George Street-Bridge wrote:Well, the club could always say "Thanks very much, but we'd rather not sell seats to whiny old gits and people who walk slowly". I and everyone else who ticks at least one of those boxes could say "Fair enough, we'll stay away". And my guess is revenue would fall.

But if they say to away supporters bringing drums, "Sorry, but you'll have to do your showing off on the open stand where the roof doesn't trap the sound" my guess is revenue wouldn't fall and might conceivably rise.

George Street-Bridge wrote:Well, the club could always say "Thanks very much, but we'd rather not sell seats to whiny old gits and people who walk slowly". I and everyone else who ticks at least one of those boxes could say "Fair enough, we'll stay away". And my guess is revenue would fall.

But if they say to away supporters bringing drums, "Sorry, but you'll have to do your showing off on the open stand where the roof doesn't trap the sound" my guess is revenue wouldn't fall and might conceivably rise.

rncfc wrote:Drums are pretty annoying at the football when you've just got some duracell-powered bozo smashing it indiscriminately. I wouldn't ban them though - if for no other reason than it doesn't make business sense.

You're going to upset a 14 year old kid who could be coming to games for another 70 years to appease the whims of an ageing misery-guts who is 10 Werthers Originals away from the old folks home? Nah.

Stan A. Einstein wrote:

Amberexile wrote:I never realised that getting wet is a breach of my human rights. I think the modern term is snowflake. God help us if it snowed on the poor dabs

George is, of course, spot on, the club can help themselves by limiting away drummers to the temporary stand. Improve revenue and improve the enjoyment of the game for our highest paying customers. Win-win solution.

Any other issues with nuisance behaviour can continue to be handled via a complaint to stewards as at present.

I find middle aged men who have failed to come to terms with the fact that they didn't make it as rock stars irritating. I find such people who compound this by ridiculously conflating every argument against their point of view with human rights, stupidity in the extreme.

I would ban such people from watching football. I would ban old people. Their slow pace of walking leaving the ground annoys me. I would ban people who want a beer at half time. They walk in front of me before the first half ends interfering with my view. The buggers do it again at the start of the second half. Tea drinkers, don't get me started, spilling their tea over me. Children, running around, ban them? I think the Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had the right idea. As for women at games, oh dear, whoever thought that a good idea? Regrettably quite a few men seem to have developed the feminine habit of yapping away through out a game. Get rid of them, that's for sure. People who can't resist giving their opinion on the game. Out. The overweight, uncomfortable to sit next to they'd have to go, oh hang on a moment, I don't irritate surely?

Stan A. Einstein wrote: The point I am trying to make is that whilst I share absolutely your irritation with drummers at football matches I don't believe that that the world revolves around me.

George Street-Bridge wrote:

Stan A. Einstein wrote: The point I am trying to make is that whilst I share absolutely your irritation with drummers at football matches I don't believe that that the world revolves around me.

Huh? My point is entirely that it's a potential revenue-loser. And indeed might already be if any potential away supporters share Stan's and my irritation. Would you drive 200-odd miles from Morecambe to Newport if you knew you'd be sharing a small block with that din? And it's an easy fix.

George Street-Bridge wrote:

Stan A. Einstein wrote: The point I am trying to make is that whilst I share absolutely your irritation with drummers at football matches I don't believe that that the world revolves around me.

Huh? My point is entirely that it's a potential revenue-loser. And indeed might already be if any potential away supporters share Stan's and my irritation. Would you drive 200-odd miles from Morecambe to Newport if you knew you'd be sharing a small block with that din? And it's an easy fix.

excessbee wrote:Nobody has suggested that they shouldn't have been allowed to sit in the stand., just that they shouldn't bang a drum in there.

Amberexile wrote:

rncfc wrote:Drums are pretty annoying at the football when you've just got some duracell-powered bozo smashing it indiscriminately. I wouldn't ban them though - if for no other reason than it doesn't make business sense.

You're going to upset a 14 year old kid who could be coming to games for another 70 years to appease the whims of an ageing misery-guts who is 10 Werthers Originals away from the old folks home? Nah.

The suggestion isn't to ban drums, only to move them to a more sensible area.

Stan A. Einstein wrote:

Amberexile wrote:

rncfc wrote:Drums are pretty annoying at the football when you've just got some duracell-powered bozo smashing it indiscriminately. I wouldn't ban them though - if for no other reason than it doesn't make business sense.

You're going to upset a 14 year old kid who could be coming to games for another 70 years to appease the whims of an ageing misery-guts who is 10 Werthers Originals away from the old folks home? Nah.

The suggestion isn't to ban drums, only to move them to a more sensible area.

Doesn't than impact upon the people in the area to which they are moved?

Stan A. Einstein wrote:

Amberexile wrote:

rncfc wrote:Drums are pretty annoying at the football when you've just got some duracell-powered bozo smashing it indiscriminately. I wouldn't ban them though - if for no other reason than it doesn't make business sense.

You're going to upset a 14 year old kid who could be coming to games for another 70 years to appease the whims of an ageing misery-guts who is 10 Werthers Originals away from the old folks home? Nah.

The suggestion isn't to ban drums, only to move them to a more sensible area.

Doesn't than impact upon the people in the area to which they are moved?

Amberexile wrote:

Stan A. Einstein wrote:

Amberexile wrote:
Doesn't than impact upon the people in the area to which they are moved?

Not when the area it is being suggested they are moved to is empty for the vast majority of matches.
There are few people to impact upon in an empty stand.