Extra fencing is set to be installed at Hull's KC Stadium between entrances for home and away fans. Plans covering the proposed work in an area close to the stadium's north stand are due to go before city councillors next week. If given the go-ahead, the new 2.3m-high palisade fencing would form an extension to two lines of existing segregation fencing, one next to the access road from Walton Street through West Park and the other adjacent to an access road running next to the railway line. A planning submission by the Stadium Management Company, which has lodged the application, said the fencing was required to ensure the safety of visiting teams and their supporters. "The two lines of fencing at each point will allow the boundaries of the safe external compounds to be adjusted according to the numbers attending each fixture," it said. Council planning officers are recommending approval when the application goes before councillors on Wednesday. In an accompanying report, the officers say the new fencing would allow fans to be "satisfactorily controlled" when entering or leaving the stadium, as well as reducing the potential for disorder when large crowds attend matches there. The application also includes proposals to install an external roller shutter in place of an existing window in the north stand which is being replaced to create a new turnstile entrance. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/KC-S...e-away-fans/story-21046443-detail/story.html? We don't need the fences we've already got, you clowns.
It'd be far more straight forward and cheaper to just remove the incompetent plod messing the 'security' up. They send away fans around it anyway. Why can't they go to away games and recognise that these things are not needed anywhere at all.
I thought there's some club (not in UK) who has an underground entrance for away fans so there's no obstructions from home fans and the vast majority of away fans are kept away from the vast majority of home fans.
For the same reason they're not needed at any other time when we mix happily, including walking to away from the stadium once the away fans have negotiated the ridiculous barrier and donut depositories.
Back in the 70s I went to Spurs v Nottingham Forest. After the match the Spurs fans were waiting at the away fans exit acting all aggressive. I was amazed that the gates were opened with the Spurs fans still there. Not to worry though. The Forest fans charged straight at the Spurs fans and they ran away!
They're archaic, other clubs don't feel the need to segregate fans at all after matches*, I can't understand why the hell they bother, it causes more trouble than it prevents. *apart from one club(who I can't remember off the top of my head) who make you walk a mile round the block for no good reason(and there's still the cage tunnel at Millwall).
I think this is the point, there is no need for fences now. It makes us look bad from an away fan point of view, either they think 'look at these idiots having a fence there won't be any trouble, Hull really is backwards' or 'These fans must be mental'. It causes more trouble than it prevents as people get frustrated at having to wait for the last away fan to leave before we can go home (without walking round obviously)
Can't tell if the person who wrote this is being serious or not . . . 'Perhaps the reason that there is no fighting is because of this particular fence. It only takes one of those mouthy little chimps from the north east corner to run at the away supporters and a mass fight would start. I agree that it is unfortunate but in these violent times it is a necessary evil.'
Is it all part and parcel of moving the away fans to E1 and E2 ? Thus leaving the North stand for home fans only ?
unfortunately that fence between east n north has been very useful after some games and if it wasn't there people would get hurt.
Rubbish, I do pretty much every away and there's never any trouble nowadays, not unless there's coppers telling people which way they can and can't walk.
Looking at the application on line, it would appear that way. Or.. on big away games, they could be blocking home exit from the north east corner and making it for away fans, with home fans leaving via the new exit? Planning portal.
People get hurt in the crush at the south east corner with people moving in opposite directions AND trying to get to the walk way. The fence is simply a monument to incompetence.
West bloody brom. I'd been out the night before, had an hours kip, pulled my calf muscle, had to stand on the bloody thing all game then afterwards they made us walk all the way round that stupid route and up that chuffing big steep hill. It was torture, the pain was absolutely searing.
That's interesting, it's not all that clear from the plans, but the away entrances do seem to be moving further round towards the East Stand. It will be better to make the North a City stand, but I'm not sure the lads in E1/E2 will be all that keen on moving.
That's the one, bloody ridiculous walking all that way for nothing. They're fans are up in arms today, as their new Adidas kit has been leaked on social media and for the time ever it hasn't got regular stripes on it... please log in to view this image
