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Quote from: JD on March 16, 2023, 09:13:28 PM

Of course any work extending or even modernising the ground would get complaints from the sort of locals who buy a house near a football ground then complain there is a football ground nearby!!!

You know the sort: who buy a house by a church and complain about the bells or a house in the country and complain about farmyard noises!

Sorry but I don't agree. There's a difference between complaining about an existing chip shop and complaining about the chip shop wanting to become a drive in diner.

100%.

Desmond.

If we turn the pitch, build over the allotments and put up new stands, terraces and fan zones, does that mean the remains of that dead goat will lie outside the new ground?

Quote from: HashtagAlty on March 13, 2023, 01:49:31 PM

Quote from: Andrew Flynn on March 13, 2023, 01:42:09 PM

Terrible location. Reminded me of the AJ Bell. I've always looked for York away on the calendar as one of the more attractive days out but the scramble to get to the game in taxis cuts time in the city centre short, and makes the whole day far less appealing for future trips. Would be quite content with it being a Tuesday night away game next season, should they stay up.

I thought the ground was fine and found the away end easily. Stewards were helpful. Got served quickly. Others have pointed out the overcrowding of the top 5-6 rows of seats but I would imagine there was enough space in the away end if each fan took up one seat. It's not a failing of the ground that our fans all wanted to pile in together.

I don't think we'll ever see an all-seater Moss Lane but a new, seated pop side stand with concourse has to be on the agenda as facilities in that area of the ground are terrible, as we all know.

Of course its a falling; they removed assigned seating and had 3 stewards to monitor it.

Assigned seating wouldn’t have made a difference, you only need look at the Facebook supporters group thread to see that some fans were planning on occupying the back rows well before we were moved to the West stand.

If we all each took a seat’s worth of space, which is hardly an absurd assumption for York to make of us, I am positive there would have been no problem. If, after that, there was really no space then by all means let’s give York all the stick in the world but it’s really not their fault that we treated a seated away end like a terrace.

It again highlights that we really aren’t used to these sorts of occasions or crowds. We’ve got to police ourselves better first before pointing the finger.

And therein lies the problem with all seater grounds. This is not a problem unique to York, I've stood in allocated seats at Leeds, M'boro, Leicester to name a few. No amount of a stewarding is capable of getting everyone to sit in their seat. I have seen it tried and fail.

Footy fans stand up. Once government accept that we can move onto safe standing and remove much of the inconvenience and dangers of all seater stadia. That is slowly happening and I look forward to new builds having that incorporated at the design and planning stage.

Quote from: cheshire cat on March 13, 2023, 10:28:21 AM

I thought York was the best newbuild ground I've been to so far

Awful.........if we relocated out of town to something like that, I would find it hard to drag myself along every fortnight.

I have been made aware of trouble caused by away fans from another club in the adjacent Mega Bowl. We had a pint in there pre-match due to lack of outlets and it was full of kids parties. Alty fans are well behaved so the few who were in there were respectful of the surroundings. However I know this season that one clubs fans stood on tables chanting and the place had to be evacuated after a smoke-bomb was let off.

It's an extraordinary place for a stadium. I walked past the indoor pool and through what appears to be a library. To get things right they need to improve the signage. As there were no club officials and I looked a bit puzzled a local chap told me the way to the away end. In reality that was the long way and I could taken the short way past the indoor golf and cinema. Soft and cuddly Alty are one thing, faffing about like that with other clubs is almost certain to end in a mess.

When is the draw

15:15 today.

Anyone at home.

Came across a few gripes on the York press site about queues to get in. York need to have a review of how the ticket sales were managed / assistance to get a circa 50% capacity crowd in.