by muirinho »
12 Mar 2019 13:29
Old Man Andrews Not true. The rest of the ground filled up very quickly for this one so people had no choice but to sit in the south. Lets see how it is against Preston without a free beer offer. If it is anywhere near 500 I will concede.
That's not true, Plenty seats available in Upper West and North, so it's not because people have nowhere else to go. If it's being seen as a good alternative to East, when East is full, then it's definitely not the failure you would like it to be.
Bring a mate tonight is probably more significant. One of the things I think is good about the unreserved seating in South Stand is it makes it easy to organise a group of friends to sit together for one -off games, when only some of them have Season tickets.
What we have with South Stand is the closest equivalent to old-style terracing that you can get in a stadium like the Madejski.
It's not for me, as a lot of matches I attend on my own, so like the "comfort" of knowing who is going to be around me.
But I genuinely cannot see why people hate it so much. Especially since a lot of those people, in other respects, would spend a lot of time moaning about how football isn't like it used to be.