1894 group safestanding meeting

[mrtwiceaseason]

Persistent standing has been going on years (since we moved to the new stadium and before at Maine Road for the North Stand and AA lower)...have you considered moving to a seated part of the ground at all? Just asking. For example the second tier which isn't that much more expensive in the south stand.

Perhaps ground expansion will sort all these issues out once and for all if the club get a grip of the issue properly.

i like where i sit i have sat there for years, and its only this season that standing has been coming round to my part of the south stand. I should not have to relocate because of the selfishness of others in an all seater stadium. Me moving seats is NOT the answer

If you don't want to move that's up to you but if you're not going to get all the block to sit down I don't see any other choice for you.


Just saying it as it is.

Standing is something a large minority want and it looks to be spreading.

I wonder in honesty how many in the south stand want to stand or are forced to stand to see the game ? In my teens to 30 I would of been a stander at 49 I am all for sitting.
People should have the choice to stand at football but if its all seated then should respect it ?
Does standing create an atmosphere or does being in your group sat or standing .I don't know.
For me pay on the gate plays a bigger part

 

[Blue Note]

100% sure a standing unreserved stand would be the answer to our atmosphere problems. Also it would mean people who wanna stand are separated from those who wanna sit. Win win situation.

 

[ftg]

you might have a point but it will never happen or not for a long time, and in the meantime we have to put up with it ??? i dont pay £550 to stand up every bloody game. Dont mind the odd one like the derby but not all the bloody time.

Persistent standing has been going on years (since we moved to the new stadium and before at Maine Road for the North Stand and AA lower)...have you considered moving to a seated part of the ground at all? Just asking. For example the second tier which isn't that much more expensive in the south stand.

Perhaps ground expansion will sort all these issues out once and for all if the club get a grip of the issue properly.

i like where i sit i have sat there for years, and its only this season that standing has been coming round to my part of the south stand. I should not have to relocate because of the selfishness of others in an all seater stadium. Me moving seats is NOT the answer

How selfish can you get. If standing has come round to your section then it seems the majority of people around you want to stand up - if it was just one or two that did it and everyone else was against they would get told to sit back down. So instead of moving to another section where you can sit down all you like, with a *slightly* different view, you'd rather force hundreds of people to sit down to keep you happy. All because of a seat that you have no real ownership of. Get a grip.

 

[City1974]

i like where i sit i have sat there for years, and its only this season that standing has been coming round to my part of the south stand. I should not have to relocate because of the selfishness of others in an all seater stadium. Me moving seats is NOT the answer

If you don't want to move that's up to you but if you're not going to get all the block to sit down I don't see any other choice for you.


Just saying it as it is.

Standing is something a large minority want and it looks to be spreading.

I wonder in honesty how many in the south stand want to stand or are forced to stand to see the game ? In my teens to 30 I would of been a stander at 49 I am all for sitting.
People should have the choice to stand at football but if its all seated then should respect it ?
Does standing create an atmosphere or does being in your group sat or standing .I don't know.
For me pay on the gate plays a bigger part

If we have a designated area where people know that within that area people want to stand then that is surely the best way forward for all.
A whole tier or 2 whole tiers or even the whole South Stand for people who want to stand and sing and the rest of the ground for people who prefer to sit, surely helps everyone.
Then if safe standing is every re-introduced even as a trial, the designated area of seats where people are standing from their seats already, and are happy doing so because that's what they prefer, would be the obvious point to trial safe standing without to much disturbance to any supporters.
This way supporters get what they want and the atmosphere has a chance of improving, add this to moving away fans to a section either between the South Stand and Colin Bell stand or North Stand and Colin Bell Stand along with cheaper tickets where possible, and the club could go quite some way to solving the main issues of contention for supporters.

 

[mancityvstoke]

i like where i sit i have sat there for years, and its only this season that standing has been coming round to my part of the south stand. I should not have to relocate because of the selfishness of others in an all seater stadium. Me moving seats is NOT the answer

If you don't want to move that's up to you but if you're not going to get all the block to sit down I don't see any other choice for you.


Just saying it as it is.

Standing is something a large minority want and it looks to be spreading.

I wonder in honesty how many in the south stand want to stand or are forced to stand to see the game ? In my teens to 30 I would of been a stander at 49 I am all for sitting.
People should have the choice to stand at football but if its all seated then should respect it ?
Does standing create an atmosphere or does being in your group sat or standing .I don't know.
For me pay on the gate plays a bigger part

It has been going on since before we moved so not a new issue and it's spreading.

If the majority wanted to sit down then I'm sure there would be enough whinging for that to happen. as it does in other areas of the ground.

The only option is to move if your block now stands persistently.

In my experience once a block stands it doesn't go back.

The club need to get a grip of the issue which it has avoided for many years citing the Council, safety certificates and Government policy/law.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

If you don't want to move that's up to you but if you're not going to get all the block to sit down I don't see any other choice for you.


Just saying it as it is.

Standing is something a large minority want and it looks to be spreading.

I wonder in honesty how many in the south stand want to stand or are forced to stand to see the game ? In my teens to 30 I would of been a stander at 49 I am all for sitting.
People should have the choice to stand at football but if its all seated then should respect it ?
Does standing create an atmosphere or does being in your group sat or standing .I don't know.
For me pay on the gate plays a bigger part

If we have a designated area where people know that within that area people want to stand then that is surely the best way forward for all.
A whole tier or 2 whole tiers or even the whole South Stand for people who want to stand and sing and the rest of the ground for people who prefer to sit, surely helps everyone.
Then if safe standing is every re-introduced even as a trial, the designated area of seats where people are standing from their seats already, and are happy doing so because that's what they prefer, would be the obvious point to trial safe standing without to much disturbance to any supporters.
This way supporters get what they want and the atmosphere has a chance of improving, add this to moving away fans to a section either between the South Stand and Colin Bell stand or North Stand and Colin Bell Stand along with cheaper tickets where possible, and the club could go quite some way to solving the main issues of contention for supporters.

If we get designated safe standing areas fine .but what makes you so sure everyone wants to stand in the south stand and has just not been forced to stand as the standing has krept round the corners ? If you had sat there with your mates for 10 years would you stand or rellocate ? I don't know ?
Can I just say if you want standing it should be available OK but if its going to be buy a ticket for standing row f for January today I don't see how its going to change the atmosphere. If you get allocated a seat space to stand in how does this improve the atmosphere ? Arnt you just be going to get in to stand with strangers at a cheaper price ?
Or am i missing something ?

 

[mancityvstoke]

I wonder in honesty how many in the south stand want to stand or are forced to stand to see the game ? In my teens to 30 I would of been a stander at 49 I am all for sitting.
People should have the choice to stand at football but if its all seated then should respect it ?
Does standing create an atmosphere or does being in your group sat or standing .I don't know.
For me pay on the gate plays a bigger part

If we have a designated area where people know that within that area people want to stand then that is surely the best way forward for all.
A whole tier or 2 whole tiers or even the whole South Stand for people who want to stand and sing and the rest of the ground for people who prefer to sit, surely helps everyone.
Then if safe standing is every re-introduced even as a trial, the designated area of seats where people are standing from their seats already, and are happy doing so because that's what they prefer, would be the obvious point to trial safe standing without to much disturbance to any supporters.
This way supporters get what they want and the atmosphere has a chance of improving, add this to moving away fans to a section either between the South Stand and Colin Bell stand or North Stand and Colin Bell Stand along with cheaper tickets where possible, and the club could go quite some way to solving the main issues of contention for supporters.

If we get designated safe standing areas fine .but what makes you so sure everyone wants to stand in the south stand and has just not been forced to stand as the standing has krept round the corners ? If you had sat there with your mates for 10 years would you stand or rellocate ? I don't know ?
Can I just say if you want standing it should be available OK but if its going to be buy a ticket for standing row f for January today I don't see how its going to change the atmosphere. If you get allocated a seat space to stand in how does this improve the atmosphere ? Arnt you just be going to get in to stand with strangers at a cheaper price ?
Or am i missing something ?

If the two singing sections get together then the atmosphere should improve a bit but you're right standing areas doesn't mean they'll sing.

If you go to aways you'll see what an atmosphere can be like.

 

[trevorriley]

the whole standing in seated area is a piss take, around 5000 do it but yet the whole of the PL ignores it as long as there is a seat there. So really we sit there and just stand up when we score.

I stand, have stood for years, no intention of sitting. Sooner safe standing is sorted the better, also the atmosphere will improve 10 times.

At moment getting standing passed through parliament is a brick wall...

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

i like where i sit i have sat there for years, and its only this season that standing has been coming round to my part of the south stand. I should not have to relocate because of the selfishness of others in an all seater stadium. Me moving seats is NOT the answer

If you don't want to move that's up to you but if you're not going to get all the block to sit down I don't see any other choice for you.


Just saying it as it is.

Standing is something a large minority want and it looks to be spreading.

I wonder in honesty how many in the south stand want to stand or are forced to stand to see the game ? In my teens to 30 I would of been a stander at 49 I am all for sitting.
People should have the choice to stand at football but if its all seated then should respect it ?
Does standing create an atmosphere or does being in your group sat or standing .I don't know.
For me pay on the gate plays a bigger part

but people do have a choice the you can move to there parts of the ground that sit. People should expect the atmospheric sections to be standing its always been like that. People who want to stand should get a choice swell

 

[Carver]

100% sure a standing unreserved stand would be the answer to our atmosphere problems. Also it would mean people who wanna stand are separated from those who wanna sit. Win win situation.

This is nearly Bob on. It would go a long way to sorting the atmosphere if people had to come in early to get their preferred standing spot with their mates rather than staying in the bar till the last moment / up to 10 min into the game.
I would then feel even more justified in telling people stood in front of me to fuck off to the south stand from tier 3. I"ve been nervous about falling since I landed on my head after falling 2 rows when Sergio scored.