Throwing Stuff is an UTTER NO NO

me too -- be glad when alcohol goes the way of cigarettes and is history at football  stadiums. It would be more pleasant. I fear the stadium probably makes too much money from it for this to ever happen in the near future though. aladdinkiwiland2007-10-23 19:37:45

I hope they never ban alcohol at games. What a sh*t idea. 

Yes, but then you penalise 500 people who have no problem at all because 3 or 4 can't handle it.

That's not fair on the majority.

Perhaps the stadium need to be more pro-active on the state of people being allowed in already drunk or removing those who are obviously so if they spot them ?

Just an idea.

that's what I said in another post. Let's get rid of the scum and enjoy ourselves - with a few drinks, yes, but not with people who are totally out of it and cannot control their actions.

If the Stadium was REALLY clever - they might consider putting alcohol/beer in plastic cups - just like they do at any decent stadium around the world.

Maybe if they moved to New Zealand breweries ?

(Cowers behind his chair before Thommo sees this.)

I suspect if you banned alcohol sales at the stadium you would end up with a lot more people turning up absolutely smashed too. 

Yeah, but anyone smashed should not be allowed inside in the first place.
As I said in the other thread,
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I disagree completely. Beer should not be banned from anywhere. People just need to take a bit more responsibility for their actions, and the stewards need to be tougher on those that get out of line. There is no need to punish everybody. 

Are the electronic turnstiles able to do a breath-alcohol test too?

The kind of idiots who were acting up on Saturday are never going to 'take responsibility for their actions'.

Better to remove their ammunition than let them carry on before any stewards can grab them.

Looks like Phoenix might have to fork out for more stewards, which is bad outcome ... still it's going to be bad whichever way you look at it.

The stewards checking your bags for alcohol at the entrance can make sure nobody obviously agressive or off their face can get in.

It's all very well to criticise Arsenal, do you have any ideas apart from more stewards around the Fever Zone?
And how many more would be enough, maybe 1 for every 5 rows of seats?

hey we don't wanna be in jail mate!

The way I see it, there have been isolated incidents of drunken idiocy (very limited given the 12k or so average at home games), which came to a head with the throwing of bottles on Sunday. So far there has been no attempt whatsoever to punish these isolated incidents ie stewards kicking offenders out.

My solution? Be tough on offenders at the time.

Calling for a blanket ban on alcohol after a limited number of negative incidents, where the vast majority of people behave and can handle their drink is, quite frankly, one of the most ridiculous over-reactions I've seen.

why not make it a limit on the amount of  beer you can buy. say they give you a card before the game  take note of your seat and aisle etc, you need a card to get beer, everytime you get a beer they stamp it and check your  whoever from aisle 32 row e seat 103  if the ticket and seat #'s don't match no beer and if you get to 8 no more beer  maybe that's a way to limit drunken behaviour  the amount of beer you can buy at the game  it's just an idea 

That doesn't cover how many they walk in having had, and some people are unmanageable on 4 in half an hour, let alone 8.

I just can't see it being logistically viable giddyup.

The better the behavioural standards are at the games the more likely we are to get better and bigger crowds, which in turn will help the Nix as a club, and help to promote football in NZ.  Banning alcohol doesn't mean banning the excitement, only if you need alcohol to bolster your machismo should it be of any concern.  The concern is to weigh alcohol being freely available versus the ability of prats who don't know their limitations to stuff it for everyone else. There are people in the footballling community who make it essential to prevent them from imbibing. We have a great club here, it will thrive without alcohol,or in spite of it.  For the record I'm not a teetotaller, a long long way from that position.  Put the price of the alcohol up til it hurts, and the extra charge to go towards the Nix

Ban alcohol, farken? Put the price up, farken?

Sad day when a Tard is the voice of reason.  How's Demma ?

EXACTLY - there has been NO attempt yet to punish people behaving badly.

From everything I read, not seeing him and his halfwit mates should be counted as a result.

Anyway.  Well off topic.  We're discussing our problems here, not Tard persecution.  if we were discussing that I'd post this.




Hard News2007-10-23 21:18:03

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 Bobby smith well done

lets have a laugh and move on or the YF runs the chance of choking on its own vomit

So to speak.

Go the Nix!!!

 

this thread just made a TV cameo!

Sorry too slow, please explain about TV cameo

TV3 news.  The item on the 'incident' has film of this thread on it.

Have a nosey at the TV3 website.

I've had to delete a pile of stuff in here tonight.

Please take a second to think before you post. 

The media frenzy came from what has been posted here, you need to consider this when you post even if you think it is just humorous.  This place is high on the radar currently and thoughtless posting just perpetuates the problem.

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cheers Tony