Quote ="SmokeyTA"Your problem is, people do care. They do care and they don’t attend. Clubs in poor grounds get poor crowds. They then cant afford to spend the cap, this means they aren’t successful on the field, they don’t attract fans and the cycle goes on.
Minimum ground standards exist because if they didn’t, people wouldn’t attend.'"
The total mix of what does or doesn't attract fans should be a matter for the clubs. The people running the clubs want big crowds just like everyone else so if certain standards are required to achieve good attendance they'd be sensible to aim for those standards.
Incidentally, speaking as a Wigan fan, I think Headingley is the "best" ground in the League, brilliant atmosphere and why I nearly always get off my backside to make the trip there. But nobody would rate it technically as high as the DW ( which often has a very flat atmosphere ).
Why should the League be best placed to decide on behalf of the clubs what is the best way to attract fans? Leave it to the clubs. As the other poster said, safety and access are the only things that ought to be imposed. Less "central planning" - especially when the talent of the central planners is so limited. Same applies to the cap. Get rid. All the League needs to do is impose tough squad limits to stop a hyper-rich club stuffing the bench and the squad with top players to deprive the rest of the comp of their services.
