| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties 00:05 - Sep 8 with 1075 views | SwansIndependent |
 Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties 8th Sep 2022 00:04They were the days that many can’t remember, days that led to a dramatic fall in fortunes for Swansea City. Famous names may remain, and those games played could well be argued as the best of times but really ? Since the brilliant ‘Tosh’ has been released there definitely has been an upsurge in interest in the Swans for sure.  0
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 11:13 - Sep 8 with 964 views | Catullus |
The crowds given back then, people question todays announced attendances, well if you were on the North bank and literally couldn't move with all the pathways down full as well and people resorting to kneeling down to have a pee wherever they stood, it's not hard to think that crowds were much larger than those given. In fact, I would say that on several occassions we breached the maximum allowed capacity, that first game being one of them. | |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 12:32 - Sep 8 with 932 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 11:13 - Sep 8 by Catullus |
The crowds given back then, people question todays announced attendances, well if you were on the North bank and literally couldn't move with all the pathways down full as well and people resorting to kneeling down to have a pee wherever they stood, it's not hard to think that crowds were much larger than those given. In fact, I would say that on several occassions we breached the maximum allowed capacity, that first game being one of them. |
Off the mark again. You belong to a discredited group of fans that live in a fantasy world.
The Vetch was bulging at the seams with 7000. It was a health hazard in my view. I would not go to certain matches including the 4-2 as I did not consider it safe. If I had no ticket for the "new" stand I stayed at home. The steel work was all heavily corroded and the accesses were a crush zone. Did it have a valid Health a safety certification? We found out Hillsborough did not have one after the tragic event.
Thankfully the Council for once trusted Swansea owners sufficiently and team up with the "sellouts" to build a new stadium for the club and Ospreys. The club is now giving the council income for its construction by taking over the running of the stadium and the city has benefited already many time over.
The team now play at the "Sellout" Stadium with the "sellout" logo on their shorts. The splendid fans group 21% owners do not really know what they job is but is happy to attend all home games as observers with free food and drink. [Post edited 8 Sep 2022 12:33]
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 12:49 - Sep 8 with 926 views | 1462jack |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 12:32 - Sep 8 by ReslovenSwan1 |
Off the mark again. You belong to a discredited group of fans that live in a fantasy world.
The Vetch was bulging at the seams with 7000. It was a health hazard in my view. I would not go to certain matches including the 4-2 as I did not consider it safe. If I had no ticket for the "new" stand I stayed at home. The steel work was all heavily corroded and the accesses were a crush zone. Did it have a valid Health a safety certification? We found out Hillsborough did not have one after the tragic event.
Thankfully the Council for once trusted Swansea owners sufficiently and team up with the "sellouts" to build a new stadium for the club and Ospreys. The club is now giving the council income for its construction by taking over the running of the stadium and the city has benefited already many time over.
The team now play at the "Sellout" Stadium with the "sellout" logo on their shorts. The splendid fans group 21% owners do not really know what they job is but is happy to attend all home games as observers with free food and drink. [Post edited 8 Sep 2022 12:33]
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We get it you love Huw and don’t like the trust |  | | |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 13:24 - Sep 8 with 906 views | Catullus |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 12:32 - Sep 8 by ReslovenSwan1 |
Off the mark again. You belong to a discredited group of fans that live in a fantasy world.
The Vetch was bulging at the seams with 7000. It was a health hazard in my view. I would not go to certain matches including the 4-2 as I did not consider it safe. If I had no ticket for the "new" stand I stayed at home. The steel work was all heavily corroded and the accesses were a crush zone. Did it have a valid Health a safety certification? We found out Hillsborough did not have one after the tragic event.
Thankfully the Council for once trusted Swansea owners sufficiently and team up with the "sellouts" to build a new stadium for the club and Ospreys. The club is now giving the council income for its construction by taking over the running of the stadium and the city has benefited already many time over.
The team now play at the "Sellout" Stadium with the "sellout" logo on their shorts. The splendid fans group 21% owners do not really know what they job is but is happy to attend all home games as observers with free food and drink. [Post edited 8 Sep 2022 12:33]
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Bulging at the seams with 7000 when the crowd was given as over 23000 and was considered less than honest?
Do yourself a favour and stop being such an idiot. And yes Keith I apologise but he deserved it.
Back in the day when we played Leeds and beat them 5-1, we could get more than 7000 on the North bank alone.
Now who is in a fantasy land?
It seems that any post I make you come along and make a disparaging post.
PS, this is a thread about the Vetch in the 80's, not a thread about Huw Jenkins, the Trust, the current owners so maybe stop trying to hijack threads, or will the mods make that suggestion? It's all very tiresome and boring when you come along with the same silly narrative. | |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 13:37 - Sep 8 with 890 views | KeithHaynes |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 11:13 - Sep 8 by Catullus |
The crowds given back then, people question todays announced attendances, well if you were on the North bank and literally couldn't move with all the pathways down full as well and people resorting to kneeling down to have a pee wherever they stood, it's not hard to think that crowds were much larger than those given. In fact, I would say that on several occassions we breached the maximum allowed capacity, that first game being one of them. |
People forget the double decker was there then plus the NB stretched fsr further back.
I agree and even people connected to the club at the time agree. It was pretty much a hit and hope attendance figure. |  |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 10:16 - Sep 9 with 826 views | Catullus |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 13:37 - Sep 8 by KeithHaynes |
People forget the double decker was there then plus the NB stretched fsr further back.
I agree and even people connected to the club at the time agree. It was pretty much a hit and hope attendance figure. |
I worked on the turnstyles at the Vetch. Every game there were stewards who went around checking the numbers on the gates when we closed up. Some of thse gates were so ricketty you could get the cover panel off with a pen knife and we used to check the numbers when we started and finished and they rarely matched the money taken. Some used that knowledge to skim money off, took hundreds from the Swans.
If those readings were never right, how could they possibly know an accurate attendance. I think, in the end it forced them into putting those new gates in, to stop the turnstyle operators thieving and/or letting friends jiump over. Some of the hooligans used to take a chance and crowd the gate and jiump over anyway. It was a fun experience for the most part, working the away end when Cardiff came into town was always fun  and I always seemed to be one of the lucky few, the first time I was just 17 and I had to have a police escort and walk back through the away end with (literally) a sandwich box with several hundred quid in it.  | |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 14:59 - Sep 9 with 765 views | KeithHaynes |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 10:16 - Sep 9 by Catullus |
I worked on the turnstyles at the Vetch. Every game there were stewards who went around checking the numbers on the gates when we closed up. Some of thse gates were so ricketty you could get the cover panel off with a pen knife and we used to check the numbers when we started and finished and they rarely matched the money taken. Some used that knowledge to skim money off, took hundreds from the Swans.
If those readings were never right, how could they possibly know an accurate attendance. I think, in the end it forced them into putting those new gates in, to stop the turnstyle operators thieving and/or letting friends jiump over. Some of the hooligans used to take a chance and crowd the gate and jiump over anyway. It was a fun experience for the most part, working the away end when Cardiff came into town was always fun and I always seemed to be one of the lucky few, the first time I was just 17 and I had to have a police escort and walk back through the away end with (literally) a sandwich box with several hundred quid in it. |
Not forgetting the open gate on the east stand. | |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 15:07 - Sep 9 with 760 views | Treforys_Jack |
Those were the days my friends. |  | | |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 16:36 - Sep 9 with 731 views | Catullus |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 14:59 - Sep 9 by KeithHaynes |
Not forgetting the open gate on the east stand. |
There was supposed to be a steward there permanently. John I think the bloke was. He was a got to me regularly. I started working there because I couldn't afford to pay to get in, I was just turned 17 and they hadn't given me the ID badge, nearly every game he'd refuse me entry, reckoned he didn't know me. Then one of the women from the office came in just behind me one game and told him to stop being such a tw&T
It was OK after that. | |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 20:51 - Sep 9 with 704 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
I think in the old days there was a premium to be paid to the league and away team as a percentage of the gate. |  |
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| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 21:17 - Sep 9 with 692 views | dobjack2 |
When attendances were announced they were regularly met with laughter where I stood on the North Bank. | | | |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 08:46 - Sep 10 with 651 views | Whiterockin |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 21:17 - Sep 9 by dobjack2 |
When attendances were announced they were regularly met with laughter where I stood on the North Bank. |
The same thing happens in the stadium today. |  | | |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 13:38 - Sep 11 with 550 views | scruffyjack |
| Swansea City : Spotlight on the eighties on 12:32 - Sep 8 by ReslovenSwan1 |
Off the mark again. You belong to a discredited group of fans that live in a fantasy world.
The Vetch was bulging at the seams with 7000. It was a health hazard in my view. I would not go to certain matches including the 4-2 as I did not consider it safe. If I had no ticket for the "new" stand I stayed at home. The steel work was all heavily corroded and the accesses were a crush zone. Did it have a valid Health a safety certification? We found out Hillsborough did not have one after the tragic event.
Thankfully the Council for once trusted Swansea owners sufficiently and team up with the "sellouts" to build a new stadium for the club and Ospreys. The club is now giving the council income for its construction by taking over the running of the stadium and the city has benefited already many time over.
The team now play at the "Sellout" Stadium with the "sellout" logo on their shorts. The splendid fans group 21% owners do not really know what they job is but is happy to attend all home games as observers with free food and drink. [Post edited 8 Sep 2022 12:33]
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Dear me, you obviously weren’t there. The amount of supporters in the North Bank was terrifying, looking back! | | | |
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