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Perplexed

JK said:
Said in the MDT without a doubt the most over the top policing and stewarding operation I've witnessed (that wasn't a derby).

Today SYP made the organisation at Bloomfield seem text book.

12.30pm Kick Off.

No pubs for away fans (aside from the phoenix club).

Fans missing said kick off due to the most over the top entry into a football club I think I've ever seen.

Single file to go past a sniffer dog that when questioned a steward response was "to sniff out weapons, knives etc"...

Labels being put on bags again after being made to totally empty them (my daughters 12).

The away fans being moved to the back of the stand yet about 20 stewards at either side watching our fans like hawks.

As for the "line of steel" at the end it was farcical and totally unwarranted. I'm not sure what they expected, folk to jump over 20 rows to get near the pitch.

Then after the game there was more police in Barnsley Town Centre than at the G5 conference. Durham Police had been "drafted in".



We are staying just outside the area and had planned to have some food and a drink in Barnsley, however we felt some unwelcome and uncomfortable we went elsewhere.

It was a highly expensive, unwarranted, and most of all hostile environment I've seen for a very long time when the away fans where so good natured.

The FSA would like fans to email info@thefsa.org.uk with there experiences today.
Truly staggering.
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I think they really got the wrong end of the stick with regards to Gentry Day.. 🙁
 
Heard a rumour they went over the top with security today as they was afraid that if archer scored it may cause the gentry to scale 20 flights of stairs and cause a riot 🤔
 
Kathryn said:
Didn’t someone on here a few days ago suggest The Gentry were a PNE ‘firm’ from the 70’s?
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LOL, 50 years ago dressing up like a 'droog' out of Clockwork Orange was a hooligan fad. South Yorkshire Police thought that old men and maybe my 9 year old boy might be out looking for some 'of the old ultraviolence'.
It's the most bizzare thing I've ever heard.
Absoloute wongers!
 
Nice extra shifts with nothing to do based on the trouble after the recent Lashers derby and that we supposedly were intent on a large so called firm being in attendance or in the town.
 
Barnsley as a club have some responsibility now after what appears to be a shambles, too many smart and sensible posters commenting for me on this for it not to be accurate
i guess the immediate thought is boycott next season ? Great to follow away but it’s not a team or location anyone herw would give a monkeys about
and certainly one for PSC to discuss at their next meeting
 
MrHodgeheg123 said:
For some reason, when I hear that term it reminds me of the Blackadder Goes Forth episode and the concert party.
The Three Silly Twerps. "The joke being there's only two of them."
Sorry, it just tickles me.🤷‍♂️🤣
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Great, that. Melchett complaining that the 'three twerps' were a twerp short.!
 
Lord Edgington said:
Barnsley as a club have some responsibility now after what appears to be a shambles, too many smart and sensible posters commenting for me on this for it not to be accurate
i guess the immediate thought is boycott next season ? Great to follow away but it’s not a team or location anyone herw would give a monkeys about
and certainly one for PSC to discuss at their next meeting
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Slight issue in boycotting Barnsley away next season m’lud 👍
 
Lord Edgington said:
Barnsley as a club have some responsibility now after what appears to be a shambles, too many smart and sensible posters commenting for me on this for it not to be accurate
i guess the immediate thought is boycott next season ? Great to follow away but it’s not a team or location anyone herw would give a monkeys about
and certainly one for PSC to discuss at their next meeting
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I can assure everyone that I will not be attending Barnsley away next season!
 
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