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Ali i would reccomend it! The first badger you cannot fail unless you say F*** or C*** in your assessment! I applied around clubs for volunteer work in June 2009 when i was still 15. A few clubs thought i was too young, then Whitley Bay asked if i would help them out. Obviously i jumped at the chance and it's been great since then. In November 2009 i took my 1st level. All paid for. Then in July 2010 i started my Level 2. I paid halfers with the club. You can do the level 1 without being at a club but to save you £100 and to gain the experience i would look for clubs in your area. I take it you live in Northumberland/Tyne so click on this link to help find a club http://www.northumberlandfa.com/GetIntoFootball/FindAClub/

So why haven't H&S stopped the standing there? Is it because they're top 4 clubs? Because the clubs don't officially allow it, I imagine. Have a few stewards ask a few thousand people to sit down once or twice a match and the club can claim they're policing it. So obviously don't bring it up. They tried and failed before with those leaflets last season. I imagine they will do the same half hearted attempt If we were to move. We should be ok.

So why haven't H&S stopped the standing there? Is it because they're top 4 clubs?

- Was the clubs decision to extend the family enclosure based on the fact there's a large number of people under the age of 21 and/or families sitting there? - Do the club understand the benefit that a singing section can have on performances on the pitch? - Would the club try to block any attempts by fans to set up an unofficial singing section if they're unable to support us in setting up a new one? If so, why? Are they even able to answer that? If they say "no" then it will be construed as the club giving their blessing, which won't go down well with the H&SE They're socially and professionally obliged to be negative towards the idea as public safety has to be paramount inside the stadium, even at the expense of common sense. What's dangerous about singing? You know fine well that standing goes hand in hand with any potential new 'singing section'. I know fine well? Christ, it's like talking to my bloody mother Standing will happen at football regardless of whether there's a singing section or not. The club can tell the stewards to police it as strictly as they see fit/are required and I've no doubt they will if it's that much of an issue for them. On a personal level I enjoy standing at football, mainly because it's baffling that anyone can deem it unsafe and I also find seating at football stadia incredibly uncomfortable. Unless it's upholstered, cushioned and massages your back then I don't want to f***ing know. However standing is not the be all and end all for me, I would just want to sit in an area of the ground where I wont get looked at like I'm having a w*** at a wedding if I have a singsong. That fine with you, daft lad? Standing isn't an issue tbh. If the club brings it up you could argue that the Stretford End at Man Utd are always standing. Chelsea fans are always standing. The Kop i believe always stand. So that would be my reply. Don't mention the standing though I remember when the singing section was brought in Chirs Mort said it was his intention to eventually reward the fans in the 'singing section' if it went well and to move them lower down to help generate an even better atmosphere. So in that way it could be good. BUT ONLY if i can stay with those who want to sing. I don't want those fans be dotted around and effectively lose 3000 fans worht of singing. Leazes Level 4 could be good as there's always empty seats there And if it became the new singing section it's rarely in camera view anyway. Upper Gallowgate is ok. No camera view, more noise from roof. Personally i'd prefer Leazes 4 or the Strawberry Corner. For watching the match i love the corner view fwiw

I'm just talking about banter. Not wasting all my energy watching the away fans.

For noise? probably. For view? no. Banter with away fans? Yes. It's a tough one. I'll be a sheep

A few people i am friendly with who have seaosn tickets are really warming to him like

Including what Pav has said. I'm getting sick of becoming frienndly with people around me only for them to be moved again :/ Yes you can get the supporters numbers of those immediatley around you etc. But not for all the people you regulalrly have seen over the past decade and say a quick hello to on the way to your seat.

Good luck. Someone on my uni course got into the Foundation after the tutor put a word in for him. He didn't put a word in for anyone else, which has caused a bit of a rift. Keith Douglas?

Can we make a poll for those in Level 7 asking where they will prefer to move? It will jsut make things easier for all of us. I'd rather not be at the other end of the ground to where all the noise is. If most Leazes Cornerers are moving to the Gallowgate Upper Tier i would most liekly move there too.

Doing my Recruitment Day for the Foundation in a few weeks. Having to do a session infront of the coaches at the Training Academy. Bit nervous like!

I laughed Ditto. I'm confusing myself now

Ah but it's all great news according to some on here. Dispanding the corner stops the origins for the FCB chants and saves stewarding costs for them. Yup. If we'd all sat down and played nice, we wouldn't have got moved. We wouldn't have pulled back from 4-0 to draw 4-4 with Arsenal either, but never mind that ALL HAIL LEVEL 7 - SAVIOURS OF THE DAY! FOR IT WAS THEY ALONE WHO SLAYTH THE MIGHT DRAGON! NAY NOT THE ARMOURSMITH WHO CRAFTED THE SHIELD THAT DEFLECTED THE FIRE AND CLAWS... NAY, NOT THE SWORDSMITH WHO CRAFTED THE SWORD THAT DOTH PIERCE THE HEART OF THE BEAST... NAY, NOT THE PEASENTS BELOW WHOM SWEAT TIRELESS TO FARM THE LAND TO FEED... FOR THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE HERO IN THE LAND... Basically. Chris wtf is that That's me thinking - wtf bowlingcrofty. It sounds like he's trying to claim only level 7 are the only people in the whole of SJP who sing and provide atmosphere. I know -.- It just made me laugh And i was enquiring into the goings on of your mind

Ah but it's all great news according to some on here. Dispanding the corner stops the origins for the FCB chants and saves stewarding costs for them. Yup. If we'd all sat down and played nice, we wouldn't have got moved. We wouldn't have pulled back from 4-0 to draw 4-4 with Arsenal either, but never mind that ALL HAIL LEVEL 7 - SAVIOURS OF THE DAY! FOR IT WAS THEY ALONE WHO SLAYTH THE MIGHT DRAGON! NAY NOT THE ARMOURSMITH WHO CRAFTED THE SHIELD THAT DEFLECTED THE FIRE AND CLAWS... NAY, NOT THE SWORDSMITH WHO CRAFTED THE SWORD THAT DOTH PIERCE THE HEART OF THE BEAST... NAY, NOT THE PEASENTS BELOW WHOM SWEAT TIRELESS TO FARM THE LAND TO FEED... FOR THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE HERO IN THE LAND... Basically. Chris wtf is that

Apparently Where to people do that now on a regular basis? Appart form those who have the balls to not feel like knackers before feeling to embarassed too continue as they realise they're the only ones. Where you hear this?

Ah but it's all great news according to some on here. Dispanding the corner stops the origins for the FCB chants and saves stewarding costs for them. Yup. If we'd all sat down and played nice, we wouldn't have got moved. We wouldn't have pulled back from 4-0 to draw 4-4 with Arsenal either, but never mind that Basically...

Couldn't give a toss

This completely. I've been up there since 2001/02 when i was only a bairn. Going to be hard for me. So many memories. Yes the Gallowgate may improve but it would be great if we could ALL just transfer there if we want to. This means the atmosphere is kept. Otherwise i can see everybody moving into different seats and the atmosphere being dead.

Only problem with the upper Gallowgate for me is i like to see the whole ground. Up there your view is a bit restricted. Secondly the club should really think about making a new singing section. There are always empty seats in the lower levels of the North West Corner i think it is? Infact Generally the Leazes has empty seats here and there. And of course the price for a lad at school is going to be steep :/ I'm not sure at all

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I spy a burnt Graeme Swann. Middle far left

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