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After a good aura around the club for last few days it seems the feel good factor has well and truly been shattered. Stadium announcing that prams / buggies no longer allowed in the stadium for H&S issues. With 85 comments it appears people are not happy and while not having the time or interest to trawl through them all it appear it was the case for someone on Friday and they got turned away for having pram / buggie. It's a joke if you ask me, I thought Rugby League was a family sport and encourage people to bring kids / babies. Hope they have a change of heart and this issue can be rectified.

If it's true, the Stadium company need to get a grip.

Love the fact that fans go to see a contact collision sport with two teams knocking seven bells out of each other, yet the fans can't bring a buggy into the Stadium for fear of a 'trapped-finger' incident.

There is a very simple solution to this. Have a secure area at the stadium where people can pay a quid or two to leave their prams or strollers. Same system as a cloakroom where people are issued a ticket allowing them to collect afterwards. The money from this would pay for an attendant.

Unfortunately in todays society people are encouraged to claim for everything they can get away with, legit or not. Can you imagine if somebody tripped over a stroller and landed on a concrete floor breaking an arm, leg or worse? They would be advised to sue the stadium management for every penny they could get. The claim sharks wouldn't be suing the person with the stroller they would go where the big money is. The counter argument to this is what if someone tripped over a wheelchair? Would the same apply? And if the SMC didn't allow wheelchairs then they would be done for discrimination.

I think the SMC are just protecting their own interests but it's up to them to find an answer for the club and its supporters.

[Chico]

There was a lot of complaints regarding a similar policy at the Ethiad during Magic Weekend. Methinks blocking buggies and such is going to be a stadia-wide thing.

Completely appalling if true - PT where have they actually stated this? I've just searched on www.salfordcitystadium.com and can't find anything about it?

[Chico]

BartonFlyer wrote:

Completely appalling if true - PT where have they actually stated this?

It's true, as confirmed on the club's Facebook. I bet on them being banned in most stadia pretty soon.

I think this has come from America (The Sue Capital of the World) where no stadiums allow prams or strollers.

I remember in SeaWorld in Florida several years ago they wouldn't allow buggies past a certain point for the whale show you watch from a grandstand.

Chico wrote:

It's true, as confirmed on the club's Facebook. I bet on them being banned in most stadia pretty soon.

mmm interesting that they leak it out on Facebook, not a word on their official site under the FAQs or Access or anywhere else

[Chico]

BartonFlyer wrote:

mmm interesting that they leak it out on Facebook, not a word on their official site under the FAQs or Access or anywhere else

The club make no secret that Facebook is their outlet of choice because of the combination of its immediacy and sizeable user base. To be fair to them, lots of corporates are taking this approach now.

programmethrower wrote:

After a good aura around the club for last few days it seems the feel good factor has well and truly been shattered. Stadium announcing that prams / buggies no longer allowed in the stadium for H&S issues. With 85 comments it appears people are not happy and while not having the time or interest to trawl through them all it appear it was the case for someone on Friday and they got turned away for having pram / buggie. It's a joke if you ask me, I thought Rugby League was a family sport and encourage people to bring kids / babies. Hope they have a change of heart and this issue can be rectified.

PT as others have stated previously this is solely the Stadium Company's or it certainly appears so to many people and in fairness to them it also appears that it is happening at other stadiums throughout the UK.

The problem as I and many other supporters see it is that there doesn't appear to be anybody who works for the Stadium Company, certainly the ones who call the shots who know anything about sport let alone Rugby League.