The Feral Goat wrote:Saw the incident as well the KelvinDeaker ignored several stewards asking him to keep off the grass bank at the north stand. By the time the queue moved passed he was ringed off by stewards and being restrained by other supporters. South exit is far wider and exits quicker, but i didnt think it took much longer than the rows of seats filing out of east stand murrayfield especially given there was an extra couple of thousand over most murrayfield matches. Did not require much patience really.
I saw a bit of that too from a distance, so couldn't discern what it was about. Totally unacceptable whatever it was. I'm sure appropriate action will have been taken and it seemed to be dealt with efficiently.
Closing Myreside Road briefly to enable the crowd to disperse is an excellent idea and seems to work well. I didn't see huge queues of traffic as a result and folk seemed to get where they wanted to go quickly and easily. I do think there's a need to look at the means of getting out of the ground itself, though. A third route through the school grounds (using the 'emergency exit' perhaps), appropriately stewarded, would seem like a good idea to alleviate the crowding at the north, where the exit felt quite constrained. There is a particularly narrow gap there that could be problematic if someone were to trip.
Lots of positives elsewhere and I thought again that the catering on site was very good. I enjoyed my hog roast very much. The standing area on the East needs expanded and improved. If we stay, the TV gantry also needs to be moved back somehow. In the meantime, I wonder whether it might be worth promoting the standing area in front of the TV gantry as The Dog Pound or similar. There was plenty of helpful advice being offered to the officials and other on-field colleagues on Friday and I feel that is a public service that should be encouraged.
I will be interested to see what the pricing structure for next season will look like if we stay at Mon Repos. I'm not wild about sitting at either end, nor about paying the same for standing at the sides!
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