Irrelevant (to coin a phrase) I’ve no problem with City fans being behind the goal. I have a problem with putting away fans in the middle of two groups of vocal home fans. It was **** before It would be **** again And as far ****ing evicting people again to facilitate that ?! **** off Stick them in NW corner or West Upper
That was AP's original wish when the stadium opened, and he changed it at the request of fans at one of the first fans forums.
The layout for the Barnsley game looks perfect to me, E1 back open with the addition of N6 and N7 for home fans, if we can't create a atmosphere out of that we never will.
I must be the single one who'd put disagree to that at the time you took that screenshot. I'd cope with moving personally, but it seems like a can of worms we really don't need to be opening, and I don't think it would help atmosphere at all - the atmosphere was always worse with the E1-E3 lot in North.
At the risk or reopening that can of worms, which is genuinely something I don't want to do, and I really hope this is taken as a positive comment, but not only did it end up being worse, it was always going to be worse for reasons raised and dismissed at the time, and with the additional consequences predicted sadly coming true. This was compounded by the move itself being very badly handled, and suggestions to help smooth that out were also dismissed, and none of that's particularly referring to the club, who I think were acting in good, albeit misguided faith. I hope that lessons have been learned, although that question being asked as it was leaves me with concerns. Hopefully, it's just a minor blip and common sense will prevail and people will actually be listened to and fully engaged with this time. Altogether now...
Why should they move the away mob to West Upper where they can bombard us all below? Or put another way...**** right off!!!!
Never happen because of the concourse issues. This is the trouble when the stadium was designed and HCC only consulted Hull FC Voices, on several occasions for their input. City fans were given lip service of one meeting when every thing had already been decided. The rugby lot never gave away fans or the problem of segregation a second thought, hence the problems today.
The concourses were designed on the fanciful notion that rugby fans swapped ends at half time. Stadiums of a similar age and design like Reading and Derby can accommodate differing amounts of away fans and use more tickets for home fans if the need arises. They end up losing a couple of rows of seats. We end up with a 4,000 stand given to away fans even if there only 200 of them. And still have 2 sections as segregation.
