DCFC Ram Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 The millionaires' cars were well looked after by the stewards today; us fans no so much. For those who didn't have the pleasure of trying to get round the burger van behind the West Stand or the function bar to get to their seat tonight, the last in what is becoming a long line of own goals by the club is now to fence off the PP players' carpark. The result being that there is (obviously) congestion in the reduced walkway areas around the ground. And (equally obviously) it is worse when people leave the ground at the same time. And also obviously, it will be a lot worse when we play teams with bigger away followings and obviously it will be worse when Derby don't lose / we leave at the same time. No doubt the club's safety and equality officers have thoroughly risk assessed the new arrangement and judge it to be completely safe for fans and staff, including those who use wheelchairs or the club's mobility machines. (Perhaps unsurprisingly after the game tonight some of the fences were unhooked and some people made their way through the car park as previously. It didn't seem that the stewards did the 'unhooking'.) Other than these minor inconveniences, this later great idea goes down with the water ban and hike in ticket prices as another cracking piece of customer service by the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Water ban? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC Ram Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 food, drinks etc not to be taken into the stadium... included water during the scorchio Girona game. I'll edit it from 'water' to 'drinks and food' though to be fair - cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC Ram Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 19 minutes ago, DCFC Ram said: The millionaires' cars were well looked after by the stewards today; us fans no so much. For those who didn't have the pleasure of trying to get round the burger van behind the West Stand or the function bar to get to their seat tonight, the last in what is becoming a long line of own goals by the club is now to fence off the PP players' carpark. The result being that there is (obviously) congestion in the reduced walkway areas around the ground. And (equally obviously) it is worse when people leave the ground at the same time. And also obviously, it will be a lot worse when we play teams with bigger away followings and obviously it will be worse when Derby don't lose / we leave at the same time. No doubt the club's safety and equality officers have thoroughly risk assessed the new arrangement and judge it to be completely safe for fans and staff, including those who use wheelchairs or the club's mobility machines. (Perhaps unsurprisingly after the game tonight some of the fences were unhooked and some people made their way through the car park as previously. It didn't seem that the stewards did the 'unhooking'.) Other than these minor inconveniences, this later great idea goes down with the drinks and food ban and hike in ticket prices as another cracking piece of customer service by the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourblokes Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I couldn’t have put it better DCFC Ram - at least not without a lot of swearing. I challenged a chap with ‘Chief Steward’ on his back, and in the moments when he wasn’t asking anxiously for extra stewards in his head set, or mumbling something about reviewing things in their meeting, he ‘promised’ he would pass on my complaints as to fan safety to his line manager. Pessimistically I feel it’ll take a crush injury or a disabled person’s huge panic attack to get another poorly thought out policy scrapped. Those expensive motors require a lot of protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC Ram Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 Do we still have the pleasure of Millwall this season? Obviously we've got Stoke, Forest, Wednesday and Cardiff to visit PP and negotiate their way through the narrower routeways behind the West Stand to get to the back of the South Stand. If this scheme is still in place when we play one of these, I'll bet that it is ended straight afterwards. and quite possibly with some 'exchange of papers' activity between fans, their representatives and the club as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rams forever Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Bloody stupid idea, after leaving southstand and walking around the ground to get penned in by even more fences,to walk back to the car at the JJB ,madness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaspode Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 They put fences up outside the East stand when they're expecting a lot of away fans - stupid idea that's just makes home fans wanting to get to the car parks walk almost as far as the North stand before having to walk all the way back to the same place they'd have originally got to without the fences. The clubs 'management' of fans after matches leaves a lot to be desired.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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