| My 2 Gripes 22:18 - Sep 27 with 1950 views | No_Moore_Kieffer |
And neither are about the on-field progress, which I think is coming on brilliantly, as most of us believed it would!
However -
1) Access to SAR... ridiculous! We've got some 3rd rate 'security' company checking bags and scan searching, but then ignoring any beeps, whilst most of them in reality couldn't tackle a shot-to-bits Jonathon Douglas, let alone anyone trying to cause a bit of trouble.
But worse than that, the security fencing that forces everyone in one way, through a tight space, that takes 10 minutes to navigate and squeeze through causes so much frustration that people are entering the ground in a dampened spirit.
Why is it there? Just take the fence away, let people access turnstiles from any direction as per SBR and the whole process would be faster, smoother and more customer friendly.
2) Secondly, whilst I think Dave Vant does a decent job on the mic, the best we've had since Rob Chandler, and I know he doesn't write the script, but does anyone else find it really irritating when he refers to us every single time as "YOUR Ipswich Town"... we're just Ipswich Town, there's no need for the "your"... also, the way he says "Leif" in that deep, pantomime style.
But anyway, in a more positive light - 2 fantastic performances against Sheffield United & Portsmouth, especially given that, for no obvious reason, we've had a blank weekend in between the two! |  | | |  |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:30 - Sep 27 with 1799 views | MVBlue |
Couldn't hear Dave Vant, they need to check their PA system around the ground |  |
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| My 2 Gripes on 22:34 - Sep 27 with 1768 views | Churchman |
The ‘Your’ thing is very American. And I hate it too.
Regarding access, I was late and arrived at 2.40. There was an awful lot of people out of the back of North Stand and the West Stand (my destination) entrances queuing.
Anyway, got to the front of the queue and the security dude waved his wand over me. I was actually holding two pairs of glasses (don’t ask), wallet, phone, car key in a wallet thing. Tbh, I could have been holding a hand grenade in one hand a a Dirty Harry .44 Magnum in the other for all the interest shown.
Ok I’m a sad old git and hardly look fresh out of terrorist training school, but there looked an awful lot of tokenism which meant a heck of a lot of people queuing in a small area behind both stands. This has been a problem for some time now. Surely the club can do better. |  | | |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:39 - Sep 27 with 1723 views | Dubtractor |
All I'm going to say, is that I can heartily assure you that it is not a "faster, smoother and more customer friendly" experience getting into the North. It was a shambles again today, any anyone wanting to get from one end of the stand to another won't have had a lot of fun trying. |  |
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| My 2 Gripes on 22:42 - Sep 27 with 1679 views | No_Moore_Kieffer |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:39 - Sep 27 by Dubtractor |
All I'm going to say, is that I can heartily assure you that it is not a "faster, smoother and more customer friendly" experience getting into the North. It was a shambles again today, any anyone wanting to get from one end of the stand to another won't have had a lot of fun trying. |
Well, I'll sleep easier tonight knowing that it isn't just us lot in SAR that are having a negative experience trying to get into a football ground!
I'm not really sure what the answer is - do they still only open about half of the turnstiles at SBR? I never understood why they weren't all open | | | |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:44 - Sep 27 with 1655 views | No_Moore_Kieffer |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:34 - Sep 27 by Churchman |
The ‘Your’ thing is very American. And I hate it too.
Regarding access, I was late and arrived at 2.40. There was an awful lot of people out of the back of North Stand and the West Stand (my destination) entrances queuing.
Anyway, got to the front of the queue and the security dude waved his wand over me. I was actually holding two pairs of glasses (don’t ask), wallet, phone, car key in a wallet thing. Tbh, I could have been holding a hand grenade in one hand a a Dirty Harry .44 Magnum in the other for all the interest shown.
Ok I’m a sad old git and hardly look fresh out of terrorist training school, but there looked an awful lot of tokenism which meant a heck of a lot of people queuing in a small area behind both stands. This has been a problem for some time now. Surely the club can do better. |
Yes, it's definitely a tokenism, I assumed it was a PL requirement, and we're now just keeping it in place with a view to promotion, but there were very minimal 'checks' last season at away grounds, so I don't understand the purpose... we're in one of the safest parts of the country! | | | |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:49 - Sep 27 with 1619 views | Dubtractor |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:42 - Sep 27 by No_Moore_Kieffer |
Well, I'll sleep easier tonight knowing that it isn't just us lot in SAR that are having a negative experience trying to get into a football ground!
I'm not really sure what the answer is - do they still only open about half of the turnstiles at SBR? I never understood why they weren't all open |
The club will need to do something to improve it if they ever want planning to make the stadium bigger. | |
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| My 2 Gripes on 22:51 - Sep 27 with 1604 views | LankHenners |
Outside the Cobbold they've put the fences back in which help to stop the queues snaking into each other but for some reason at my turnstile they only had one member of the security staff standing at the turnstile scanning everyone and doing bag checks. Led to a huge backlog and eventually she seemed to give up scanning most people and just had a cursory check of people's bags to hurry the process up, making the whole thing rather pointless. Clearly understaffed and not well organised enough.
Agree think Vant does a decent job and some of the criticism of him is way OTT and moaning for moaning's sake but yeah some of the stuff he's obviously been told to say is daft and cringey. The 'your' thing when announcing goalscorers is unnecessary as well. |  |
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| My 2 Gripes on 22:53 - Sep 27 with 1570 views | Mark |
It was more crowded than ever in Sir Alf Ramsey Way, behind the north stand, really hard to get past and that can't be good for safety.
I also dislike the "your" before Ipswich town, agreed. |  | | |
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| My 2 Gripes on 22:55 - Sep 27 with 1534 views | Dennyx4 |
| My 2 Gripes on 22:42 - Sep 27 by No_Moore_Kieffer |
Well, I'll sleep easier tonight knowing that it isn't just us lot in SAR that are having a negative experience trying to get into a football ground!
I'm not really sure what the answer is - do they still only open about half of the turnstiles at SBR? I never understood why they weren't all open |
Half are for the lower tier and the other half for the upper tier. |  | | |
| My 2 Gripes on 23:17 - Sep 27 with 1355 views | lazyblue |
You have thousands of fans trying together in between 2.30-3pm , just get in at 2.25 as walked straight in to SAR. |  | | |
| My 2 Gripes on 23:28 - Sep 27 with 1249 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
How late do you guys try to enter the stadium? We usually arrive to go through the turnstile 45+ mins before kickoff, and never experience any of this.
If you leave it late, and loads of others do the same, are you really surprised. You only have yourselves to blame. | | | |
| My 2 Gripes on 23:30 - Sep 27 with 1235 views | amdam81 |
Walk past the North on the way to the Cobbold at 10 to 3 ,, couldn’t believe the congestion! | |
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| My 2 Gripes on 03:28 - Sep 28 with 965 views | Stenvict |
The service in SAR Upper and Beattie's is unbelievably slow. Surely by now they know roughly how many pints they sell, so get some pre poured.
Agree on the security. Just pointless. Beep. "Is that keys in your pocket?" No, it's a knife. "OK, in you go" | |
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| My 2 Gripes on 07:53 - Sep 28 with 671 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| My 2 Gripes on 23:28 - Sep 27 by SuffolkPunchFC |
How late do you guys try to enter the stadium? We usually arrive to go through the turnstile 45+ mins before kickoff, and never experience any of this.
If you leave it late, and loads of others do the same, are you really surprised. You only have yourselves to blame. |
45+ mins before kickoff is the other extreme to be fair! That's a whole 'nother half of football (plus). What on earth do you do for all that time?! Personally I'd rather still be in the pub.
We left the pub about 14.30 (about a 15 minute walk away). Yeah there was a bit of a queue but got to my seat in North Lower well before the players came out. |  |
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| My 2 Gripes on 08:17 - Sep 28 with 589 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| My 2 Gripes on 07:53 - Sep 28 by The_Flashing_Smile |
45+ mins before kickoff is the other extreme to be fair! That's a whole 'nother half of football (plus). What on earth do you do for all that time?! Personally I'd rather still be in the pub.
We left the pub about 14.30 (about a 15 minute walk away). Yeah there was a bit of a queue but got to my seat in North Lower well before the players came out. |
Socialise. Catch up on other matches. Check out other sport (had the Ryder Cup yesterday)
Plenty to do, and I like a relaxed approached. Makes for a chill day, rather than fretting about queues. [Post edited 28 Sep 17:43]
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| My 2 Gripes on 08:34 - Sep 28 with 513 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| My 2 Gripes on 08:17 - Sep 28 by SuffolkPunchFC |
Socialise. Catch up on other matches. Check out other sport (had the Ryder Cup yesterday)
Plenty to do, and I like a relaxed approached. Makes for a chill day, rather than fretting about queues. [Post edited 28 Sep 17:43]
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I wasn't fretting about queues.
Most of our group don't sit together so we socialise in the pubs before and after. But each to their own! | |
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| My 2 Gripes on 10:57 - Sep 28 with 321 views | longtimefan |
| My 2 Gripes on 23:17 - Sep 27 by lazyblue |
You have thousands of fans trying together in between 2.30-3pm , just get in at 2.25 as walked straight in to SAR. |
Get in by 2:15 and it’s £4 a pint  | | | |
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