Safestanding Survey

Please give us your view on safestanding at Football by taking just 1-2 minutes to complete the Barclay End Projekt's survey.

We want to take this to the club, but first we want to have figures about OUR fans, and how WE as a majority fan base feel about it.

For those of you unfamiliar with safestanding, we are not calling for a return of the 80's terracing, we want the Rail Seats that are commonly used in Germany.

A rail seat is a high backed seat with an attached railing which is at waist height for the person behind, meaning that crowd surges from the old days stay in the past, and we also eliminate the shin high (and lower at some grounds) trip hazards from the seats in front.

The seats are locked into an upright position, unless the game warrants an all seated approach, e.g Champions League or Internationals (doesn't affect us greatly at present obviously)

Rail seating will allow people to have the CHOICE to stand in an area designated for doing just that. No more Stewards telling people to sit down, no more arguments between fellow fans about people standing in front of someone who wishes to sit.

We would want an area of the ground around 10% to be converted (most likely to be the lower Barclay) to allow for standing in a designated area which would help generate more atmosphere and an increased capacity, without grand scale ground development work, meaning 5200 standing fans in the current 3000 seated area (The Safety regulations known as the Green Guide states that for every 10 seated fans clubs could allow 17-18 standing spaces).

Its not just about atmosphere, The club could potentially lower admission prices and still make a profit.
(ticket prices assumed as an average ?30, with a 33% reduction with standing)

3000 x ?30 = ?90,000
5200 x ?20 = ?104, 000

We believe the installation of the standing for this area to cost around ?250-300k, to put that in perspective we shelled out the same sum for the goal line technology in the summer, something we'll never make a return on.

So with a profit of ?14k per match over 19 games of a premier league season.....it will be all but paid for!

Lord Justice Taylor reported that fans would get used to sitting at football, a quarter of a century later, we're still standing in our thousands every week, all over the country. Why not let us do that, within ground regulations and MOST IMPORTANTLY, SAFELY!

Cheers
Thomo (Barclay End Projekt)

Please complete our survey here...... User Posted Link

Posted By: Thomo, Dec 31, 13:10:08