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Any word on whether it's going to be ready or not? seatbooker looks like it'll be sold out, or not far off in there

I really hope so. The atmosphere is non existent without it.

Does that mean I'll need to get a ticket before matchday?  :evil:

 Well on Tuesday, it looked like it was all about some pointless little barrriers being set into the front......maybe 20% had been completed.

  3 days for the remaing 80% and time for the cement to dry.......eusssssh(sharp intake of breath)..........sorry more than my jobs worth

I passed there about 12.30 and there was still welding going on

be a typical STFC farce if it wasnt ready .. atmosphere is DEAD without the TE

I asked in the ticket office at lunchtime and all I got was

"Well they're still working on it"

Maybe they'll chuck the t.e.'ers on the Stratton bank if it's still closed.

If I can't sit in my seat I'll walk through their wet cement and write 'cunts' in it.

are the barriers being put in because of the mindless fans who stand down the front causing obstructions?
if so its their faults nobody elses.
if the barriers are not being fitted for that reason then i'd blame stfc

I think they are to stop sussex falling down the stairs and rolling over the top onto the pitch

Correct Arriba!!  I asked the question of a staff member whilst passing earlier, he also told me that the welding will not be finished but that the Town End will be open to all those who had already purchased tickets.  Apparently the barriers are for the fans' safety and the club knew about this a couple of years ago!!

I don't think anyone will argure against health and safety of the fans being paramount. It's a shame that the work wasn't done a couple of weeks earlier.

Still, one game in the Arkells is hardly the end of the world

i got marched down from the arkells into the nw tuesday night via the townend. it's just some black barriers at the front row of seats, to keep that gangway open i presume and stop people rushing to the front.

by tuesday night, they'd put up a bit of yellow tape and a few rails were lined up in place leaning against seats.

i guess they hired the aussies who did wembley

I saw you being marched away  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

sonic the hooligan eh

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Two classics from Birdy in this thread,i vote it should be made a sticky :D

I'll be happy so long as the town end riff raff is kept out of the south stand.

why exactly do you need a barrier to stop people from getting to the barriers?  Isn't that what the barriers are for in the first place, to act as a barrier?

H&S has gone nuts.

 :mrgreen:  8)

I wonder how many weeks of making people pay extra to go in the other stands we will have?

so yes or no? wouldn'tbe the end of the world if everyones put on the bank, but if it's arkells and south stand i'll be fuming,

Bank is for away fans only this season.

No town end = no heart and soul.

no woman = no cry

i was told in the ticket office at 5 oclock yesterday it's definately open - good job too cos it was like a morgue tuesday

:beers:

Its the green coat that does it.