Just wondering if the Coral Stand seating would count towards the total attendance available and if it does is it your missing 2000ish tickets.

No doubt I'll avail myself of a copy. I guess £2.50 was the price last year....that's not always any guarantee it will be the same this time round!!

I've personally always looked at the programme as one of those things that looks great and obviously a lot of time goes into it, but in reality is probably only bought by people who either collect them, do it out of tradition, or a casual fan who doesn't go very often. I myself have missed about 1 game a season for the last 15 years and I've still only ever bought about 3 programmes.

They don't really have enough in there to interest the normal fan IMO, certainly not to the tune of the same price as a pint. If the printing costs are significantly less for the paper, and the advertising revenue is higher (which I expect it would be), then I wouldn't be surprised at all if it worked out better financially. They'll certainly get the free paper out to a lot more fans than they got the programme out to, as everyone will be happy to take one when it's free. Nothing us Yorkshire folk like more than a freebie.

Whether it works or not, time will tell. It's no doubt a gamble, but one I wouldn't be that surprised to see pay off.

If you go on your own I suppose it's something to read but usually I read it back at home as you don't get the opportunity at the game. Well, that and I usually forget my glasses..

Similarly with away games, most of the reading is done on the coach coming home. Strangely, my reading glasses are part of the ritual for going away but not for home games

So it's a free newspaper rather than a glossy programme.