Is Madejski Stadium in danger of collapsing?

[T.R.O.L.I.]

I find the best solution is simply not to go.

That helps the atmosphere how? Or are you one of those that boos the players? In which case staying away is helping the atmosphere.

Or perhaps one of those that has an away season ticket but not a home one...

[murts_the_god]

Yet the jobsworths let one bloke stand in the stairs down from Y21 for @ 5 minutes leading up to half-time!

As for the early leavers - well that's fine, linger on the stairs and in the exits as long as you like!

and there were 2 blokes sat in the stairs in y26

[Coppelled Streets]

[whinge]Today in North Stand B16 we had new stewards everywhere, and they were completely clueless as to how to steward an event at all. I was leaning against my seat (not sat in it but standing up with my bum leaning against the back) and a jobsworth came up and told me to sit down. To which I said 'No'.

Then there was activity right by the vomitry where 4 jobsworths (FOUR!!) were all looking anxious and pointing up towards the back of B16. Oh my goodness I thought, there must be a hostage situation up there or something... No... there was a 7 or 8 year old boy standing on a chair. "He can't do that, he'll break the chair!" they were saying. Now if a 7 year old standing on a chair is going to break it then how will they stand the weight of most of the fatboys that come to the games? So one of the jobsworths went all the way up and had a go at the boy, and then went on to have a go at the boys father who just looked bemused as to what the emergency was.

Next there was a very young boy laying over 3 seats near the front of the stadium. This was a good 45 minutes before kick-off and there were no people complaining about the lad being in there seat, but still, jobsworth at the front felt the need to go and have a go at the lad.

Then (and this is all still before the game is anywhere near starting by the way) one of my friends was standing in the row in front of mine chatting when the owners of the seats she was standing by turned up, so she moved out of their way and into the aisle next to me and just started to say "I'll go down to my seat now" when fat jobsworth came over and said "look love you really can't stand there, you're blocking the whole aisle" (no, YOU'RE blocking the whole aisle telling us that because you're obese, but potato potato), and that was the last straw, and I turned to her and said

Oh calm down love, is it your first day or something?"

to which she widened her eyes and wobbled her many chins and said

You can't talk to me like that, I'm going to get my supervisor"

Good, I said. when her supervisor came she said she'd had a complaint that I'd sworn at a jobsworth and that that was unexeptable behaviour. Everyone around me were amazed and told her exactly what had been said. We then went on to have a conversation about jobsworth doing there job to 110% capacity, and when I explained that 110% was physically impossible for them to do and that all I wanted was 100%, nothing more nothing less, she didn't get it. "Surely you'd rather they did their job to 110% than 50% wouldn't you?" ... er, no, I'd rather they just did their job, and not more than their job. If we had a referee doing his job 110% would you say as he was doing MORE than he was supposed to that he had had a good game? No, you'd say that he'd ruined the game without letting it flow and was a twat (stand up Mr Keith Stroud).

Anyway, she let me off with a warning thanks for that![/whinge]

I hope all stewards remember this face and punish him at all costs!

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[Rawlie19]

You shad appp!

[davis69]

stewards = tossers
Ive never like stewards they are destroying the game atmosphere i think there should be one compulary standing stand where fans can be as abusive (within reason) and as loud as they want without some 40 year old women steward who doesn't have a clue about the emotions of football telling you to shut up or sit down .

[Rawlie19]

stewards = tossers
Ive never like stewards they are destroying the game atmosphere i think there should be one compulary standing stand where fans can be as abusive (within reason) and as loud as they want without some 40 year old women steward who doesn't have a clue about the emotions of football telling you to shut up or sit down .

Stop trying to back me up.

[Yellowcoat]

Work with the stewards not against them. The ideas of idiots like davis69 would just get the ground shut down by the FLA and others.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

It's a sign of the times I'm afraid. Nobody is allowed to apply common sense anymore. Traffic wardens, stewards, police officers, teachers, social workers, florists, bouncers, it makes no difference. They're all expected to play it by the book.

You want to watch it with talk like that. Someone could mistake you for a Daily Mail reader

[Royal Lady]

It's a sign of the times I'm afraid. Nobody is allowed to apply common sense anymore. Traffic wardens, stewards, police officers, teachers, social workers, florists, bouncers, it makes no difference. They're all expected to play it by the book.

You want to watch it with talk like that. Someone could mistake you for a Daily Mail reader

[Platypuss]

i think

Debatable.

[shadesrwrf]

It's a sign of the times I'm afraid. Nobody is allowed to apply common sense anymore. Traffic wardens, stewards, police officers, teachers, social workers, florists, bouncers, it makes no difference. They're all expected to play it by the book.

You want to watch it with talk like that. Someone could mistake you for a Daily Mail reader