Coventry away fans

Correct should have been the same last year - this year you have to show your match ticket to prove you are in a home stand.

Quoted from Posh Harry

You may have got in last season GM but I'm 99% sure that officially away fans were not allowed as I was planning to go but they announced no away fans the week before the game. Could be just to put off the majority though?

Not able to go this year as on holiday. Hope it's a better performance than last season. Actually, would be difficult to see how it could be worse!

UTFM

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

                                                                                              UNFUCKINGBELICVABLE !!!
Who the feck is Helen Isaacs ???
Does this mean all potential big gates are limited feck me are the council now running GTFC now?? We're in the excrement now then the money they lose.

                                                             WELL N.E.L.C  IF THAT'S THE CASE GIVE US A FECKING GROUND BIG ENOUGH TO DO THE JOB THEN.

There's a good chance that some teams will stick 2 fingers up at us and say we're only getting 1200 tickets and we've got the bloody council to blame not ourselves

Quoted from arryarryarry

Addendum to the Safety Certificate issued by North East Lincolnshire Council to Grimsby Town Football Club.

The following temporary condition is being applied by the Council in respect of the football match scheduled to take place at Blundell Park on Saturday 12th August 2017 between Grimsby Town FC and Coventry City FC.

“The Council supports the fixture taking place under the stewardship of the Club subject to the following condition:

As a condition of the safety certificate the capacity for this fixture be reduced through no further sales of tickets to away fans (Coventry) with immediate effect and a 20% reduction in capacity for home fans.”


Signed on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Council

Helen Isaacs

Director of Governance,Democracy and Community Engagement,
North East Lincolnshire Council Municipal Offices, Grimsby, DN31 1HU

Dated  11th August 2017

Seems Ms Isaacs is in the wrong job

After all this time I give up on getting the true story, the club, council, supporters trust and SLO none of them want to come out and properly explain the circumstances. At least Lincoln have got an excuse for not selling out the Osmond. Be warned though I think this could happen more often in the future.

Looks like the police didn't have sufficient resources to cover the match, so the club was forced to run the game with a reduced capacity in order to stay within the minimum Police:Spectator ratio.

This could have been down to holiday, deployment at Hull, other operations elsewhere in the force area or just plain old bad planning.

All of this might be understandable, but what is not forgivable is the lack of communication from the Club and the lack of clarity from the council.

What the hell is going on?  Why no answers?

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

Looks like the police didn't have sufficient resources to cover the match, so the club was forced to run the game with a reduced capacity in order to stay within the minimum Police:Spectator ratio.

This could have been down to holiday, deployment at Hull, other operations elsewhere in the force area or just plain old bad planning.

All of this might be understandable, but what is not forgivable is the lack of communication from the Club and the lack of clarity from the council.

What the hell is going on?  Why no answers?

Which remained undiscovered until Friday midday ?    

I would love to know why exactly it happened.  The strongest rumour (and it is only a rumour) that I have heard is that Town could have sold the Cov tickets and not reduced us by 20%, but would have had to pay for policing inside the ground. The intel suggested that a core of Cov hooligans would be coming to pay on the day so therefore policing inside the ground would have been necessary. Town declined to pay an opted for what actually happened.  As I say, this is purely one of the rumours that are going round. If someone, be it the club, council, Kristine, whoever could actually put a statement out as to why the decision was actually made we could put this to bed.  

Kristine probably hasn't got anything to say because she was kept in the dark by the club about the meeting happening in the first place. Maybe someone wanted to avoid putting her in a difficult position and ensuring plausible deniability by not telling her what the bloody hell was happening and why!

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Kristine probably hasn't got anything to say because she was kept in the dark by the club about the meeting happening in the first place. Maybe someone wanted to avoid putting her in a difficult position and ensuring plausible deniability by not telling her what the bloody hell was happening and why!

Kristine does a fantastic job (apart from worshiping Barra   ), especially with one arm tied behind her back. So it's definitely not a pop at Kristine

I can confirm or deny nothing when I have no more information than what is on the council website.  I am speaking to various people but then you have to appreciate that I do this as a volunteer, I'm still working on the Chesterfield stuff as well as working with Stevenage and their Police. Its not my place to make statements on such things but will be looking to assist in making sure that we can negate this happening again.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Kristine does a fantastic job (apart from worshiping Barra   ), especially with one arm tied behind her back. So it's definitely not a pop at Kristine

Worship AND adore.