Good. Last I heard was he said they were minded not to have segregation but it would be confirmed after talks with the RFL & the new security company. May a formal release on the website for clarification would be a good idea.

So it would seem.

To be fair to MC he's got a lot on, it's hard work trying to get out of Gary Hetheringtons pocket.

Sorry, but i disagree on the Hetherington point of view. Without them we would be in deeper than we are now and we would certainly not have recruited as well as we have done.

Glad of the smoking ban. Too many times last year stood behind someone getting covered in smoke.

Dont see the big deal about the no smoking, you're only in Belle Vue the best part of two hours. Not like you're going a full day.

To a smoker, i would imagine the 2 hours at Belle Vue is up there in the top 3 moments in which they need to smoke. It is for me and i dont smoke!!
I stand with a few that do and its never bothered me. Sure they are going to be really pleased that these changes have come in after buying there season tickets though.

Wouldnt be that difficult to assign a designated area in such an open stadium as ours surely?????

Exactly. Its the 3rd change to be made since I bought my season ticket last August.

Glad to see some clarity about smoking and I hope it's properly enforced; smoking in a crowd is a disgusting thing to do and it shouldn't need a ban to stop people from doing it. Nip out at half time - self-inflicted problem solved.

If that's an option that's fine by me.
It doesn't appear to be though.

How so? If you've got a ticket, I don't see how you can be stopped from going out of the nearest exit for a quick drag then coming back in - surely smokers aren't going to be kettled in the stadium for the afternoon?!

Most non smoking stadiums don't allow you to.
The only Stadium that used to allow it was the Twickenham stoop as far as I am aware.

It surprises me but as a non smoker I'm happier no one near me will be smoking. In a tight packed crowd it is not nice at all.

Saying that, I'd have been ok with a smoking area, but considering how much hassle the segregation caused last time it might not be a go-er.

Although it makes me think that we are now saying we are ok with Cas fans standing among us but not smokers. Everything has it's place I guess

Then I guess either some provision will be made, or they'll be flogging Nicorettes at the beer van!

The thing about also banning e-cigs doesn't really make much sense seen as there is very little/no risk of second hand smoke, unlike normal cigarettes. Which doesn't make it a health and safety issue surely?? If it's to stop people with real cigs blending in with them, well most e-cigs are very easily distinguished from real ones if not by looks but by smell.

Last few seasons i've seen stewards walk by people who are blatantly smoking and not said a word, so no wonder people take no notice of the signs/policies

The e-cigs thing is strange to me.
We ban it where I work as well.

Smokers have to stand in the rain well away from the building but so do e-smokers. Can't understand it. I would have thought we'd have encouraged the e-cigs myself.

www.ivapour.co.uk/law/

www.ivapour.co.uk/law/

Doesn't matter what the law says - BV is privately owned and they can impose a ban on e-cigs if they want to I guess.

Fwiw, I've just banned them from my company premises too; e-smokers must go to the smoking area like everyone else.

If you want to make all the decisions, I will sell you the club right now for a quid. I will even give you a quid cash back. I just don't need the hassle. Don't know if it's on the back of a week from hell, but I'm Knackered, having worked about 80 hours this week for nothing. And there are a lot of other things I could be enjoying.
This is not simply having a go back at you. I'm sick and tired of the moans just 5 months after the club nearly closed its doors. And I don't think I've got much energy left to go on. Might simply just be a bad week.
But I reiterate, I will sell the club to you, or anyone else, for a quid.

Some people are not happy unless they are having a moan!!!

I am in the "appreciate all your doing for our club" camp

Who's got a spare quid nowerdays!
Bloody George Osbornes nicked all my spare cash.

Chin up MC,
Despite the moaning, I think almost everyone appreciates your effort and endevour!

I/we recognise it's a thankless and frustrating task to which there's no end and you aren't escaping that easy.

Don't need worship......just an attitude of 'we are were we are, let's get on with it' will do. Oh and half a million pounds would be nice too.........

No ta but I will offer my opinion and you didn't make this offer when everyone was singing your praises and patting you on the back.

Swing both ways MC.

I appreciate what MC has done and applaud him for it.

But as a consumer I'm not happy.
4 changes since buying a Platinum membership, not big ones but changes all the same.

You can't please everyone granted. But you can try.

I think you'll find I made this offer from the very moment I started. The sooner it happens the better. I didn't want praise at the start. I don't want it now. But neither should I, nor anyone else running, or working at the club, have to put up with flak for doing the job to the best of their ability or making decisions they believe to be the right ones.
It's endemic of today's society. Along with the 'wanting something for nothing' brigade.
Feel free to come and takeover. Or find me someone that will.
Just because we have managed to put out a fair few fires and it's been fairly quiet, don't think for one minute, it's all plain sailing at the minute. The club needs the same investor it needed 5 months ago, because since that day, not 1 person has shown any interest.

FFS Give up El Rey, as a moderator I would expect better from you. Yes it's a forum and you can express your views, but give our chairman some slack, without him, we would be done and dusted.

Daddycool. Thank you from me, what you are doing for our great club is much appreciated.