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Naughton's moustache said:
I couldn't care less how much it costs, neither could other fans who bring they're kids with them an wanna feel safe, it's not our problem.
Police cuts? Yeah, gone down well haven't they, although I don't often buy that old chestnut, after all, it's all about easy targets for them these days like when you really want them, they are nowhere to be seen.
Grounds were policed as well as can be expected back in the day with no talk about how much it cost. Everything has a cost, that's life.
Clubs an the police really need to get back to basics on this before someone is seriously hurt or even worse. It's just so easy for some coked up prick to get onto the pitch now an it's happening every other week.
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I also go with a child, and want all fans to be safe. They doesn't mean you can ignore the cost. I agree with your overall point and have mentioned a possible way forward.
 
Naughton's moustache said:
I couldn't care less how much it costs, neither could other fans who bring they're kids with them an wanna feel safe, it's not our problem.
Police cuts? Yeah, gone down well haven't they, although I don't often buy that old chestnut, after all, it's all about easy targets for them these days like when you really want them, they are nowhere to be seen.
Grounds were policed as well as can be expected back in the day with no talk about how much it cost. Everything has a cost, that's life.
Clubs an the police really need to get back to basics on this before someone is seriously hurt or even worse. It's just so easy for some coked up prick to get onto the pitch now an it's happening every other week.
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As LancsLive has said today: "Unless you have stewards in a line all around the circumference of the pitch, or some kind of deterrent aside from humans wearing yellow jackets, there is going to be a gap there to exploit for those who feel it necessary to embarrass themselves."

Since the former is clearly impossible, there will have to be deterrents.

Fines and/or points deductions for fan encroachment could be one method.

Ordering a game to be played behind closed doors might be another.

But this would need EFL clubs to recognise there's a problem and then agree to the sanctions.

I wouldn't expect anything to change too soon.
 
Grand Tour said:
They were extremely lucky that we didn't score a few more. Their keeper certainly earned his wage yesterday. Also, at least half of those 20+ "fouls" were nothing of the sort. The talk coming from Cov fans about our "timewasting" has some validity, but every team up and down the country does it, including Coventry, with their players going down like they'd been shot, every time they felt the breath of a PNE player on their players' necks.
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Right from the kick off the Coventry players were falling down, diving, rolling around as though shot by a sniper when a North End player got within 2 ms of them.
The feining an injury was pathetic, if a free kick was awarded they were on their feet up a ready to con the ref again, Robins has trained them well, I bet many hold an Equity card they were that good. 🤔
 
Thracia said:
As LancsLive has said today: "Unless you have stewards in a line all around the circumference of the pitch, or some kind of deterrent aside from humans wearing yellow jackets, there is going to be a gap there to exploit for those who feel it necessary to embarrass themselves."

Since the former is clearly impossible, there will have to be deterrents.

Fines and/or points deductions for fan encroachment could be one method.

Ordering a game to be played behind closed doors might be another.

But this would need EFL clubs to recognise there's a problem and then agree to the sanctions.

I wouldn't expect anything to change too soon.
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Well if its games being played behind closed doors then everybody else suffers then which is obviously not fair.
The Leicester fan who tried attacking Forest players is now doing a stint inside.
Maybe that could be the only deterrent if no other measures are gonna be put in place
 
Naughton's moustache said:
Well if its games being played behind closed doors then everybody else suffers then which is obviously not fair.
The Leicester fan who tried attacking Forest players is now doing a stint inside.
Maybe that could be the only deterrent if no other measures are gonna be put in place
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Aye he is in youth jail 👍
 
The way you stop pitch invading is to implement a rule whereby the non offending team is given a choice to accept or decline the time that was wasted
 
Thracia said:
Bit OTT, but multiple of our players did kick O'Hare.
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Of course - but to say it was deliberate was the interesting bit. Evans was kicked several times, Archer was and Johnson was but it’s all part of the physical nature of football - none of it was a deliberate ploy to hurt individual players,

I suspect O’Hare wasn’t particularly badly hurt when he claimed for a penalty in the first half 😉
 
wld said:
Of course - but to say it was deliberate was the interesting bit. Evans was kicked several times, Archer was and Johnson was but it’s all part of the physical nature of football - none of it was a deliberate ploy to hurt individual players,

I suspect O’Hare wasn’t particularly badly hurt when he claimed for a penalty in the first half 😉
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Exactly this.
 
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