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Post by DudeLebowski on Mar 24, 2017 21:45:10 GMT
Christ I hope no supporters from other clubs are reading this.
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Post by The Concept on Mar 24, 2017 21:45:14 GMT
If a club tells you in advance it is unallocated seating - then you know where you stand (or sit!) on the matter. If a club tells you in advance it operates allocated seating - then you also know where you stand on the matter.
Coventry have told us they operate an allocated seating policy; it shouldn't be hard to find that seat.
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 24, 2017 21:50:31 GMT
Correct well done Concept! Blimey what is so hard to understand about that when we have Championship aspirations? UTG!
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Post by Rex on Mar 24, 2017 22:13:59 GMT
I'm a short, no haired, small bladdered, pie eating twat. If you sit in front of me, can we swap seats? Ha, only if i can clap by patting you on the head! Depends how low down you can reach!
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Mar 24, 2017 23:23:07 GMT
Lots of cinemas I go to you just turn up and are expected to behave like an adult and sit where the spare seats are. If you get there early, you get the better seats. The only exceptions to that are places where you get to pick your seats when booking. As that isn't an option for most away matches, I don't see why you should be expected to sit in whatever crap seat you've been given next to someone you don't know from Harry who happened to be stood behind you in the club shop. But that's sometimes the case with unallocated seating isn't it? You get in the ground go and sit in a seat that's perhaps central and it gradually gets full and then at 5 to 3 some latecomers come and expect to sit where they want. There are several issues connected to the whole thing isn't there? People coming in just before the start who expect to sit where they want, people who stand throughout which can stop others from sitting down so stopping their enjoyment and the misunderstanding everyone has when someone says "you're sitting in my seat" when someone is sitting in your seat. Allocated seating would stop this. In a big stadium with plenty of seats it's not a problem but in a small stadium or a place where the stewards have no flexibility unallocated seating will always be a problem. I guess when we went to Wembley some were stuck in a crap seat because they were next to someone else in a queue but it probably didn't stop the enjoyment! Allocated seating happens all the time in the divisions above us, why are we trying to kick against the way all seater stadiums have gone? So are we really saying rules are for other people BRFC sit where we want? Crazy! UTG! Hold on I'll repeat myself but the thread is basically saying people turn up 5 minutes before kick off (that's me by the way) and cause all the problems because there seat has been taken. Um the reality is some f**king do gooder had turned up early and nicked the seat of the bloke turning up at 5 mins to. Pure logic of the stupidest bloke on here says the late arrivals haven't nicked anyone else's seats
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 23:54:14 GMT
i went to oxford my ticket said row h number 33 and i sat in that seat,it was so easy,well done oxford. I was there at 2.25 pm but if someone was sat in that seat i would have been distressed and annoyed and asked them to move. whats the issue? i dont get it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 0:09:24 GMT
i went to oxford my ticket said row h number 33 and i sat in that seat,it was so easy,well done oxford. I was there at 2.25 pm but if someone was sat in that seat i would have been distressed and annoyed and asked them to move. whats the issue? i dont get it? You'd be distressed?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 0:15:06 GMT
i went to oxford my ticket said row h number 33 and i sat in that seat,it was so easy,well done oxford. I was there at 2.25 pm but if someone was sat in that seat i would have been distressed and annoyed and asked them to move. whats the issue? i dont get it? You'd be distressed? Yes i would,its not rocket science is it? i pay £20 for a ticket and someones sat in the seat i payed for,so yes im distressed.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 0:37:36 GMT
Yes i would,its not rocket science is it? i pay £20 for a ticket and someones sat in the seat i payed for,so yes im distressed. No, it's not rocket science, I agree.
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Mar 25, 2017 2:07:20 GMT
Yes i would,its not rocket science is it? i pay £20 for a ticket and someones sat in the seat i payed for,so yes im distressed. It was THE seat you choose above all others?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 2:29:57 GMT
Yes i would,its not rocket science is it? i pay £20 for a ticket and someones sat in the seat i payed for,so yes im distressed. It was THE seat you choose above all others? no,im just an ordinary person who turns up at the match and asks the steward if we have to sit in our allocated seat or not and follows that instruction from him usually with my work mate i go with. If someones in my seat i either have to get him out or sit in another persons seat. why ?
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Mar 25, 2017 7:23:14 GMT
It was THE seat you choose above all others? no,im just an ordinary person who turns up at the match and asks the steward if we have to sit in our allocated seat or not and follows that instruction from him usually with my work mate i go with. If someones in my seat i either have to get him out or sit in another persons seat. why ? I find it very odd that someone would be distressed that they couldn't sit in a seat that they had no idea of where it was when they booked the ticket. Actually you may have paid for a f**king crap seat and if someone is say in it you could end up with a better one. I suppose it's the world we leave in today where people search for something to be worried about. Sad but each to their own
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 25, 2017 7:52:50 GMT
I've tried to stay out of the allocated seat malarkey because inadvertently, I have been forced to sit in someone else's seat because someone is sat in mine. That bit didn't bother me, but I can understand folk whom want to sit together, buying tickets together, not getting what they intended and feeling aggrieved.
My observations..
Our main dribuild stand is allocated seat only. Every time I have been in there, I've never seen or heard of problems. Even though it's sometimes seemingly full capacity.
Yet..
Sheff Utd away stood up all through match. As did Walsall (on the side). Both were seats that I had bought but were not allocated when I arrived. No one was ever sat behind me, so I obscured no view.
Scunthorpe was unallocated seating.
All these matches passed off peacefully, with a good atmosphere generated and mature approach to seating.
The issue with Cov has been super over analysed. Their ground holds way more than demand. There really shouldn't be an issue. Everyone knows we're the best supporters in the land, just account for 5000 Gas travelling and if you want a ticket in advance, fine, otherwise pay on the day and sit where you want.
So my conclusion is the problem is people. If you get groups or individuals that don't respect their fellow fans, that's where the problem starts. Also, if you have f*wit stewards that won't move netting to allow just a fraction more space, problems start.
Just use common sense for flip sake!
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Mar 25, 2017 8:05:34 GMT
Having thought about this 'problem' in a week where there has been a devastating terrorist attack which has catastrophically changed some people's lives forever I find it sad no pathetic that some people are worried, christ even distressed, that they may or may not get to sit in a seat that they didn't even get to choose.
So sad the 'problems' people invent in the world today.
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 25, 2017 8:36:55 GMT
But that's sometimes the case with unallocated seating isn't it? You get in the ground go and sit in a seat that's perhaps central and it gradually gets full and then at 5 to 3 some latecomers come and expect to sit where they want. There are several issues connected to the whole thing isn't there? People coming in just before the start who expect to sit where they want, people who stand throughout which can stop others from sitting down so stopping their enjoyment and the misunderstanding everyone has when someone says "you're sitting in my seat" when someone is sitting in your seat. Allocated seating would stop this. In a big stadium with plenty of seats it's not a problem but in a small stadium or a place where the stewards have no flexibility unallocated seating will always be a problem. I guess when we went to Wembley some were stuck in a crap seat because they were next to someone else in a queue but it probably didn't stop the enjoyment! Allocated seating happens all the time in the divisions above us, why are we trying to kick against the way all seater stadiums have gone? So are we really saying rules are for other people BRFC sit where we want? Crazy! UTG! Hold on I'll repeat myself but the thread is basically saying people turn up 5 minutes before kick off (that's me by the way) and cause all the problems because there seat has been taken. Um the reality is some fing do gooder had turned up early and nicked the seat of the bloke turning up at 5 mins to. Pure logic of the stupidest bloke on here says the late arrivals haven't nicked anyone else's seats What has that got to do with it? Um someone getting to the ground sitting in their allocated seat and expecting to see a game of football! If it's unallocated seating getting to the ground and sitting in a seat that's unallocated seems what we all do! What's "do-Gooder" about it?
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 25, 2017 8:46:10 GMT
Whatever views people hold today will be.a good practice perhaps for what it will be like in the upper leagues. Without getting ahead of ourselves in the Championship and above its allocated seating so we will, hopefully at some point, have to get used to it. We hear of few problems in those leagues so I guess fans know that it's allocated seating and sit or stand accordingly. Whilst I would never say fans enjoyment of the match day experience is a sideline the main thing today is beating Coventry and getting 3 points. COYB! UTG!
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Mar 25, 2017 8:51:44 GMT
Hold on I'll repeat myself but the thread is basically saying people turn up 5 minutes before kick off (that's me by the way) and cause all the problems because there seat has been taken. Um the reality is some fing do gooder had turned up early and nicked the seat of the bloke turning up at 5 mins to. Pure logic of the stupidest bloke on here says the late arrivals haven't nicked anyone else's seats What has that got to do with it? Um someone getting to the ground sitting in their allocated seat and expecting to see a game of football! If it's unallocated seating getting to the ground and sitting in a seat that's unallocated seems what we all do! What's "do-Gooder" about it? What's it got to do with it? Reread the thread apparently it's those turning up 5 minutes before kick off that cause the problems, but it's completely beyond me how someone who hasn't yet arrived has managed to sit in someone else's seat. If there is a problem with people not sitting in the correct seats it caused by those who arrive early not those arriving late. Christ and someone suggested common sense on this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 9:00:51 GMT
No allocated seating the other Tuesday at Bury, maybe Coventry should follow the two time FA Cup Winners lead.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 9:35:39 GMT
Seems to me that the best resolution is to have unallocated seating, or state that this is the case regardless of what it says on the ticket. This would encourage most to get in at a reasonable time and get seated. But to enforce the no standing rule, its this that causes most problems. No arguments, you are asked to sit once, if you do it again auto ejected. I really don't get why this is so difficult
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Post by Peter Parker on Mar 25, 2017 9:42:32 GMT
What has that got to do with it? Um someone getting to the ground sitting in their allocated seat and expecting to see a game of football! If it's unallocated seating getting to the ground and sitting in a seat that's unallocated seems what we all do! What's "do-Gooder" about it? What's it got to do with it? Reread the thread apparently it's those turning up 5 minutes before kick off that cause the problems, but it's completely beyond me how someone who hasn't yet arrived has managed to sit in someone else's seat. If there is a problem with people not sitting in the correct seats it caused by those who arrive early not those arriving late. Christ and someone suggested common sense on this thread. Its a combination of things. No clear message before hand, often poor stewarding and some fans being dicks and/or not using common sense knowing that it will be busy The first thing is the message needs to be clear from x club. Than you hope the stewards and the fans follow suit
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