I've heard the club are planning to try and tap into the towns polish community by naming the extension 'Polski Skelp'.

Great News.

doesnt matter that we dont sell out every week, how many people will be missing this Saturday and watching on tv because the South stand is sold out, I'd wager its a few...

the talk of only expanding when every games a sell out is a nonsense, if it ends up being a bit difficult to attend every Wires home game and certainly the big ones then we could end up losing fans to our neighbours and with Saints new ground on the horizon they are going to potentially steal a few warringtonians (the less bright and slightly odd Warringtonians but Warringtonians none the less).


I think there'll be more doom mongers from other clubs putting a negative spin on our positive work.
but we should leave them to stew in their flasks of hot Bovril.

I'm not bothered that we won't fill every week yet, if we carry on the way we are and the board carry on they way they are, promoting off field i think by 2014 we'll start seeing regular 13k crowds for some of the lesser supported games

The South Stand sells out quite often, it's common sense to increse the terracing in that Stand. The larger the ground, the more major events it will get picked for.

I don't see how an expansion can be a bad thing. It's not like it's going to divert funds away from the on field activities.

Even if the extension is only really utilised for the games against Wigan and Saints it's still worth doing.

Good news.
The only worry for me re attendances, is the amount of specs some teams bring with them
Bradford used to travel in their thousands when they were in their pomp, now it's down to a couple of hundred (if they're lucky). Admittedly, they couldn't win a raffle with only 2 tickets sold, over the last few years.
Another, who's travelling support to the HJ over the last few years has dwindled, are this week's visitors. The game from a couple of years, being a case in point. SL champs bringing just a few hundred wasn't very good. A few of these games, have also been shown on Sky (which will affect numbers) but still, not great travelling support from big name teams.

Surely, we're not THAT horrible to away teams, are we?

does anybody else find the terracing corner will be blocked slightly be the seats in that area? or is there a way around it so that if that corner is packed, everyone can see?

Perspex divide, like the zoo.

If the cap fits..............

I'm sure this will be a popular thread, if it turns in to (yet another) Wire/Wigan sausage contest people are having a week off.

personally i think the sausages in wigan are rubbish.... warrington has a much better quality of sausage.

Great News!

One question..how can you have seated specs directly next to standing specs... They have obviously thought of this (they must have done), but I'll be interested to see how they will manage this.

Also... if the builders are moving in "in the summer", one must assume that we will have to decrease the capacity whilst work is ongoing at some point?

The Warrington Guardian piece was great until the Gatcliffe quote

"Look at Manchester United. They made their ground bigger and they still fill it"

Whilst I am delighted by both the ambition and optomism shown by the club, I'm a little concerned by the maths.

If, by virtue of the increased capacity, Warrington have the opportunity to sell an extra 2,000 tickets, this would give extra revenue of £40k each time a 15,000 sell out were achieved (given a cost of say £20.00 per ticket).

So, if one game per season was a 15,000 sell out this would give extra annual revenue of 40k, if two games sell out an extra 80k would be generated, 3 games 120k, 4 games 160k, 5 games 200k and so on.

Given that the building costs have been quoted as "circa £2 million" (presumably this is ex VAT) and that this the work comes in on price and on schedule, it would take the following number of years before a profit is realised on the investment:-

2 sell outs per season = 25 years
3 sell outs per season = 16.6 years
4 sell outs per season = 12.5 years
5 sell outs per season = 10 years

My figures, whilst admittedly very basic, make no allowance for any interest payments (assuming that a loan will be taken out to cover the building costs), additional maintenance, insurance, general running costs etc,etc all of which will prolong these periods.

I'm sure that the club will have taken great care in costing the expansion, but as I have illustrated above it can only possibly work if the new 15,000 capacity is achieved on a far more of a regular basis than just Saints and Wigan games - otherwise I fear that a significant rise in ticket costs will have to be implimented to help recover the costs.

The designers have come up with some new fangled idea and untested at the present moment and could make or break the deal. It's called a dividing wall.