Could be wrong but I’ve heard from people on the DSA and the Fans Forum that safe standing is well on the agenda. My hunch is that the pitch investment needed probably came as a priority however given the initial investment needed
Wonder how many we will have? Norwich will have the whole lower tier of the Barclay End which holds more than the whole North Stand and the corner filled in between that stand and the best stand done for the start of this season. No safe standing for away fans as far as I know. We will have the two thirds of the North Stand we have, which will be far less in total, and probably have safe standing for away fans. The problem is our stadium was badly designed and took too much accounts of the views of rugby fans. I think those involved had 5 or 6 meetings with FC fans and just 1 with City fans,
If we did introduce safe standing areas would we be able to increase the capacity in theory? Also any idea by how much. I appreciate that's a how long is a piece of string question but if we replace say 1000 seats how many standing spots could we have?
The rumour I heard was the north stand home side. It was expected to increase the capacity slightly but I didn’t hear a figure. if it was me I’d turn the south into a kop stand but I appreciate we’ve had so many changes in recent years it’s hard to justify another one
That was Adam Pearson’s intention to have the South Stand as the Kop End. It would have solved all the problems of having a fence and having to walk round the stadium after an game.Unfortunately the ex East Standers wanted to be down the side. Trouble was the Kempton only held 1,800 in its latter days so they were dispersed through the stand amongst a lot of sit down shut up types who wanted a side view without paying West Stand prices. That diluted the atmosphere for a long time. I would make the South Stand the Kop and encourage a raucous atmosphere helped by having safe standing and move the Family Area in to the South end of the East Stand at the same prices. And put the away fans in the section of North Stand next to West Stand. But I don’t own the club
