Trouble today

If the police were there anyway due to intelligence...why do the club have to pay for them to enter the ground? The police is a government/tax-payer funded public service! Perhaps I'm missing something here but I just don't get it!

I’m not being funny but you don’t have to have an NVQ in safety at football matches or whatever worthless qualification or safety officer has to know that if there is likely to be trouble at Blundell Park you take the away fans out the Harrington street side of the ground .
Also when did a couple of parked mini buses became the segregation between the home and away fans ?
This idiot is great at making 13 year olds sit down in the pontoon but has no idea when it comes to performing his real job

Quoted from grimps

I’m not being funny but you don’t have to have an NVQ in safety at football matches or whatever worthless qualification or safety officer has to know that if there is likely to be trouble at Blundell Park you take the away fans out the Harrington street side of the ground .
Also when did a couple of parked mini buses became the segregation between the home and away fans ?
This idiot is great at making 13 year olds sit down in the pontoon but has no idea when it comes to performing his real job

I think you are spot on there.

Crowd trouble never a nice thing.    But out of 5000 + people there was  only a small amount causing the affray.  The police were on the scene quickly and there was not much going on  around the streets after the game. Don't let us give it too much publicity and let the powers that be get it sorted..

Just a quick comment on this.

1- why was the gate open allowing away fans free passage? (Even more so if this was full time)

2- where is the segregation between fans around cons corner these days?

From that video we're just as much to blame to be honest. Every person in that corner their are pathetic. Notice not one has a football shirt, scarf or anything on..

Quoted from Croxton

Are you not aware of the policy changes re policing announced by the club earlier this season Herts? Something clearly was amiss today. My point was about two match interruptions managed differently. I do not prejudge hencea my call for a thorough safety officer report.
Again Herts., you express yourself in an insulting way to two posters on this subject. Your assessment of the game is measured and temperate but your gratuitous comments about the fan trouble weaken your own points.

That would be akin to asking King Herod to investigate the disappearance of children!

Quoted from lukeo

From that video we're just as much to blame to be honest. Every person in that corner their are pathetic. Notice not one has a football shirt, scarf or anything on..

Not quite sure I get this comment luke.

Does that mean 87 year old Albert forthright in the main stand likes to go steaming in to the rozzers because he's not got his scarf with him?

Quoted from lukeo

From that video we're just as much to blame to be honest. Every person in that corner their are pathetic. Notice not one has a football shirt, scarf or anything on..

Whilst you can’t deny that our fans were involved. It was the Vale fans that brought it on. Why the away gate was opened is a mystery to me. Half a dozen coppers I the away end would have prevented all that.
Shame on Town if we actually were advised to have policing but turned down to save a few bob.

Herts. Play the ball not the man. You could have avoided the perjorative 'drama queen' remark to Heppy and the inference that I don't have a clue what I am saying. Yes, all agree that the morons are the issue but you seem to want to play down the club's role in deciding the level of policing inside the ground. You completely ignored my reference to changes announced earlier in the season.