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I dont need a fucking football club to tell me the dangers of smoking.If I had bought a season ticket Id be deeply pissed off about this.

Enjoy your Paul Sturrock I wont be back.

Oh hang on its a vote ..I dont get option 3 what the fuck does that mean?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: hahah thats a differnt vote about technology.

I think they've fucked it up, you're supposed to be able to vote for or against smoking, but the poll they've put up is for whether refs should use technology  :-))(

I just read a bit about a smoking pass or designated areas so thats not as bad as I though.I will be back.

I thought you could have a cigarette if the ball crosses the line. Sounds reasonable.

I don't like where it says 'this applys to fans, playing staff, non-playing staff, visitors and contractors when they are on site'.

Kerslake on the touchline during the warm up? Or did I imagine that?

if people are going to stop going to football because for 90 mins they can't have a fag then how pathetic.

people go a lot longer at work without one so whats the difference

I think referees should have the right to passive smoke and to wear a groovy headset.

You can choose whether or not you go to football you cant choose whether or not you go to work.If I chose not to go because I cant smoke then thats my fucking choice pal.

Thats a bit disloyal in some respects though.....Not going because you cant smoke....

Not that i'm having a go, Mr Yeovil sir  :D

I had a fag once..........................got shit all over my dick.

i think its a great idea people who smoke are scum

anyone got a light

I started smoking before I started going to the county ground..........it's a difficult one.

I can manage a twenty hour flight though so think I'll manage.  Plus I know my friends would find it harder :twisted:


PAUL STURROCK'S SMOKE FREE ARMY!!

Ignorance is bliss, I don't know of any ban and until someone says, "Smoking's accepted and we all like it, please blow smoke in my children's faces" i'll smoke out of principle because i'm a cunt and hate being told what to do.

A smoking pass  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

What you laughing for, I'm sure you'll be signing up for one!

Nah i'm susposed to be quiting in the new year when you can't smoke in pubs.

that ban comes in next summer ralph.

if i can't smoke at footy, i probably will give up.

maybe

and how great will it be.
going to the pub/club and not coming home sticking like an ashtray.

when i was in scotland last month it was excellent. no one had a problem with it and everyone just got on with it.

will make such a difference

FOR FUCKS SAKE :x

Thats just a pikey excuse not to wash your clothes.

And you'll still smell of stale lager. lovely.

http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13757

unless i was to spill beer all over me then yes i would smell of stale lager but i don't so i wont  :nuts:

Like I give a fuck about loyalty,its an overblown concept to keep you spending money.

was inevitable.and the right thing to do.
well done again board.twice in one day, fucking hell things are looking up.

wondered how long it would take you.When I die im going to haunt you,follow you around blowing smoke in your face :mrgreen:

Yeovil - I've got some blue asbestos in the garage fancy a toke?

GRRRRRRRR! Smoking is what gets me through games to be honest  :(

Personally I only smoke in the concourse (ie not in the stand during the game as I would feel I was being inconsiderate) and wouldn't be that fussed if I couldn't but there's a lot of people who will be really p'ed off by this - many will see it as yet another PC/Health Nazis attack on the pleasures of the ordinary working man, and it will just wind them up. I don't see this bringing one single new fan in, but alienating (or adding to the reasons not to go) a lot of existing fans, so for that reason alone, it just strikes me as damn stupid. I'd have thought the club would be wanting to avoid doing anything which could be harmful to gates, particularly in a season in which we're repeatedly told there's this massive overspend.

Keep the cigarette away from the match - as they say at Fir Park.

Personally, as a non smoker, I have no problem with smokers having a puff in designated areas but don't enjoy sitting next to chain smokers for 90 minutes a week.  Although sometimes I do consider starting when watching STFC.

i see where you are coming from and think maybe there should be an area for people to smoke.but anybody using the excuse that they will not go to football because they cannot smoke there is rather silly.its banned virtually everywhere else already so people will adjust to it.

paul's got a point, this will alienate some fans - especially if you can't smoke anywhere in the ground.

if i could smoke at half-time in the concourse, or even down the front of the stand in the open air, i wouldn't be too bothered.

smoking "zones" would be the way to go though to allow people the choice to smoke during the game. that way non-smokers and smokers alike can keep away from each other.

On the plus side if you get given a smoking pass to go outside its all off to the CGH 8) I really want to give up if im honest.

I have tried and failed  :(

bird and yeovil.if you want to quit bad enough you can do it.

oh fuck off

just offering some advice. you said you want to give up

Absolutely and I don't think anyone would stop going solely because of that, any more than people have stopped going over the past few years because of just one alone of the myriad reasons (poor football, high prices, King etc), but it's all about tipping points - the thing that finally makes you say "Sod it, I've had enough" - and we need to be doing everything we can to encourage people to stay and encourage the stay-aways to come back, not drive them away. I understand the reasons why people would welcome a ban and sympathise with it to a great extent but for me the overriding concern has to be to capitalise on Sturrock's appointment and ride the wave of hope this has brought to do everything we can to get old fans back and keep the ones we've got. So anything that might deter people from going, make them feel unwanted, alienated, pushed out, whatever, this is just the wrong time to do it as much as anything else. Why not wait till the smoking ban comes in in the summer, then introduce this next season? Why run the risk of alienating people now? Seems like every time we get a positive for people coming back, they find another thing to put them off  :evil:

I don't smoke but have no problems with folk smoking at games. It's not as bad as it was before. My only memory of my first Swindon game in 1990 was the smell of cigarettes/cigars in the Arkells.

Smoking designated zones are definately the way to go here. Smokers will have heart attacks otherwise!

i have to say the timing is a bit soon and it should be from the start of next season,when we will be in league 1 :wink:
it is unfair on season ticket holders who smoke to change mid season.
i see both points.

with fabulous advice like "if you really want to give up its easy" you should think about writing a book. Alan Carr made millions with his stop smoking books surely you could as well.You are the worst kind of ex smoker keep your advice to yourself thanks.

 :mrgreen:

i said if you really want to quit you can do it!
i found it easyish but that doesn't mean others will.
i aint gloating yeovil so calm down

i must admit if i didn't have children i doubt i would have quit at all.
they were the sole reason i gave up.thats how i found it easyer to quit

Kept nicking your fags did they? Little sods - give up all together and make them buy their own. That'll show 'em.  :D

Anyone want a baby?

charlotte's brooding

Why don't you adopt one from an African nation.

Just put it on eBay, like everyone else

The fit charlotte off Soccer night?   :P

That isn't the cure yeovil, I would offer but then that would mean I'd have to give up for 9 months - no chance  :D

I don't want some fat cunt sat behind me demolishing his burger and getting ketchup down my back (happened against lincoln). Are they going to ban junk food aswell? Fat bastards?

I think ketchup should be banned myself........ :D

The most interesting event on Saturday was watching the fat bloke in front devour his burger, pie and chips. I've never experienced such efficiency.

I hope they force a ban in the stands. There is a bloke that sits in the Nationwide , and he seems to get through a packet a half. If it's windy it blows all the smoke in my face  :x  The cunt.

How about having Stratton Bank for smokers.  :)  

Whatever happens the stewards are too scared to say anything. Cowards.

If I'm drunk how am I gonna remember another rule. You've already got keeping your clothes on, not going on the pitch, use the designated toilet areas; don't just piss on the people in front of you. Now I'm gonna have to remember no smoking. fucking bastards.