I usually go to five or six practices, and liked the bleachers. I would have liked to see them build permanent stands as those bleachers were old ones with no aisles and were kind of slapped together. I think it was a bad call letting people bring their lawn chairs along as maybe that’s going to just get in the way. I have usually spent all time in the VIP area next to the media spaces, and am not sure they will even have that this year. Generally speaking though, when changes in fan experience have been made that weren’t perfect, the Bucs have done well to correct them…just sometimes not as quickly as we’d like.
At first I didn’t like it but I’m willing to give it a chance to be able to roam around the field. If the players have to practice in the heat I think the “real fans” should suffer as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the Pepin Rood days, there were the massive bleachers of a college soccer stadium, plus you could walk around two sides of the field to watch practice on the second field. But once any amount of people arrived, standing on two sides of one field became too crowded to really see anything, unless you were in the first row.
July 4th, 2018 at 6:19 am
Is this a real thing??? Ummmm, weird
July 4th, 2018 at 7:06 am
Getting rid of the covered bleachers is a terrible idea.
Shade is much more important for fans at TC than being able to “roam around the practice fields”.
July 4th, 2018 at 7:14 am
I usually go to five or six practices, and liked the bleachers. I would have liked to see them build permanent stands as those bleachers were old ones with no aisles and were kind of slapped together. I think it was a bad call letting people bring their lawn chairs along as maybe that’s going to just get in the way. I have usually spent all time in the VIP area next to the media spaces, and am not sure they will even have that this year. Generally speaking though, when changes in fan experience have been made that weren’t perfect, the Bucs have done well to correct them…just sometimes not as quickly as we’d like.
July 4th, 2018 at 7:05 pm
It’s too damn hot for that.
July 5th, 2018 at 9:27 am
At first I didn’t like it but I’m willing to give it a chance to be able to roam around the field. If the players have to practice in the heat I think the “real fans” should suffer as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 5th, 2018 at 9:58 am
In the Pepin Rood days, there were the massive bleachers of a college soccer stadium, plus you could walk around two sides of the field to watch practice on the second field. But once any amount of people arrived, standing on two sides of one field became too crowded to really see anything, unless you were in the first row.
July 5th, 2018 at 2:59 pm
Pick
Getting rid of the covered bleachers is a terrible idea.
Shade is much more important for fans at TC than being able to “roam around the practice fields”.
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Think there’s anything to that? Maybe they don’t want people to stay very long, or come at all