Looks like the ground management committee will be putting out the stewarding contract to tender for Barton, which means that it is quite possible that the Willows Stewards employed by SCR will not be employed at the new stadium.

Oh lovely. I can see this going a similar way as to when Lancs had to do the same thing...

Thank god, stewards didn't exactly put the fear of god into anyone at the willows, you could do virtually anything you wanted which was good and bad in many ways, you play them with a dead bat then no problems imo

just as long as they're not little Hittlers or failed bouncers like the ones at Warrington

G4S

I know one of the new stewards

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Bit like the ones at City!

You mean the hard as nails stewards who at the last game at the Willows watched no end of bloke run onto the pitch after the game and then wait until a woman tried to get on to muller her.

New broom for me.

Was gonna say that. He really went all out on her. After I saw that I'm glad they're not keeping the willows stewards

From what I have been told (see above post) many have applied for the position.

There seems to be two schools of stewarding: one (as I am told is used at City) is where the steward works with the fans by greeting, assisting and more cooperative models of stewarding; the other is as security where they monitor and more directly control the fans. The question is, which one will we get?

Undoubtedly the Bar Stewards !!

It is the same shower that took over at Lancashire, then. Great. I look forward to a new regime of stewards who don't understand the sport they're stewarding at, nor the usual regulations, customs and behaviour patterns of the supporters.

"Can you go back to your seat, please, sir?"

"Er, no, I'll wait until the end of the over like I'm supposed to..."

you were saying about not understanding the sport

He tried to tell me I should be waiting down the bottom of the stairs, rather than at the top. That was a new one on me.

I think he was insinuating that we don't have overs in RL