Standing/Sitting Areas for Semi final Wembley

[Dr Butler]

In a conversation with someone from the club they said they encourage people who don't want to stand to get tickets at the front or upper tiers for away games.

I have never been given a choice of seat location getting away tickets and can't imagine the club is really giving out this advice so I call I'm calling bullshit.

of course it's bull....I go to quite a few away games and I have never been asked that question.

*puts chin on hand* in a David Brent stylee*

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The Doc

[Witton End]

In a conversation with someone from the club they said they encourage people who don't want to stand to get tickets at the front or upper tiers for away games.

I have never been given a choice of seat location getting away tickets and can't imagine the club is really giving out this advice so I call I'm calling bullshit.

lee preece told me when villa were keen to trail safe standing in one section of the lower Holte. he said some of the sitters and standers had stopped going to away games as they weren't able sit or stand depending on their choice,  he agreed they should be segregated

[Whiney MacWhineface]

In a conversation with someone from the club they said they encourage people who don't want to stand to get tickets at the front or upper tiers for away games.

I have never been given a choice of seat location getting away tickets and can't imagine the club is really giving out this advice so I call I'm calling bullshit.

I suspect the might of The Huddersfield Choral Society are behind you in all their polyphonic glory.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

In a conversation with someone from the club they said they encourage people who don't want to stand to get tickets at the front or upper tiers for away games.

I have never been given a choice of seat location getting away tickets and can't imagine the club is really giving out this advice so I call I'm calling bullshit.

lee preece told me when villa were keen to trail safe standing in one section of the lower Holte. he said some of the sitters and standers had stopped going to away games as they weren't able sit or stand depending on their choice,  he agreed they should be segregated

Lee was probably stretching a point. He was brilliant in his support for the safe standing surveys that amfy and I did at VP.
(I don't know anyone who has stopped going to away games because they can't stand/sit.)
But...there's no way anyone in the ticket office is going to give advice about where to stand...standing is not allowed...yes, we know we all do it and get away with it, but it's still illegal and we can be ejected for doing it. The staff selling tickets are not going to tell you the best place to stand...because no one is allowed to stand!
The end.


See you at Wembley WE...I hope we have a bloody wonderful day...and that when I'm not standing I'll be dancing!

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[amfy]

It is total common sense for away matches to sell tickets starting from the front row to people who want to sit, and starting at the back row for people who want to stand (except Chelsea where you can't see when you stand up in the back row)

Some clubs quietly do this, but despite agreeing that it is common sense, Villa isn't one of them. it's not allowed.

[Witton End]

Was watching arsenal v reading.I noticed arsenal followed their home trend for standing. Standers behind the goal and a few hundred on the side. May have been pre arranged may not but it's a coincidence that it's the same pattern of standing at their home games and at Wembley.

[Chris Jameson]

Have you got your clipboard ready for tomorrow, are we all meeting on Wembley Way to sort our sitting / standing areas?

[pauliewalnuts]

Was watching arsenal v reading.I noticed arsenal followed their home trend for standing. Standers behind the goal and a few hundred on the side. May have been pre arranged may not but it's a coincidence that it's the same pattern of standing at their home games and at Wembley.

Oh, come on, what utter nonsense.

How on earth would that have been pre-arranged?

There are a lot of us - me included - on here who think standing should be brought back, but I read stuff like that - which is palpable nonsense, as is the other guff about people getting a choice in some way about where their tickets are for away matches - and it almost makes me want to switch sides.

If you are going to make any argument one way or the other about standing and you base it on a belief that the two "sides" here - those who want to stand (or can stand) and those who don't (or can not) - are operating from an equal basis, then you're way, way off course.

Those standing are doing something "wrong". Those who want to sit are not.

Just because we don't have any system whereby standing is allowed, when we should do,  doesn't mean that the "right" of people to stand is comparable to the situation of those who do not - because it isn't.

It isn't right that people cant choose to go to a standing area at football matches if that is what they want, but if you're able to feel good about yourself standing up tomorrow at Wembley when some six year old sat behind you can't see a thing as a result, then good for you but don't pretend you're not in the wrong.

[Sister of Top Cat]

In a conversation with someone from the club they said they encourage people who don't want to stand to get tickets at the front or upper tiers for away games.

I have never been given a choice of seat location getting away tickets and can't imagine the club is really giving out this advice so I call I'm calling bullshit.

lee preece told me when villa were keen to trail safe standing in one section of the lower Holte. he said some of the sitters and standers had stopped going to away games as they weren't able sit or stand depending on their choice,  he agreed they should be segregated

Lee was probably stretching a point. He was brilliant in his support for the safe standing surveys that amfy and I did at VP.
(I don't know anyone who has stopped going to away games because they can't stand/sit.)
But...there's no way anyone in the ticket office is going to give advice about where to stand...standing is not allowed...yes, we know we all do it and get away with it, but it's still illegal and we can be ejected for doing it. The staff selling tickets are not going to tell you the best place to stand...because no one is allowed to stand!
The end.


See you at Wembley WE...I hope we have a bloody wonderful day...and that when I'm not standing I'll be dancing!

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I know you don't know us, but Top Cat and I don't go to away games any more because she physically can't stand.

[Witton End]

Not sure what your experience was but I was in 538. I  was standing, never once sat on my seat nor did anyone round me.Being in an upper central stand,  my observations would say 65% of villa fans persistently stood through out the 90 mins. How was your day?

[dave.woodhall]

Not sure what your experience was but I was in 538. I  was standing, never once sat on my seat nor did anyone round me.Being in an upper central stand,  my observations would say 65% of villa fans persistently stood through out the 90 mins. How was your day?

My day was great, only slightly tempered by the fact that a foot injury that means I can't stand for 45 minutes at a time meant I had to sit down for a while on a few occasions and missed bits of the match because of the people standing in front of me, thanks for asking.

[KRS]

We were up in 533...everyone standing around us, checked to make sure the ladies behind us were ok with standing, then about 10 minutes in they politely asked us to sit down as a young lad (about 4 or 5 years old) sat behind them couldn't see. We obliged with no fuss, and only stood when the action on the pitch dictated it. Show respect to your fellow fans around you and there are no problems sitting or standing.

[in exile]

I was in 548. row 18 - Everyone in front of me was standing so I had little choice, either stand and see or sit and don't see. I mention that because I have a knee with quite nasty arthritis in it...so I stood, I sang, I shed a tear at winning. Oh, and I loved every minute of it

[PeterWithe]

I couldn't see a fat lot whether I was stood or seated, I watched most of it on the screen.

[Witton End]

I didn't even flip my seat over once,  no need to.