I was at Vienna Airport once during Euro 2008 and saw a sex shop at the airport , they had a lot of those lol.
Loads don't tbf, from the top of my head, Stamford Bridge, Emirates, Etihad, St James park, Old Trafford, New Spurs stadium, London Stadium, St Andrews, The Den are all behind the dugouts
Spoke to 2 Leics fans yesterday and they said it’s by far the worst stadium to get away from for away fans. They felt scared when Cov idiots tried to get at them over the fence. They go every single away game and said ours is a completely different experience. I want the place to be intimidating but not quite in that way.
First time I went to an away game to the old Filbert St I wondered why there was netting between the away end and theirs. Then the sharpened coins started being thrown at us. I just don't get why people want to look to fight fans at games.
Don't think the demographics will allow for the corners, stick em behind one goal with the option to give them 4.5k. 3k or 2k, with increasing home demand we can have half of it
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If our ground had been designed a bit differently, we could have stuck the away fans high like they do at Newcastle .
I wonder if the East stand would work going towards but not taking over singers corner. A fenced off walkway could be put in place making fans come under the railway line, and home fans use the other tunnel. It could be a coach drop off point and then the wasteland made to an away fan carpark. The direction from the garden of rememberence would be completely shut off for fans. That then means the fans don't meet and they don't have a spot behind the goals.
You can't stop fans mingling, every ground does, it's just so impractical to do it, the fence coming out of the railway tunnel needs moving further in as it's a bottle neck after the game
Do like they do at Lesta, in the corner limited numbers, in our case under the police box and only up to block 9 Make a new wall in the concourse and block them in to that area, why make it a comfortable experience for away fans? Where else make us feel at home when we go away?
1600. I reckon if you put fans in those empty seats and had a small strip of segregation and stewards, it would be 2000. That's what most clubs give at this level.
In the Premier League, yes. In the Championship, clubs offer well below that. I'm not sure the exact minimum.
Birmingham, West Brom, Norwich, Ipswich, Sunderland, Swansea, Boro and Watford all give about 2000.
Pretty sure it's just void space behind there though, can it even support a gantry?
In that case fuck em, 1.5k it is.
Is there a need for with the roof structure,actually looks like there is walkway under the roof at the Rh end plus there may be a structure behind, although you can't tell without exposing it but there'll be a column of some sorts there where the panel's are fixed I think may or may not be structural but with the right fixings,need a strural engineer,rich used to calculate roof trusses I think?
how do other clubs get away with it? Leeds for example are not giving people 10% of elland road
leeds give you leeds than 10% even if you take into account hospitality, elland road holds like 37,000
Boro give people 2000 tickets and the riverside is over 30k capacity
I am just wondering how they do it if there are efl rules
Also apparently the SAG can override the minimum in the FA Cup. So we could just provide 3k max and say we can’t have more safely.
There are caveats to these figures, if a club makes representation to EFL etc, to reduce allocation for a particular fixture, possibly based on risk intelligence or for a specific period of time.
Which is what shmmeee quoted above, suggesting 2000 rather than your figure of 3200?
However, guidance from police, and other partners would always be a determining factor on agreed capacity.
