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Safe standing

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by Schlem Boogerman, Apr 15, 2018.

  1. Schlem Boogerman

    Schlem Boogerman Well-Known Member

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  2. HRH Custard VC

    HRH Custard VC National Car Park Attendant

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    Today is not the best day to post this, even though you mean good.
     
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  3. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    I prefer to stand unsafely. My favourite place to stand unsafely is just in front of the yellow line on train station platforms.
     
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    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Understand the sentiment. But it's actually probably a good thing that this is highlighted on the Anniversary of Hillsborough, because the terraces back then, and the whole management of fans in stadiums are a million miles away from the systems that are in place today.

    Hillborough is still used (mainly by fearful politicians) as a reason not to introduce safe standing and it's a complete sham to be honest. It would be like scrapping aeroplanes back in the the early 1900's because some of them crashed.
     
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  5. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    There are sufficient English clubs with :

    1. home support of a certain size

    2. good records of crowd behaviour/management inside
    and outside their ground

    who would make good candidates for trial implementations
    of safe standing sections.
     
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  6. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Fence sitting again Comm! <doh>
     
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  8. HRH Custard VC

    HRH Custard VC National Car Park Attendant

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    I would be happy to have safe standing seen in grounds
     
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  9. Libby

    Libby 9-0

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    It really should come in soon, there's no real reason to not at least trial it in the next couple of years.
     
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  10. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Signed it.

    My ST at the new stadium is in the area in which safe standing will be placed if it's given the go-ahead, will be buzzing if it gets the green light.
     
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  11. Would you stand there? I don't think I would as I had too many close shaves and I'm a boring old git these days. But, if it works and people are happy with it then great.
     
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  12. Diego

    Diego Lone Ranger

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    Standing has always been safe, was for over a hundred years. A disaster was caused by fencing/barriers.
    Obviously not that simple but without them it wouldn't have happened, people are not animals to be caged.
     
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