Safe standing looking more realistic?

Originally Posted by believe

they stood through the entire game yesterday.

Yep, which makes it unbelievable that they can voice a protest where things like this are concerned. Especially that stupid bitch.

Originally Posted by Mr Castro

Yep, which makes it unbelievable that they can voice a protest where things like this are concerned. Especially that stupid bitch.

The sooner she dies the better. Hopefully in a stampede at a Boxing Day sale or something

League One Bristol City plan to become the first club in the United Kingdom to install rail seats, which have been pioneered in the German Bundesliga.

The seats can either be unlocked or locked to create a standing or seated area inside a stadium.

Regulations currently prohibit their use in football, so they will initially be used for rugby games at Ashton Gate.

The Football League has agreed to lobby the Government in a bid to permit "safe standing" areas in the game. All-seater stadiums have been compulsory in the Premier League and Championship since an inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.
Standing is currently allowed in Leagues One and Two, but Championship grounds must be all-seater after a club have played in the second tier for three seasons. Some Football League clubs have backed calls for the introduction of standing areas and campaigners believe rail seats provide a safer alternative to 'old-style' terraces, which did little to stop the forward movement of fans.

Rail seating is used at some of Germany's biggest grounds, including at Borussia Dortmund's Westfalenstadion, which has a capacity of more than 80,000. They are also approved for use as seats by Uefa and Fifa.
Bristol City intend to install the new seating in two stands as part of the redevelopment of Ashton Gate.

Should safe-standing areas return to football?
In their support of the concept, the club have have installed a demonstration block for spectators to see how it may look if it were made legal. It is in an area of the ground not currently used, but will give fans an idea of what the proposed new areas would look like. The demonstration block will be unveiled in front of dignitaries from the Football Association and Football League on Wednesday. Bristol City's development of Ashton Gate starts in the summer, and Bristol Rugby will ground-share with them from the start of the 2014-15 season.The all-seated Wedlock Stand will be replaced with a new stand and plans are in place to install 2,202 rail seats, if regulations permit it.
Further redevelopment in the Dolman Stand, to the side of the pitch, could see a further 1,568 rail seats incorporated in the stadium.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26141427

Originally Posted by est.1878

League One Bristol City plan to become the first club in the United Kingdom to install rail seats, which have been pioneered in the German Bundesliga.

The seats can either be unlocked or locked to create a standing or seated area inside a stadium.

Regulations currently prohibit their use in football, so they will initially be used for rugby games at Ashton Gate.

The Football League has agreed to lobby the Government in a bid to permit "safe standing" areas in the game. All-seater stadiums have been compulsory in the Premier League and Championship since an inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.
Standing is currently allowed in Leagues One and Two, but Championship grounds must be all-seater after a club have played in the second tier for three seasons. Some Football League clubs have backed calls for the introduction of standing areas and campaigners believe rail seats provide a safer alternative to 'old-style' terraces, which did little to stop the forward movement of fans.

Rail seating is used at some of Germany's biggest grounds, including at Borussia Dortmund's Westfalenstadion, which has a capacity of more than 80,000. They are also approved for use as seats by Uefa and Fifa.
Bristol City intend to install the new seating in two stands as part of the redevelopment of Ashton Gate.

Should safe-standing areas return to football?
In their support of the concept, the club have have installed a demonstration block for spectators to see how it may look if it were made legal. It is in an area of the ground not currently used, but will give fans an idea of what the proposed new areas would look like. The demonstration block will be unveiled in front of dignitaries from the Football Association and Football League on Wednesday. Bristol City's development of Ashton Gate starts in the summer, and Bristol Rugby will ground-share with them from the start of the 2014-15 season.The all-seated Wedlock Stand will be replaced with a new stand and plans are in place to install 2,202 rail seats, if regulations permit it.
Further redevelopment in the Dolman Stand, to the side of the pitch, could see a further 1,568 rail seats incorporated in the stadium.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26141427

The chairman of bristol rovers was on R4 this morning to discuss this issue, along with ray houghton... houghton banging on about how it should be safe standing and how everyone supports the idea and doesn't want to go back to terracing.

chairman of 'rovers: "when we look at the footage of the recent liverpool game, nearly all of the kop were standing...."

Originally Posted by Mr Castro

96 was not enough indeed.

What a @#%&! :shakehead:

Scouse colleague (who's American)

I fully back it but it just smarts, man.

Originally Posted by elhombre

The chairman of bristol rovers was on R4 this morning to discuss this issue, along with ray houghton... houghton banging on about how it should be safe standing and how everyone supports the idea and doesn't want to go back to terracing.

chairman of 'rovers: "when we look at the footage of the recent liverpool game, nearly all of the kop were standing...."

Couldn't believe that. Of all the people to have on as the voice 'against' something that shouldn't even be the least bit controversial, they have that snout-faced @#%&! and simpered to him like he was Nelson Mandela. The media are obsessed with Hillsborough and shoehorn it into £#%&!ing everything.

Originally Posted by elhombre

The chairman of bristol rovers was on R4 this morning to discuss this issue, along with ray houghton... houghton banging on about how it should be safe standing and how everyone supports the idea and doesn't want to go back to terracing.

chairman of 'rovers: "when we look at the footage of the recent liverpool game, nearly all of the kop were standing...."

its 100% happening at celtic, probably start of next season.

Originally Posted by Larssonisghod7

its 100% happening at celtic, probably start of next season.

you lot have had a bit of a patchy relationship with the club recently regarding your 'ultra' movement or whatever it is.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

you lot have had a bit of a patchy relationship with the club recently regarding your 'ultra' movement or whatever it is.

Presumably why they're bringing it in, so the Potato Brigade or whatever they call themselves don't have any chairs to smash up.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

you lot have had a bit of a patchy relationship with the club recently regarding your 'ultra' movement or whatever it is.

aye theres been a lot happening, green brigade vs club at loggerheads, got banned over sands/wallace display vs milan you may have seen?and breaking seats at motherwell


fans been in jail for weeks for singing irish republican songs, empty souless ground, selling all our best players and replacing them with utter shite to play more shite under our cluless shite manager

its quite pish

think the board see this as the way to try and get folk back and happy and improve the atmosphere without having to backtrack and reinstate the green brigade.


if safe standing was to be reinstated at OT take it would be at the strefford end or at least wanted there most by fans?

Cool video bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiZAZwG7_jQ

Originally Posted by Zorg

Cool video bro

Making of ... the first block of rail seats in the UK - YouTube

Rails won't be as responsible for as many deaths since the 2.20 special to Auschwitz

Originally Posted by forzagarza

Rails won't be as responsible for as many deaths since the 2.20 special to Auschwitz

£#%&! off you hillsborough @#%&!s

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-terraces.html

Originally Posted by ScarFace

£#%&! off you hillsborough @#%&!s

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-terraces.html

The sooner these grief-parasites £#%&! off and die the better. What in God's name has this issue got to do with them? What the £#%&! were they doing at Bristol? It's £#%&!ing baffling.

How did this witch get to Bristol I wonder? In a car perhaps? On a train? People die in cars and trains but I've never heard the tramp asking for a ban on either of them.

If I had my way I'd bring back unsafe standing with no crash barriers at all.

£#%&! off.

If they persist with this preaching and antagonising every club that wants safe standing they are going to lose a lot of the public sympathy which they crave. They should be told very clearly and very sternly to mind their own £#%&!ing business and concentrate on their own club and their own fans and leave everyone else alone.

Originally Posted by est.1878

Standing is currently allowed in Leagues One and Two, but Championship grounds must be all-seater after a club have played in the second tier for three seasons.

So it's after the third season in the championship when standing becomes dangerous. But only if watching football. Can't argue with that.

Looking at the comments at least even daily mail readers seem to agree their concerns are stupid.

Anyway, they're not really interested in safety. As armchair said, what they want is a non-stop pity party. They do not want the pity and attention to die out, which is what would happen if standing returned. They can't move on, so no-one else is allowed to.