Queues

[Shirley]

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?

 

[Why Always Ste]

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.

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?

 

[br88]

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.

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.

 

[CC1]

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.

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.

 

[hobbsisablue]

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.

 

[hobbsisablue]

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.

 

[Goater666]

Awful again last night. Got there with plenty of time and queued for a good 20 minutes. Not acceptable.

 

[Saddleworth2]

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.

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.

 

[quiet_riot]

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?

 

[3rdgenerationblue]

turn up earlier you moaning boring plebs