safe standing ??? (1 Viewer)

[skybluefred]

I stand at every game at sixfields

You mean the tight fisted so & so,s Haven't put seats on the hill.

 

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[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

You mean the tight fisted so & so,s Haven't put seats on the hill.

Its our version of a terrace along with the hooliganism,fighting etc

 

[ccfc92]

Its our version of a terrace along with the hooliganism,fighting etc

careful, certain posters will remember this quote

 

[WillieStanley]

Not sure if some of you guys were around in the 70s and 80s? It was horrible. So many fans turned away from the game. I don't believe people have got better behaved. Probably worse. No, I don't believe and never said most football fans are hoolies, they're not. But a percentage are and given an inch will really take advantage and spoil it for everybody. In an ideal world there should be room for standing, but it isn't an ideal world.
Standing would bring back all that was nasty and horrible about the game.
Now with safer stadiums games are better for everybody. Compared to the 80s, with terraces and fencing, the game is light years better. Bigger crowds. Just look at attendances in the 1980s - very low. People used to die at football games.
No, definitely a no from me. Would imagine most would be against it.

The nature of the football fan has changed now. Most of the hooligans of the 80's now take their families, have grown up or have simply found something something else to fight about. Todays football hooligan plays the football equivolent of Rat-a-Tat Ginger - hurling veral abuse then running away. Higher up the leagues, there's more corporate allocations that ever imaginable in the 80's. The atmosphere is different. Football fans are also (largely) treated as customers now, and not vermin scumbags. Survaliance is so good at grounds now, that you can spot an idiot with a coin a mile off.

Although, I'll probably end up using the seated allocation with my daughter, it's a big yes from me!!

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

The nature of the football fan has changed now. Most of the hooligans of the 80's now take their families, have grown up or have simply found something something else to fight about. Todays football hooligan plays the football equivolent of Rat-a-Tat Ginger - hurling veral abuse then running away. Higher up the leagues, there's more corporate allocations that ever imaginable in the 80's. The atmosphere is different. Football fans are also (largely) treated as customers now, and not vermin scumbags. Survaliance is so good at grounds now, that you can spot an idiot with a coin a mile off.

Although, I'll probably end up using the seated allocation with my daughter, it's a big yes from me!!

Football fans are also (largely) treated as customers now, and not vermin scumbags.

Except at our club:facepalm:

 

[Colin1883]

Make any standing areas members only... Standing at a game is so different to sitting down.... Yes yes yes...

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

careful, certain posters will remember this quote

I know but I was refering to ASBO our resident 7 year old and the 2 Yorkshire Terriers snappy little things.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

I remember taking my lad to his first ever game at HR.
we were sitting in the west end terrace 2nd to last block nearest main stand we were playing Portsmouth. at half time their fans ran into the West End for a scrap.

The point is the Ground was an all seater so had nothing what so ever to do with standing, they ran thou the disabled area to get to the Cov fans. Most of those involved were arrested in dawn raids after pictures were put in all local papers.

 

[skybluerors]

I know this is going to be unpopular but what is it with CCFC fans and their obsession with standing up at games especially away. At sixfields, Peterboro took approx 2000 but only around 10 - 15% were standing and that is way above the norm, usually it's about 5% of away fans all standing in the back row. When I go to away games myself and my son would much rather sit down but it's become the norm for the whole away end to stand up although it never used to be the case. We can't be the only ones who want to sit down surely?
So, as for standing areas, yes I'm all for it if it means the rest of us can sit down in the seated areas.

 

[Macca]

I take it you would have an allocated place to stand? If so I'm not fussed. Freedom of a terrace for me so you can move away from the half cut red faced bellend you inevitably end up next to

 

[Hobo]

I know but I was refering to ASBO our resident 7 year old and the 2 Yorkshire Terriers snappy little things.

You have to be 10 before you can have an ASBO ;-)

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

You have to be 10 before you can have an ASBO ;-)

Special dispensation

 

[Skyblueloyal]

Me too safe standing is the way forward. I been to two games in Germany and it makes watching the game so much more enjoyable