I once read the club were thinking of commissioning a statue to John Holmes to go with the new stand.I now hope not it will cheapen his memory

Classic Hetherington - shows you a pciture of what you will get in the new southstand, but only if you sign up to be a Rhino4life and buy the super dooper season ticket with the rhinos annual and woolly hat
everyone signs up and then he shows you the real plans!



just like when he goes on an all expenses paid scouting trip to the internationals down under and comes back with the signature of someone from someone elses's academy

GH had lunch with Al Fayed last week, so we're gonna get a statue of Elizabeth Taylor instead. Apparently he's a fan.

Except some of us weren't stupid enough to sign up!



Although I agree with your point. It is naughty to have the bigger, better, posher South Stand pictures in the brochure for the season tickets.

If Leeds had spent the last two years turning away fans from their 20,000 capacity stadium then you might have a point.

When was the last 20,000 plus attendance at Headingley?

You don't spend money you haven't got on things you don't need. Leeds don't need (and are unlikely to need in the foreseeable future) a capacity of more than 21,000.

What is the foreseeable future Andy?

Every club in Super League is striving to improve crowds in the game as a whole. We had capacity crowds only 4 years ago.

We hit bad times in the economy and the drive for more fans took a backward step. I ask again do you seriously believe that these bad times will continue for ever?

As soon as the economy is back on track, the drive for bigger crowds will be there again. Although more importantly the need for corporate facilities will be there again.

We will not be in a position to knock down this new stand in a couple of years and build again. If ANY club is serious about growth aspirations and attracting income, then it needs to be better than this.

My point is, what is the point in doing this now? why not wait until the economy does pick up again and go back to the original plans? that is of course presuming that the issue here really is money.

what about the draw of the southstand, they had to make a "south stand ticket" because people were buying ground tickets and too many were trying to get in
it is the most famous and atmospheric stand in the ground for many (who knows if it will be after the build) and if it is not available how many would pay more to sit down or pay the same to stand elsewhere
i bet the southstand has sold out many times over the past few years, even when it had a larger capacity
why go for a cheap option now if the plans were there to do it properly only six months ago?

Quote RhinoNeil="RhinoNeil"What we've all been waiting for: www.therhinos.co.uk/news/16359.php? I'm disappointed. It looks like GH has took the cheapest option or has been forced to due to the height been restricted. 6.5K capacity as opposed to the 7.4 mentioned last year. 10 months to complete. Leeds not planning on moving away from Headingley during the building stage '" Oh dear... very underwhelming.. it'll look a lot better than at present thought on a postitive.. a sure sign of the hard financial times me thinks

Quote RhinoNeil="RhinoNeil"What we've all been waiting for: www.therhinos.co.uk/news/16359.php? I'm disappointed. It looks like GH has took the cheapest option or has been forced to due to the height been restricted. 6.5K capacity as opposed to the 7.4 mentioned last year. 10 months to complete. Leeds not planning on moving away from Headingley during the building stage '" Oh dear... very underwhelming.. it'll look a lot better than at present thought on a postitive.. a sure sign of the hard financial times me thinks

The last 22,000 was only in June '07. I know that's 4 years but not exactly ages ago.

To say we're unlikely to need the capacity for the foreseeable future is incredibly short sighted. What if we needed it in 2016? We'll still have this stand then!

Whatever we build now, we're stuck with for decades, and to spend £7m to reduce our capacity is total madness.

Careful with the word 'failure' Andy, it hasn't failed anything quite yet... but a few fellow engineers feel that they might lose some sleep if they give the old-girl another 'all-clear' for another year. The South Stand as reached the end of it's life and is no longer fit for purpose, structurally and otherwise. However, almost 80 years is not bad going for a structure of this kind!

So, just out of interest, is there a chance of me dying this year? Because where I stand you cant really get any further away from safety as it is

No, I can state that a catastrophic failure of the South Stand is highly unlikley... well at least for the next 12 months or so!



PS. My advice is to not jump up and down too much though, just in case!