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Did anyone see what happen in the Townend after about 35 mins? I was on the other side of the middle exit, but it seemed like a family got chucked out for some reason or other, with the bloke shouting and swearing at another fan....i assumed maybe they were Barnet fans perhaps?

Dunno I heard about this at half time but no idea what happened.

Fred?

Couldn't see what happened just saw a few people getting a bit heated.

i just saw people and stewards moving towards the general area. that was it.

God I hate the County Ground stewards.  A woman steward in the kingswood stand push me down the stairs. I slowly walking down at the end (1min to go) and she pushed me and told me to be quicker.  bitch.

what a fucking collection of mutants they are.that fucking grotesque thing that looks about 30 stone and just moves the stewards along and sits in their seat.how the fuck would that bloated trollope be of any use in an emergency?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

We were going to time her the other week walking from one end of the Kingswood to the other!

did your clock run out of time?

She could stop people getting on the pitch i spose :?

and the ethnic collection of stewards dont seem to have a grasp of the english language.other stewards repeatedly have to point them where to go.only to be met with a puzzled look on their faces.
i reckon they get so many stewrds in as rules regulate them to have a certain amount.but hardly any of them have a clue about crowd control or emergency situations.
it went downhill badly when they contracted out the stewarding and its declining still

The Stewards are crap but atleast they dont seem to be too bothered about standing in the town end now.

I know someone who stewarded the Rovers game at home last season as was stood in the corner off the north stand between the 2 sets of fans. He did nothing all game even though there was quite a bit of trouble. He just watched the game and didnt seem interested in doing anything about any of the trouble. Sums it up really, most stewards either dont care at all or go on a mega power trip.

this is the problem with outsourcing stewarding. a lot of clubs provide their own stewards who are local people and in a lot of cases football fans, so they have some degree of understanding of the nature of football fans. some of the stewards you see in the town end every week are alright, a few are top notch and do a good job.

the problem is that the club get people in from outside who don't understand what they're doing, why they're there and are told to enforce the rules to the letter of the law because that's what they've been told to do. it's not really their fault.

the stewarding at rotherham away a couple of years ago was excellent, friendly, understanding and most of them were rotherham fans themselves.

on a slightly related note, i love the clubs method of stopping smoking in the TE toilets. i went in for a slash just at the start of the second half, stood at the urinal and a steward comes in and asks in a broad wiltshire accent "are you having a fag there mate?", i reply "no mate i'm having a piss" and he apologised and left. class.

i saw him drag someone out and kick him out of the ground for having a fag in there.

Several years ago (At least 10), when i was back in the UK I was temping for a bit and the Temp agency that I was working for was employing STFC stewards, on a temp basis of course.

What shocked me at first was that they asked me in the first place as I was young, and not particularly large or intimidating.

Well I said yes because I thought that I could get a few free matches out of it and the interview went along the line's of:

Interviewer: Are you a Swindon fan?
Me: Yes
Interviewer: Don't call me, I'll call you.

He was a complete prick and one of the first things that he did was point to the "Cheif" above the "Steward" on his jacket as thought it was a fucking medal , and kept on straightening his stewards jacket as though it was some sort of fucking ceremonial dress.

The following home match I was there and I saw him, and he gave me some sort of magmanamous (SP?) grin as if to tell me that he was right.

COCK!!

another steward gripe that angered me greatly.
around 4-5 years ago an oldsish bloke sat near me in the then nationwide stand started having serious problems.basiclly he just slumped in his seat.he was with his son who became very distressed and called for help.i could see it was serious and started shouting at stewards to hurry up etc.they just walked and had no urgency at all.eventually paramedics took him down to the concourse and then to hospital.
i called up the club the following week to complain about what i saw and the slow actions of the stewards.the bloke i spoke to was mr topp.
a few days later i found out the bloke had died.
to this day i dont know what was done about the incident

thats fucking shocking arriba.

The thing is that from my own experience that most of them are just temporary staff: Untrained and couldn't give a shite about STFC. It is obvious to you and I that if somebody has some sort of medical attack/conditon then St. Johns or someone should be notitfied IMMEDIATELY, yet I doubt that half of them in there don't even know where to find St. John's. Rather they are just told to say "Don't do this, don't do that".

Another job that Mr. F. has waiting for him. I often wonder if he really knows what he is getting himself into.

Might sound harsh and stuck up, but half teh stewards are on benefits and unemployed, they lack motivation and basic communication skills.  FACT

Can't argue Bushey's point. There are a lot of slow readers out there.

And are imported from places like Southampton etc.  I know that Ron Topp pulls his hair out at the stewards that are supplied from one particular agency but was told that he had to employ them.  Was this another cut that somebody else was getting??

Of course it was Ronnie.  The club needs a complete overhaul, I just hope it gets done.  Fitton IMO will turm over every stone, would the recruitmentment company be the same company that amazingly sponsors games regularly!

stewards are there for the safety of the crowd.if they aint capable or trained properly then why are they there at all?

i think these steward stories need some balance:

when we played portsmouth pre-season a couple of years ago, we were using stewards from southampton, and so they refused entry to the tattooed freak with the bell.

good stuff.

I had a fag in turnstyles bit.

I normally have a look out but was on my own yesterday,the risk makes it all the sweeter 8)

Oh I gave up giving up whilst moving Fred,so i blame his soliciters and their extended deadlines :mrgreen:

The bloke who got thrown out is a twat, every other week he is arguing with someone . The way he acted in front of his kids he should be ashamed of himself.

What did he do exactly. I heard he clocked his mate, is that right?

Yeah

I was close to it but all I saw was one guy down on the floor and an argumentg going on, then a load of stewards dragged the guy out. Fair play to all the town fans who had a go at him though - he was being a twat.

Was it the bald bloke behind the goal about 12 rows up? I hope so, he made me leave the town end

Might actually be the guy

That's roughly where it happened. Just to the right of the goal as you look out at the pitch.

No idea what happended though! All kicked off for about 20  seconds and then he left with his kids in tow.

thats them! woohoo

A lot of the stewards with the Orange Jackets think they are something special, there is 1 in paticular a small guy with glasses who always walks round with the ear peice and his radio and thinks he's really important.

But a lot of these are not proper stewerds they are clased as Security Stewards so I suspect cost a lot more to recruit.

There is so much that Fitton needs to sort out, but I'm sure he will investigate everything from top to bottom

Whos the fat bint steward that blocks my view in the Kingswood?

Fat bitch.