Clubs have gone down the cheap tickets in recent years and crowds are still going down, there us a big problem in dropping attendances throughout the game selling cheap tickets just means the oeople who are already going to go just get a cheap ticket, and hardly anymore people go. The constant swapping and changing of formats and gimmicks gave caused so much damage to the game it may take 10- even 20 years to recover. If we want yo sell the game like cheap tacky pubs with £2.50 a pint of fosters signs outside they all you get is cheap tacky sports and cheap tacky fan base.

St Helens and Warrington have better stadiums?really?

I “printed at home “ for free mate, but it’s still 20% more than it was last season. Leeds are sending out a direct message, not a subliminal message. What they are basically saying is “we are giving you an inflation busting rise and if you don’t like it or can’t afford it then don’t come”. Plenty won’t come. It’s as much about the club’s disregard for the less well off as the prices themselves. As for “the match day experience”, who do you believe really goes with any serious regard for it? Tell the guy on the breadline that he won’t see any dancers or jugglers before the game but he’ll save £20 to take his family to Headingley and he will snap your hand off. We go to watch the rugby, simples. The proof of the pudding will ultimately be in the eating, and not necessarily this season. Plenty have got on board this season for the novelty value of the new stand. Give it another 12 months, another poor playing roster, novelty values waning, another price increase, and we could be in 11,000 average territory.

On the gate ticket prices went up to £22 in 2014 and were then frozen for a number of years. Going back to then the cumulative increases have been 3.5% a season (compounded). This is above inflation but not crazy given the amount of money invested - and the massive improvement - in facilities.

There’s no doubt the facilities have been massively upgraded, question will be, are people willing to pay for it? Most go for the rugby, not to stand (or sit) in plush terraces or seating.

I hope it works out, but given those prices it could easily backfire.

Quality costs!anyone wanting to watch in dire surroundings has plenty of choice locally,big problem will come if United get promoted.

I'll believe it when I see it

From where I was sat at the far end of the South Stand the Carnegie seats seemed to be virtually full.

Agree 100%. It's highly likely to unless the club can find a way to replace those fans who find themselves priced out. They might recoup that cash through corporates although even those would be an easier sell if the rest of the ground isn't half empty.

They were - not sure where the idea they weren't is coming from tbh.

First time I’ve been to both those stadiums this year and I was wuite dissapointed with them, Headingley IMO is far superior than those stadiums.

Absolutely!The South Stand cost the same as the whole of the Halliwell Jones!

There were plenty of empty seats in the Carnegie , and there will be plenty more as the season goes on if pricing stays the same and we get similar performances on the field .

That's where the plan fails.
Quality product, with that shower of e that turned out on Friday, embarrassing.
Empty, shiny, brand spanking new stands from Easter onwards.

It looked pretty well populated to me. Not full but I’d probably say 3/4’s full.