Shocking from our club

[Nik Vawn 344]

 

30 minutes ago, ricardo said:

When are they installing sofa's.

wanting an upgrade from your luxury padded seat 😀

[A Load of Squit 6,259]

1 minute ago, Big Vince said:

Shakespeare tucked himself away in a little cottage up in Stratford. What did he know? Partaking in high culture probably accounts for less than 1% of the UK population.

Don't forget the people standing at the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms. Patriots to the core, not a Socialist in sight.

[Big Vince 420]

Just now, A Load of Squit said:

Don't forget the people standing at the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms. Patriots to the core, not a Socialist in sight.

Yes, I will give you that. Nice one.

[ncfcstar 342]

45 minutes ago, Big Vince said:

Should never be going back to standing anyway. It is an anachronism and should have been left in the past out of respect to the Hillsborough victims. Seating is better, safer and more civilised. You don't go to the theatre to stand up and the ancient Greeks never envisaged standing so I don't see why you should want to stand. Only yobbos would want to do so as it feeds into their yobbo behaviour.

Completely agree, standing at football. IS. A. DISGRACE. (took that from one of our pre-eminent Norfolk politicians).

Rather than 'safe' standing, why aren't we introducing food and drink service to your seat, and those funny little binoculars you used to be able to get at the Theatre Royal?

[hogesar 10,700]

All I know is whatever contractor undertook the work, I think they made an absolute fortune. Workmanship and materials are uhh....considerably average.

[lake district canary 4,813]

Safe standing is a great idea. Implementing it in once the season has started when fans have already bought their seats is just stupid. Close season is the time to do something like that - not forcing people to shift to worse seats to make way for it. Just another example of corporate malaise that so much of business suffers from - just doing what they want when they want, regardless of their customers.

[BigFish 2,280]

48 minutes ago, Big Vince said:

Never seen anyone standing at any theatre, cinema or the like.

Well the Globe Theatre for one

[Big Vince 420]

1 minute ago, BigFish said:

Well the Globe Theatre for one

Is that the only one, then?

[BigFish 2,280]

1 minute ago, Big Vince said:

Is that the only one, then?

You only asked for one 🙂 

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,215]

1 hour ago, TIL 1010 said:

Somebody will be along to lay the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of a highly paid female executive director don't you think @GMF ?

However this is poor form by the club.

I have to say that communication from the club re safe standing in the Thorpe Area has been very poor from the start.............

[Robert N. LiM 6,175]

People are missing the big picture here. The shoddy, on-the-cheap nature of the installation is clearly a sign that the dilapidated old City stand is soon to be upgraded courtesy of the Attanasios. No point wasting money on doing it properly when the whole thing is going to be replaced in eighteen months or so. Hopefully they'll pull the Barclay down too and replace it with a Dortmund style Yellow Wall of uninterrupted safe standing (with all the current Barclay corporate stuff relocated to the new Delia and Michael Main Stand). To finish it off, in the centre of the new Barclay should be a sort of cockpit where the drummer can go, with acoustic baffles all round him to project the sound out onto the pitch.

All hail our new overlords.

Edited September 30 by Robert N. LiM
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[Mr Angry 1,980]

1 hour ago, Big Vince said:

Should never be going back to standing anyway. It is an anachronism and should have been left in the past out of respect to the Hillsborough victims. Seating is better, safer and more civilised. You don't go to the theatre to stand up and the ancient Greeks never envisaged standing so I don't see why you should want to stand. Only yobbos would want to do so as it feeds into their yobbo behaviour.

Back in January 2017 a survey of Liverpool fans showed that 83% supported safe standing at their ground.

So your comment about respecting the Hillsborough victims has no relevance.

[shefcanary 2,939]

1 minute ago, Robert N. LiM said:

People are missing the big picture here. The shoddy, on-the-cheap nature of the installation is clearly a sign that the dilapidated old City stand is soon to be upgraded courtesy of the Attanasios. No point wasting money on doing it properly when the whole thing is going to be replaced in eighteen months or so. Hopefully they'll pull the Barclay down too and replace it with a Dortmund style Yellow Wall of uninterrupted safe standing (with all the current Barcaly corporate stuff relocated to the new Delia and Michael Main Stand). To finish it off, in the centre of the new Barclay should be a sort of cockpit where the drummer can go, with acoustic baffles all round him to project the sound out onto the pitch.

All hail our new overlords.

You might be on to something here. Piiss off as many of the City Stand season ticket holders as possible to encourage them either to relocate to the South Stand or not to renew, leaving it easier to relocate the rump and crack on with the demolition and re-build. 

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,215]

1 hour ago, dylanisabaddog said:

Some people don't want to stand which is why they bought a seat. 

@Nik Vawnwhere exactly are you in the ground? Surely this isn't the whole of the Thorpe section? 

The club need to update this as the Thorpe Corner does not stop where it is shown on the plan. When safe standing was first mooted we did not think we would be affected as we looked at this plan, which suggested to us only the Snakepit corner would be affected...........

[Big Vince 420]

3 minutes ago, Robert N. LiM said:

People are missing the big picture here. The shoddy, on-the-cheap nature of the installation is clearly a sign that the dilapidated old City stand is soon to be upgraded courtesy of the Attanasios. No point wasting money on doing it properly when the whole thing is going to be replaced in eighteen months or so. Hopefully they'll pull the Barclay down too and replace it with a Dortmund style Yellow Wall of uninterrupted safe standing (with all the current Barcaly corporate stuff relocated to the new Delia and Michael Main Stand). To finish it off, in the centre of the new Barclay should be a sort of cockpit where the drummer can go, with acoustic baffles all round him to project the sound out onto the pitch.

All hail our new overlords.

Acoustic baffles. What a thought!

[Big Vince 420]

4 minutes ago, shefcanary said:

You might be on to something here. Piiss off as many of the City Stand season ticket holders as possible to encourage them either to relocate to the South Stand or not to renew, leaving it easier to relocate the rump and crack on with the demolition and re-build. 

Don't they spend most of their time dodging coffins anyway?

[Big Vince 420]

8 minutes ago, Mr Angry said:

Back in January 2017 a survey of Liverpool fans showed that 83% supported safe standing at their ground.

So your comment about respecting the Hillsborough victims has no relevance.

You've heard of lies, damn lies and statistics?

The boy Forson was recruited on the basis of stats, but all of it overlooked that he was four foot tall and eight stone.

[Sox 1 0]

1 hour ago, Nik Vawn said:

Thanks for that, it’s not so much me but my Mrs. she isn’t very tall and if people in front chose to stand, which they will be fully entitled to do, then she ain’t going to see much even if she stands herself. 

I am in lower Barclay, I don't think the club put much effort into facilitating than change either. I understand people wanting to stand, but like you, my partner is short too, but all we were offered as alternatives were two seat right at the back in the corner of Upper Barclay. There are probably people in Upper Barclay that would like to swap  but the club made no effort to organise anything like that!

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,215]

23 minutes ago, Robert N. LiM said:

People are missing the big picture here. The shoddy, on-the-cheap nature of the installation is clearly a sign that the dilapidated old City stand is soon to be upgraded courtesy of the Attanasios. No point wasting money on doing it properly when the whole thing is going to be replaced in eighteen months or so. Hopefully they'll pull the Barclay down too and replace it with a Dortmund style Yellow Wall of uninterrupted safe standing (with all the current Barcaly corporate stuff relocated to the new Delia and Michael Main Stand). To finish it off, in the centre of the new Barclay should be a sort of cockpit where the drummer can go, with acoustic baffles all round him to project the sound out onto the pitch.

All hail our new overlords.

Would explain why our rails weren't finished off during the close season or during the international break.......unless the intention was to make all of the Thorpe Area safe standing...........

[Nik Vawn 344]

19 minutes ago, shefcanary said:

You might be on to something here. Piiss off as many of the City Stand season ticket holders as possible to encourage them either to relocate to the South Stand or not to renew, leaving it easier to relocate the rump and crack on with the demolition and re-build. 

Not sure if that was done deliberately but well done if it was 😀

In any event there is nowhere else for my "rump and crack to be relocated"!!

[nutty nigel 7,890]

2 hours ago, A Load of Squit said:

Don't forget the people standing at the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms. Patriots to the core, not a Socialist in sight.

All for £8.

[A Load of Squit 6,259]

1 minute ago, nutty nigel said:

All for £8.

Big Vince needs a safe space he can afford. 

[Matt Juler 208]

When first announced, I'm certain that NCFC said that it would be new Ferco rail seats installed, not just some glorified yellow painted scaffold poles. 

[essex canary 610]

4 hours ago, TIL 1010 said:

Somebody will be along to lay the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of a highly paid female executive director don't you think @GMF ?

However this is poor form by the club.

Perhaps no need. It seems I am no longer ahead of the game, everyone else is catching up.

[TIL 1010 5,228]

3 hours ago, Robert N. LiM said:

People are missing the big picture here. The shoddy, on-the-cheap nature of the installation is clearly a sign that the dilapidated old City stand is soon to be upgraded courtesy of the Attanasios. No point wasting money on doing it properly when the whole thing is going to be replaced in eighteen months or so. Hopefully they'll pull the Barclay down too and replace it with a Dortmund style Yellow Wall of uninterrupted safe standing (with all the current Barclay corporate stuff relocated to the new Delia and Michael Main Stand). To finish it off, in the centre of the new Barclay should be a sort of cockpit where the drummer can go, with acoustic baffles all round him to project the sound out onto the pitch.

All hail our new overlords.

If the Main Stand is renamed from being The Geoffrey Watling City Stand it will be a travesty.

[Nik Vawn 344]

24 minutes ago, TIL 1010 said:

If the Main Stand is renamed from being The Geoffrey Watling City Stand it will be a travesty.

The Travesty Stand ......it doesn't have the same Community Club feel about it!

[daly 550]

4 hours ago, Big Vince said:

Never seen anyone standing at any theatre, cinema or the like.

If anyone stands up in the South Stand they find a walking stick or a zimmer frame up their jacksie

[Big Vince 420]

22 minutes ago, Nik Vawn said:

The Travesty Stand ......it doesn't have the same Community Club feel about it!

I hate all this community club nonsense. It is just socialist claptrap. We should be aiming for much higher things, tangible objects made of silver, the Santiago Bernabeu stadium et al.

[Kingston Yellow 259]

5 hours ago, Big Vince said:

Should never be going back to standing anyway. It is an anachronism and should have been left in the past out of respect to the Hillsborough victims. Seating is better, safer and more civilised. You don't go to the theatre to stand up and the ancient Greeks never envisaged standing so I don't see why you should want to stand. Only yobbos would want to do so as it feeds into their yobbo behaviour.

I’ve never read a more ridiculous post. And I remember 1st Wiz. Often have a fair amount of sympathy with your views, but you’re completely out of touch on this.

[littleyellowbirdie 3,128]

6 hours ago, Nik Vawn said:

Not a problem…..unless someone is hitting it with a big mallet !!!

What about asking if you can be moved to the front of the seated section and your rail seat unlocked?