Exactly, and I think this is a point not realised by some. You're not going to be able to just rock up and stand where you want. You're still going to be allocated your space, in front of your folded-up seat. Which you already have right now anyway. So the only difference is (a) you won't be...
Well...you're not really selling it too me Drew.
Seriously though, if there was a return to ACTUAL terracing, then I'd be all over that like white on rice. My WSU seat would be abandoned, and I'd go wherever in the stadium granted us that glorious facility. But safe standing ? Naah. You can...
I don't think you can bring last nights trouble at West Ham into it - there's no evidence it would have been any better or worse had it been terracing instead of seats there. The whole setup at that stadium is deeply flawed at the moment.
And not all those lower league terraces are as sparsely...
Maybe its because people have now seen what safe standing would actually comprise of.
As I've said on another thread on this subject, forget this safe standing / rail seats rubbish. There's absolutely no reason whatsover why terraces couldn't be brought back perfectly safely to our stadiums...
I'm not that surprised, as personally I'm completely apathetic towards safe standing. Its such a watered down, sanitised version of what we remember as being terraces that I honestly don't really see the point. You'll still be allocated a "space" in front of your rail seat number, it won't be a...