Ta da. Any prizes for guessing the reply? To be fair, I reckon you're right. Successive regimes considered the need to improve the atmosphere, and each only ever considered the north east corner. Obviously they all just totally ignored every other option. I'm not sure how they came to have a list of reasons for why the other stands weren't suitable if they weren't considered, but I'm sure a bright cookie like you will educate us on how they decided on reasons not to do it, without ever considering it.
AP did look at all options before deciding the North East corner was the best one. I was at a Premier Club meeting with AP and PT when AP told people he wanted to move the away fans, but was having difficulty getting any agreement from the SAG. He was asked for details, he said he wanted to move them to the North East corner, as it was the most practical option. He was asked why they weren't being moved to the West Upper and dismissed the idea out of hand, he said the works required made it prohibitively expensive and the North East was far the better option.
Theres no way in the world the police would allow West upper, not saying its right, but health n safety bollocks risk of flying objects etc.
In the gods at stadium of lightweights and NUFC, and with home fans directly above the away fans at NFFC. Can be done. Just takes effort. EFC is best of all. Low down, along side, not on tv.
It seems there's a different set of rules for rugby, for reasons I don't understand at all, the same SAG think it's okay for people to drink in the stands, sit in different areas, all sorts of double standards.
The drinking in the stands is not just a stadium issue. Drinking is not allowed in any football ground as part of an Act Of Parliament. Drinking during rugby matches is at the discretion of the stadiums, local police force etc... SAG said West Upper couldn't be used as away fans stand up. And we know our stewards can only enforce things with home fans. The West Stand is apparently, in their opinion, so steep people could surge forward and go tumbling into the crowd underneath. Laughable I know (have these clowns seen the steepness of stands in some foreign grounds? ) but this is the way these people approach everything.
The West Upper is mixed for Hull and Rovers games, away fans still go in the North, it tends to be the Rovers supporting old biddies and families that go West Upper - i.e. not the sort of people that stand up!
That is rugby. Nothing untoward ever happens there. 5 arrests, a bottle thrown at a player and flares set off at the last derby at the KC were obviously rumours as no one has appeared in court or action taken. Surely they would have been brought to justice looking at all the time and effort Corcoran puts in to bring people to justice and get them banned. At least with City fans. Seems away fans and rugby fans aren't pursued with the same vigour. I don't think the SAG bothers itself too much with rugby as it is so friendly.
