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You can move fans around you want, whilst those sterile areas are in place, it's impossible to feel on top of the game like you did pre Premier League days at the DW. It's ironic that the only stand in the ground without a sterile area is by far the quietest.
Worst thing the club could do is make the South safe standing, it would kill what little atmosphere we've got left. You could fit a running track in the space between the goal and stand itself with that horrible sterile area. All the best grounds for atmosphere are those where the away fans and vocal home fans are situated in close proximity. Huddersfield have got it spot on at their place where home and fans share that one 4.5 capacity stand. Over the past few years, I've only ever been to one ground in the entire country where a home stand behind the goal has created a genuinely impressive atmosphere and that's Pompey. We can never replicate that as the South Stand is too big, doesn't have the acoustics of Fratton Park and is too far away from the pitch. Pissing money away on rail seats isn't going to change that. A far cheaper solution would be to close the South Stand all together for games like Saturday and split the North Stand.
Worst thing the club could do is make the South safe standing, it would kill what little atmosphere we've got left. You could fit a running track in the space between the goal and stand itself with that horrible sterile area. All the best grounds for atmosphere are those where the away fans and vocal home fans are situated in close proximity. Huddersfield have got it spot on at their place where home and fans share that one 4.5 capacity stand. Over the past few years, I've only ever been to one ground in the entire country where a home stand behind the goal has created a genuinely impressive atmosphere and that's Pompey. We can never replicate that as the South Stand is too big, doesn't have the acoustics of Fratton Park and is too far away from the pitch. Pissing money away on rail seats isn't going to change that. A far cheaper solution would be to close the South Stand all together for games like Saturday and split the North Stand.
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