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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Aug 29, 2021 9:07:28 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 10:04:43 GMT 1
Strange article, there is no ban on standing at football grounds, it’s not a crime.
All that is demanded in the Football Spectators Act is that all seater stadium are provided at this level, there is no compulsion to USE the seats.
It’s councils and safety advisory groups that set terms of use of the stadium, which is why you’d only ever see stewards asking folk to sit down, not police.
This feels more like a green light to encourage the godawful rail seating areas. A pointless expense.
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Post by Huddy Town Black Sox on Aug 29, 2021 10:18:55 GMT 1
Bring it on, Get the temporary seating removed from the cinema end and get some rail seating installed.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Aug 29, 2021 10:22:58 GMT 1
This has probably been mentioned a thousand times, but with Hillsborough, the main reason for those tragic fatalities after the crush, was the fencing?
We’ll never know how many similar events all seater stadia has prevented, but I’m pretty sure that all seat stadia (or majority seat) would have evolved naturally anyway. At the point of Hillsborough, there were few, if any, modern stadiums. As clubs changed or upgraded, much higher levels of seating would have been adopted naturally, because the designers and the customers weren’t living in the early 1900’s.
Fans who wish to stand, a la cowshed style, would always have had somewhere to congregate in new designs.
It was a problem that didn’t really need solving. Getting rid of fences, which obviously happened anyway, was probably the biggest thing to prevent another Hillsborough tragedy.
Fencing and ground segregation was how the Govt of the day felt was the only way to deal with football hooligans, which in hindsight was never going to solve it, it was going to contain it. Most of the folks making those decisions had probably never stood on a terrace in their lives…
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Post by terrierneil on Aug 29, 2021 11:31:51 GMT 1
Great news, Phil get your hand in your pocket and build those terraces up, at both goal ends!
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Post by softboy on Aug 29, 2021 11:42:59 GMT 1
I prefer the current arrangement where away fans can stand at most games and in areas like the "cowshed" home fans can stand but with the comfort of a seat behind your legs so you can sit down at half time for example.
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Post by bluesandtwos on Aug 29, 2021 11:49:07 GMT 1
I’m old, I need a seat 😉
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Post by Sio on Aug 29, 2021 12:24:47 GMT 1
I prefer the current arrangement where away fans can stand at most games and in areas like the "cowshed" home fans can stand but with the comfort of a seat behind your legs so you can sit down at half time for example. Expect most clubs would install rail seating (like Spurs away end) so you can always pull the seat down if you want it.
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Post by Galpharmer on Aug 29, 2021 12:45:09 GMT 1
If Town took the seats out of the South Stand, Dean would probably want them back.
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Post by ben1987 on Aug 29, 2021 12:47:13 GMT 1
If Town took the seats out of the South Stand, Dean would probably want them back. Careful…
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Aug 29, 2021 14:19:30 GMT 1
If Town took the seats out of the South Stand, Dean would probably want them back. He’d have one hell of a home cinema.
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