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Post by potterglen on Apr 28, 2014 7:12:16 GMT
How much longer does the team have to be on the receiving end of opposition barracking before the club moves away fans to the opposite end of the Q Railing Stand? Rory Delap tweeted this in January 'Yeah think stokecity should have a look at moving away fans, first thing you see and hear when coming out, top teams all do it'. The Supporters Council insist that the club don't want the away fans near the Family Stand but this was the response in January @roryjdelap stokecity scfcsc will no doubt be delighted with this suggestionThe support in the Q Railing Stand is excellent, what a shame the team don't feel the benefit while the opposition get a massive lift from their support located next to the tunnel. Your thoughts on the matter? |
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Apr 28, 2014 7:16:44 GMT
How much longer does the team have to be on the receiving end of opposition barracking before the club moves away fans to the opposite end of the Q Railing Stand? Rory Delap tweeted this in January 'Yeah think stokecity should have a look at moving away fans, first thing you see and hear when coming out, top teams all do it'. The Supporters Council insist that the club don't want the away fans near the Family Stand but this was the response in January @roryjdelap stokecity scfcsc will no doubt be delighted with this suggestionThe support in the Q Railing Stand is excellent, what a shame the team don't feel the benefit while the opposition get a massive lift from their support located next to the tunnel. Your thoughts on the matter? Ange said last night that the club have no intentions of moving either the away fans or the tunnel in the near future. Like has been said before, it doesn't seem to have affected our home record to badly. |
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Post by snapotter on Apr 28, 2014 7:17:55 GMT
Our home record would suggest that it has never really been an issue.
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Post by crouchbot on Apr 28, 2014 7:22:49 GMT
Id move them to the other side of the current away end, at a guess, I'd say the reason this has t already been done is because of the family stands location. Maybe if they moved the family stand blocks to somewhere else as well, it could happen.
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Post by lastoftheldk on Apr 28, 2014 7:22:45 GMT
Move them it makes sense
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 7:24:04 GMT
This subject is constantly discussed on here and to be honest i don't think it has any adverse effect on our home form.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Apr 28, 2014 7:24:52 GMT
I still cannot fathom as to who believed that putting the away fans right by the tunnel was a good idea!?.
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Post by snapotter on Apr 28, 2014 7:25:50 GMT
Id move them to the other side of the current away end, at a guess, I'd say the reason this has t already been done is because of the family stands location. Maybe if they moved the family stand blocks to somewhere else as well, it could happen. I can't see all the season ticket holders in those blocks being happy about being moved. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 7:28:09 GMT
Id move them to the other side of the current away end, at a guess, I'd say the reason this has t already been done is because of the family stands location. Maybe if they moved the family stand blocks to somewhere else as well, it could happen. I'm repeating myself from an identical thread the other week. We played Ipswich in the 2007/08 season, extra tickets were available for home fans in the South Stand. They were situated where the away support is now. Ipswich had a good away following and they were where the home fans are now in that stand, next to the Family Area. So it has been done. |
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Post by lastoftheldk on Apr 28, 2014 7:34:53 GMT
This subject is constantly discussed on here and to be honest i don't think it has any adverse effect on our home form.
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Post by brudda on Apr 28, 2014 7:39:46 GMT
Swap places with the family stand?
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 28, 2014 7:53:48 GMT
Id move them to the other side of the current away end, at a guess, I'd say the reason this has t already been done is because of the family stands location. Maybe if they moved the family stand blocks to somewhere else as well, it could happen. I can't see all the season ticket holders in those blocks being happy about being moved. That's the big problem. The easiest way to relocate the away fans is when a new corner is built and opened. Not particularly to put the fans in the new corner but because, inevitably the expansion of the ground means that a lot of fans will be relocating on a voluntary basis and, if you do need to force fans to move to accommodate away fans there is a wider choice of seats to relocate to. The Supporters Council should press the club to consider relocation of the away fans if/when the next corner is built. |
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Post by nott1 on Apr 28, 2014 7:56:42 GMT
Fill the damned corner in and put 'em there, it's obvious!
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 28, 2014 8:00:06 GMT
Fill the damned corner in and put 'em there, it's obvious! The new corners will, inevitably, be built to a higher standard than the existing ground - bigger concourses, better bogs, better sightlines for disabled fans etc. If we gave the new corner to the away fans I can imagine the howls of protest from the South Stand next door who would be (comparatively speaking) packed in like sardines compared to the away fans in the lap of luxury! |
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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 28, 2014 8:24:02 GMT
Just build new changing rooms in the corner between the boothen and q railing stand. That way the opposition come out to the barracking of the home fans instead.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 28, 2014 8:28:46 GMT
Just build new changing rooms in the corner between the boothen and q railing stand. That way the opposition come out to the barracking of the home fans instead. I have always hoped that is how the ground will be when it is complete. I doubt if the club will do that corner for a while though as the planning permission is in place for the scoreboard corner, that corner (being single tier) is cheaper to build AND the footings are already in place for the scoreboard corner which cuts the cost even further. I reckon that the scoreboard corner will cost at 2 or 3 £million less to build than each wing of the Q Railing stand. |
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Post by DannyStokie on Apr 28, 2014 8:35:01 GMT
We did it agaisnt Scunthorpe too, I think we were 2 - 0 down and came back to win? I remember that going well, I sat where the away fans sit now.
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Apr 28, 2014 8:37:32 GMT
Just build new changing rooms in the corner between the boothen and q railing stand. That way the opposition come out to the barracking of the home fans instead. I thought they were building a media center there? |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 28, 2014 8:40:59 GMT
Just build new changing rooms in the corner between the boothen and q railing stand. That way the opposition come out to the barracking of the home fans instead. I thought they were building a media center there? That was a sort of intermediate proposal until the corner was developed. in the event they have now built the media centre in the end two boxes of the top tier of boxes at that end of the main stand. Next Saturday - look up and you'll see it - it has been there since the first game of the season. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 8:42:12 GMT
Why not just ask the away fans to be quiet when our lads come out...Bless them....
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Post by PerCyfilth ....Captains Log on Apr 28, 2014 8:53:44 GMT
I think we should..get our own fans behind both goals.
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Post by murphthesurf on Apr 28, 2014 10:27:12 GMT
Fill the damned corner in and put 'em there, it's obvious! I totally agree with siting them there, right away from the tunnel, on the basis that every little psychological ploy definitely helps. I also agree with filling the corner in. The only downside is that they might then be a bit more sheltered from some of the Brit's famous biting winds - after all, we don't want them getting all warm and cosy, do we?! (Me? Being unwelcoming to visiting fans?????  Hell YEAH.) On balance: Naaaah, Nige - move 'em there. And as soon as possible - they should never have been put next to the tunnel. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 10:43:08 GMT
fuk me this old chestnut again!!!! imo it does not make a blind bit of difference to what happens on the pitch. at the old vic the tunnel was in the middle of the home fans but that didn't stop us going down in the holocaust season.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Apr 28, 2014 10:54:55 GMT
Ange on her Knot fm broadcast last night said that the Supporters Council had asked about this at their meeting with the club on Saturday.
However Scholes said that they wouldn't do it because they didn't want the family stand next to the away fans.
This answer doesn't stand up for me at all.
If you think back a few years, before we got into the Prem the WHOLE of the South Stand was made available to away supporters and the family stand was in the corner between the Seddon and the Boothen.
And then in order to get rid of all the nutters that were congregating in the southern sections of the Seddon stand, adjancent to the South Stand where the away following was ... the club purposely moved the family stand into that area, deliberately putting them next to the away supporters.
Whether the away supporters do need to be moved or not, I've not really got an opinion either way but I just thought the answer given for not doing so really didn't stand up to much scrutiny.
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Post by Stokie Mcpot on Apr 28, 2014 10:56:40 GMT
Fill in the corner by the scoreboard and bung the away fans there. Job done.
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Post by fortressbritannia on Apr 28, 2014 11:06:18 GMT
I don't the club will want 2500 away fans hurling abuse at the family stand do you?
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Post by wembley4372 on Apr 28, 2014 11:13:27 GMT
The best solution has always been to have built the ground the other way around with the south and boothen stand switched and a road link straight out onto the A50 to get them away without blocking everybody else for hours.
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Post by DannyStokie on Apr 28, 2014 11:14:12 GMT
It's not really answer, it just means they don't want to do anything about it.
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Post by Robo10 on Apr 28, 2014 11:17:25 GMT
If you stuck away fans in block 1/2 of the Q Railing Upper, you could charge them more :-)
And create cheaper seats for home fans in the South Stand.
Seems to be the thought at Newcastle etc - stick away fans up in the gods out of the way, keep them in for a bit, then march them to the buses.
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Post by Stokie Mcpot on Apr 28, 2014 11:34:59 GMT
I don't the club will want 2500 away fans hurling abuse at the family stand do you? Shift the family section to the old away end and oila, you have the children away from the away fans and they get to see their heroes coming out of the tunnel. How it isn't like that to begin with beggars belief frankly. |
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