Pre-sale tickets

**LancashireHibby** · 13-09-2009 09:32 PM

Anyone else agree that having at least some tickets on sale at ER in advance of today's game might have meant the turnstiles queues moved a bit quicker and avoided the ridiculous situation of the tent stand being opened (and pretty much filled) ten minutes in to the game? Very poor organisation from Hamilton IMHO.

***Aubenas*** · 13-09-2009 09:38 PM

Didn't help that while stewards at one end were sending fans along to the Gazebo stand, when we got there, stewards and polis were saying we couldn't get in. If most of us were like that in our jobs we'd get the boot, yet we go from ground to ground, in post Hillsborough times, and it's clear that crowd control organisation is in the hands of amateurs. What has to happen for them to get it right? Pars don't know how many to expect, Hamilton have no Plan b for a big crowd, Celtic stewards ignore or expel fans in seats with no view of the pitch, noone is allowed to ask a policeman what is going on without being accused of disorderly behaviour, and morons who offer up foul abuse to players are ignored. Strange that gates are falling isn't it?

**LancashireHibby** · 13-09-2009 09:41 PM

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Didn't help that while stewards at one end were sending fans along to the Gazebo stand, when we got there, stewards and polis were saying we couldn't get in. If most of us were like that in our jobs we'd get the boot, yet we go from ground to ground, in post Hillsborough times, and it's clear that crowd control organisation is in the hands of amateurs. What has to happen for them to get it right? Pars don't know how many to expect, Hamilton have no Plan b for a big crowd, Celtic stewards ignore or expel fans in seats with no view of the pitch, noone is allowed to ask a policeman what is going on without being accused of disorderly behaviour, and morons who offer up foul abuse to players are ignored. Strange that gates are falling isn't it?

In fairness to the coppers at the gates today, they took on board what people were saying, but the management of the turnstiles is the responsibility of the home club so they should have had their own staff out there to assess the situation rather than folk who haven't had the training to manage such a situation.

***Aubenas*** · 13-09-2009 09:54 PM

No problem with the turnstiles, though someone at Hamilton should have realised there were delays on the M8, it was inside the ground. Those of us delayed by the pie queue found the goal stand full after 5 minutes. The stewards by us said to go to the gazebo. When we got there, cops were saying only people coming from outside could go in but some stewards were saying in you go. This led to the dangerous situation where friends/family were being separated - some let in, some not. Surely there should be one voice, one match commander who tells stewards and polis what is happening?