City have today announced that they are getting behind the safe standing in football campaign in principle, and if the law was changed would begin conversations with the SMC & Council.

Hopefully the law gets changed and we get both ends behind the goals converted to the new terracing, giving plenty of room for those who want to stand or sit.

It won't happen, so don't get too animated about it.

The only way the bunch of idiots currently in charge of the country would consider changing the legislation, is if one of their backers told them they could make a pile of money from the deal.

I'm no construction expert, but the dimensions of all the concrete would have to be changed, wouldn't it? Can't see it happening anyway.

Earlier on this year I was invited to a safe standing exhibition by the chairman of Hull City official supporters club and passed it on to Pete Allen, FC voices etc, as I couldn't make it. The gist of the matter is that it is feasible to have standing areas, as they do in stadia across Europe, without having any constructional restraints. The standing areas would be small, maybe 1,000-2,00 places and would obviously necessitate the removal of some seating and the installation of some crush barriers. The section at our ground being considered/looked at was the middle to top tier of the east stand either side of the half way line. It could happen, Aston Villa are at the forefront of this move and the signs are that it may well be trialed in the very near future.

so citys going to talk to the smc does that mean the allams are going going to talk to themselves? Seriously thouugh if supporters what a standing area why not lets be honest standind already excits in all seater stadiums mostly at football matches Watching sheff weds v leeds on sky friday night im sure nobody was sat behind both goals

Fc Voices did indeed attend a roadshow where a section of the proposed terracing was displayed. It is not a question of open terracing with crush barriers as was the traditional lay out but a sort of caged construction where each row is made up of tip up seats on a high frame which acts as a Crush barrier for the folks in the row behind. It would work well for those who wanted to stand and predominently be for them because those who wanted to sit would either have their view block by the bloke standing in front or would have to watch through the mesh of the barrier in front of them.

having watched the progress of the idea closely as Cod'ead says it appears that this government don't have that much appetite for the issue and are probably put off somewhat by the recent Hillsboro anniversary and revelations. However it would work and activists are pressing for a trial sanctioned by Government, at Villa.

If the legislation was passed then it would be passd onto local licencing authorities and the individual Clubs to make the final decision, so it is still some way off. The last I heard it was being talked about for the South stand rather than the East however and as I say in the end if it became law then the Council would not only have to agree to it as owner of the Stadium but also as licencing authority for sportsgrounds and places of public entertainment.

and also fund the developments, for that reason alone it will not happen any time soon, cutbacks and infrastructure spending on a facility used by a minority of the voters don't mix.

Is this anything more than a few people saying "it was better in my day"?

What is the actual goal of this?

Does anyone know of a single person who has stopped supporting their team because they can no longer stand up?

I reckon I could find a couple of thousand who have STARTED supporting the team because of seating.

Sitting everytime for me

Rovers are going to install drool trays and flavoured windows before the consider safe standing

Putting in a standing area is going back to the 1970's. maybe we need to reintroduce stray dogs on the pitch, like used to happen in the 'good old days'.

Will I be allowed to p*ss at the back of the stand a la Threepenny in the good old days?

COMPLETELY agree, going back to stands would be a complete backwards step and definitely falls in the nostalgia camp