Safe standing

[soulman101]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43701400 Albion application has been rejected.

[soulman101]

Albion's view. https://www.wba.co.uk/news/2018/apri...anding-update/

[goodlordmurphy]

Every club had safe standing at one time...then football fans turned into football hooligans, wouldn't want that back at any cost.

[WBA1955]

Thats a fair point GLM, but surely people should have a choice?

[goodlordmurphy]

Thats a fair point GLM, but surely people should have a choice?

Agreed every person that pays their money should be able to take their choice, but it's another case of a few morons spoiling it for everyone else.
Even though I enjoy sitting and watching a game I get angry when some fat bugger jumps up and blocks the light.

[Bakerbaggie]

Every club had safe standing at one time...then football fans turned into football hooligans, wouldn't want that back at any cost.

So all the Albion fans who stand up The Smethwick End are hooligans?
This proposal merely makes the standing fans safer,huge numbers of fans stand every week up and down the country including ironically enough many on The Kop at Anfield


Lets make it safer for those who prefer to stand including me a 58 year old with bad legs!

[mickd1961]

There was nothing safe about standing 20 or 30 rows down from the back of the Brummie in the 70’s.

When the old “Knees up mother Brown” was in full flow I’ve ended up grovelling around on my hands and knees after being hit by a surge on more than one ocaission!

I ended up searching for both of pair of white loafers in the mid 80’s ( my Miami Vice period! ) and it’s quite a challenge being shoeless in those circumstances.

So no.....it was never safe to stand.








But f u c k me .........it wor arf fun!

[Yarmbaggie]

The safe standing we are proposing like that a Celtic is a safe option and nothing like what we had in the Brummie Road for so many years. I would rather have a safe standing area like the one in Celtic rather than being in a seating area where many adults stand so that kids can’t see and neither can those who would like to sit.

Surely giving safe choices has to be the way forward but of course politicians can’t see the benefits and just believe football fans are all hooligans anyway. Should have at least taken up our offer of a trial period, at our own cost. Ridiculous decision in my view.

[Whicka_Mon]

Haven't Shrewsbury been granted permission for safe standing? We could be in the same league next season. How does that work?
I sit in the Smethwick, i'm 6 foot 2. Anyone who says seating in safer needs to tell that to my shins.