Swearing Warnings?

[Bedfordblue]

It says on the stickers for foul and abusive language, so it's pretty easy to make the guess the assumption it's for 'discriminatory language'. Maybe the club need to make their stickers more specific.

I'd love it if they dropped these on the seats of a lawyer or two and they got legal on them.

Thought you didn’t want Hill Dickinson anywhere near the stadium?

 

[perth_blue]

 

[Bluebonic]

Oh my! The entire row I sit will will get perma-bans and the mad feller in front of me will get deported to Van Diemens land :/

 

[Bluebonic]

Just for the safety of my own place at BMD, does calling a less than enthusiastic tackler a ‘quilt’ count as foul and abusive? Genuine question, it is my go-to insult for anyone acting nesh!

 

[GrandOldTeam]

It says on the stickers for foul and abusive language, so it's pretty easy to make the guess the assumption it's for 'discriminatory language'. Maybe the club need to make their stickers more specific.

I'd love it if they dropped these on the seats of a lawyer or two and they got legal on them.

Nah, there's multiple stickers. Photos have been shared in here.

Some specifically ref discriminatory language, others foul and abusive language. Others ref vaping and persistent standing.

So there's a clear differential made/warning of foul and abusive language vs discriminatory language.

 

[davek]

Nah, there's multiple stickers. Photos have been shared in here.

Some specifically ref discriminatory language, others foul and abusive language. Others ref vaping and persistent standing.

So there's a clear differential made/warning of foul and abusive language vs discriminatory language.

Well that makes it VERY personal then.

As you've said: named and shamed when - if there was an issue - an electronic shot across the bow would have been more appropriate when dealing with 'the customer'.

Imagine someone going to a rugby union match at Twickenham and having those placed on their seats. I bet the stadium managers wouldn't dare.

 

[Connor]

It says on the stickers for foul and abusive language, so it's pretty easy to make the guess the assumption it's for 'discriminatory language'. Maybe the club need to make their stickers more specific.

I'd love it if they dropped these on the seats of a lawyer or two and they got legal on them.

Wouldn't have much standing really. The cards say 'in this area' and are dotted across a few rows, they don't point fingers at specific people. They also won't put them out unless there's been a solid report and the club have double checked with the reporter.

There were a set of seats by us this weekend, as we were climbing up the stairs, that had them for discriminatory language, with the All Together Now text on, which suggests homophobic or racist language.

 

[davek]

Wouldn't have much standing really. The cards say 'in this area' and are dotted across a few rows, they don't point fingers at specific people. They also won't put them out unless there's been a solid report and the club have double checked with the reporter.

There were a set of seats by us this weekend, as we were climbing up the stairs, that had them for discriminatory language, with the All Together Now text on, which suggests homophobic or racist language.

I've no problem with targeting seats where that's happening and stamping down hard. But they have the technology to personalise that and deal with it privately/publically.

No one can object to that. But it looks like it's merely assumption when they use the words 'foul and abusive' and scatter stickers across an area of seats.

The club are making a mess of this by the generality of their actions.

It's the coward's way of dealing with it if it's happening.

 

[COYBL25]

Well that makes it VERY personal then.

As you've said: named and shamed when - if there was an issue - an electronic shot across the bow would have been more appropriate when dealing with 'the customer'.

Imagine someone going to a rugby union match at Twickenham and having those placed on their seats. I bet the stadium managers wouldn't dare.

You`ve very obviously never been to a rugby union match, especially Twickenham.

There`s no nastiness at all, to the point that kids and women could happily sit or stand anywhere in the ground and feel comfortable.

Both sets of fans happily mix with each other, in and out of the ground.

It`s a completely different environment and atmosphere to a footy match.

 

[Ged G]

talk on twitter is that anyone getting these notices is not for swearing but for discrimination

Talk on Twitter, X, ... right, that is official then...

 

[Ged G]

I've no problem with targeting seats where that's happening and stamping down hard. But they have the technology to personalise that and deal with it privately/publically.

No one can object to that. But it looks like it's merely assumption when they use the words 'foul and abusive' and scatter stickers across an area of seats.

The club are making a mess of this by the generality of their actions.

It's the coward's way of dealing with it if it's happening.

Agree mate.

 

[Ged G]

Same clod headed thinking that dreamed up the headlock gate issue. It's pointing the finger and hanging someone out to dry that could be totally uninvolved. Better yet, with tickets not directly fixed, someone's first spec in BMD could be in a ticketed seat. The aura of suspicion applied to just anyone. Quite simply a third rate response. Ticket the lot or ticket none.

I like this. I am not religious but the phrase "He who is without sin, caste the first stone" seems appropriate.

 

[Ged G]

You`ve very obviously never been to a rugby union match, especially Twickenham.

There`s no nastiness at all, to the point that kids and women could happily sit or stand anywhere in the ground and feel comfortable.

Both sets of fans happily mix with each other, in and out of the ground.

It`s a completely different environment and atmosphere to a footy match.

Understand, yes, but you have totally missed the point. This is about football grounds, Everton, NOT Rugby Union crowds, NOT Twickenham.

 

[Ged G]

Understand, yes, but you have totally missed the point. This is about football grounds, Everton, NOT Rugby Union crowds, NOT Twickenham.

So, you laugh, because you agree or because that is the cheapest way to disagree? Please clarify.

 

[Ged G]

Nah, there's multiple stickers. Photos have been shared in here.

Some specifically ref discriminatory language, others foul and abusive language. Others ref vaping and persistent standing.

So there's a clear differential made/warning of foul and abusive language vs discriminatory language.

"persistent standing" ... oh dear (most polite phrase I could think of), glad I will be dead in a few years (slight exaggeration), but all in all perhaps not.