Flask ban at the Ricoh (10 Viewers)

[Wolves_SkyBlue]

The night got off to bad start for me last night when the stewards said that flasks and own drinks were not allowed to be taken in to the stadium as per "regulations" - does anyone know what these rules are and why is it only now being enforced? I have been taking a flask of coffee to games since the stadium opened and never had a problem.

Result didn't help or the rolling police roadblock for an hour back up the M6 - a horrible Friday evening all round.

 

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[Liquid Gold]

They were definitely over searching last night. Stewarding this season has been poor in general.

 

[Sbarcher]

Bet it doesn’t apply to the booze hip flasks for Wasps games.

 

[MatthewWallis]

It’s pathetic, when it starts to get hot they’re gonna force people to buy water for £2.50 inside the ground??

 

[Nick]

It’s pathetic, when it starts to get hot they’re gonna force people to buy water for £2.50 inside the ground??

Course they are! People will get angry at the club for it too

 

[no_loyalty]

At least you can still take Umbrellas in, that's a bonus.

 

[skybluegod]

If you have a hoodie or a coat with a breast pocket put it in there...
I always take water in that

 

[Greggs]

They can take my fireworks and my screwdrivers, but they'll never take my flask. In all seriousness, i take one every week, rum with a little bit of coffee mixed in.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

It’s an efl rule not stadium. I was told my packet of jelly babies would be taken off me I laughed and walked in. Idiots

 

[chiefdave]

It’s an efl rule not stadium. I was told my packet of jelly babies would be taken off me I laughed and walked in. Idiots

A rule that every club ignores.

Southampton kicked an old chap out for having a half time swig form a hip flask and there was uproar down there.

Should get this one in the CT, they’ll soon backtrack.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The night got off to bad start for me last night when the stewards said that flasks and own drinks were not allowed to be taken in to the stadium as per "regulations" - does anyone know what these rules are and why is it only now being enforced? I have been taking a flask of coffee to games since the stadium opened and never had a problem.

Result didn't help or the rolling police roadblock for an hour back up the M6 - a horrible Friday evening all round.

With our move to cask ales, fish and chips, pizza and so on I assume that the Ricoh is turning into a Wetherspoons. Name is rumoured to be ‘The Drunken Wasp’

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Osb posted the regulations on another thread bizarre and stupid but fans are their own worst enemies throwing coins and biottles. Just scum

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Saint are also premiership different regulations though similar

 

[sylus]

My son had two bottles of squash taken off him on entering which were bought from Tesco's,he even removed the tops but they still wouldn't have it,he told them whats the difference, i can buy the same bottles inside,only at a higher cost,i guess that is where the problem lies.

 

[Cigarfingers]

They took a bottle of water off my daughter which I told the was pathetic. I’ve taken her & I a bottle of water every game since the start of the season. At half time, more than I normally would I stood and had a good look around, loads of people were sitting sipping drinks with flasks in hand so I’m not entirely sure what the crack is with that. Clearly not enforcing this new rule!
I’m sure they just want to make it as unhappy matchday experience as they possibly can!
I’m so f*#*ed off with it all. The stewards are awkward for the sake of it, and there is always those little hitlers who love the ‘power’ that steward jacket gives them!

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

My son had two bottles of squash taken off him on entering which were bought from Tesco's,he even removed the tops but they still wouldn't have it,he told them whats the difference, i can buy the same bottles inside,only at a higher cost,i guess that is where the problem lies.

What would they have done had he walked through? Sometimes you just ignore the law or regulation and give the adult a choice. I’d love to see a steward stop my 12 year old take in a bottle of squash. Not cause I’m hard but just come on. Would they physically restrain you? Would they call for police assistance? Sometimes we all just have to say you’re having a laugh and ignore them

 

[sw88]

Anyone else having to take their hats off as they go in now too? I can see the reasons for it, but it does make me laugh a little!

Mate has been stopped taking in unopened bottle of water for the past two games yet I go in at a different time and get one in. Very inconsistent

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Anyone else having to take their hats off as they go in now too? I can see the reasons for it, but it does make me laugh a little!

Mate has been stopped taking in unopened bottle of water for the past two games yet I go in at a different time and get one in. Very inconsistent

It’s always in my pocket and I just go in

 

[tommydazzle]

I remember away fans having our belts confiscated at Carrow Road. We had to give our names and addresses and they posted them all back! - probably several hundred at least. There were a few thousand of us on that day. How mad was that even for the seventies! I spent most of the game holding up my baggy jeans. We did win 3 - 0 and a lot of trousers must have fallen down in the goal celebrations. And people moan about stop and search!

 

[CJ_covblaze]

On this subject I heard on a podcast I listen to about caps being taken off bottles. It apparently due to safety as in a mass evacuation if you stand on a bottle with a cap on you're likely to go flying, where as if it doesn't it's less of a hazard as you'll crush it.

 

[Liquid Gold]

On this subject I heard on a podcast I listen to about caps being taken off bottles. It apparently due to safety as in a mass evacuation if you stand on a bottle with a cap on you're likely to go flying, where as if it doesn't it's less of a hazard as you'll crush it.

I used to work events, we were always told it's so they can't be used as projectiles.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

I used to work events, we were always told it's so they can't be used as projectiles.

That's what I always thought.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

I used to work events, we were always told it's so they can't be used as projectiles.

Better getting hit by a bottle full of piss with its cap on then off.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Better getting hit by a bottle full of piss with its cap on then off.

Who is taking it off and why am I letting them throw it again?

 

[Magwitch]

There are alsorts of don’t do this, can’t do that regulations attached to football matches nowadays and in our present climate re. the ground issue stewards will be instructed to be stricter just be a bit smarter next match where you put things might be a few well hung individuals going in Tuesday night.

 

[sylus]

Forget the bottle tops and throwing them,what about the loose change in your pocket.

 

[Mcbean]

That really is petty all round - pc gone fuckin mad - what about the players chucking their bottles st the fans they have tops on

 

[Captain Dart]

On this subject I heard on a podcast I listen to about caps being taken off bottles. It apparently due to safety as in a mass evacuation if you stand on a bottle with a cap on you're likely to go flying, where as if it doesn't it's less of a hazard as you'll crush it.

As you dodge the burning flags that didn't have their fire certification.

 

[clint van damme]

They can take my fireworks and my screwdrivers, but they'll never take my flask. In all seriousness, i take one every week, rum with a little bit of coffee mixed in.

Weirdo

 

[Wolves_SkyBlue]

A rule that every club ignores.

Southampton kicked an old chap out for having a half time swig form a hip flask and there was uproar down there.

Should get this one in the CT, they’ll soon backtrack.

But why enforce the "rules", inconsistently, all of a sudden with no warning?

 

[clint van damme]

But why enforce the "rules", inconsistently, all of a sudden with no warning?

You've spent X amount getting to and into the game and it comes on top over a drink that as you say you always bring in to the game.
Absolute bullshit mate, you're right to be pissed off.

 

[Nick]

But why enforce the "rules", inconsistently, all of a sudden with no warning?

To annoy the fans and get them wound up at the club.

The same reason the wasps bloke was effectively encouraging protests, the same reason for the telegraph "campaign"

 

[The Great Eastern]

As a type 2 diabetic getting ever closer to having low blood sugar hypos, just let them try taking orange juice and sweets off me which I would need if it starts to go tits up in my body...
Next they'll be banning chewing gum in case somebody gets it on the bottom of their shoe and sticks to the concrete steps at the end of the match.
Much easier to ban spectators altogether.

 

[SkyBlueSid]

It is ridiculous to prevent people taking their own drinks into a stadium. To stop people taking water in is beyond madness. There should be water stations available in the stadium anyway. I remember we took small (250ml) bottles of pop into Wembley and the guy doing the searches said it was no problem. Then we found there were water stations there with a plentiful supply of big plastic cups. Why is that such a problem for any club?

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Forget the bottle tops and throwing them,what about the loose change in your pocket.

Don’t say that about loose change London wasps will be banning that next and we will have to tip all the change into a bucket and they will use it to pay off their debts.

As I took both my boys the other week I had to move seats to get them together so had paper tickets that didn’t work so they sent me through the disabled gates, when I got through they stopped me and they wouldn’t scan in the hand held device so he said you need to go back to the ticket office so I refused and said look at the ticket it’s for today’s game, they still made a fuss so I said call the head steward who is a friend of mine and they let me straight in