I get it perfectly, you don't want the East stand to become unreserved as you will lose your seat, that's fine. If the stand was ever to become unreserved it would keep its dedicated disabled areas, obviously. When my daughter comes to the rugby we make sure we're there early enough to guarantee she will get an end seat when she arrives. I'm aware that isn't possible for everyone.

I do know The Brother, yes. But sat in the south stand I can only ever hear the North & South ends of the stand.

the east stand has more unreserved blocks than reserved!

the whole of the south stand is unreserved! plenty of seats for people to find!

Maybe we should have the stewards take these 'scroungers' to the plant room of the stadium and kept there for their crimes?

It's also not b0llox that the only noise comes from the North & South ends, as evidenced when the stand became a graveyard the year they made it fully reserved.

Somebody needs to take the shovel away from *1865* before that hole he's digging gets much deeper.

these 'scroungers' are ripping off your club remember! south stand seats 4000, east seats 6000, over half unreserved! that makes over 7000 unreserved seats! not hard to find the section they should be in is it? it says on their ticket! part blame also goes to stewards who dont do their job, was only a couple of seasons ago they asked to see your pass or tickets!

plenty of noise comes from the east reserved btw, i think your just annoyed and trying to make out it doesnt to back up your arguements!

This thread clearly has the potential to become very divisive.

As someone posted yesterday are we getting close to a situation where some people are being seen as "better" fans than others e.g.

Passholders are better fans than walk-up supporters
Reserved seat passholders are better fans than unreserved
East stand fans are better than South or West stand fans

Obviously its wrong to sit in someone's reserved seat and if they do the answer is simply to politely ask them to move. Do we need to say any more than that?

No it doesn't, but you carry on. There's even people I know who have reserved East stand seats and want it to become unreserved, one such guy has been mentioned in this thread already.

Been the way of some FC fans for years.

Why is Standee still banned?

sorry i find it hard to believe that you can judge the level of noise from the east stand reserved from the south stand




where we sit there is plenty of noise! but keep telling yourself there isnt!

if you had your way and moved all the reserved to the west stand you would be lucky to have 2000 fans in the whole east stand! wow that would be a great atmosphere!!

only one person pretentious in this thread, you!

Well it's quite easy, I can hear chav corner, but can never hear the middle section, given the middle section is closer to where I sit I reckon I should be able to hear you lot as well, shouldn't I? Btw, 10 people can sound loud if you're in the middle of it or sat right next to it.




Then why do I have conversations with people from that area who would prefer it to be unreserved as they seem to think it's like a morgue at times?



Yes, because absolutely everybody would move, wouldn't they? Plus more fans would be drawn to the area because of the increased atmosphere.

For the atmosphere I'm not just blaming the East stand, where I sit in the South is terrible too. The whole stadium is quiet a lot of the time, I'm simply suggesting a way to address the issue. As I said, plenty who are reserved ticket holders agree with me.

By making more areas unreserved you will be further restricting capacity. I dont think we should go down that road, do you?

Unless you really want the club not able to sell tickets and fill the stadium.....

To be fair it's been a while since he went off on one of his rants where he disagrees with everyone then disappears for a while

Genuine question.

Are areas being kept unreserved as a cost efficiency exercise? eg, not having to print tickets for every seat for every game when many will be unoccupied?.

Is this the case for the Derby game as well?

Any idea how much it would cost to have reserved seating for the full stadium?

We're never going to sell out 24k are we, so that's hardly a relevant argument.