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Dan
August 3, 2012, 12:37pm

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You've said it now. So shush.

Generally, I don't see a problem with having standing areas. Especially at our level of the game. The only impact on safety I've ever seen with standing areas is when fans are not properly segregated. Burton's ground, although generally naff, had pretty decent standing areas. Advertising hoardings are hardly a danger, because as we know, in stadiums with safe standing areas, town fans just smash them up.

On the other hand though, standing areas for me are usually the sign of a excrement ground. Ie Hayes, Chesterfield (old), Alfreton, Histon.

Building a ground with standing areas shows a lack of ambition. Afterall, although we might not get there in many years (if ever again) the championship is where we'd like to be. It seems kind of counter-productive to not build a ground that allows us entry. Maybe the rules could be changed to allow safe standing areas in the top two tiers, but I don't think they will be, and I kind of like all seater stadiums. For me, it shows you're moving up the league.

Grimsby have the chance to do something really special with the new ground. The proposed Conoco stadium looked absolutely awful. Now is the time to really push sustainability and innovation. Maybe safe standing could be a part of that, but it'd shouldn't be one of the major considerations in my eyes.


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Yes. And after witnessing the state of standing at the Stone Roses recently, I know where I feel safer. Standing didn't make Hillsborough unsafe, fences and bad policing did.


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of course we should have standing.

as long as there is a limit on the amount of people allowed in any one stand there is never any danger.

Hillsborough wasnt caused by people standing, it was caused by the police deciding to let every single person queuing into the ground, even though it went far beyond the capacity of the stand.
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August 4, 2012, 2:06pm
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Quoted from pleasegoup
of course we should have standing.

as long as there is a limit on the amount of people allowed in any one stand there is never any danger.

Hillsborough wasnt caused by people standing, it was caused by the police deciding to let every single person queuing into the ground, even though it went far beyond the capacity of the stand.


Or very little danger


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Perhaps town could communicate with the fans and have standing on the top of some stands/areas or something




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