Agree with that Laura but perhaps its time all Trusts got together and lobbied the SPL to have this rule changed. Personally I believe that a dedicated standing/singing area, limited to about 300, at every ground would not present any significant safety/crowd control problems. The SPL made the rules and we've seen that these rules are changeable, i.e reducing ground capacity requirements from 10k to 6k, so lets see them give consideration to the customer and change this one.
Alex can i say that the trust movement took this on board a couple of years ago. we were asked to look at what were the important issues that fans wanted to look at and if i remember correctly top of the bill was ticketing prices. at the moment i'm not sure what stage things are with safe standing but i will find out where it sits on the agenda.
one thing's for sure, there is a supporters trust conference at the begining of june which we hope we can attend and it will certainly be brought up there in some shape or form. prob also chat about policing and stewarding too... :004: