CliftonCliff Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 RedM makes a perfectly legitimate case. The overwhelming majority of public venues I've been to address this issue by including a guide to seat numbers on signage, whether we're talking sports stadiums, concert halls or whatever. It makes access easier and frankly should be a basic requirement. It should have been provided at AG as a matter of routine, its omission is an oversight and the reluctance to correct the error is, I regrettably have to agree, not untypical of attitudes to customer service in the football industry. Those dismissing the issue as trivial are people familiar with the layout who aren't interested in looking at the question from any point of view other than their own. In fact there are a good many people on any given match day who don't know their way around. The responders who say this is unnecessary are no doubt also the ones who would be most indignant at having their match day experience disrupted by people entering a crowded row from the wrong end. We have a very good stadium we can be proud of, but it's not perfect and there are many small improvements that could be made. This should have been done in the first place and is easy to fix. Just do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 What I find odd is how the issue is just dismissed out of hand by the club. Regardless whether they think it’s an important issue or not, the club should never dismiss it altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 It would definitely help, I sit at the end of the aisle and the amount of people that walk past me & I see walk all the way to the opposite end of the aisle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgbbcf Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 i still dont understand or see the need for this. There are stewards on every entrance to every seating area. most people are ST holders so know where to go, the ones that aren't are probably only visiting once or twice, as someone else aid more of a problem is people leaving 5 minutes before the end of a game and getting in peoples rather than people being lost finding their seat, once a vist, after you found your seat you know where iti is. how many people, and how many times is this bothering people or is it just something else to blame the club for! yes some grounds/venues have it, and quite a lot don't. even with signs people would still use the wrong entrances Personally i would rather the time and effort go into something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliftonCliff Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 We can agree to differ, but much has been made on another thread of the importance of safety in crowd management. We may have a successful season (or we may not) and attendances may increase. See what happens when we get 25K + and there are more one-off spectators than there are ST holders in the stadium. In relative terms it is a very small thing to fix and will hardly divert significant resources from more important matters, and as to some stadiums having this feature and some not, that is a misleading remark. Some venues are older. Ours is new. I'd be more convinced by that argument if you could name a ground completed in the last couple of years that lacks this most basic and obvious of signs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 Gotta be honest, I couldn't tell you what block, row and seat number I sit in these days. I'm still pre decimal with my stadium geography. Dolman, Block C, Row R.... These days it's probably section 7 row 23c seat x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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