Quote: Slugger McBatt "The common thread in this is booze. I like a pint at a game when I'm not driving, and I've been to every Grand Final but not sure I can remember any of them, and so I'm not being holier than thou about this. I just don't know how you get the balance right between letting people have a pint and allowing people to get out of control.
Maybe we ought to think about the football line and not allow alcohol in sight of the pitch if in the open air (just making Cats Bar stays open!). That would be a real shame, but if we are going to market ourselves as the family game, we can't allow people to get drunk and out of control at the game. If the people hadn't had the bottles with them on the terraces, there would have been nothing to throw and nothing to worry about. It would have been just lots of shouting.
And before anyone says anything, I know that would get rid of most of the beer places at Belle Vue, but I go there for the rugby, and could last eighty minutes without a pint.'"
It would be very hard to enforce that rule though in a stadium like wheldon road or belle vue or knowsley road... any ground really where there is a standing section as its to easy to hid behind others out of view...
would be alot easier in a n all seater stadium with cctv and a decent set of stewwards.
(and that it not me having ago about whos getting a stadium first or any of that malakry lol)
