As is the crap atmosphere at most all seater stadiums!

Can't believe this will be the last season with the South Stand, and probably the last season with the unique Headingley atmosphere.

You are aware you will still be able to stand in the south stand right?

I think what we are seeing now are just the first artist impressions and there will be more images while planning is being sought .I am sure when it's all completed there will be stuff both inside the stadium and out to remind people where they are

Yes I am. What an inane question.

any murals monuments , etc should not be just of the superleague era or the treble and statue should still be jh not ks

warringtom from their board have given away 7 coaches not sold them

Of course the JH statue has already begun ,the foundation has donated £5000

then we don't need another , rest could be portraits like the cricket museum

Why is John Holmes more worthy of a statue than Sinfield?
Sinfield is the club's most successful captain ever & the club's all-time leading points scorer?
What more could anyone ask of him?

Whilst only first artist impressions I'd be surprised if the outside changed from those designs, a mostly blank outside with just a Rhinos and Carnegie crest stuck on the outside. The Carnegie Stand is exactly that, but that's fine as it has other uses so you want it to be smart/understated. The South Stand is for your fans only and ones who are clearly into atmosphere so doesn't have to be.

Look at the likes of Wigan and Hull's ground from the outside, just bland exteriors with the odd club crest here and there and no character on the outside.

^This^

Well one reason for the John Holmes statue came from his untimely death a few years ago and the club then decided as a tribute to commission a statue to the man inline with the new south stand ,but then everything was put on hold otherwise there would be a new south stand with a statue of John Holmes therefor all to see .surely your not going to decry a person who is dead and this de is ion was made long ago.any way now the John Holmes statue will come from voluntary donations

looks like I was right all along. Someone at the planning dept has received a nice fat envelope from someone on the cricket side to push through plans for a bigger South Stand in order to appease the Rhinos for a reduced, redeveloped North Stand. Funny how Rhinos were knocked back on a smaller South Stand redevelopment a few years back eh ? The Ghost of '99 must be spinning in his grave What about the residents now YCCC have pitched in, sod 'em, different story now.

This is an absolutely f*****g appalling decision. The sleeve is sacrificing the traditions of this club, the wishes of Southstanders and the atmopshere of the best ground in rugby for a few extra bob. Disgraceful.

This will KILL the atmosphere. You need sound to be created in a tight space from which it can fan out - the back of the SS is *brilliant* for this. What we see every time we go away to an uncovered stand or one with a much higher roof is that it's really bloody difficult to get the atmosphere up because the amplification effect is smaller and people can't hear you.

If this gets built, you'll have the few of us at the back of the SS currently there trying to keep the atmosphere up, the usual kiddies down the front whose parents don't like them hearing 'naughty words' and the thermos-and-blanket brigade in the back who've been displaced from the Main Stand.

If GH is determined to do this then he needs to get a roof on the West Terrace pronto, f**k the away fans off to the Carnegie terrace and those of us who still want to ensure Headingley is the best home ground in rugby still can.

If those goes ahead it'll be a great loss to Leeds Rhinos, and a crying shame for rugby league as a whole.

Come on guys, the old southstand is great but times move on and you have to move with them.I bet many of the Saints,Wigan, Wire and Hull fans miss their old stadiums since moving into the new flat packs and shared football stadia, i know i loved going to all those grounds for the atmosphere back in the day.At least we get to stay where we are for years to come.

I'll definitely give it a go but doubt I'll bother doing the 190 miles for "home" games that I currently do if the fare on offer - and I include the match day atmosphere with this - is diminished. Much easier to take the TV option. But who knows, it may still easily surpass the plastic stadia days out.