My aisle seat works well for my frequent loo trips plus my wife is claustrophobic so middle seats a non starter.
Don't go there - Mrs W_Y HAS to have the window seat on a plane, which invariably means I have to set in the middle on the block of 3 (no posh seats for the W_Y's) and next to "the stranger" as my children refer it to. As I quite like a couple of relaxing drinks on a plane it means I am forever getting up for a refill or to lose some - so the stranger gets less than amused - and of course in between Mrs W_Y will decide she has the need! We must be a nightmare, especially on long-haul - and when Mrs W_Y only gets to see anything apart form clouds for about 10 mins after take off and before landing! Grrrrr Yes, I can understand some of those being asked to move being very pissed off, but I can also understand the club needing to maximise non TV revenues - it's very important from a financial fair-play perspective. So it's a bit of a ****e situation all round.
What with planes, football seats and cinemas..... I suggest priority end of row seats for those afflicted.... certainly the over 60s!
They are being asked to move 12 seats along. A couple of people have posted their current and future view on Twitter and it makes very little difference. The club have done it to ensure that nobody has to be relocated to a different stand all together, though obviously if they want to be, that would be an option. I think anyone against this needs to look at the bigger picture. I think anyone against this just has to see that everything the Pozzos have done for Watford has been done with the right intentions and that they have delivered on every promise they have made. If i was asked to move 12 seats along, i'd say okay, for the good of the club, and it's future prosperity, i'm happy to do it. 12 seats? I cannot fathom why anyone would be against it!
lol true, but they're adding seats at the ends to make sure there's no problem, otherwise they might have 'plastic bags at dawn'!
The problem for me and my pals is the weather. We currently sit 12 to 15 spaces from the end of the GT stand at the Vicarge road end. Although we are a bit miffed at changing our view our major concern is that on windy wet days the last half dozen rows can get very wet from driving rain. We don't pay top dollar to get wet. but If the end of the stand had some sort of screening like the old main stand it wouldnt be a problem. When this was mentioned to staff in the ticket office some idiot said dont worry the club might develop the corner of the stand where the TV screen is situated. We said most of us were OAPs and would probably be dead by then! Those ST holders currently less than 12 seats from at the end of the stand will be moved to a seat in a new row S. It doesn't exist at the moment.but I believe it is being created within an existing general gangway where people are constantly moving back and forth. So much for their match experience.
Apparently when the Shrodells Stand was demolished to make way for the (then) Rous Stand, some of the old bench seats were not burnt but thrown into the River Colne. They were discovered recently still perfectly preserved by the silt at the bottom of the river and have been recovered and put into an old warehouse on the Cardiff Road Industrial Estate. One option the club is exploring is to reinstate those benches just in front of the Executive Boxes in the UGT stand and sell season tickets for them as "Heritage Seats" or to give those ST holders being relocated the option of moving to these. Of course there would be a premium charged above the normal UGT season ticket prices as the Heritage Seats are backless and thus give a more traditional and authentic experience of watching football than the current seats. Seems like a great idea to me and a suitable preservation of a facet of our history - after all many over the age of 40 would have sat in these seats when we were finishing runners-up in the old First Division and reaching the 3rd Round of the old Europa Cup. Nostalgia is priceless, surely.
Nice p*ss t*k* ! My seat is more or less in line with the pen spot. 12 seats (PLUS gangway makes it a seriously inferior view of the goal mouth action. I will accept it, but for all those think that shifting 12 seats makes no difference at all, please let us swap.
Not if you're on the aisle, specifically chosen for a myriad of reasons already states and more only to be found in the middle of the row. Scuse me, Scuse me ,scuse me ,Scuse me etc ad nauseam.
I buy on a match by match basis and always try for an aisle seat. I'll often sacrifice a better view just to do so as I hate the claustrophobia and everything else that goes with being in the middle (yeah I am getting old!). I get the comments about it being good for everyone in terms of prices staying reasonable for many of us and I cannot credit the club enough for not categorizing home games this season. I do feel your pain though - it is a bit carp for the long term holders having to move when, as you say, you were there for many reasons.
The good of the club? The good of the fans? The profit to the owners? No-one's complaining about the current success, but if hospitality is the only way forward I remain to be convinced that's a long-term strategy. I think I should be allowed to wallow in nostalgia. Bring back the cloth caps and rattles I say
