: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:41 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

It is not licensing law mate, it is restriction put on the stadium by the council so you could get a safety certificate, you can't be trusted to have a drink and behave by the sounds of it. Most people can differentiate between football and rugby.

It was a condition of the certificate yes, you may want to attach some other reasoning behind it, fwiw I like the fact that people aren't pushing backwards and forwards during the game anyway.

Having such a high opinion of yourselves as Quins fans is a really good way to win favour, honest.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:46 pm  

Unless anything has changed recently with the new board, the reason the club is not licenced for the seating area is because they never applied for one.

And whenever the matter was discussed on here the majority preferred it that way, as opposed to people constantly getting up and down to got o the bars.

Michael.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:51 pm  

mav wrote:

Unless anything has changed recently with the new board, the reason the club is not licenced for the seating area is because they never applied for one.

And whenever the matter was discussed on here the majority preferred it that way, as opposed to people constantly getting up and down to got o the bars.

Michael.

They did Mav, hence people could drink whilst watching the 20/20 cricket and can at concerts etc.

The reason is because of football not allowing it in view of the pitch, it was thought that it would cause aggro with some oe the less intelligent fans saying "but we can at the rugby".

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:19 pm  

mav wrote:

Unless anything has changed recently with the new board, the reason the club is not licenced for the seating area is because they never applied for one.

And whenever the matter was discussed on here the majority preferred it that way, as opposed to people constantly getting up and down to got o the bars.

Michael.

Oh aye, any business is going to turn down income from bars when it is there to be had...

Standee wrote:

They did Mav, hence people could drink whilst watching the 20/20 cricket and can at concerts etc.

The reason is because of football not allowing it in view of the pitch, it was thought that it would cause aggro with some oe the less intelligent fans saying "but we can at the rugby".

Strange, fans of other clubs/codes cope with it so well too.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:55 pm  

Standee wrote:

It was a condition of the certificate yes, you may want to attach some other reasoning behind it, fwiw I like the fact that people aren't pushing backwards and forwards during the game anyway.

Oddly enough, although it's seldom discussed here, some QuinsRL fans are also of that opinion. Well, this one is, and most others have probably never been asked.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:11 pm  

hindyscrack wrote:

Surely this is the most logical solution...

Absolutely.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:32 pm  

The Penguin wrote:

My preference would be open the East stand and the north stand. Stick the away fans in the north stand, overspill into the nearest corner of the East Stand. The rest is for quins fans, allocated for ST holders and the rest unallocated. Seems simple to me and preferable to the arrangement where we also open the south stand for between 50 and 100 spectators.

I'd go with that.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:36 pm  

have the east stand split in two from the middle, half of one half of the other

then have half of the north stand and northern end of the east stand open for home fans
half the south stand and southern end of the east stand for away fans

all easy to contain and steward

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:38 pm  

Isn't that what we currently have?

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:43 pm  

er yes,
until quins start to draw a proper crowd then that's what it should be.
it makes logical sense