Don't post very often but I can't get my head around this thread.

Now, I can't speak for anyone else but as a smoker I can't say I'm too fussed - I've got a team to watch and that's the top and bottom of having a season ticket for me.

This!

Its not a matter of taking your bat home or walking away. The clubs made a rule that you can not smoke in the open arena, i have asked if a smoking area could be provided like the one at the stoop. Rather than look at the possibilities or even provide an answer M C seems hell bent on ranting about selling the club for a quid.
All supporters are thank full for M C efforts and in put to the club However its a forum and questions are allowed to be asked , and while ever M C s on the forum those questions can be asked direct.

Probably because there are a hundred things right now more important then a smoking policy.

It must have been high up on the hundred of things to do , because the smoking policies been introduced.

This is an open forum, it is here for people to pass comment as they wish.
Surely this is exactly the place to express an opinion and experience tells us not just to nod our heads and "p" up the new chairman's back.
Someone passing comment is not supposed to be in any way a direct criticism of MC and all Wakefield fans owe the guy heaps of gratitude but, this shouldn't stop someone posting if their opinion is different to our gaffer.

I think in MC's defence his "rant" was rightly or wrongly about the implication that he isn't doing a good job or listening to fans, rather than the specific smoking issue.

On the smoking issue, surely this is only the same length of time that you couldn't smoke at the cinema or a meal at a restaurant. You can leave both those places to smoke but you can't smoke inside and they don't have smoking areas.

At work, I can't imagine many empoyers liking smokers going outside more regularly than 2 hours.

Why is a rugby match different?

It's been there all the time. But like every other aspect, never followed through properly!!

Why don't you use some of your well earned money & go watch rugby at the Stoop where you can smoke. Hear Harlequins RUFC are quite a good time.

Mr Briggs i would probably spend more time smoking that watching the dark side. I welcome your suggestion ,but no thanks. In case you did not know it was not union i was watching it was Wakey v London .Also i will choose to spend MY money as i please. Thanks

Or, it was quick and easy to resolve, so it was done and crossed off the list?

There has been a no-smoking policy at BV for ages, but the previous security company never bothered enforcing it; whether that's because they were told not to, or not told to, is irrelevant - we've got new bods in and it probably took MC (or a delegated official) 30 seconds to tell them to enforce the existing smoking policy. Job done.

Personally, I'm pleased - nothing worse than taking the kids and having to move because some inconsiderate git is puffing smoke all over them.

MC - you perhaps need to get some perspective; if you insist on using this forum, you must by now have realised that it's populated by the most dyed in the wool, longstanding supporters for whom moaning has become a habit; don't for a minute though believe that represents the majority view - it doesn't.

This is just bringing us into the 21st century.
Smoking in the stands is against current law anyway, regardless of what the club want, and I'd think the covered areas were are close although the legislation doesn't cover it as it isn't 50% walled off.
Ultimately, in my opinion (and only that) the law says you can't smoke in a public enclosed area. Although that applies to walls and glass, in a stadium it applies to people too. If you are in the middle of the North stand on match day, it is an enclosed area, whether build that way or not.....in my opinion.

To make a designated smoke area causes all kinds of issues.
How big, as it will take space from main crowd
Access to it, need to manage access from all parts of the ground
If not big enough one day, the queue will have to be managed from safety point of view
Cost to build something, we can do without any extra cost.

You won't be able to smoke at Newmarket as it will be covered anyway so lets call it practice for then.....

Don't worry, perspective is there. But if somebody has a go, expect a go back. This wasn't about smoking initially. It was about not listening to the fans and being in leeds pocket. Thus my response was, that if they really want to make all the decisions, they can. Quite simply. By taking over. It's there if they want to.

Can I do it for a week?

Come on in. Pay week would be good. You can get a real taste of it. I'll see you next Monday. 7.30 prompt at the ground.