Anyone else remember we were told you could walk round concourses?

[Aspinal's Body Double]

At my season ticket presentation we were told that the home concourses were all linked, so that homes fans from different stands could meet up.

Was anyone else told this?

 

[Art Vs Science]

They are all linked, you walk out of one exit and straight into the entrance of your desired concourse

 

[goldfish]

I must admit I was of that opinion as well.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Didn't hear that...are you sure they didn't just mean after games?

 

[Fef]

Didn't hear that...are you sure they didn't just mean after games?

This is what I heard.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

In sure they said after the game. Ok you have to go out then in again but in essence you can walk round!

 

[Acker79]

I admit, I thought the concourses were physically linked and after the games doors or shutters would open to let as wander around the ground.

But you can leave and enter concourses freely after the game.

 

[Matrix10]

At my season ticket presentation we were told that the home concourses were all linked, so that homes fans from different stands could meet up.

Was anyone else told this?

Exactly what I was told

 

[guster]

Yep i was told they were all linked too. I assumed there were going to be gates/shutters between them.
Doesnt really matter, only a few seconds walk to the next open door.

 

[Aspinal's Body Double]

They are all linked, you walk out of one exit and straight into the entrance of your desired concourse

Except that if you walk out you are not allowed back in again (at least that's what stewards told me when I wanted to go to shop at half time). They said once your card has been entered it cannot be entered again, to prevent fraudelent passing of cards from those inside to those outside.

 

[pasty]

It is a bit of a shame you can't wander round pre-match and meet mates/family for a beer, but easily done post-match

 

[Superphil]

It was always explained to me that this would be after the game, not before or during.

 

[Aspinal's Body Double]

Didn't hear that...are you sure they didn't just mean after games?

I asked steward on saturday if concourses were "opened up" after game and he said no.

 

[tezz79]

Except that if you walk out you are not allowed back in again (at least that's what stewards told me when I wanted to go to shop at half time). They said once your card has been entered it cannot be entered again, to prevent fraudelent passing of cards from those inside to those outside.

Thats coz you can't at half time but you can at full time

 

[Aspinal's Body Double]

In sure they said after the game. Ok you have to go out then in again but in essence you can walk round!

Don't know if that's true because stewards told me your card will only allow you one entry per. game. Even if you can do this after the game, it's not what was said at presentations. They volunteered the point that the concourses were linked-no point in saying this if all they meant was "you can walk out and walk back in again". The point was also clarified at the presentation because someone expressed concern about Millwall fans rampaging around the concourse-and guy said this didn't apply to away section concourse.

 

[tezz79]

Except that if you walk out you are not allowed back in again (at least that's what stewards told me when I wanted to go to shop at half time). They said once your card has been entered it cannot be entered again, to prevent fraudelent passing of cards from those inside to those outside.

Well I've been from my seat in the west stand & gone for a beer in the north after the match & didn't even have to use the turnstile as the gate was open.
Maybe the stewards didn't explain it well enough

 

[pasty]

Well I've been from my seat in the west stand & gone for a beer in the north after the match & didn't even have to use the turnstile as the gate was open.
Maybe the stewards didn't explain it well enough

Similar. After almost every game so far I have left the WSU and gone round to meet my brother for a beer in East. No turnstiles, just wander in and buy a pint.

 

[Aspinal's Body Double]

Well I've been from my seat in the west stand & gone for a beer in the north after the match & didn't even have to use the turnstile as the gate was open.

Fair enough if gates left open. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

Not much help to me personally as my son and I travel over 400 miles to home games and have to get to train straight after whistle if we want to get home that night! I was hoping I could meet up before game with some friends from West Stand.

 

[les dynam]

Is somebody really complaining because they can't go out of the ground at half time and then come back in? Deary me... of course you can't leave the ground, have you never been to a football stadium before!

As for the concourse complaint... how many grounds open up all the bars on all the concourses after the game and allow fans to bar hop from concourse completely freely... just one that i know of... and yet still people find something to whinge about.

 

[les dynam]

Fair enough if gates left open.

Not much help to me personally as my son and I travel over 400 miles to home games and have to get to train straight after whistle if we want to get home that night! I was hoping I could meet up before game with some friends from West Stand.

Try Dick's Bar