Agree that we need a few more sell outs before we think of expanding. It is a significant investment and you need certainty that it's going to pay back gicen that margins are pretty tight. I'd put a lot of the current interest down to Chris Sandow and the brandof rugby that he brings, shows that a good marquee player can be a really good investment (assuming you don't pay silly money).

Ah, but when we win every one of our games this year it will be absolutely heaving.

Fill in the NW with seating but take part of the existing West stand. That would also make use of the West which is a white elephant - it's never full of away supporters and looks bad on the telly. That wouldn't cost much surely.

I've stood on the West many many times.
Never seen serious trouble just banter.
Only once has things been nasty and that was a couple years ago v Widnes...and I blame a steward for that.

There is always the option of a flexible barrier in the west.
Basically if it holds 3k and 2k opposition fans turn up then the barrier goes up 1/3 of the way across the stand from top to bottom.
Actually given that it's actually 2 barriers with 2 m between them and stewards in the middle, there wouldn't be 1/3rd wire fans there but not far short.

Fishing nets seem to do the job at Hull.

Adding to the moveable barrier idea, fill in the SW corner under the screen so that it actually joins up with the South Stand.