How? Segregation already exists at one end of the stand, a bit of netting at the other. Stairs can be bought quite reasonably priced and prefabricated. If it's an issue, they can be extended to the sterile area and connected to the coach park. Just a metal screen for the concession area and some perspex over the corporates, jobs a good 'un.
They all wanted to move the fans to the North East corner, none of them dismissed it at all, the problem was the Safety Advisory Group(police) throwing a spanner in the works. Nick Thompson got himself onto the Safety Advisory Group and finally got the thing moving.
The West Stand and the West Stand Upper use the same stairs, you can't just strap a ladder to the side to get away fans in separately, it involved a major re-modelling of the North West corner of the stadium to make it practical and it simply wasn't feasible. If anyone was going to start doing works that major, they might as well have added a second tier on one of the other stands instead.
Well that post had more hidden hooks than anticipated Anymore on page 16? Two 17 year old students can easily get a job at a restaurant/hotel as a pot wash/porter. There may be a lack of proper jobs but there's plenty of opportunity for the low 16-21 wage bracket to get a part time job on the odd weeknight or weekend morning to fund their own season pass and then some. No excuse there. No one on job seekers could/should be able to fund a season ticket as it is. If they are doing so then they're cheating the system somehow and I'd suggest reporting them to the authorities rather than feeling sorry for them. Unless of course their pass is bought as a gift, in which case anyone who has £4/500 a year to throw around at a gift at the current prices will have no problem finding an extra £100 as they're obviously rolling in it. Can't afford, don't go. It's sad but that's life. I'd like a chinook and a military chauffeur to take me to work and back as well as a holiday apartment in the Maldives, but it's a bit too much of a stretch. I will be doing exactly that. Hopefully I'll be travelling to those European games in an Aston Martin (one can but dream eh). Both of these. I have known people stuck on job seekers and their budget is so tight you'd have an easier time fitting a road cone up a nuns fanny than finding a spare tenner to go to a footy game with, never mind a few hundred quid. It's just not done.
Just re-read my letter. Still none the wiser on whether I have to pay a deposit in 7 days to pick a nice spot in the North, but it does include the word 'banter'. Shudder.
It's not major work to put stairs up. It can be done relatively easily and at probably less cost than the fence and other changes. I've been a number of sites where they've added more substantial constructions just as a temporary measure. It'd be easier and cheaper than the works they're doing, and would leave more seats due to not needing as much segregation.
This thread is an excellent example of why the club should NEVER consult the fans on anything ever. Oh and if anyone unemployed and on benefits is funding their own season tickets, something is seriously ****ed up.
Oh I, because it works sooo well without it... The club make it harder for themselves by effectively consulting AFTER the event. It's a mess.
Agreed! I was on JSA for about a year after graduating, and had to save up for 2 months just to go to one game, and that was from change (good ol' coinstar). If you can afford £395 for a season ticket on Jobseekers, you must be getting a hell of a lot more than you deserve!
I'm currently working for a agency, I could go in tomorrow and not have any work for me. I've manage to save some money. Although two trips to Wembley has made a big dent in it. That's why I did it with Tiger Travel. My last job was zero hour contract. I'm lucky that City is just me. I'll just make cuts in other areas.
I know it doesn't seem right but all I can do is relay what was on the plan I was shown in the ticket office. The guy there (the older guy with glasses) said the away fans were to take the north east corner of the ground. All i can assume is that N5 onwards is variable depending on the away support, when a full contingent of away fans come here they stretch right over to about N3.
Fo' real? You think building a giant feck off stairwell extension will be a cost comparable to the cost of putting up a fence? Never took you for an idiot Dutch.
**** me, it's not much to fling a robust set of stairs up and clad it. You could even wrap a few yards of breeze around the bottom to match the stadium. Seriously, they're used in construction to keep businesses operating and separate all the time.
Oh dear, Happy Tiger has a point - what a shambles of opinionated nonsense we have on this thread. sod it, I might as well join in : Why, if a hotel in Norwich loses money, does one in Hull have to? The price hike was inevitable, as the name-change was not allowed . . . . . . the continuation of the Allam name-change campaign will continue; why should he start acting honestly now? Most posters on here have called for a 'singing end', you're getting it, live with it; but it's only a part and minor reason for the change in seating. I will stick to my consistent and long held view, that AA has both a business plan and a strategy; nor is he a fool. This seating change and price hike is all about creating the right trading terms ready for eventual extension and the perceived, but unreal price reductions that will follow. It's all kidology; that's how old men treat daft lads who like being patted on the head. More be will be clearer in the coming days. Edit: Sorry, forgot; he's running it for them now, not the fans.
You can't put a new set of stairs on the outside on a council house never mind a council owned stadium!
On Council owned land, some schemes don't need planning permission, but as the fence got permission, it's unlikely the stairs wouldn't. It's academic because it's not going to happen because it could upset the corporates. It's that, not construction, that's stopped it each time. I was more making the point that the option going ahead is a mess.
