Right here goes an idea,
The club start working on this NOW.
Every season ticket holder in the lower tier gets sent a simple letter asking if they want to be part of the singing section.
The club will then know how many seats to allocate for the singing section. This section will be formed from the middle outwards with the HF in the middle of it.
The remaining season ticket holders would be given the chance to select their seats on length of support with certain deadlines. This would mean that nobody would be moved from the centre of the stand to the corners and also nobody would feel victimised because long term supporters would be given first choice.

The price to be paid for it?

The absolute horror of telling people (who do not own their seats) they will have to move to another seat (that they will also not own).

And only the best part of a year to come to terms with their tragic loss.

It's mental.

Yes but they may not be able to whisper to the 20th acquaintance or 3rd cousin 20 seats down or 3 rows and 7 seats away. Imagine if the whole ground was set up like that forever. Bye bye atmosphere for good.

COYP

No they won't! All they will know is how many currently in the seats under discussion want to remain.

They would then need to establish IF the HF are coming back and how many seats they need now, and they have not (as far as I am aware)responded so far to the club's statement. That would give them the number of central core seas.

Now comes the difficult part - they either have to ask people to indicate NOW if they want to move there so that they know how many others want to be in a singing section and can accommodate them accordingly when the move takes place or they will just have to decide how big the singing section will be and limit tickets sold for that area.

Of course, having done all that, and allocated any remaining seats to those ejected from their usual places, you then are left potentially with the same problem the following year if the singing section takes off and needs to expand again - or if it all falls flat and you have empty seats behind the goal (and this is a possibility if the horror that is relegation happens!)

So, maybe not quite as simple as it would seem.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

This. I'll be interested to see how the club deal with this. How many seats they allocate for the singing section and how they decide who gets those seats. Judging by this thread there are going to he a lot more people who want to join the singing section than seats available. Or are they just going to give them all to the HF and let them decide....

Does anyone here actually know any Fanatics?

I don't.

I'm told they used to drink in the Port Manor, in Norwood Junction.

But that got closed down by the crack Met Police Special Optimism Destruction Unit (SOD-U) which takes the closing of avenues of pleasure 'very seriously'.

I must admit I admire their spirit, even if they are a bit excessive at times. (That's youth for you)

Palace's atmosphere building team needs to be a blend of youth and experience. (Bert Head said something similar)

To sanitise something Ron Noades once said, we need the hard singers (regardless of which box they tick on diversity survey forms) to get us through the bleak winter games.

Anyway, the main question is: who knows a Holmesdale Fanatic?

What are they like?

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