I speak as an ex-smoker and someone who now hates smoking but I do not look down on smokers as second class citizens. Lot's of people who are smokers help to finance our club and anyone who has smoked knows that without your 'fix' it can be a little unbearable and I know at least one person who was a ST holder who now seldom attends games because of the smoking ban.
Simple fix - make a smoking area somewhere, say in a couple of areas of the ground where smokers can go.
To treat smokers as though they have the plague is wrong, especially when equally socially unacceptable foul mouthed fans wander where they want with only a boring, pathetic PA announcement trying to control them!

The smoking area is on the other side of the gate.

Where quite a few supporters choose to stay, even on match days.

Exactly!
Even Pinderfields hospital provide a smoking shed!
I don't agree with smoking but if smokers were allowed to go out of my way to do it fine.

principles and respect are far more important than dilute orange or Wakefield Trinity for that matter!

The thing that makes me laugh ( well not really ) , is that you can turn up at the gates absolutely leathered & you can get in , swear as much as you like & it's not a problem . Dare to bring a can of pop in .......

Didn't see any stewards checking bags last night. Just like the old days.

Walked in with bottles via con club no stewards there.

Didnt see any stewards on Doncaster Road gate last night.

It sounds like a matter of communication rather than an issue over bottles. If people know they can't take their stuff in, then it's fair enough to be asked to hand it over. If it is done in a polite and friendly manner, then I expect most people would comply. The problem, I presume, is that it is being done by blokes without much training just doing it to get an extra twenty quid on a Sunday. In a bib. People will dig their heels in if spoken to inappropriately. Marching your customers out of the ground for something like that is not on.

I detect a slight anti-fan stance from the club. I don't like some of the tweets from MC, digs about "real fans" turn up whenever. So go on, have a dig at the ones you want to attract back.

I appreciate that he feels under pressure because of what he has done for the club and I suspect feels under appreciated.. The bottom line is, however, is that he is in the entertainment industry and the leisure industry. Entertain your customers, treat them like customers, and don't slag off the ones who stopped coming. Work out how to get them back.

To be fair to the team, and that is what counts, they've done their part.

I think MC and his team are to wrapped up in there own egos to admit fault and try and get the fans back. Completely ignorant of anybody who doesnt kiss there backsides. Ive attempted to message MC personally today Via facebook because the clubs official site give you no answers. He has completely ignored me but has continued to message members of the northstanders on facebook as soon as hes been tagged in a comment. Tell me what sort of bloke ignores a polite, well put question by one fan but answers another more or less instantly. Im Sick of this and dont feel i can continue to go to games when one member of my family refuses to go back because of the treatment he recieved. Anybody with any issues with this club is been ignored might aswell write it on a piece of paper and post it in ther nearest bin.

Had no dealings with Carter, but no different to the way Richardson/Rogerson and Glover/Eston worked then. For over a decade, some supporters have been too close to management, I'd prefer there was a distinct gap between the two.

Based on what I read on here and my dealings with the club, I believe Mr Carter's focus is entirely on getting the club to survive financially this year and if that means upsetting and letting down some current supporters then so be it. I believe he's risking the hopefully short term individual loss of support as acceptable damage to secure the long term future and he is relying on our support of the club to be more than the let down we feel when things he does things to try and get more money in to the club. He's the boss, he can do what he wants - we can choose how we respond.

Not for staff they don't.

I think the stewards that should have been on the gates, working on the doors in wakey pubs.