes for the away fans to disperse , I am a season ticket holder in the South and realise it would help OUR Club
till the East is developed.
A small price too pay for everything that's happening at the Club now .
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Many of our fans cant get past 80 minutes without getting up and leaving, never mind wait another 10 after the final whistle.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
We’ve had this argument earlier in the season when throwing stuff from the north was the norm.

I said back then and you disagreed (apologies if I’am wrong) but It’s not the stewards fault for not seeing this sort of thing happening.

We’re all adults so we should act like them and not like spoilt brats.
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Right let’s look at this logically. 95% if not more of the North aren’t behaving like “spoilt brats”. A small minority are, no excuses, no need.

However, who’s responsibility is this? I feel like it’s being put on the 95% who are behaving “like adults”. Surely the Club and their stewards need to identify the minority and deal with them appropriately at the time of offence.

What are we paying stewards & the police for? To watch this go on and the Club threaten everyone?
 
So what is the job of the policed and stewards? Is it their job to stop criminal/dangerous behaviour? Yes, obviously.
Is it their job to prevent criminal/dangerous behaviour in the first place? I think it is, yes. But others may disagree. But to me that's like saying it's the police's job to arrest murders, it's not their job to stop them murdering in the first place.
So we're really talking about how they prevent the behaviour on the first place, rather than dealing with it after it's happened. So that's by stopping the problem behaviour. So what's the best way? There's a thing in crime management known as "Means, Motive and Opportunity". Means is stopping people having bottles and missiles. Motive is not having the away fans going out near the north so the home fans don't want to get to them. Motive is also finding out why the fans what to get to them. Opportunity is not letting the home fans into that corner. Get rid of any of those things and the issue is prevented.
 
SeasideSid said:
You’d struggle to walk past someone coming towards you in that tunnel, let alone send hundreds/thousands of fans out of it. Plus, the rooms in there would be trashed immediately.are exiting not coming in
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SeasideSid said:
You’d struggle to walk past someone coming towards you in that tunnel, let alone send hundreds/thousands of fans out of it. Plus, the rooms in there would be trashed immediately.
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Wasn't this post about exiting the ground?
 
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TTractor said:
Motive is not having the away fans going out near the north. Opportunity is not letting the home fans into that corner. Get rid of any of those things and the issue is prevented.
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This is only happening because of piss-poor policing at earlier games. They are fumbling round trying to find solutions to problems they are causing with their ineptitude.

But people on here and seemingly the Club want to blame everyone for the behaviour of a handful of people in a stand of 3,000
 
Goes back to what many of us said after the Nobber game. Just keep the away fans in the stadium for 10 minutes after the final whistle and all the home fans will have dispersed.
 
I am not sure if this is feasible , as I haven’t walked down the back of the east stand for years, but wonder if an exit gate could be built behind the press box, & then the away fans could be led down there but still away from Bloomfield Road ? Or would the cost be prohibitive?
 
Get the banning orders ready!
There is no way the the small majority of bellends in the north is going to change.
Ruining what has been a great time for the club and the local community.
We get rid of the O’s only to get more w@nkers
 
poolseasider said:
Exactly like I was going to post put some HD cameras up in the stand visible to all then you throw anything you'd expect to be caught and would act as a diterent.
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Give over, they would just wear the masks that most of them have been complaining about being “forced” to wear for the last two years!
 
Poppajoe said:
I thought that area of the north stand was governed by the mockers
It is time for them to take hold and help manage the problems
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Rubbish! Muckers - stupid, juvenile name for those with aspirations of having a 'hard' reputation for hooliganism. It's time that these monickers were laid to rest and that disorderly youths be barred from Bloomfield Rd.
 
I wish youngsters wouldn't throw any plastic bottles etc.... but why is our club always threatened with block closures?

Can't say I've seen other clubs do it even though incidents happen elsewhere.

The nobbers for eg were launching things at pool fans when they got battered that day and visa versa.


Are the nobbers getting threats of reduced allocations? Of course not.

This stuff happens up and down the country, needs to stop and people behave but why does it seem we get the worst threats?

People should just sing, mock etc, no need to throw stuff. Can have enough fun without that.
 
When away fans exited via the South Idiots came round from the North, so we now send them out via the NE (which was suggested by many on here) & idiots from the North cause problems again, along with the idiots amongst the away contingent. Stewards aren't generally bouncers, but I'm not sure some of those Neanderthals' would help much. If the culprits can't be identified & banned I fear block closures may happen. Having watched that Nottingham Forest clip & witnessed fans wreaking trains & busses, it's looking like a lawless drunken & drugged up 2-5% are causing massive expenses in policing & damage to property etc. They don't have any respect for anyone or anything, that'll take a considerable amount of educating out, but to supplement that I fear draconian measures will be the only deterrent. What do they do in hotel rooms with groups of lads, they have to pay a bond up front & if everything is ok it's refunded. How that principle could be applied would be tricky though.
 
LivingTheSeasideDream said:
Last game a few bottles were launched, and it doesn’t help when a few knobs run to the north east corner and start giving it big uns to the opposition.
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Yes I’m in the North and could see some bottles launched at the last game towards the away fans, they hit the netting and didn’t get to the fans leaving. The people throwing these bottles etc need banning absolutely utter morons.
 
Ridiculous overreaction. Its just teenagers letting a bit of steam off they pose absolutely zero threat to anyone. In this sanitised world we live in where teenage lads aren’t allowed to display any sort of alpha male behaviour I’m pleased they currently have an outlet. Oh well back to zero atmosphere
 
Memphisboy said:
Ridiculous overreaction. Its just teenagers letting a bit of steam off they pose absolutely zero threat to anyone. In this sanitised world we live in where teenage lads aren’t allowed to display any sort of alpha male behaviour I’m pleased they currently have an outlet. Oh well back to zero atmosphere,
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Alpha male behaviour? More like Omega male behaviour.
 
Memphisboy said:
Ridiculous overreaction. Its just teenagers letting a bit of steam off they pose absolutely zero threat to anyone. In this sanitised world we live in where teenage lads aren’t allowed to display any sort of alpha male behaviour I’m pleased they currently have an outlet. Oh well back to zero atmosphere
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OK, I'll bite.

Cutting out stuff being chucked isn't going to lead to zero atmosphere. Suggesting that is woeful.

A lot of people have worked bloody hard to create the fantastic matchday experience at home.
Not least the great majority in blocks A & B who sing loudly & proudly, but don't chuck stuff. They know how to behave.

And it's not an overreaction, it's because a small minority have saddled us with a history of knobbish behaviour since the Rotten Regime were ousted, going back years now to bottles being thrown at the Accy keeper.
We're repeat offenders, and are being treated accordingly.
 
Coked up thugs across the game - almost becoming a competition as to who's the worst. Watch the clip on the Football Factory with the Libertines 'what a waster' sound track. County lines, cheap charlie, low IQs - a perfect storm.
 
I’m 55 and part of the West flask brigade but can’t be doing with the hypocrisy of some of our fans, every 6 months or so we have threads glorifying the aggro in the 80s Bury Rochdale Torquay etc revelling in anti social behaviour beyond modern day youngsters comprehension with no cctv yet a few youngsters throw a plastic bottle and they’re insisting on lifetime bans.
 
Memphisboy said:
I’m 55 and part of the West flask brigade but can’t be doing with the hypocrisy of some of our fans, every 6 months or so we have threads glorifying the aggro in the 80s Bury Rochdale Torquay etc revelling in anti social behaviour beyond modern day youngsters comprehension with no cctv yet a few youngsters throw a plastic bottle and they’re insisting on lifetime bans.
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You make a good point but also….

Fact is it’s all a good laugh for some until it causes a consequence……full bottle of water or Coca Cola hits a young fan thrown from 40 yards and 40 feet up can reach a hell of a speed/momentum and cause a lot of damage ..physically and mentally I guess.

I‘ve no problem with lads who want to fight each other fighting, I‘m not judging that at all. I know plenty of people who’ve done it and I won’t condemn them at all. The Problem is with harming people who just want to go and watch a match… and indiscriminately throwing bottles with liquid in at opposition supporters or players is not “being game”, it’s being a dickhead.

Fact is it isn’t down to non offending/reasonably behaving supporters to solve the issue, it’s down to the Club, the Stewards, the Police and so far from what I’ve seen they’ve done nowt and now the Club’s answer is to give another warning…….
 
Vince McLean said:
Coked up thugs across the game - almost becoming a competition as to who's the worst. Watch the clip on the Football Factory with the Libertines 'what a waster' sound track. County lines, cheap charlie, low IQs - a perfect storm.
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That's what the national police lead is saying and he's been shouted down by the Football Supporters Association.

The root problem at BR as far as the away fans are concerned is the East Stand itself, which is miles past its sell by date and needs replacing. It doesn't lend itself to any form of east access/egress and then theres residents to consider who have lives to lead too.

The club should really relocate away supporters in the North Stand where they can disperse easily and straight onto coaches, although of course that isn't going to happen until the East is rebuilt. In the meantime its pointing the finger time at the cops and stewards etc but Blackpool Council should have withdrawn extended time and shut the East when the Os were here.
 
Put a new exit it in half way down back of stand. Don’t condone violence but watched Blackpool when I was young in 70 s and early 80 s was a lot waited then. Lots of these young lads have helped make the atmosphere brilliant and lots go away.
 
Gods honest truth said:
The so called mindless pool fan who got kicked out off the South at the Middlesbrough game got a banning order
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Do these banning orders really stop anything? Whats to stop them still going but someone else buys their ticket, not like anyone recognises a guy in a hood....
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Seriously can't believe what I'm reading

What sort of ** wants fellow fans banned from the ground, it was always a stupid decision making away fans go past the North

This would happen at every other ground in the country for a fact ....

We aren't unique in having a young passionate fan base
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So you consider everyone as fellow fans?

Not as yobs, idiots, hooligans, thugs and an embarrassment to your club? Interesting🤔
 
As a few have mentioned, you march any away fans at any ground past the main crew of any club and there is bound to be a reaction from both of them, the simple solution is for all away fans to be informed prior to entering the ground a ten minute wait will occur at the final whistle to allow home fans to be dispersed,I've lost count of the number of times I've been held back at an away game, do I feel my human rights were being denied? Did I fuck, I considered it a reasonable request by law enforcement to separate football fans at the end of a game who may well clash if they were all turfed out at the same time.

I went to the Scotland v England rugby game last Saturday along with thousands of England fans, what an absolute pleasure it was to sit alongside, walk alongside and drink alongside their fans both pre and post match in the city centre, granted it was painful listening to men in skirts singing Flower of Scotland all night, but besides that what an enjoyable weekend was had.
 
Raging_Bull said:
As a few have mentioned, you march any away fans at any ground past the main crew of any club and there is bound to be a reaction from both of them, the simple solution is for all away fans to be informed prior to entering the ground a ten minute wait will occur at the final whistle to allow home fans to be dispersed,I've lost count of the number of times I've been held back at an away game, do I feel my human rights were being denied? Did I fuck, I considered it a reasonable request by law enforcement to separate football fans at the end of a game who may well clash if they were all turfed out at the same time.

I went to the Scotland v England rugby game last Saturday along with thousands of England fans, what an absolute pleasure it was to sit alongside, walk alongside and drink alongside their fans both pre and post match in the city centre, granted it was painful listening to men in skirts singing Flower of Scotland all night, but besides that what an enjoyable weekend was had.
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Cricket, rugby Union - different class of supporters to football at the end of the day.
 
The only way to stop this until the east stand is done is like someone said make a temporary exit half way up back Henry st Quite easily doable I would have thought
 
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