Mobile phones & Cameras

[cardoc]

A friend was telling me that a ban on mobile phones and cameras in new Ravenhill has been talked about, might not be a bad idea bring it into line with golf competitions where phones and flashes from cameras are considered a distraction to players. There could be a allocated place ( a wee hut) in some remote corner within the stadium, out of view of genuine rugby spectators, for those who are addicted to mobiles to use as smokers have now become accustomed

[mikerob]

Sounds like bollix to me...

[BR]

I heard there was going to be a smoking ban at Ravenhill too ...

[Cornerfleg]

Now that I could live with ...

[cardoc]

Now that I could live with ...

A smoking ban or camera/mobile ban or both? (or the 3)

[BaggyTrousers]

A friend was telling me that a ban on mobile phones and cameras in new Ravenhill has been talked about, might not be a bad idea bring it into line with golf competitions where phones and flashes from cameras are considered a distraction to players. There could be a allocated place ( a wee hut) in some remote corner within the stadium, out of view of genuine rugby spectators, for those who are addicted to mobiles to use as smokers have now become accustomed

Wise up, oh great Physician to the Automotive Industry.

Golf & Rugby of course are a great comparison, both being played in bright daylight when flash photography from 50 metres would take the eye out of ye. And that quietness that pervades rugby matches, if it wasn't for the stands, you'd convince yourself that you were in 100 acres of sward forest sand & water.

[Kofi Annan]

I hear men with beards and tall baldy lanky feckers will be refused access unless accompanied by a midget wearing a pink fluorescent tu tu and a Woodvale RFC supporters balaclava , but hey I good be a tad off the mark

Feck me like.

[scrum5]

Is the Terracing not already a no smoking area because of the extended roof therefore making it a covered area, if so I would assume that it would apply to all new stands, from a personal point of view whither covered or not, smoking should be banned in crowed areas.....

[Kofi Annan]

Is the Terracing not already a no smoking area because of the extended roof therefore making it a covered area, if so I would assume that it would apply to all new stands, from a personal point of view whither covered or not, smoking should be banned in crowed areas.....

Is the whole ground not non smoking, but not because of the extended roof

[Windeos]

I'd love to see an Ulster Rugby representative try to take my mobile phone off me

[Wee Woman]

I'd love to see an Ulster Rugby representative try to take my mobile phone off me

Aye, just like you see the same staff literally taking fegs out of peoples mouths on the Prom then

Plus, has anyone told John Dickson that he could be out of a job if this ban is implemented??
BBC & Sky TV must also be concerned

What a load of old tosh .

[BR]

... smoking should be banned in crowed areas.....

First, bats, then olws, now we're delayed by crows! Stone them, I say!

Is the whole ground not non smoking, but not because of the extended roof

Indeed - rumour has it, it has been non-smoking for several years (hence my original comment)

[Jackie Brown]

Hahahahaha, nonsense. How could it ever be policed?

[Rooster]

Sounds like an April fool joke that has taken a while to get around

[AyeYerMa]

Only rugby ground I've ever been pulled up about a camera at was Stade De France.

Mind you, an f2.8 300mm might have been taking the widdle a bit, but it's a big place and I was up in the nosebleeds.