Queues

Wasn't sure in the point of searching me and I asked the lad that did it. Metal detector I've me, went off 5/6 times as I have keys, phone, coins etc on me, asked what the point was, he said he has to be seen doing it; what's the point. If I'd had a knife, gun or WMD on me they wouldn't have known
 
They seem to ask if it's okay for them to search people now, they did at M1 anyway. 'Is it ok if I do a quick search?' What are they going to do if you say no?
 
TBH I'm sick of this shit. Tired of being treated like a piece of shit by the club. Being forced to have a full body frisk/search by some Showsec guy at every home match. This isn't football. Sick of queuing up outside the ground and at the the bar, while all the directors and their cronies at City walk in without being searched, and get waited on hand and foot, while those same directors constantly ignore the complaints from the fans about the disgraceful way we're being treated.

Tonight I was told by the Police, and by a City supervisor steward, that this OTT search policy comes from the club. And while talking to the supervisor steward, they said the club don't listen. They just roll (H&S) decisions out and expect the stewards and Showsec to follow them to the letter, regardless of the mayhem it is causing. We've been complaining about this for months, match after hmr match, and rather than getting better, the searches are getting more intrusive, taking longer, and the queues are also getting longer.

Regardless of Pep and possible new players next season, I've had a belly full of this PC, H&S, queues, rules, regulations, contrived matchday experience, the club not listening to the fans, etc, bullshit.

There were plenty of empty seats at the Etihad tonight. One more won't make a difference next season.
 
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jrb said:
TBH I'm sick of this shit. Tired of being treated like a piece of shit by the club. Being forced to have a full body frisk/search by some Showsec guy at every home match. This isn't football. Sick of queuing up outside the ground and at the the bar, while all the directors and their cronies at City walk in without being searched, and get waited on hand and foot, while those same directors constantly ignore the complaints from the fans about the disgraceful way we're being treated.

Tonight I was told by the Police, and a City supervisor steward that this OTT search policy comes from the club. And while talking to the supervisor steward, they said the club don't listen. They just roll (H&S) decisions out, and expect the stewards and Showsec to follow them to the letter, regardless of the mayhem it is causing. We've been complaining about this for months, match after home match. And rather than getting better, the searches are getting more intrusive, taking longer, and the queues are also getting longer.

Regardless of Pep and possible new players next season, I've had a belly full of this PC, H&S, queues, rules, regulations, contrived matchday experience, the club not listening to the fans, etc, bullshit.

There were plenty of empty seats at the Etihad tonight. One more won't make a difference next season.
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So now Showsec are the good guys? Couldn't make it up.
 
jrb said:
TBH I'm sick of this shit. Tired of being treated like a piece of shit by the club. Being forced to have a full body frisk/search by some Showsec guy at every home match. This isn't football. Sick of queuing up outside the ground and at the the bar, while all the directors and their cronies at City walk in without being searched, and get waited on hand and foot, while those same directors constantly ignore the complaints from the fans about the disgraceful way we're being treated.

Tonight I was told by the Police, and a City supervisor steward that this OTT search policy comes from the club. And while talking to the supervisor steward, they said the club don't listen. They just roll (H&S) decisions out and expect the stewards and Showsec to follow them to the letter, regardless of the mayhem it is causing. We've been complaining about this for months, match after home match. And rather than getting better, the searches are getting more intrusive, taking longer, and the queues are also getting longer.

Regardless of Pep and possible new players next season, I've had a belly full of this PC, H&S, queues, rules, regulations, contrived matchday experience, the club not listening to the fans, etc, bullshit.

There were plenty of empty seats at the Etihad tonight. One more won't make a difference next season.
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I sacked off the last 2 home games coz of this shit, I relented tonight & was looking forward to the game.
It was worse , huge que's & everyone was pissed off, at least it finally made my mind up for me. End of the road for me after 35 years, nice one City.
 
CC1 said:
So now Showsec are the good guys? Couldn't make it up.
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Sorry. Go on explain.

Here's another one.

I saw a Showsec Steward telling a city fan to take his hood off(casual hoddlie top), which after the City fan did that, he then checked the hood by patting it down. The City fan complained and the Showsec Steward started getting arsey with him. This in-front of the City fans young Son, who was by his side.
 
Queues around m1/2 and N were bonkers tonight. Seemed to take an age to search people. Not sure what the hell they are even searching for.
 
Seen a clip from the swamp last week and they appeared to randomly stop and frisk a few people as they are crossing that bridge there leading up to the shithole.
Do they have further checks at the gates?
 
ballinio said:
I sacked off the last 2 home games coz of this shit, I relented tonight & was looking forward to the game.
It was worse , huge que's & everyone was pissed off, at least it finally made my mind up for me. End of the road for me after 35 years, nice one City.
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That's sad to read bud, but I'm seeing this comment more and more.

I managed to get into the stadium rather quickly tonight (7pm B1)
Although I was metal detector scanned and asked what was inside my coat.

I too am becoming less happy with this whole match day experience thing.
It's like some special day out at a theme park or something.
It feels less like football to me and more sanitised now.

Maybe day trippers and kids will like this stuff?
I don't know.

I feel I should pull the plug and not renew my seasoncard but a part of me also thinks that City wouldn't miss me anyway and my "protest" wouldn't make much of a difference.

I went into my block I've been going in for donkeys years now and some showsec kid, 17yrs old or something, pestering me to show my proof of where my seat is.... Fuck off you ****, I've been coming through this block for years now and I even recognise this kid as he is stood there every other week.

Is this football or a fucking prison, with constant surveillance?
 
ballinio said:
I sacked off the last 2 home games coz of this shit, I relented tonight & was looking forward to the game.
It was worse , huge que's & everyone was pissed off, at least it finally made my mind up for me. End of the road for me after 35 years, nice one City.
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I must be going to a different ground but City were definitely playing there tonight. I normally go in about 25 mins before kick off. No problem getting in, no problem with any stewards and never have had. I find it incredible that we are on the verge of having a fantastic team next year and people are opting out because of big queues.....the mind boggles. Improvements must be made in these areas by the club in the future.
 
jrb said:
Sorry. Go on explain.

Here's another one.

I saw a Showsec Steward telling a city fan to take his hood off(casual hoddlie top), which after the City fan did that, he then checked the hood by patting it down. The City fan complained and the Showsec Steward started getting arsey with him. This in-front of the City fans young Son, who was by his side.
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Oh dear. How awful for him. Patting his hood to presumably check something. Showsec were arsey - City fan "complained" or was he arsey too?

Look, the club must be carrying out these checks for a reason - probably our safety. Look at what's happening in the wider world outside football.
The problem seems to be not so much that these necessary checks are being carried out - which will cause delays because everyone arrives near to kick off - but that improvements are required to speed up the process. But even then, checks will STILL be required. It's not going to go away.

What has been the clubs response to your complaints?

Unfortunately the old days of turning up at any public event and just ambling in are gone.
 
We win last night and half of these comments don't appear on here. It's just a reaction to the end result and a "who can we blame" attitude. Red didn't do too bad so let's have a go at the Stewards and the Queues.
 
We win last night and half of these comments don't appear on here. It's just a reaction to the end result and a "who can we blame" attitude. Ref didn't do too bad so let's have a go at the Stewards and the Queues.
 
Awful again last night. Got there with plenty of time and queued for a good 20 minutes. Not acceptable.
 
br88 said:
I must be going to a different ground but City were definitely playing there tonight. I normally go in about 25 mins before kick off. No problem getting in, no problem with any stewards and never have had. I find it incredible that we are on the verge of having a fantastic team next year and people are opting out because of big queues.....the mind boggles. Improvements must be made in these areas by the club in the future.
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Me too mate. In through B1, we were both scanned, no queues. No queues for beer/ pies either. This was about 7.00 -7.10. Concourse was really quiet. The problems must be either localised or caused because of a late surge.
 
The exact same guy scanned me last night as did at the FA cup replay. On that occasion, it beeped as it passed my keys on one side, phone on the other - although he didn't ask what either beep was. Last night however, same guy, same place, same keys, same phone - no beeps! Assume the batteries had gone?
 
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