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[TRUE BLUE]

erm can we all stop praising bill please....im the only welcome nose on here.... ..

    Sorry to step on your toes mate but after last night i had to have my say,I have been amazed at how nice everyone has been,I did join  a diffrent forum from a welsh team last year just to chat ect but was told to sling my hook so it makes a change to find reall nice people.

[TRUE BLUE]

To the Bluesnoses on this forum. What do you think the Club stewards are like ? Should the Club do more to stop this hatred of Aston Villa and do more to stop violence.

Just interested to know what do you think.

       Hi Salsa i think as at most grounds the stewards are just a group of young people who meet up one hour before kick off for home games.I would be shocked to find out they have any training which is shocking, Maybe If clubs had to have trained people it might help or bring in a good private group but all is would not be needed if the prats could stay in their seats,If i had my way i would leave it to the army,No power to arrest but the power to make sure they never did it again no questions asked.It cant be easy to be a steward when faced with the scum we saw yesterday.

[dave.woodhall]

To the Bluesnoses on this forum. What do you think the Club stewards are like ? Should the Club do more to stop this hatred of Aston Villa and do more to stop violence.

Just interested to know what do you think.

       Hi Salsa i think as at most grounds the stewards are just a group of young people who meet up one hour before kick off for home games.I would be shocked to find out they have any training which is shocking, Maybe If clubs had to have trained people it might help or bring in a good private group but all is would not be needed if the prats could stay in their seats,If i had my way i would leave it to the army,No power to arrest but the power to make sure they never did it again no questions asked.It cant be easy to be a steward when faced with the scum we saw yesterday.

Our stewards are well-trained and I'd be surprised if Blues aren't - the days of doing the job to watch the match free are long gone. Mostly ours do a good job, but when hundereds are trying to get onto the pitch from all four sides, realistically you'd need almost as many stewards as potential invaders to stop them. 

[deanl123]

Our stewards are well-trained and I'd be surprised if Blues aren't - the days of doing the job to watch the match free are long gone. Mostly ours do a good job, but when hundereds are trying to get onto the pitch from all four sides, realistically you'd need almost as many stewards as potential invaders to stop them. 

In quite a few cases the same stewards work Villa Park and St. Andrews, I believe

[TimTheVillain]

Alan Brazil was saying on Talksport this am that in the Celtic - Rangers games, Stewards stand all around the pitch forming a line of yellow to stop anyone coming onto the pitch.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Thank for reply and should we bring our stewards in the game to work with blues stewards and police.

[lennythekad]

Thank for reply and should we bring our stewards in the game to work with blues stewards and police.

We do take our own stewards to the Sty, and have done every game since 2002. About 20 go. It was Villa stewards doing the searching as we went in on Wednesday night, and then they were amongst the ones at the front of the Villa section, during the game. There's usually two supervisors amongst the twenty, who take their orders from one of the Blues supervisors.
Don't know if it's still the case, but Blues used to use the Rock Steady company for most of their stewards, I think it was.

[willywombat]

I cant see what any authority can do to stop this. God knows I cant claim any moral high ground as I've been involved in a fair ammount of disorder in my younger days, not something I'm proud of now. The only way out I can see is if fans of both sides make a organised , public stand to say ' No more'.
Even then I doubt this will ever stop. We hate them, they hate us and never the twain shall meet

[Diablo]

Would it be possible for the non-violent minority to hold up a massive banner at the next Blues game saying "BLUES AGAINST HOOLIGANISM" or some such thing?

I think a lot of fans see themselves as upholding club pride by behaving like pricks to opposing fans, would be nice for them to see that most of their own fans can't stand them.

If Blues do this against Spurs I see no reason why Villa can't do similarly against Albion in our next home game.

Should that not be the "non-violent majority"?  A great idea though - due to the embarrassment it has caused the city on a national scale.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah I meant majority sorry.

[Bad English]

They will need some help from Villa fans when they do the lettering though.

[kippaxvilla2]

One of my questions will be (hopefully before the alcohol has set in) 'could it not have been moved to a Sunday morning, with whatever weekend fixture we would have had scheduled being moved to last night'?  In our case Liverpool Away, in theirs Spuds Home.

Liverpool were in Europe so we couldn't have played them this midweek. We couldn't have moved last week's fixtures forwards either as Arsenal were in Europe last midweek.

Which is a good point, and one that clearly in hindsight I would have been asking after the alcohol had set in.

[Diablo]

Yeah I meant majority sorry.

I wasn't sure if it was a dig at them or a slip of the keyboard

[Bottom Right 89]

We do take our own stewards to the Sty, and have done every game since 2002. About 20 go. It was Villa stewards doing the searching as we went in on Wednesday night, and then they were amongst the ones at the front of the Villa section, during the game.

I agree with Dave, if people are going on the pitch you'd need about 5 lines of them round the perimeter to prevent it but there must be questions asked of our lot how someone can get past a search with a boat flare - its not like hiding a bit of weed in your shoe.

[PeterWithe]

To be fair to the stewards who searched us all on the way in, it was that cold I had about five layers on and could have easily taken in a whole load of things that I wasn't supposed to, it would have taken a bloody long time to do a really thorough search of everyone going into the ground as most were dressed like eskimos.