The North Stand simply cannot cope with an extra 2000 people and i highly doubt the transport infrastructure would either. Queues for kiosks and train/bus queues are long enough as it is. That and if you add an extra 2000 people, it would be about 2 people to every current Amex seat, there isnt...
Wouldnt call it appalling, they just put it bluntly. Poor that they said they wouldnt even look into it - but saying its the day we lost our club ? That is an overreaction - it being disappointing that the club have ruled it out - yes.
Although i do wonder that if a couple of clubs do trial it...
Massive overreaction - the club was probably never going to support it anyway, least they could of done was look into the feasibility of it. Look at the positives - nothing has changed but saying we have lost our club because they said no to safe standing, toys out of a pram moment much ?
Noth Stand Standing/Safe Standing Trial Support
Insider has posted a reply on the clubs position - it isnt good or supportive of this, put it that way.
How ? It would need to go to a planning panel again and seeing as, lets be honest, transport can just about cope with 26k people, adding more would make waits for trains/buses even longer, more parking spaces would be needed too, but there is no space !! We dont even know how it will work with...
Trouble is, the club isnt going to want that rail seating as, lets face it if your sitting down say halfway up, you will have a rail right in front of you, which isnt good considering the club want the Amex to be used for other non-football events. The only other solution would be to get...