Most liked posts in thread: Walsall Vs City Sept 14th

To do that at home you'd be looking to get everyone at the ground by 2pm at the latest so they would get in on time for kick off and if you was stuck at the back of it you would say the club needs to sort that out then. It's a no win situation but I'm sure in time those bringing smoke bombs / flares will get caught. Then they will be dealt with.

 

I recall one away trip, I think it was Scunthorpe, where the stewards had sniffer dogs. I believe some clubs (Liverpool?) have them present all the time. I don't know how expensive it would be for City to deploy them at away matches considered at risk @wetherbywhaler ? If they were used and did catch someone trying to get in with one I would hope they received a ban.

 

Personally they don’t bother me at all but i do accept that they are banned from football arenas. If you really want to check where they get in then look no further than the schooligans. Although these things are very prevalent on the continent and South America its a fairly new phenomena in this country. There are you tube sites specifically set up to show pyro shows and this is where the youth seem to spend every spare minute, i know my lad does. And its not hard to spot them going into the ground, they all dress and walk the same. Not really sure how you stop it, the pyro obsession seems to be getting bigger every year. Not sure it even works over here, i’ve been to games in Europe where it does actually add a dimension to the atmosphere.

 

is there a decent match report for this game? Been on the drink up Newcastle all weekend so not seen anything

 

Nowt like a bit of prejudicial profiling.

 

Doesnt seem to be an issue at home games though (smoke bombs), they tend to be more prevailant away. Average crowds of 1000, wouldnt take much whittling down to 100 or so proper searches

 

Well it is the young lads that are obsessed with pyro and flares.

Such types have no interest in sitting in the main stand with the older fans and they don't sit in the family stands, they go to the back of the Kop where the noise is and they get a bit rowdy.

 

Never seen a flare once. Why would they want to sit with the older lot and the families? All they do is look down their nose at them for trying to create an atmosphere and have a laugh. “Such types” have made away days much more a laugh over the past year, much rather stand with them than the older “sunwin” brigade. I don’t like the smoke bombs by the way. Sure this will go down like a lead balloon but hey ho.

 

Can't agree with this at all. For starters, i've never seen a pyro let off at VP

Secondly, did you see the state of the queues at the Northampton game? They had issues with the scanners at the turnstiles so were manually writing ST numbers down, causing chaos with people stood in the Midland Road queues for 20 mins or so with some even missing KO. Can you imagine if they decided to search everyone as well as this happening, we wouldn't get in before half time!

Thirdly, I don't think Bradford can issue any such order to the Away club, it is down to them if they want to police it or not. From my experience, most away clubs are too grateful for the large number of away fans and the income they generate to be bothered about a bit of orange smoke