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).

Yes, the boxes have been sold out for a while, so assuming we have paid off the corners, I can see this happening in the next few years. It's a safer bet with regards payback as they could probably being in £200k/year if they sold out of the new second tier boxes.

A box is around £15,000 per year. The maths work out quite favourably

I agree and in addition to probably the poorest cost v return on corners?

Saint's selling tickets for 15 pound in the west stand at a reduced rate

No matter how bad we may ever get i think we can be pretty much locked in on 8k core attendances (minus lower league CC games)

Shows how fickle they are, we get drubbed off them for years, game after game and we still turned up in numbers, couple of bad seasons for them and they have to sell tickets at a reduced rate because they aren't selling

One thing I didn't pick up on at first from reading it was this:

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Wonder how he was able to ascertain that? Is he just trying to add a fear factor for people to buy tickets in advance for the Saints game, or was there really that much demand for the Widnes game? If that demand is there, their thoughts about expanding the stadium may be sooner rather than later....?

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phone calls, and attempted purchases on the website after selling out perhaps

Maybe Roger Draper is just good at promoting,marketing & selling our games. I'm sure qualities like that could benefit RL as a whole.

I was surprised at how many missed out talking to mates who attend on a fairly regular basis even the casual supporter who were genuinely disappointed, let's hope they stick to their promise and don't get caught out again.