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Why on earth did the police and Safety 'Advisory' Group insist on this game being all-ticket? And why make the decision at the beginning of the season? Such a decision need only be made a month before the game.

If the total number of supporters comprising Newport's average home gate (around 3000) were to attend the game, and if Gulls supporters turned up to the extent of a very optimistic 3000, then this would be pretty close to the maximum capacity of Plainmoor and one could then understand the necessity for an all-ticket game.

But this was never going to happen, except in the event that both clubs were at the top of the league and going for promotion. The club will be lucky to see half that number turn up, and yet it's all-ticket. The decision made at the beginning of the season could easily have been reversed.

It's all absolutely ridiculous.

A couple got chucked out at Argyle, including a man who looked as though he may have eaten the first two stewards who approached him. Perhaps their away lot are idiots, but their home support, as Robbo said, were extremely friendly, to the point that a number of them made a point of saying to us just how bloody unlucky we were to have lost the game up there.

Matt.

robbotufc wrote: Went to the Newport away game earlier in the season thought they were very friendly bunch ,not like the Newport away days of the 70s that i went to,where it was very dodgy place to go to

I went, and yes they were fine, apparently it kicked off at their game at Home Park

gullintwoplaces wrote:This Safety Advisory Group is, I guess, a committee of the useless and cretinous Torbay Council. Who sits on it? Probably a bunch of health and safety zealots divorced from Planet Earth.

Safety Advisory Groups usually include representives from -

Police
Local authority
Fire service
Police
Ambulance
St John's Ambulance
SGSA Inspector (Sports Grounds Safety Authority - formelry Football Licensing Authority)
Club (Safety Officer / Stadium Manager)

They tend to be heavily influenced by the police on matters such as all ticket matches.

sam_ wrote:Newport are fairly dodgy I've heard, bloody Welsh (NO DISPRESPECT TO ANY WELSH PEOPLE HERE, JUST A JOKE)

Went to the Newport away game earlier in the season thought they were very friendly bunch ,not like the Newport away days of the 70s that i went to,where it was very dodgy place to go to

Newport are fairly dodgy I've heard, bloody Welsh (NO DISPRESPECT TO ANY WELSH PEOPLE HERE, JUST A JOKE)

arcadia wrote: Gosh we must be due a good gate of 1601 wow don't the Police hold this club back.

So you feel that the policing of this fixture, and paying an extra quid, is appropriate?

You can order online and collect on the day still I believe. Still a pain. Especially the way we are currently playing who is going to make an extra effort to get a ticket in advance of a game apart from the die hards?

Do other clubs have to suffer this bureaucratic nonsense? Do the Grecians/Gargs endure it too? Or is it just the madcap Torbay Health and Safety Loonies?

This Safety Advisory Group is, I guess, a committee of the useless and cretinous Torbay Council. Who sits on it? Probably a bunch of health and safety zealots divorced from Planet Earth.

This is just plain silly, we all know that. Do you seriously reckon "mighty" Newport will sell out their full allocation of tickets and will be trying to get in the home end? It's just Health and Safety gone mad and our club are just trying to tick a few boxes. Our club can dress it up all they like but the reality is that it is a pain to have to get tickets before the matchday. You pay a surcharge if you order online (I don't know if you pay a surcharge if you order over the phone?), and then on matcday you have to queue up twice, once at the ticket office and then at the turnstiles. For a lot of people it is just not worth the hassle to watch a bottom of the football league team. I expect there will also be a few poor sods again who get turned away because they don't realise it's all ticket.

By the way, when I do go through the turnstiles these days to get into the Family Stand for a normal game I find they take an absolute age faffing around writing things down, getting tickets etc. before they actually allow me through. It's a good job we get low gates otherwise fans won't get in time for the match!

DevonYellow wrote:It's been categorised as an A game since the fixture list came out. Absolutely ridiculous that ANY game at Plainmoor is classed as high risk given the fact that there is NEVER any trouble.

Just an easy way for the police to have a jolly and get some money in. The only time there was even a hint of trouble (Bristol Rovers), which didn't amount to anything, the stewards were left to deal with it whilst the police just stood and filmed everything.

Doesn't affect me really as a season ticket holder but could affect the club's income.

Gosh we must be due a good gate of 1601 wow don't the Police hold this club back.

It's been categorised as an A game since the fixture list came out. Absolutely ridiculous that ANY game at Plainmoor is classed as high risk given the fact that there is NEVER any trouble.

Just an easy way for the police to have a jolly and get some money in. The only time there was even a hint of trouble (Bristol Rovers), which didn't amount to anything, the stewards were left to deal with it whilst the police just stood and filmed everything.

Doesn't affect me really as a season ticket holder but could affect the club's income.

wasn't this announced at the beginning of the season?

along with the others as part of the big 5 that were all ticket games.

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 18849.aspx

"UNITED’S home game against Newport County on Saturday, March 22 will be all-ticket and on instruction from the Police and Safety Advisory Group, no tickets will be sold on the match-day."

Seems a bit odd?