Fantastic news.

After a 15 year absence from the south stand, I may now return with a lovely cushioned seat high up and level with halfway, well away from all the riff raff who've been stinking out that area for way too long.

Oh, and take that effin' band with you as you clear off!

It's not often I've praised him but... well done Gary Hetherington. Fantastic stuff

While it is disappointing that the south stand will now incorporate seats i think the club really had no option but to include some seats to make up for the shortfall from the main stand. The seating areas are always very popular and do deliver increased revenue for the club. I imagine that the costs would have been too substantial to increase capacity in the main stand. For me the most important thing is the redevelopment goes ahead so i will be certainly supporting it in its current guise.

Leeds is unique in that it is a thriving northern city where RL is, in business quarters, seen as the top sport in the area. I work in a profession where hospitality is a big part of it &, if I chose, could be guaranteed a seat at virtually every home game. They don't come cheap & the money men expect that to be a comfortable seat with decent food & drink thrown in. Rhinos have that huge advantage over every other British SL team; it would be financial suicide to ignore it. I choose to pay to watch most games & to stand with my friends in the south stand rather than some vacuous suit. But I recognise that if we are to grow nationally & internationally it's the only way to go. I will definitely avail myself of a seat in the south stand occasionally.

All Yorksshire County Cricket do is hold a gun to leeds council head by saying we will lose test cricket status if they dont get planning permission , sick of hearing it , the media stand is awful , i agree

The only time Yorkshire have held the council to ransom is when they threatened to up sticks and move to Durkar. If anything, the balance has shifted the other way now. What are YCCC going to do if they don't get planning permission? Chuck in playing at Headingley having leveraged themselves to the eyeballs with loans to pay for the redevelopment? Hardly likely.

They use the additional income test cricket generates for the city as a positive in their planning applications, in the same way that the RL side use the chance to host internationals and Cup semi-finals as a positive in theirs..

Both sides of Headingley had become tired and in some cases unsafe and unsuitable for the 21st century. As one of the most used visitor attractions in the city, I'd be disappointed if the council weren't at least a little flexible in ensuring it was maintained to the highest possible standard and reflected well on Leeds as a whole.

YCCC must still owe LCC quite a it too