New seating at another Premier League ground

[ClaretTony]

Not just us putting new seats in. This is Molineux.

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[evensteadiereddie]

Is that a potential standing area, too ?

[Bordeauxclaret]

Good idea that. Thinking about the future.

[ClaretTony]

Is that a potential standing area, too ?

You can’t have standing areas but you can now put these seats in. Wolves are installing them in the area where people tend to stand.

[Claretmatt4]

If you do sit down would the bar not obscure your view?

[ClaretTony]

If you do sit down would the bar not obscure your view?

No, doesn’t obscure the view.

[wilks_bfc]

If you do sit down would the bar not obscure your view?

I don’t think so
The bar is the same height as the back of the seat

[Bordeauxclaret]

I wonder if we even considered it?

[South West Claret.]

Seems like a very good and pragmatic idea if you “have” to replace any seats.

Have we done the same in the Cricket Field stand?

[jrgbfc]

I wonder if we even considered it?

Doubt it, that would require a bit of forward thinking by the Board.

[taio]

Unnecessary additional cost and time when there's no guarantee standing will be permitted. If and when that happens hopefully there will be major ground development being planned, especially if we continue to be in the PL.

[ClaretTony]

Unnecessary additional cost and time when there's no guarantee standing will be permitted

Permitted or not, people stand and that makes it safer.

[taio]

Permitted or not, people stand and that makes it safer.

My point still stands especially just doing the away end.

[Bordeauxclaret]

We’ve not just done the away end.

[taio]

We’ve not just done the away end.

Then I am wrong.

[Rick_Muller]

I understood that it required specific angle and spacing to be safe, and that our stands don’t meet the requirements for them to be installed. I’m sure I read that on here somewhere...

[Claretforever]

Then I am wrong.

We have only put traditional plastic seats into the away end, which seems a waste to me. We’d have been better off replacing the Jimmy Mac lower with those.

The areas at Wolves and spurs are sold as seats, with the seats installed as ‘seats incorporating barriers’, rather than rail seating. The down side is that the seats cannot be locked up, and take too much space up so you’d never fit two people between barriers should the le eventually allow.

The upside being that you have a proper, but unofficial, ‘safe’ standing area. I don’t see that being a waste of money at all.