7-2 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 38 minutes ago, jamamafegan said: Safe standing also in the away end. Spurs have installed it with the foresight that the laws will be changed, very wise move. I take it that the seats will be locked in place until the law changes meaning that fans will just stand in front of the seat as they do now as it'll be illegal to have the 'safe standing' activated. Yep, that makes total sense... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve McQueen Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 2 hours ago, jamamafegan said: Spurs have installed it with the foresight that the laws will be changed, very wise move. What a ground it’s going to be. Law will probably have changed by the time its open! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 'Safe standing' Why are folk not questioning this bullshit? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Marina Bay Floating Stadium, Singapore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 20 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: 'Safe standing' Why are folk not questioning this bullshit? Only mugs think it's anything other than a different seat design. Probably romanticised by people who have never stood on terracing in their life. However, good luck to the stadium companies that are able to flog it to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 'Safe standing' [emoji38] Why are folk not questioning this bullshit?In regards to...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 17 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: Marina Bay Floating Stadium, Singapore. 11 year old stadia thread for this pish. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: 32 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: 'Safe standing' Why are folk not questioning this bullshit? In regards to...? The need for 'safe standing'. Just have terracing. They're perfectly fine and only unsafe if you breach the capacity and have shite design that isn't maintained. If you tried to force 5000 folk in to a stand that held only 2000 you'd have serious problems. 1 minute ago, Patrick Bateman said: Why is standing 'unsafe'? Never understood the term 'safe standing'. Exactly this. The whole thing is a con. Hundreds of thousands of people stand on terracing each week without incident. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 In regards to...?I think it must be the implication that previous versions were “unsafe standing” that must be irritating himPossibly there would be less annoyance if they called it “Safer Standing” or “Standing but with the, admittedly, very low previous risk factor minimised a bit further” (or SBEAVLPRFMABF as the cool kids would no doubt call it) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Actually it's probably unsafer standing given you'd be stuck in a wee spot and only able to move to either side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Everrthing about safe standing is framed in relation to the EPL. No surprise that they have to do something about the "optics" of it given that the entire league is built.on appearances. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 11 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: I think it must be the implication that previous versions were “unsafe standing” that must be irritating him Possibly there would be less annoyance if they called it “Safer Standing” or “Standing but with the, admittedly, very low previous risk factor minimised a bit further” (or SBEAVLPRFMABF as the cool kids would no doubt call it) Or just call it what it is, a seat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 13 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Everrthing about safe standing is framed in relation to the EPL. No surprise that they have to do something about the "optics" of it given that the entire league is built.on appearances. What would the Falkirk fans get up to if you were allowed to stand Bairny ... ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 What would the Falkirk fans get up to if you were allowed to stand Bairny ... ? Have you ever tried launching mock body parts sitting down? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 10 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: 12 minutes ago, Rab B Nesbit said: What would the Falkirk fans get up to if you were allowed to stand Bairny ... ? Have you ever tried launching mock body parts sitting down? No I’ve not ... tough ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 I don't have a huge issue with "safe standing" in this case as it's clearly designed so that the seats can be brought back for European games (and I guess they could be a neutral venue for Internationals as the Emirates et al have been, or part of a World Cup bid) where there is still an all seated rule. It could probably just be called removable seating or something to stop annoying people who don't like the term I guess. Where the term "safe standing" is totally inappropriate is when folk talking about developing or building new grounds in Scotland where their club is unlikely to need 10,000 odd seats (ourselves, Falkirk, etc). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 It's the current trend of using safe/safety to try and quell any dissent at source when trying to hide the real reason of the purpose. The actual name of rail seating is just fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 The only safety advantage seating has over standing is that everyone has an allocated place, so overcrowding is much less likely to ever happen unless there is widespread disregard for the allocations (as in parts of Hampden recently for Scotland v Poland). Even at Hillsborough, even with all the other f**k ups that caused the disaster, if the tickets for the Leppings Lane end had specified which of the five pens the ticket was for, and there was clear signage from the turnstiles, it's very unlikely the crush would have happened. Or, better still, there hadn't been any pens and the crowd could just disperse sideways, or over the front wall in an emergency. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 It's the current trend of using safe/safety to try and quell any dissent at source when trying to hide the real reason of the purpose. The actual name of rail seating is just fine. “rail seating” is an even more problematic name Can it be “seating” when you can’t sit on it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 1 minute ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: “rail seating” is an even more problematic name Can it be “seating” if you can’t sit on it? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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