Safe standing at the Reebok?

Reebok Trotter wrote:For me, it just adds to the atmosphere. Football is all about passion. The euphoria that is generated when your team score.

This is plain daft. Why does it add to the atmosphere when you stand up? Why is the euphoria hightened when you stand up?

When you give Mrs RT one, do you do it standing up to make it better?

Of course it adds to the atmosphere..

Lofty_Love wrote:Of course it adds to the atmosphere..

Everyone keeps saying this but WHY? What can you do standing up that you can't do sitting down?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:For me, it just adds to the atmosphere. Football is all about passion. The euphoria that is generated when your team score.

This is plain daft. Why does it add to the atmosphere when you stand up? Why is the euphoria hightened when you stand up?

When you give Mrs RT one, do you do it standing up to make it better?

Any concerts better standing up, I think the same's true for football matches, the away matches are always best when everyone's on their feet singing the entire match.

How can you be against it? You can still have your seat there will just be a standing area for those who wish to .

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Lofty_Love wrote:Of course it adds to the atmosphere..

Everyone keeps saying this but WHY? What can you do standing up that you can't do sitting down?

People don't celebrate sitting down do they. So there clearly is a difference.

Someone mentioned it earlier but its the best comparison. Its like the difference between going to watch a band, the standing area is by far the best.

You feel like part of a big group/crowd instead of just individuals sitting down.

But its just common sense, its shouldn't really need justification, of course standing creates more atmosphere.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Lofty_Love wrote:Of course it adds to the atmosphere..

Everyone keeps saying this but WHY? What can you do standing up that you can't do sitting down?

Anyone who attended at Burnden on the Paddock and then compares the experience to sitting at the Reebok knows why!!

But of course Nat, you have done neither.

Natasha Whittam wrote:
When you give Mrs RT one, do you do it standing up to make it better?

I tried it once but I did my back in.


Back on topic. I can only speak from my own experience but at Blackburn and Huddersfield where we had a good away following and everyone was standing, it was so much more pleasurable than sitting down at the Reebok and freezing my plums off.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Lofty_Love wrote:Of course it adds to the atmosphere..

Everyone keeps saying this but WHY? What can you do standing up that you can't do sitting down?

A standing ovation, like those after a spectacular stage performance!!!!

Natasha, when making important business calls do you take them standing up or sat down? Only asking as the best calls are tghe ones whilst standing as it projects the voice and tone much better than when sitting down.

CEF wrote:

Anyone who attended at Burnden on the Paddock and then compares the experience to sitting at the Reebok knows why!!

But of course Nat, you have done neither.

I stood on the Burnden Terrace for many years as it was the only place my father would go, so I'm well qualified to comment on standing and seating.

When standing I would be surrounded by fat blokes with BO and terrible breath, wandering hands, shouting abuse down my ear.

When sitting in the corporate box I am in a cushioned seat, surrounded by people that take showers, wear £1000 suits, and don't need to abuse the ref for 90 minutes.

bwfc71 wrote:Natasha, when making important business calls do you take them standing up or sat down? Only asking as the best calls are tghe ones whilst standing as it projects the voice and tone much better than when sitting down.

It's a phonecall, not rocket science. I always do it sitting down.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

When sitting in the corporate box I am in a cushioned seat, surrounded by people that take showers, wear £1000 suits, and don't need to abuse the ref for 90 minutes.

What an awfully sterile environment to watch a game of football. I would rather give up going altogether than sit in a corporate box every week. Not for me.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:

When sitting in the corporate box I am in a cushioned seat, surrounded by people that take showers, wear £1000 suits, and don't need to abuse the ref for 90 minutes.

What an awfully sterile environment to watch a game of football. I would rather give up going altogether than sit in a corporate box every week. Not for me.

Couldn't agree more, I once was offered to sit in corporate box last season but declined it. It's just not the same, more often than not the fans in the boxes only go once every 10 years and sit there slating the team all the time and haven't a clue who is playing.

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aaron_bwfc wrote:

Couldn't agree more, I once was offered to sit in corporate box last season but declined it. It's just not the same, more often than not the fans in the boxes only go once every 10 years and sit there slating the team all the time and haven't a clue who is playing.

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Utter bullshit.

The people in boxes are often the most informed fans in the ground, they simply don't feel the need to hurl abuse at the ref or opposition for 90 minutes.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Utter bullshit.

The people in boxes are often the most informed fans in the ground,

HTF do you come to that conclusion ? Someones knowledge of the game has no bearing on where they sit in the ground.

I've sat in a corporate box at the Reebok. It was rubbish. The people there were more interested in what drink they could have with their meal.

Can't agree with you on that, some of the people who sit in the boxes only go because the companies they work for (who own the box) have give them tickets for the game.

In other news the hillsborough families have spoken out against it:-

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It's time they fucked off and stopped sticking their thieving noses into everything. Fucking murdering wankers.

Some of you are living in a dream world. Standing, for the most part, is shit:

1. All you stumpy gits can forget it, you're seeing nothing but the tops of heads. You'll miss 50% of all goals scored.

2. If you're tall you will continually be told to "fuck off and stand somewhere else" by the stumpy twats behind you. Eventually you will end up in the bogs, the only place you will feel safe.

3. You will go prematurely deaf. People will forever be shouting down your earhole.

4. On the rare occasion Bolton score some fat bastards at the back will see this as an opportunity to push everyone forward. You will get seriously injured, if not killed.

5. In icey weather like today the terrace will be a death trap. If Bolton score 3000 people will fall and break something. Many will never get up.

6. Don't take anything valuable, you will get robbed about three times a game. Even if you have nothing valuable, someone will still rifle through your y-fronts. And not in a good way.

Standing areas make perfect sence. Lowering the costs of tickets, creating a better atmosphere and more revenue for the club with increased attendances.

People stand at games now anyway which has its dangers. The amount of times I've had brusing on my legs because of the seat infront and nothing to hold on to, the seats are just a trip hazard.