Safe Standing - Fan led consultation - online link - post #43

[dave shelley]

Just done it.  Even though I can't attend as often as I'd like; I would still like the option of sitting or standing.  Standing takes me back and evokes such wonderful memories of when football belonged to us.

[knowsleyvillain]

Just done the survey, Had some top times standing on the holte as youngster the option should be there.

[D.boy]

Done it, well done Amfy and good luck.

[myf]

Done it as well.  I see Bristol are trying to bring in "rail seating".

[Witton Warrior]

Completed and in favour even if I don't want to use it myself.
Have an Upper Holte season ticket and we stand for 80+ minutes of each match unless it is a particularly low crowd (an entire row to myself against Tottingham) - need a sit down now and again!

[olaftab]

I witnessed the safe standing area at Allianz Arena recently. It's their pitch level tier behind the goal. Generates great atmosphere with fans bouncing all through the match. We could do the same at Lower Holte and Witton as and when correct decision is made.

[amfy]

The Evening Mail have run a big feature tonight which seems to have bumped my online survey up by another 100 already!
They are getting back to me for a follow up feature on how its all going in a couple of weeks.
Nearly famous!

[Ads]

Good work Amfy, hopefully this can pick up to a national debate as well.

I don't think there is any argument against it really, especially if Margaret Aspinall views re: Germany typifies them. 

[SoccerHQ]

Read the Mail article today, have the club changed their plans as I thought they were thinking of using the lower north as the experiment but it said they were looking at the 250 seats in the corner between the Holte and Trinity.

[amfy]

2 things
- they need to start small
- the lower north certainly has potential as it is structurally safe for standing, but is a bit long and narrow with limited entry/exit points. not to put too fine a point on it - a bit Hillsboroughish - even though safe standing is very different, it'll be difficult for those who aren't in favour of safe standing to see past this before they have seen rail seating in action.

It's just more likely we can get it off the ground with that corner. There are more potential objections to the lower north if we go for that first. No reason that can't be the next move though.

[Louzie0]

The Evening Mail have run a big feature tonight which seems to have bumped my online survey up by another 100 already!
They are getting back to me for a follow up feature on how its all going in a couple of weeks.
Nearly famous!

Well done Amfy and the very best of luck with this.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Great article in the Mail, and very positive. Great to see!

amfy is my hero but right bossy!
;-)

[SoccerHQ]

Cheers Amfy, makes sense that.

[oldtimernow]

Well done Amfy....keep up he good work!

[mrastonvilla]

2 things
- they need to start small
- the lower north certainly has potential as it is structurally safe for standing, but is a bit long and narrow with limited entry/exit points. not to put too fine a point on it - a bit Hillsboroughish - even though safe standing is very different, it'll be difficult for those who aren't in favour of safe standing to see past this before they have seen rail seating in action.

It's just more likely we can get it off the ground with that corner. There are more potential objections to the lower north if we go for that first. No reason that can't be the next move though.

Would there be any chance we could get the "Safe Standing Roadshow" to make an appearance at Villa Park sometime? I (and i'm sure a few others) would like to see the rail seating and understand a bit more about how it could work in practice.

http://www.safestandingroadshow.co.uk/