[Albion] Behave at West Ham…

[Herr Tubthumper]

That in itself should worry you!

Ha ha. We don’t agree on everything but we always seem to have a reasonable and respectful discussion.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Behave. No one can drink in the stand. If you'd been at Fulham, there wasn’t room to swing a car let alone chuck a beer.

But people were luzzing beer in the stands at Fulham.

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

"We will be increasing our own monitoring through extra liaison with other clubs and the vigilance of our own travelling stewards.
The club will not hesitate to impose sanctions on any supporter who misbehaves in future. Possible penalties include a significant loss of loyalty points or stadium bans"

From the bottom of my heart, f*** off. The club are actively sanitising our fanbase to make us more appealing to tourists. Been happening for years and the state of the Amex atmosphere reflects that. The one thing we have supporter wise is a respectable away following. They'll end up turning every away end into the one at Liverpool this season.

 

[jackalbion]

And fortunately my son was saved by falling on Big Philly. Suspect that saved him from injury.

A tale old as time itself!

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

A full breakdown of what you can be banned for and the minimum punishments.

 

[jackalbion]

there wasn’t room to swing a car let alone chuck a beer.

10 match ban that

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

Or possibly that we could have taken more but now we have a smaller allocation.

Smaller allocation will be easier for you know who to spot you causing disorder.

 

[BN9 BHA]

As it’s panto season oh no it isn’t. I got drenched in someone else’s foul cooking lager when we scored at Fulham, seemingly also served up with a delightful side-serving of chav saliva, and yes, I was in my correct seat. My nice winter coat still smells of it.

I mean I know a big day in London is terribly exciting for some people but it’s just f***ing infantile really. And too easy just to blame it all on youngsters.

Behave. No one can drink in the stand. If you'd been at Fulham, there wasn’t room to swing a car let alone chuck a beer.

See quoted post above yours

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

Very much this and I suspect all those complaining about the club message are in the latter and also the ones banging on about the home atmosphere and trying to lecture us all about the manner in which we should watch football. They are going to get a nasty shock when the safe standing area in the North doesn't turn it into the Dortmund home end.

What is it about Fulham that attracts our prime twats? One of Potter's last games was a complete nightmare. Five lads utterly wankered ( and one who looked coked up) spent virtually the whole game throwing abuse and making cut throat gestures to the home fans to our right. Said Fulham fans were mainly families and not remotely interested in ' engaging '. Finally one of my mates lost patience and enquired ' any chance you might actually watch the game ?". To which the coked up one squared up to my mate virtually frothing at the mouth.

Believe we must have been very close to each other. Those guys were goons.

 

[Talby]

Ha ha. We don’t agree on everything but we always seem to have a reasonable and respectful discussion.

A good exchange of views does no harm.

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

What a load of presumption that is, I don’t feel the need to be lectured every week to be on my best behaviour. I behave 95% of the time, and I don’t need to be told like a child what to do. Try not to hurt others, but most people do not have bad intentions.

Fulham being within the other 5%?

 

[jackalbion]

Fulham being within the other 5%?

Hello Officer

 

[Justice]

When you’re at a match the host’s ground regulations apply. Technically we’re all normally in breach of the seating regulations (unless safe standing is in place). For me retrospective sanctions won’t work, they either tackle the issues (fairly) at a ground or let them slide.

Chucking beer, fighting, entering the field of play, endangering safety of others etc fair enough…use CCTV but not because you’re not in your own seat, standing in the aisle. Deal with it at the time because the key argument will be ‘someone else is in mine’.

And if we ban our fans for not complying away from home but we then struggle to get Chelsea fans etc to comply with our ground regulations when they visit it will mean we’re treating our fans with double standards.

They won’t care I can’t quite understand the keenness for a club to ban its own supporters.

Probably already been minuted, yes!

I think you will find they can’t, I’m surprised everyone is so willing showing ID to a steward at an away ground. They have absolutely no right to ask for personal ID. They have authority to ask for your ticket only.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I think you will find they can’t, I’m surprised everyone is so willing showing ID to a steward at an away ground. They have absolutely no right to ask for personal ID. They have authority to ask for your ticket only.

Of course they can ask.

 

[mile oak]

Not sure which away grounds you have been too but the size of chairs and more importantly the width of the terrace where chair resides varies greatly ......

Yeah and Theatre seats in older theatres can be like that but your either sit down put up or leave. You dont stand in gangways. Really the home teams are poor at stewarding this but that doesn't excuse it happening. It's a safety issue. Anyway Albion will be stewarding this too so either behave or face penalties club have made that clear.

 

[jackalbion]

But people were luzzing beer in the stands at Fulham.

I think Fulham has become a bit out of control, because of the ground regulations, extras are going in the away end because they buying tickets in the “neutral end” and sneaking in, the stewards do absolutely nothing about it. There was almost a fight on the concourse because a Fulham fan decided to come down our way end of the stand and start ripping down one of our flags. There’s absolutely no segregation, and I’m surprised the premier league allow the non segregation, it’s an accident waiting to happen, and that’s with a relatively tame fanbase. Fulham ultimately don’t give a shit because their entire focus in on selling £120 tickets in the riverside stand and basically ignore the entire away stand. Fulham aren’t going to do anything about it because it doesn’t make them money.

 

[jackalbion]

Yeah and Theatre seats in older theatres can be like that but your either sit down put up or leave. You dont stand in gangways. Really the home teams are poor at stewarding this but that doesn't excuse it happening. It's a safety issue. Anyway Albion will be stewarding this too so either behave or face penalties club have made that clear.

Yeah I’ll just throw £30 in the bin because Fulham have either oversold the stand or completely failed to let those without legitimate tickets into the stand. As long as you are considerate and let other people around you through, the I don’t see a problem with incursion slightly into the aisle.

 

[Bozza]

I think Fulham has become a bit out of control, because of the ground regulations, extras are going in the away end because they buying tickets in the “neutral end” and sneaking in, the stewards do absolutely nothing about it. There was almost a fight on the concourse because a Fulham fan decided to come down our way end of the stand and start ripping down one of our flags. There’s absolutely no segregation, and I’m surprised the premier league allow the non segregation, it’s an accident waiting to happen, and that’s with a relatively tame fanbase. Fulham ultimately don’t give a shit because their entire focus in on selling £120 tickets in the riverside stand and basically ignore the entire away stand. Fulham aren’t going to do anything about it because it doesn’t make them money.

I do always pass comment at Fulham, as I did a couple of weeks ago, does it never massively kick-off when they are visited by a less convivial fanbase than our own?

I wasn't thinking so much about the stand itself, although there's clearly potential there, but in the concourse area.

 

[drew]

Yeah I’ll just throw £30 in the bin because Fulham have either oversold the stand or completely failed to let those without legitimate tickets into the stand. As long as you are considerate and let other people around you through, the I don’t see a problem with incursion slightly into the aisle.

The aisle next to me at Fulham was rammed and when we equalised it was mayhem as those at the back felt it a good surge forward was needed. Unlike the old terracing, there were no crash barriers it pretty much went from the very top right down to the exit halfway down the stand. You might think it's a bit of a laugh but there would be people that were there because they couldn't get to their seats and certainly weren't expected to be pushed down the steps.

 

[jackalbion]

The aisle next to me at Fulham was rammed and when we equalised it was mayhem as those at the back felt it a good surge forward was needed. Unlike the old terracing, there were no crash barriers it pretty much went from the very top right down to the exit halfway down the stand. You might think it's a bit of a laugh but there would be people that were there because they couldn't get to their seats and certainly weren't expected to be pushed down the steps.

Well if you read the last line of the post you just quoted, that clearly doesn’t fit the bill of “as long as you are considerate, and let people past”. It’s all something that follows common courtesy, and 95% that is the exact experience I’ve always had with anyone stood in the aisles. Some people have got over excited and likely fallen over by mistake, I agree on the beer chucking, that’s being a twat, but I just don’t agree with the idea that all of these people are coked up and spoiling for a fight, if someone, even one of my mates, is being a dick, I’d call them out. I think 99% of these people have good intentions, it just hasn’t come across that way. I feel like we are travelling down the path of all our young fans who have a beer are the root of all evil. Palace (spits on floor) have a pretty good way of dealing with this by encouraging sections of support at away games, and saying those who don’t like it go to the front. The theatre comparison is odd, this isn’t the theatre, it’s a football game, if you want a theatre experience go to the theatre I guess.