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OK. Thick question moment 22:00 - Jun 20 with 2915 views

Alot of safe standing for away fans...

Does this increase away capacity compared to seated?

I've not really thought about it tbh. But surprised to see such a large amount of safe standing compared to home support. So just wondered.

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:01 - Jun 20 with 2874 views

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No, safe standing still has rows of seats. Just slightly different.

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:04 - Jun 20 with 2840 views

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No.

Still an allocated space per person which takes up same amount of room as a seat.

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:04 - Jun 20 with 2824 views

Swansea_Blue

No increase in capacity. It’s ‘safe’ standing, so each seat now has a rail
In front of it. Still the same number of seats/places (unless they’ve filled in spaces that didn’t previously have seats). What they’ve had to do is borrow an extra 1,000 spots from the home area (I wonder how many times it will sell out).

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:08 - Jun 20 with 2767 views

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:04 - Jun 20 by Swansea_Blue
No increase in capacity. It’s ‘safe’ standing, so each seat now has a rail In front of it. Still the same number of seats/places (unless they’ve filled in spaces that didn’t previously have seats). What they’ve had to do is borrow an extra 1,000 spots from the home area (I wonder how many times it will sell out).

Ta. Wonder what the idea is behind such a large amount if safe standing. Seems a bit of a money waster when they could just sit in the seats already there.

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:13 - Jun 20 with 2706 views

SitfcB

Safe standing in this country is shîte and not all it’s lived up to be, especially in old stadiums. It’s just a new rail/bar along each row of existing seats. Makes it even more cramped and makes sitting down near on impossible if you need to at any point/HT.

It was ok at Cardiff, as that’s a newer stadium with more leg room anyway, but I’ve experienced it at Old Trafford in the Stratford End corner and it was very tight even when standing up to let people passed, luckily the people next to me went down at HT as had to sit down sideways to fit

It’s quite nice to have a bar to lean on, but again, at OT it wasn’t really the right height for that!

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OK. Thick question moment on 07:24 - Jun 21 with 2069 views

LegendofthePhoenix

One interesting observation is that now approx half of the Cobbold is for away fans, presumably stadium capacity has dropped a bit to say 29,300. If we have allocated 2,930 places to away fans, that means the entire capacity of the Cobbold is only 6,000, even less than most estimates.
So replacing the Cobbold with a 12,000 or 13,000 seater gives a stadium capacity of 35/36k.

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OK. Thick question moment on 07:43 - Jun 21 with 2002 views

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:13 - Jun 20 by SitfcB

It’s quite nice to have a bar to lean on, but again, at OT it wasn’t really the right height for that!

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Rail seating is completely w@nk. It's the most meagre concession the SGSA were willing to make once the clamour to bring back standing got too high...

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OK. Thick question moment on 09:31 - Jun 21 with 1811 views

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OK. Thick question moment on 22:08 - Jun 20 by FrimleyBlue
Ta. Wonder what the idea is behind such a large amount if safe standing. Seems a bit of a money waster when they could just sit in the seats already there.

My guess is that away fans have always stood at most grounds for years, so the PL now appears to have gone down the route of we can't stop fans standing so make it safer to do so. It appears they have made it mandatory for the away section of all PL clubs now.

OK. Thick question moment on 16:50 - Jun 21 with 1490 views

MYLEFTFOOT

How do children see if they're standing constantly? Doubt they'll be allowed to bring milk crates in like the olden days.

Having been moved from my seat to accommodate the new increase of away fans, a couple of weeks later I got another email telling my seat may well have restricted view because of the safe standing.

Would've been good to know this when the new seats were suggested to me but I suppose if I moan I'll just be told I should be grateful to have season tickets and could always give them up.......

OK. Thick question moment on 20:40 - Jun 21 with 1309 views

SitfcB

OK. Thick question moment on 16:50 - Jun 21 by MYLEFTFOOT

Ouch.

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