You dirty rat

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14-10-25, 11:08
Michael Morris

You dirty rat

https://www.theguardian.com/football...football-match

Cardiff City have defended their pest control policy after a rat halted play during the second half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful attempt to catch the rodent during Belgium’s 4-2 win on Monday night before the Wales substitute Brennan Johnson ushered the rat off the Cardiff City Stadium pitch. The rat then slipped past a ball boy and disappeared behind the referee review monitor and was not seen again.

“It’s something I’ve not seen in my 36 years at Cardiff City,” said Wayne Nash, the club’s head of operations who also works as a security manager for the Football Association of Wales and Uefa. “We’ve had a stray dog on the pitch but this was something new, a freak of nature.

“The stadium is close to allotments and railway sidings and we know rats can be problematic. The railway bankings can be infested with rats. We know they are in the area and we do have the odd sighting of them. But we work closely with our pest control partners and do everything we can to keep them away.”

Rat bait stations are in operation at the stadium and the club say stringent cleaning policies are followed. Nash said: “We pick up litter and food like half-eaten burgers straight after games. Everything is put away.

“They say you are never too far from a rat, especially in cities, and this one managed to get in. People have seen a rat on the pitch as quite funny, but it does have serious undertones. If I was the ball boy or Brennan Johnson I would have run a mile.”
14-10-25, 11:17
North Cardiff Blue

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

https://www.theguardian.com/football...football-match

Cardiff City have defended their pest control policy after a rat halted play during the second half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful attempt to catch the rodent during Belgium’s 4-2 win on Monday night before the Wales substitute Brennan Johnson ushered the rat off the Cardiff City Stadium pitch. The rat then slipped past a ball boy and disappeared behind the referee review monitor and was not seen again.

“It’s something I’ve not seen in my 36 years at Cardiff City,” said Wayne Nash, the club’s head of operations who also works as a security manager for the Football Association of Wales and Uefa. “We’ve had a stray dog on the pitch but this was something new, a freak of nature.

“The stadium is close to allotments and railway sidings and we know rats can be problematic. The railway bankings can be infested with rats. We know they are in the area and we do have the odd sighting of them. But we work closely with our pest control partners and do everything we can to keep them away.”

Rat bait stations are in operation at the stadium and the club say stringent cleaning policies are followed. Nash said: “We pick up litter and food like half-eaten burgers straight after games. Everything is put away.

“They say you are never too far from a rat, especially in cities, and this one managed to get in. People have seen a rat on the pitch as quite funny, but it does have serious undertones. If I was the ball boy or Brennan Johnson I would have run a mile.”

Jumped out of a Swansea luchbox no doubt.
14-10-25, 11:20
dandywarhol

Re: You dirty rat

Roland Errol and Kevin got in for free.
It was a good job the keeper didn't catch it.Weil's disease is serious if bitten
14-10-25, 11:38
uncle bob

Re: You dirty rat

We look in the dustbin for something to eat.
We find a live Rat and we think it's a treat
14-10-25, 11:54
Trigger

Re: You dirty rat

They are everywhere, think the club can be forgiven unless one is found in the kitchens.

I can't say I'm too keen on them but remember my wife almost crying and screeching every few seconds when one scurried past us in Paris a few years back.

Was at night near the Eiffel tower loads of locals were sat around in groups on the floor chatting whilst what seemed like an invasion of these things were zipping around left, right and centre. Most I've seen in one small area.
14-10-25, 12:02
Mr Soul '68

Re: You dirty rat

Yep! The most entertaining part of the 2nd half was when Gary Neville ran onto the pitch! He was soon chased off though....
14-10-25, 12:09
The Lone Gunman

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68

Yep! The most entertaining part of the 2nd half was when Gary Neville ran onto the pitch! He was soon chased off though....

Oh dear...
14-10-25, 12:13
splott parker

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68

Yep! The most entertaining part of the 2nd half was when Gary Neville ran onto the pitch! He was soon chased off though....

Never thought I’d say this but I reckon Gary Neville is a pretty decent bloke with a view of things I’m, on the whole, agreeable with.
14-10-25, 12:22
delmbox

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by splott parker

Never thought I’d say this but I reckon Gary Neville is a pretty decent bloke with a view of things I’m, on the whole, agreeable with.

Agreed. Bit hypocritical for going to Qatar but I think his heart's generally in the right place
14-10-25, 12:26
BLUETIT

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How did the rat get through the “open coat” policy, at the turnstiles ?
14-10-25, 12:26
The Lone Gunman

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by splott parker

Never thought I’d say this but I reckon Gary Neville is a pretty decent bloke with a view of things I’m, on the whole, agreeable with.

Speaking of rats, he managed to irritate Nigel Farage, Tommy Ten Names and plenty of the fools who follow them, which was good work.
14-10-25, 12:31
splott parker

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLUETIT

How did the rat get through the “open coat” policy, at the turnstiles ?

Got through by a whisker!
14-10-25, 12:47
Moodybluebird

Re: You dirty rat

I had one on my bird feeder about 6 weeks ago so the bait went down, I put wire gauze in a small gap between next doors garden wall and our own and fingers crossed we haven't seen one since. They have decking next door and rats are known to occupy the spaces underneath these features. Horrible little beggars.
14-10-25, 13:48
North Cardiff Blue

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moodybluebird

I had one on my bird feeder about 6 weeks ago so the bait went down, I put wire gauze in a small gap between next doors garden wall and our own and fingers crossed we haven't seen one since. They have decking next door and rats are known to occupy the spaces underneath these features. Horrible little beggars.

Is that euphemism?
14-10-25, 13:50
bobh

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moodybluebird

I had one on my bird feeder about 6 weeks ago so the bait went down, I put wire gauze in a small gap between next doors garden wall and our own and fingers crossed we haven't seen one since. They have decking next door and rats are known to occupy the spaces underneath these features. Horrible little beggars.

We used to feed the birds, but after seeing rats on the bird table, we stopped. One of my neighbours keeps putting food out for f'king PIGEONS, and my other neighbour has had his decking and hot tub ruined by rats. I have no hesitation in putting poison down if I see any. I tried traps, but after traps killed a bullfinch and a hedgehog, I stick to poison, tucked away in a piece of pipe so birds and hedgehogs can't get at it.
14-10-25, 13:51
Garth Blue

Re: You dirty rat

I thought Joe Rodent was decent.
14-10-25, 13:56
J R Hartley

Re: You dirty rat

Nash OUT
14-10-25, 14:04
Moodybluebird

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Garth Blue

I thought Joe Rodent was decent.

I cracked the same joke to my missus last night but true to form she didn't find it funny.
14-10-25, 14:05
William Treseder

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

Speaking of rats, he managed to irritate Nigel Farage, Tommy Ten Names and plenty of the fools who follow them, which was good work.

Aren’t you a middle age white man that Neville doesn’t like ?
14-10-25, 14:11
rs3100

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by dandywarhol

Roland Errol and Kevin got in for free.
It was a good job the keeper didn't catch it.Weil's disease is serious if bitten

Weil's disease comes from exposure to rat urine rather than bites. Usually caught from being in freshwater or from soil and it getting in cuts. Not nice.
14-10-25, 14:15
The Lone Gunman

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by William Treseder

Aren’t you a middle age white man that Neville doesn’t like ?

No.
14-10-25, 14:21
William Treseder

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

No.

You must identify as something else then 😁
14-10-25, 14:23
Moodybluebird

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobh

We used to feed the birds, but after seeing rats on the bird table, we stopped. One of my neighbours keeps putting food out for f'king PIGEONS, and my other neighbour has had his decking and hot tub ruined by rats. I have no hesitation in putting poison down if I see any. I tried traps, but after traps killed a bullfinch and a hedgehog, I stick to poison, tucked away in a piece of pipe so birds and hedgehogs can't get at it.

One of the reasons I don't have a bird table is that the food is too easily accessible to rats. Unbelievably 'my' rat stuck its snout through our squirrel-proof nut feeder and was chomping away.

I use sapphire grain rat poison that comes in plastic sachets that are put out unopened. As the rat climbed a tree to get at the nuts, I put the poison on a lower part of the trunk that was inaccessible to hedgehogs. Seems to have worked and I hope it took it back to its family to all have a munch on.
14-10-25, 14:28
The Lone Gunman

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by William Treseder

You must identify as something else then

I identify as someone who understands exactly what GN was saying and who hates the kind of tossers he was referring to.

As it happens, I'm a quarter Indian by birth and my adopted grandparents were refugees. I'm the kind of person Farage and Tommy Ten Names pretend not to like while they're taking stacks of money from the stupid and the gullible.
14-10-25, 14:42
Dorcus

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

I identify as someone who understands exactly what GN was saying and who hates the kind of tossers he was referring to.

As it happens, I'm a quarter Indian by birth and my adopted grandparents were refugees. I'm the kind of person Farage and Tommy Ten Names pretend not to like while they're taking stacks of money from the stupid and the gullible.

Kudos to you! Well done!
14-10-25, 14:43
Dorcus

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moodybluebird

One of the reasons I don't have a bird table is that the food is too easily accessible to rats. Unbelievably 'my' rat stuck its snout through our squirrel-proof nut feeder and was chomping away.

I use sapphire grain rat poison that comes in plastic sachets that are put out unopened. As the rat climbed a tree to get at the nuts, I put the poison on a lower part of the trunk that was inaccessible to hedgehogs. Seems to have worked and I hope it took it back to its family to all have a munch on.

I do find it more than a bit mildly irritating when neighbours put bird seed down without thinking of the consequences for other of their neighbours.
14-10-25, 15:14
William Treseder

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dorcus

I do find it more than a bit mildly irritating when neighbours put bird seed down without thinking of the consequences for other of their neighbours.

What comes after “mildly irritating” ? 😁
14-10-25, 15:20
William Treseder

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

I identify as someone who understands exactly what GN was saying and who hates the kind of tossers he was referring to.

As it happens, I'm a quarter Indian by birth and my adopted grandparents were refugees. I'm the kind of person Farage and Tommy Ten Names pretend not to like while they're taking stacks of money from the stupid and the gullible.

That’s a nice story, but I’m sure if Neville had said young brown men who come over on boats and dinghy’s commit sex crimes and theft, he’d have got into a spot of bother.
Anyway this is the football forum, so you can have your usual last word and we’ll leave it at that.
14-10-25, 15:53
The Lone Gunman

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by William Treseder

That’s a nice story, but I’m sure if Neville had said young brown men who come over on boats and dinghy’s commit sex crimes and theft, he’d have got into a spot of bother.

That would have been a really weird thing to say considering the rest of his observations, but thankfully Neville is a decent human being whose brain is bigger than a weasel's wedding tackle, so that's not what he said. His comment was an opinion, but it was also undoubtedly the truth. The fact that some of the very people he was describing got so triggered by his words was unsurprising, but comical all the same.

:thumbup:
14-10-25, 17:41
Ninian1962

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

https://www.theguardian.com/football...football-match

Cardiff City have defended their pest control policy after a rat halted play during the second half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful attempt to catch the rodent during Belgium’s 4-2 win on Monday night before the Wales substitute Brennan Johnson ushered the rat off the Cardiff City Stadium pitch. The rat then slipped past a ball boy and disappeared behind the referee review monitor and was not seen again.

“It’s something I’ve not seen in my 36 years at Cardiff City,” said Wayne Nash, the club’s head of operations who also works as a security manager for the Football Association of Wales and Uefa. “We’ve had a stray dog on the pitch but this was something new, a freak of nature.

“The stadium is close to allotments and railway sidings and we know rats can be problematic. The railway bankings can be infested with rats. We know they are in the area and we do have the odd sighting of them. But we work closely with our pest control partners and do everything we can to keep them away.”

Rat bait stations are in operation at the stadium and the club say stringent cleaning policies are followed. Nash said: “We pick up litter and food like half-eaten burgers straight after games. Everything is put away.

“They say you are never too far from a rat, especially in cities, and this one managed to get in. People have seen a rat on the pitch as quite funny, but it does have serious undertones. If I was the ball boy or Brennan Johnson I would have run a mile.”

At the recent Fans Parliament meeting at the club, I happened to speak to the head of media as a Trust member had raised a query about the quality of tannoy announcements during games. The reason given for the problem was a bit surprising.
Apparently a number of new speakers have been installed , especially at the front of the Ninian Stand to try and deal with the problem. However, there is a recurring problem of rats frequently chewing through the connecting cables leading to an ongoing frquent need for repairs and replacements
14-10-25, 17:49
splott parker

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

That would have been a really weird thing to say considering the rest of his observations, but thankfully Neville is a decent human being whose brain is bigger than a weasel's wedding tackle, so that's not what he said. His comment was an opinion, but it was also undoubtedly the truth. The fact that some of the very people he was describing got so triggered by his words was unsurprising, but comical all the same.

:thumbup:

We need more celebs like Neville to ridicule the likes of Farridge & Yaxley-Lennon, their rantings are appealing to the many idiots in this country. A bit more ridiculing of them is desperately required.
14-10-25, 17:51
splott parker

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninian1962

At the recent Fans Parliament meeting at the club, I happened to speak to the head of media as a Trust member had raised a query about the quality of tannoy announcements during games. The reason given for the problem was a bit surprising.
Apparently a number of new speakers have been installed , especially at the front of the Ninian Stand to try and deal with the problem. However, there is a recurring problem of rats frequently chewing through the connecting cables leading to an ongoing frquent need for repairs and replacements

Been having a go at the managers of late as well, have they?
14-10-25, 17:59
The Bloop

Re: You dirty rat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninian1962

At the recent Fans Parliament meeting at the club, I happened to speak to the head of media as a Trust member had raised a query about the quality of tannoy announcements during games. The reason given for the problem was a bit surprising.
Apparently a number of new speakers have been installed , especially at the front of the Ninian Stand to try and deal with the problem. However, there is a recurring problem of rats frequently chewing through the connecting cables leading to an ongoing frquent need for repairs and replacements

My first thought last night as the rat left the pitch was wishing that it would chew through the cables to the portable VAR screen.
14-10-25, 21:40
ToTaL ITK

Re: You dirty rat

Has swansea signed the culprit yet?