Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Exactly right. You can't vote for "all standing", so why should those who choose to sit vote to deprive those who prefer to stand?
The "all seater" option is a bad idea and we don't need all-seater stadia in our sport. Doing away with large standing areas can only harm fan interaction, atmosphere and crowd noise.
I fear though that the die is already cast, and all-seater is inevitable. If for no other reason than it assists use for "other sports" especially those where segregation is the thing.
I also think limiting the size to 18,000 is incredibly short-sighted. It's only a moment ago that we had 23K in for Leeds games and we shoot ourselves in the foot if we deprive ourselves of the opportunity for bumper gates. I'd have thought that a capacity of at least 20K should be the aim, and I'd personally go for no less than a 22K stadium.'"
A point which seems to have been missed by Ryan Duckett is that every 1500 seats cost around 1 million in build costs. So to add 3 to 4 thousand extra seats wold cost another 3 million.