Security in the stadium

[blue b4 the moon]

Big queue for SS3, watched the rags game in the Townley & thought shit but it moved pretty quickly.

 

[Fabled mabel]

Entrance H to ECL 1 is also also the way in two one of two lifts on the East stand. Always slow nobody seems to worry that people with mobility probs also have difficulties i standing in a queue. Eventually you get to the wand men followed immediately by the bag search queue and then a guy who looks at season tickets, Then inside there are half a dozen stewards most doing nothing some sitting at a table. If you need to use the lift on the left you have to go to the right to give your card to a bloke who puts it through the machine then you block things off to get to over to the lift. Don't know why they have so many people doing nowt but if the added another card machine on the lift side it would be a lot smoother.

More light hearted after the match. Two blokes bickering outside the lift over who was there first. Lift was slow so we had to listen to this going on for a bit. Lift was very full and stopped at 2nd level and room was made only just for a lad in a wheel chair. The lift stopped on the first and people's faces showed 'FFS who wants to go down just one floor'. Doors opened and there stood a very pretty young lady on crutches. There was an embarrassed silence with the lift steward saying or doing nothing. The young lady smiled and said she would wait for the lift. As soon as the doors closed someone asked who should have been thrown out to allow her on. You didn't have to be a mind reader to guess the bickerers or steward were the favourites.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Missed our first goal yesterday after queues into J were much slower than usual. A factor was a lack of stewarding moving up and down the queue to tell people with bags to use the inside queue lane

 

[Bluephoria]

Looked like they were trying a new system today that actually made things worse. I went in Z as usual and it was fine but the queues at Y looked massive and people weren’t all in until 10 minutes after kick off.
It seemed they had extra staff with wands but they did queuing airport style where there was one queue for about 6 wand wavers, and people were waiting for one to be free before walking up to them. This meant the wand wavers were waiting half the time for people to walk over rather than doing it constantly. Think they need to think again.

Yes, Y was a complete joke yesterday. There was only one person checking bags and no attempt to separate people without bags from those with (yes, there was a sign, but the queues snaked around so it was hard to work out which queue started where). About 5 mins before KO they seemed to accelerate the non bag queues. Many still missed the first goal (me included) despite being in the queue at 2.40 which has been ample for every game since the scanning has been introduced.

I took this up with someone with a City ID badge and the retort was "Its better than you all getting blown up". Well given the incidence of flares at recent games, I'm not at all convinced by that argument. There must have been several hundred people outside the Y entrances yesterday, at a point where there has been no security check and all are sitting targets. (No , I'm not happy writing this.)

For the last 8 or 9 minutes, there were 4 security people by the spiral ramp doing nothing and with no queue there at all. This mirrors my experience when the scanning was brought in - modest queues for the ramp and security staff dealing easily whereas the entrance to the ground level was really slow.

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

TSA agents make almost 20 USD an hour, $19.32 if I remember correctly. But why would a fact get in the way of a random attack against someone/someplace for some reason.

By law enforcement and court of law standards, if you lie once you will always lie and can't be trusted. Just saying...

AA are currently paying $12.90 for Entry level Security Screeners in Boston, minimum wage in Massachusetts $12.00......

You seem for some reason to want to straw-man me as I never mentioned people employed by TSA although they are still paid far less than the State Police dealing with parking infractions

 

[Bill the Blue]

Yes, Y was a complete joke yesterday. There was only one person checking bags and no attempt to separate people without bags from those with (yes, there was a sign, but the queues snaked around so it was hard to work out which queue started where). About 5 mins before KO they seemed to accelerate the non bag queues. Many still missed the first goal (me included) despite being in the queue at 2.40 which has been ample for every game since the scanning has been introduced.

I took this up with someone with a City ID badge and the retort was "Its better than you all getting blown up". Well given the incidence of flares at recent games, I'm not at all convinced by that argument. There must have been several hundred people outside the Y entrances yesterday, at a point where there has been no security check and all are sitting targets. (No , I'm not happy writing this.)

For the last 8 or 9 minutes, there were 4 security people by the spiral ramp doing nothing and with no queue there at all. This mirrors my experience when the scanning was brought in - modest queues for the ramp and security staff dealing easily whereas the entrance to the ground level was really slow.

I enter in entrance R. I seem to have the same guy patting me down every home game.. he's OK to be fair, waved me straight through without so much of a wave of his wand yesterday which made me think, does he recognise me from previous games or do i look like i'm not trouble!.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

It was fine in SS3 even when a woman bright a bottle of beer up at HT, she was escorted back inside & returned presumably after drinking the bottle.

Was the issue in SS1? Perhaps linked to the Spurs woman who was punched?

Not sure it was about 5 rows behind us but my friend told me they were handling this blue for no apparent reason. Perhaps like you say it was from a previous game

 

[Blue Mist]

Unfortunately the first lesson for many organisations is "If it ain't broke bring in a consultant to tell you how to break it while convincing the punters and employees that you've made it better."

I think you have the wrong thread, please re-post this in the VAR thread,

 

[BillCarlisle]

Queuing up at G yesterday I noticed that the table at the bag queue had a couple of deodorant aerosols which the stewards had obviously removed after bag searches. No doubt from fans who'd maybe been to a gym on the way.
I'm all for security if it keeps us all safe, but I thought that was overkill. FFS it's a football match not a flight to New York.
Might be better to have wands that actually work - I've yet to come across one that does.

 

[Ian]

Yes, Y was a complete joke yesterday. There was only one person checking bags and no attempt to separate people without bags from those with (yes, there was a sign, but the queues snaked around so it was hard to work out which queue started where). About 5 mins before KO they seemed to accelerate the non bag queues. Many still missed the first goal (me included) despite being in the queue at 2.40 which has been ample for every game since the scanning has been introduced.

I took this up with someone with a City ID badge and the retort was "Its better than you all getting blown up". Well given the incidence of flares at recent games, I'm not at all convinced by that argument. There must have been several hundred people outside the Y entrances yesterday, at a point where there has been no security check and all are sitting targets. (No , I'm not happy writing this.)

For the last 8 or 9 minutes, there were 4 security people by the spiral ramp doing nothing and with no queue there at all. This mirrors my experience when the scanning was brought in - modest queues for the ramp and security staff dealing easily whereas the entrance to the ground level was really slow.

Same here. Arrived at Y around 2.40 and got in at at 8 minutes past 3. Worse than any game last season.. Absolute joke!