1964white wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:05 am
Good win for you Fish.
Didn't enjoy the rotation of your players going down like ninepins every ten minutes
We have a ready-made striker, however Bielsa refuses to use him from the start, unfair to give him just ten minutes in an attempt to rescue the game yet again, by that time Raphinha & Harrison had run themselves ragged.
Seems to be problems at many away ends due to covid checks this season, I always feel we are treated like a herd of cattle at stadiums on my travels. Unlike many fans I'm always in ER an hour before kick-off to avoid the stampede!
To be fair, in that game we lost Joelinton to a groin injury, Lascelles has done his hamstring and Dummett looks to have aggravated the injury he's only just come back from. I don't doubt there may have been a couple of time-wasting sit downs but it wasn't as bad as is being made out.
Ironically, losing Dummett meant Manquillo came on and had a decent game. Lascelles took his '1 big mistake a game' with him. We might not have managed the game as well with them both still on the pitch.
This wasn't COVID stuff, it was barcodes on ticket stubs not being read properly by the readers, 5 turnstiles for 3,000 people, and the stewards and police not doing their jobs. Hope your club looks into it as it could have become very dangerous.
The Fish wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:49 am
To be fair, in that game we lost Joelinton to a groin injury, Lascelles has done his hamstring and Dummett looks to have aggravated the injury he's only just come back from. I don't doubt there may have been a couple of time-wasting sit downs but it wasn't as bad as is being made out.
Ironically, losing Dummett meant Manquillo came on and had a decent game. Lascelles took his '1 big mistake a game' with him. We might not have managed the game as well with them both still on the pitch.
This wasn't COVID stuff, it was barcodes on ticket stubs not being read properly by the readers, 5 turnstiles for 3,000 people, and the stewards and police not doing their jobs. Hope your club looks into it as it could have become very dangerous.
The stewarding is not great at Elland Road, same with Chelsea apparently is poor too, thankfully I wasn't at that game.
Stewarding was excellent at St James Park last September in our 1-1 draw, as it always is on several visits there over the decades.
1964white wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:00 pm
The stewarding is not great at Elland Road, same with Chelsea apparently is poor too, thankfully I wasn't at that game.
Stewarding was excellent at St James Park last September in our 1-1 draw, as it always is on several visits there over the decades.
Should be an easy job for our stewards. Away fans surely have no energy for mischief by the time they've climbed all those steps.
for what it's worth, I think there should be a review of all stewarding. Too many places still treat away fans like 80s hooligans (our stewards included).