I agree. Our stadium didn't sell out for the Widnes game although close standing room was fairly comfortable in the South and bend.
We're just about right at this time.

Look at Stains, they considered they needed a stadium. 25% bigger than ours.
I think they've sold out once v pies but more often every time I watch them on the tele, there are huge areas of empty areas.
It's never so empty looking when we are there but still room for another 4-5k.

I think we got it right and they've got it wrong.

That Saints fixture last season was on a Thursday though.

I'd personally be disappointed if we don't sell out the home areas. We should be getting 14k+ to this.

According to the Twittersphere, there are only 100 seats left in the North, NE, and East and 150 tickets for the South. Looks as though we should at least sell out the home tickets. But "plenty of tickets left in the West".

Not a great day for it.

I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too, Thursday I don't care about you, It's Friday I'm in love.

Great stuff you can't beat a bit of Bob Dylan.

I hope that it's close to full tonight and think that the club should be exploring ways of filling part of the West with home support (maybe they may already are?) or at least making it a more 'natural' alternative if the South's capacity pushed before filling the corners in. I'm not an advocate of segregation and I've stood there v Widnes Wigan and Saints recently but it's not everyone's cup of tea, could it or should it be split a third SW and two thirds NW?

Aesthetically it would be nice to have both corners filled in, however i agree we should be milking the stadium and getting more home fans in the "away" end . However not all fans would like that, myself i wouldnt like to stand in the away end. However I have done like for the 1st game at the HJ, against a Wigan, Widnes, or Saints i wouldnt like to be in there.

True ... but it was The Cure.

and that's the conundrum I suppose in that it's those 3 games that put pressure on the South Stand?

Widnes this year brought plenty and it was ok apart from a bit of beer throwing at FT and I wasn't exactly bouncing when we scored, but, IF there's 500- 1,000 available spaces in there against one of these teams how do we make it a comfortable option for home fans? The club would presumably like it filled as long as it wasn't kicking off left right and centre?

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What might be a bit of banter to one could be quite intimidating to someone else, plus there are always going to be the very few, including some from our club, who can't help but start scrapping after the sniff of a barmaids apron.

Forgetting the 'away' stand, how many times since the HJ opened has every ticket for the North, South, East, and more lately the North East corner been sold. I would hazard a guess that it's not very often.

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.