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Originally Posted by Red Light
The club has a shortage of stewards - we have had assistance provided by Tranmere Rovers stewards in the Tech End for the Chorley game - not enough volunteers to take on the role.
Stewarding is a set task and has a number of training modules - it is not the same as S.I.A trained security guards - they are the next step up and deal with incidents that are beyond the role of the stewards - for example to respond to occasional disorderly behaviour.
The alternative is to bring in more police which would cost the club far more - that's the way things have gone across many sports in recent years but especially in football and horse racing.
If we didn't have enough trained stewards and security staff at games we would fail to comply with the stadium safety certificate - that could theoretically mean we would have to play with a reduced crowd number, some stands closing or a game being played with no supporters at all (taking it to it's drastic extreme).
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Exactly what will happen under trust ownership anyway.