Crowd control problems? What problems? The crowd was boring as hell, their lifelessness marred a great win for the Rhinos.

And whilst thinking about the same film, Tom Adams is who I was thinking of ... Racquel Welsh via Dr Who and ending up at DFS / Northern Upholstery

Though it grips my s h i t to admit it, this was apparently a sell-out(ish) match and be honest, it's not something the stewards are used to at Wrexham.

The stewards did nothing about a group of lads in their early 20s who decided to ignore the game and just flag us off and do waynekerr signs at us all the way through.

As a mate went over to tell them he just wanted to watch the game he was punched, and the stewards were on the verge of throwin him out, not the lads who'd clearly been looking for aggro.

Really amused me just how bad they are compared to the staff at Elland Road who are fantasticly helpful and amazingly good looking.

It sounds like the Wrexham staff are employed by the same agency as those at ER

Sorry but it was a farce. pushed from one end of the stand to the other, then basically told to f off back down towards the gates. Luckily for us we spotted a way into the front tier of seats pitch side which was mercifully empty.

Im sure the Crusaders will sort these teething problems out in time but with Hull down there in the not too distant future, with thier sizable away support they better do it quickly.

People stood in gangways due to ineffective stewarding? Sounds like the majority of home games...

Apart from the fact the racecourse stand was all [sizeSeater[/size you mean?

Detailed report, straight to the point and with everything there in detail that can be actioned on by the people you've reported it to, I just wish more people would do the same.

I was looking forward to going down to the ground and having a good look round but looks like the Bulls are playing at Newport instead so if any of the disabled Leeds army travelled and can give me their thoughts on what they found I'd appreciate it. It's one thing to get the info the Club give but I prefer to hear what the fans think if you know what I mean.

Lets just hope they take on board and improve things pretty rapidly as what you've described is a disaster waiting to happen and ground safety regs, well sounds like they have not got the handbook.

The ground was very easy to find off the A 483.
There was very good parking immediately adjacent to the ground at a cost of £5.
Impossible to tell how much of it was for blue badge holders due to the snow on the ground.
I can't comment on access into, out of or within the ground except to say that the egress from the Yale Rd stand was through a pretty narrow gate straight on to the road for the car park without any pavement.
HTH.

It was free for Blue Badge holders.

I know Grendal you have a personal axe to grind against the Crusaders, since their move from south Wales, but the excuse of 'stewards didn't know what to do' doesn't and shouldn't wash these days. The acid test of a ground and its staff shouldn't come with it jammed to the rafters, like it was on Friday night. That's basically like throwing the keys to a test pilot of a new plane with 500 paying passengers already sat in the back of it ....

- It didn't take a rocket scientist to work out that there was going to be a decent crowd there, you just needed to read the paper in the 10 days leading up to the game

- The lessons of Hillsborough, Ibrox, Burnden Park, Heysel and St Andrews should have been well learned by now. The stewarding at games is not an excuse to wear an orange jacket and watch the game, with the role comes responsibility and it is one of the main reasons why the police are no longer seen inside stadia in sizeable numbers any more. Given that even the RL safety officers have their own body and meeting ground, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility to pick up the phone and ask for help in how to deal with the biggest crowd in the area for years.

- I suggest whoever is responsible for briefing the stewards before the ground was opened (assuming there actually was one) needs to take a long, hard look at the sort of information given out.

It is a good job that the Leeds fans are a fairly well behaved mob .... It is interesting to see that the next visitors are our old friends from the black & white side of Hull and a team who's support has a less-than-friendly reputation. If there is a repeat of the shambles we saw last Friday night, then there is the potential for a very serious problem with our fishy friends in town.

I've already brought the matter to the attention of the regulating authority for the ground and trust that they will be dilligent in taking the matter further with Wrexham FC and the Crusaders.

I've not got an axe to grind against the club or some sort of Widnes-esque agenda against them, however I have an adversion to someone putting me (and the many people around me's) safety and welfare at risk, through what appears to be a shortfall in some very important systems.

I've also subsequently learned that several hundred fans were locked outside the ground ... Is this true ? Did they have tickets ?

According to League Express, 300 fans were locked out.
Suggested that they did not have tickets.
I saw no trouble inside or outside the ground despite the large crowd or the icy conditions.
My group was in the Yale Rd upper stand opposite the 20 metre line so can't comment on the issues highlighted by the Admiral.

As someone who has been to a number of FC games as a neutral both home and away I'd say that's verging on the libellous.

I've seen plenty of Leeds fans whose standards of behaviour leave a lot to be desired both home and away - to paint the Rhinos support (and a large part of its travelling support) as angels in comparison to FC fans is way wide of the mark IMO.

I'd agree with that.