The Council paid £5m to build the stand. They've contracted out the catering facilities presumably to reap some return. So, it's either expensive food & drink or an embarassing eyesore for another decade. No-one else was available to plough the £5m into the stand unfortunately. You'll get in back in reduced council tax

i for one like the new stand, much much better views, its nice to be sat behind the dugouts again, thats were i used to sit at thrummers

Also good to be able to see the blue and whites of the players eyes as they come off, and give the ref a boo too!

Think that the new stand does need some atmosphere, that will come with time, people are getting sued to sitting there, finding there new seats, new places to sit, getting acostomed to new faces.

setteling in to a new seat takes some time!

Why would they get sued? No win no fee?????

Hally in stands and In radio contact with Calland on sideline makes sense. But shouldn't Calland have the radio and Bally and Proctor run on to the pitch? Gonzarlez is the stats man so he shouldn't be on the radio.

No. I think Bally should be in the stands, Ned and Cov run on the pitch, Flemmo and Gonzales have a radio each and Hall should be stats man but stand on the pitch too. Proctor can have the radio in the second half and stand behind the posts with Matt (who shouldn't have a radio).

You're giving the radio to Proctor in the second half? Schoolboy error. What you want to do is give Cov the radio in the first half, he then chucks it to Gonzalez (momentum rule) in the first five minutes of the second half and then that leaves Hall & Calland free in the dugout to cut the up the oranges for the half time refreshments.

Keep it simple for God's sake