Stadium Seating

Stadium Seating

Im sorry, but,I dont see the harm in not sitting in your own seat..? There are at least 20,000 spare.If someone wants their seat and i am in it, i will move,simple. I dont see why it has to be made into a big deal involving security? I just see it causing more trouble than it should. Security should be concentrating on keeping idiots in line, or kicking them out if they continue to behave badly, not making sure people are in the correct seat.

That's a pretty major over-reaction and going to have a significant impact on what has been achieved so far.

A mistake.

sit?

At the CCM game there where nearly 2 rows of people in my row, and during the game the guy beside me changed about 5 times, i can tell you that whilst i knew a lot of the people in my row, that isn't where there tickets where, but someone else was in there seats, and the people in there seats where there because some one else was in there seats. Its and endless game of musical chairs. The fever zone was overcrowded on Sunday. I personally don't mind being in a full row, but when its 2 people deep, with some people barely able to stand (you know who you are ) It detracts from the football, which is ultimately my reason for being there, not the drinking, not the singing or chanting(although i chant myself hoarse every game), but watching a game of football, and supporting my team.

UberGunner2007-10-24 15:28:54

I meant stand

Sorry Tony P but that seems a massive over reaction if they are going to enforce people to SIT.Dont see how you can expect the same level of enthusiasm with the chanting from  fans who are seated.

Very disappointed if that is the type of overreaction we get.Can you imagine them doing the same for the sevens.  

This is no surprise.

I'm pretty sure the emphasis is on people being in their right seat (sitting or standing) and not forcing people to sit? Or am I completely wrong?

It might work in the YF zone for seats in that aisle  but it wont work all around the 2/3rds empty stadium surely....so if I go to another aisle other than mine at the start they will say "go to correct aisle sir"..then I will be shown to my seat? and when I walk to loo or shops or go out at halftime they will make sure I go to correct aisle and seat again?..and then "police" sideways crabbing from aisle to aisle?  All in the name of taming the YF zone?

I am sure the "SIT" reference isn't literal, he basically means to make sure people are standing in there allotted space and not cramming in like battery hens.

So when i buy my ticket seperate to my group of mates i go to the football with (one of which has a season ticket...so its not like we can just buy them together), I end up sitting on my own in some random part of the ground?

I'm sure he meant STAND in our seats. Obviously, as we've all seen, many people want to be in the YF zone with us, and so they go there even if their ticket is for another part of the stadium..

Gutted my seat is in the exact opposite corner that YF is in.

But they already have season tickets, making it a bit hard to do that. Besides, the walk up gate do just give out random tickets...

This is definitely going to stop a few people coming, lots of people like to sit with their mates.

You need to take into consideration the fact that maybe his friend didn't have enough money at the time to buy a season ticket, or they became friends after he bought his season ticket, or his friend only recently started liking football. It has nothing to do with organisation and he has every right to moan. If I lived up in Wellington I'd be moaning.

This is a big mistake Tony P.

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You need to take into consideration the fact that maybe his friend didn't have enough money at the time to buy a season ticket, or they became friends after he bought his season ticket, or his friend only recently started liking football. It has nothing to do with organisation and he has every right to moan. If I lived up in Wellington I'd be moaning.

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For what it's worth, while I think this was to be expected, I think it addresses the wrong problem.

Having a relaxed approach to who sits where doesn't seemed to have caused problems.  Letting people in drunk, or letting them get so drunk that they're out of control, has been the issue.

I suspect that forcing people into the allocated seats will deplete the Feverzone, and that may have a downward spiral effect on crowd volume and, ultimately, numbers.

I think it would have been better to address the drunkeness first, and only if that didn't sort things out force the issue on allocated seating.

But we've only ourselves to blame/commend, depending on your point of view.

It will make it easier to address the problem.

It is what we asked for, deal with it and behave like real fans!!!

DialSquare2007-10-24 16:37:08

Clearly what has been happening with the seats and crowding is because everyone wants to be in the Yellow Fever section -which is a sign of how fantastic this thing has got in a really short timeframe. Sounds like we have a few teething problems but nothing that can't be sorted. People who made the commitment to the team by buying a season ticket deserve to be able to go to their seat and it be empty for them to sit in.  You feel like a real dickhead asking people to get out.

  phew, thank god for that  i couldn't sit down to watch a phoenix game i stand behind the couch at home when i watch a replay

Massive kick in the guts.....ive been trying sell the YF zone to so many work mates and other friends....now to be told you won't be able to sit with mates that have season tickets is a serious kick in the guts.....bad call!

Agree with Tegal here- surely there must be another way to solve the problem. Last couple of matches I have brought another three or four people along to the match- If I am not able to sit with them I wouldn't expect to be seeing them come any more. If they are not allowed to sit in Yellow Fever zone then I assume (with everything being fair) that security would not allow me to sit with them on (for example) the other side of the ground because it is not my allocated seat. And if this is not the case then I believe us in the Yellow Fever zone are being singled out big time.

I agree that over drinking by some (and/or small brains and arrogance) is the real issue but it won't be addressed because of the almighty dollar!

However, next season the solution is obvious get sorted early, get in front of a ticketek human and demand they 'sit' you and your mates together in the YF zone and get proof of their competence (o.k. - that's the trickty bit) before handing over your visa etc.

Guys its not like the stewards are going to walk down every row and check every ticket/seat, this is trying to stop those people that come into the YF zone to be hooligans and address overcrowding in some rows.   If you have a group of friends that want to come, make sure they all get seats next to each other then stand next to them, one extra person in a row is virtually unpolicible and frees up a seat in another row in case someone else is bringing +1 or something.

Let's make this clear.

One person threw a bottle.  This person could just as easily have been in his (or her) Season ticket seat.  Emotive crap like "those people that come into the YF zone to be hooligans" helps no one.

Please, think before you post.

If he has his season ticket and his friends don't have a season ticket then he can't sit with his friends (depending, obviously, on how stringent they are on policing who sits in their allocated seat.

This means I no longer get to sit with any of my friends. Is this only for the zone or the whole stadium?

Fully agree Hard News!

I'd say zone- but like i said before- that is singling us out something chronic for the throwing of one, maybe two bottles. This whole crowd thing has been blown way the fcuk out of proportion.