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A new low for the season, total sh*t show on the pitch and fighting in the golf road.
We need to show some bollocks and pay for policing.Is that true though? I accept I may be wrong, but I thought that while we could request their presence, the decision on whether they would attend was made by the police themselves.
I know you have to hire a job lot of them but even 2 coppers stood in that Halifax end would have solved all that.
Fans/trouble makers don’t give a sh*t about stewards of any form but do when police are there. We know that. We’ve known it for years. We scrimped on police costs and paid the penalty.
Linney over Hugill for me but otherwise, yes.100% this.
Given the recent discussion around ground development, something like their north stand would be great in time - with conference facilities etc. However... the last thing we'd want is for something like that to become a white elephant - seems like theirs was completed a few years ago and has barely even been used. £5.75m price tag.Was with a pal who lives and works in Oldham and has benefitted from hospitality there a few times. Apparently the lack of use was a result of the football club not 'owning' it. He did explain it to me, but it all sounded far too wearisome to repeat here. On a more positive slant, I thought Boundary Park was a well proportioned stadium and it was good to see all four sides populated, rather than having one (sometimes two) stands closed which has become the norm for most ex-FL clubs we visit.
Ah, but here's the rub. The message to fans of teams who are losing going into the final minutes is, you can buy yourself a few more minutes if you chuck a flare onto the pitch. If you're lucky it'll miss the keeper.
I'm not saying that the ref necessarily had a choice, but he will be reflecting on how that call basically condoned hooliganistic behaviour.
You're not buying more time. The game was stopped. Right call from the referee to play out the minute that was lost to deal with the incident and let's be honest, if we were chasing the game and a Halifax smoke bomb was thrown onto the pitch, we would be furious if the referee did not add the extra time on.
How did it get into the ground in the first place? That's the issue.
I think I can answer that. As I've posted previously, I was thoroughly checked by bad attitude steward (on reception at the Oldham game), I suspect because he blamed me for the assault on me at the Notts game that he failed to prevent or deal with. However, it seemed to me that a lot of other people were not being so closely searched. Reading other posts, it seems this may if anything have been worse at the FC end.
Regrettably, I think that you may be correct. However, I imagine the ref could have stalled proceedings (and moved the shootout to the other goal?) or had the kick retaken; he did neither.I would imagine the FA would take swift and hard hitting action to impose a hefty fine on the club who staged the game for failing to control the crowd in a safe and appropriate manner.I couldn't disagree with that more.
It's a clear and obvious breach of the FA's own rules. The club should at the very least, review the footage before making a decision. The nets were being lifted up while the kicks were being taken - I am surprised that more people didn't notice.
Don't think we will appeal it TBH and IF we did and IF we were successful how do you resolve the issue,kick Halifax out of the competition,replay the game or just retake the penalties.
I seem to remember one of our younger fans being headbutted by a Scarborough fine while switching ends during half time, around the halfway line on the popular side. He was only around 13-15 years old.If this is the same incident, I recall a number of our more elderly gentleman supporters retaliating with their walking sticks; they made sure that the thug was sent back to Scarborough with a few lumps knocked out of him!
I thought York was the best newbuild ground I've been to so far
