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Chunksafc said:
Sitting there at West brom when it was minus 10, or 2 seasons ago when everyone gave up at the end of the season.

Thats support, id love to go to every away game, id love the money and family life to allow it, but I can't and don't have either.

My dad dragged himself to the Coventry game, despite being ill, despite it being to much for him. He jumped around like a kid when we won.

Thats support and the heartbeat of our club
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I am sure my bollocks were frozen to the seat that night!
 
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Crowtree said:
Why would we want that??? It’s much better having them up in the gods.

Having away fans pitch side gives the away team an advantage

Please do not raise that with the club Becs unless it’s clear a majority of fans support it

Edit: I see other posters agree with me.
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Nads said:
SWC is the logical choice and move the family zone to open up more area for ‘the noisy ones’.

You’re absolutely right it’s a messy one to tidy up and would need proper fan consultation.
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Worst case scenario from my point if view....& Probably everyone in SWC
 
The Professor said:
You may have a valid point as in they were moved to the wrong place, problem is now where do we shift them back to?

North stand corners doesn't (could be wrong) have the supporters who would enjoy getting ar away fans, one south corner would be next to family end which leaves SWC which is close to the original cells for away fans, however is one of the better parts atmosphere wise most games....would proper piss me off being moved again due to away fans considering i was quite happy top of north stand originally.....not an easy one to resolve in my opinion

BUT if they do stop up a height, the throwing stuff needs to be sorted.....very sad there are people who want to attend a football match & throw objects with the intention of deliberately hurting someone
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Ignore the family section. In reality that doesn't exist anymore. I sit there and it's mainly all adults now. I know the club sell it as family section but you don't get moved on when your children become adults. We join in with the south stand and it's quite loud and not family friendly at times. I pity any newbies with little ones who've bought there this season thinking it's a family section as they're in for a shock!

So where to move the away fans?

SEC - no longer a family section but right next to the Stokoe statue. I know they've done studies of people movement after the match and that corner is very popular outside with people meeting up after the match and people moving off the stadium site and through Sheepfolds after the match.

SWC - not big enough and away fans would be in front of the hospitality boxes that are used by pundits on televised games, so the opportunity for visitors to cause mischief on live TV.

As you know Sheepfolds is currently a building site. The new bridge is opening soon, so the home fans will have a bigger spread through Sheepfolds with some going over the Wearmouth bridge and some using the new bridge. Once the new buildings are finished, there will not be space to park away coaches at the south end of the stadium. It will also border onto residential areas. Putting away fans anywhere in the south end of the stadium would cause issues afterwards escorting them back to their buses at the north end, through the masses of people exiting into Sheepfolds.

North end works well as there's plenty of room to park buses and it's easy to get them out and onto Keir Hardy Way, but:

NEC has the new ticket office there. It would need careful managing so there's no conflict between away fans coming and going and home fans wanting to use the ticket office. NWC has hospitality boxes behind it. Back of the lower north stand has the premium padded seats.

That doesn't take into account the people who will be upset to be displaced from a seat they've become attached to over a number of years.

Wherever you put them, there's going to be problems that need sorting out.
 
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becs said:
Ignore the family section. In reality that doesn't exist anymore. I sit there and it's mainly all adults now. I know the club sell it as family section but you don't get moved on when your children become adults. We join in with the south stand and it's quite loud and not family friendly at times. I pity any newbies with little ones who've bought there this season thinking it's a family section as they're in for a shock!

So where to move the away fans?

SEC - no longer a family section but right next to the Stokoe statue. I know they've done studies of people movement after the match and that corner is very popular outside with people meeting up after the match and people moving off the stadium site and through Sheepfolds after the match.

SWC - not big enough and away fans would be in front of the hospitality boxes that are used by pundits on televised games, so the opportunity for visitors to cause mischief on live TV.

As you know Sheepfolds is currently a building site. The new bridge is opening soon, so the home fans will have a bigger spread through Sheepfolds with some going over the Wearmouth bridge and some using the new bridge. Once the new buildings are finished, there will not be space to park away coaches at the south end of the stadium. It will also border onto residential areas. Putting away fans anywhere in the south end of the stadium would cause issues afterwards escorting them back to their buses at the north end, through the masses of people exiting into Sheepfolds.

North end works well as there's plenty of room to park buses and it's easy to get them out and onto Keir Hardy Way, but:

NEC has the new ticket office there. It would need careful managing so there's no conflict between away fans coming and going and home fans wanting to use the ticket office. NWC has hospitality boxes behind it. Back of the lower north stand has the premium padded seats.

That doesn't take into account the people who will be upset to be displaced from a seat they've become attached to over a number of years.

Wherever you put them, there's going to be problems that need sorting out.
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The way I remember the reason given for the move at the time was that it looked bad on TV. We would be getting 42-44 thousand but the unfilled away section in the corner in front of the TV cameras would make the place look empty.

So if that is the issue still but we want the away fans downstairs, then the west stand bottom part would make sense as not on the cameras very often. Obviously people would be displaced from there too, so never good.
 
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becs said:
Ignore the family section. In reality that doesn't exist anymore. I sit there and it's mainly all adults now. I know the club sell it as family section but you don't get moved on when your children become adults. We join in with the south stand and it's quite loud and not family friendly at times. I pity any newbies with little ones who've bought there this season thinking it's a family section as they're in for a shock!

So where to move the away fans?

SEC - no longer a family section but right next to the Stokoe statue. I know they've done studies of people movement after the match and that corner is very popular outside with people meeting up after the match and people moving off the stadium site and through Sheepfolds after the match.

SWC - not big enough and away fans would be in front of the hospitality boxes that are used by pundits on televised games, so the opportunity for visitors to cause mischief on live TV.

As you know Sheepfolds is currently a building site. The new bridge is opening soon, so the home fans will have a bigger spread through Sheepfolds with some going over the Wearmouth bridge and some using the new bridge. Once the new buildings are finished, there will not be space to park away coaches at the south end of the stadium. It will also border onto residential areas. Putting away fans anywhere in the south end of the stadium would cause issues afterwards escorting them back to their buses at the north end, through the masses of people exiting into Sheepfolds.

North end works well as there's plenty of room to park buses and it's easy to get them out and onto Keir Hardy Way, but:

NEC has the new ticket office there. It would need careful managing so there's no conflict between away fans coming and going and home fans wanting to use the ticket office. NWC has hospitality boxes behind it. Back of the lower north stand has the premium padded seats.

That doesn't take into account the people who will be upset to be displaced from a seat they've become attached to over a number of years.

Wherever you put them, there's going to be problems that need sorting out.
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What about the NW Corner and into the West lower bowl? Just 2k you are going to upset, but wherever they go, there'll be upset.
 
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