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[Albion] Safe Standing 25/26 season (North Stand)

Safe Standing? Yay or nay?

  • I'm a North Stand ticket holder - Yes i'd like safe standing

    Votes: 75 29.3%
  • I'm a North Stand ticket holder - No to safe standing

    Votes: 16 6.3%
  • I sit elsewhere - Yes i'd like safe standing

    Votes: 145 56.6%
  • I sit elsewhere - No to safe standing

    Votes: 20 7.8%

  • Total voters
    256






drew

Drew
NSC Patron
Oct 3, 2006
23,568
Burgess Hill
Had a search on cost and Celtics (c3,000 seat section cost £500,000)

Personally think it would help in the north and maybe enforce some movement for those who don’t contribute to the atmosphere.

I don’t know why we would do this for the away end though, what’s the benefit?
But how does it enforce those that try to add to the atmosphere to coordinate with other like minder people in the north???
 






chaileyjem

#BarberIn
NSC Patron
Jun 27, 2012
14,585
Happy to vote to formalise safe standing in the North (as opposed to the informal safe standing we currently have). Just don't make me move seats. PBOBE will say no to safe standing tho cos it will mean somebody having to take a hit on their budget for no measurably net gain, despite the EPL millions currently sloshing around the club
Isn't it the complete opposite ? . Club are always spending money - where they don't have to. All the new screens, signage and painting is something that many other clubs either won't or can't afford to spend on their grounds. (have you been to Old Trafford, the Emirates, or the Vitality and others recently - all looking old stadiums now that could do with a lick of paint) . And the fanzone - shelter, screens, seats - will perhaps have long term commercial benefits eventually but its hardly a cost saving exercise. And its Fulham and Villa charging £100 to watch their matches not the Albion.
 








Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,249
What happens about the kids? Plenty of relative ankle-biters near me in N1G, some of them have had an ST for a few years along with their parents/minders. Would they be subject to mass eviction so they can see? Be allowed to stand on seats? Be permitted to bring in milk crates a la Goldstone. These are the future lifeblood of our club. Won't somebody please think of the children of Mile Oak
 












Gazwag

5 millionth post poster
Mar 4, 2004
30,709
Bexhill-on-Sea
Fair, I haven’t been to Brentford yet so can’t comment on the space but Tottenham’s ground felt perfectly spacious to me. The Amex is quite generous for space so I’d like to think we’d be ok.
Looking at the photos for Brentford is looks like you lose space in front of you, traditionally when standing during the game when people come and go they do this behind me, if necessary I can lean slightly over the seats in front, there is no standing on toes or missing any action that way. With the bar being slightly behind the seat in front I feel fans will be standing for in the centre of row so less room behind so harder for fans to come and go like they do now. Spurs ground was build with the metal barriers wasn't it? so they may well have factored this in.

With all of the unforgiving metalwork everywhere I do wonder if the number of injuries will actually increase
 


amexer

Well-known member
Aug 8, 2011
6,797
I like my EU seat and will only ever want to sit. However from my many visits watching German football always come away with how much the standing areas add to the atsmosphere and would like to see it at the Amex.
How have our away supporters found the standing areas experience at away grounds .
 








Tim Over Whelmed

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 24, 2007
10,630
Arundel
I'm in Row Q in the North Stand and we always stand!
 


warsaw

She's lost control
Jan 28, 2008
911
Safe standing on its own won't improve the atmosphere, but a few subtle built in microphones piped to the rest of the ground just might😁
 






dazzer6666

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Mar 27, 2013
55,377
Burgess Hill
Really like the away ends in grounds that have safe standing (Chelsea, Spurs, Brentford at least and always choose these seats if available) - doesn't seem to be any less space and the bars aren’t in the way at all and can still sit pre-match/HT. Doesn’t seem to be much more sophisticated than simply having handrails in front of you.
 
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Greenbag50

Well-known member
Jun 1, 2016
501
We moved to North and are right next to East lower. I was hoping to stand all game, but alas same as other stands…. Sitting!! I am gutted!!! Only stand on corners and when action…. Minimal singing as well…. V disappointed!
Section to our right stands all game, but our section, not a chance!
Would love safe standing and would jump at it.
 


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