One thing that the Board will have an eye on "if/when" the glory dies down like it has done at Wigan, Bradford and it is starting to do at Saints is ensuring that they have had pay back on the additional investment. Wigan have had a good few barron years with a big stadium. We have had barron years with a smaller stadium and are now looking to add capacity. The additional costs need to be recovered before the glory ends otherwise they will not spend the extra cash.

they need to do something with the South stand, they are constantly getting told don't stand on the yellow painted areas and there is no-where else to stand!

join south and west? this could just be the start see if they could fill it out with this corner then add corners depending if we still getting high attendances.

There's always room in the middle of certain blocks, but people always want to be close to the end of each block so they can get to the bar or toilet quicker

Agreed, if you want to stand on the end, let people get past you.

West stand- main home
East stand- away
South lower- standing home
South higher- Old east home and new corporate supporters
North- same

So if the east was the away, what happens to people who want to sit behind the post? you could make the west stand seating then.

I think Saints average was 11,027 in 2009 and we're 10,959 so far this year (a whole 2 fans per game bigger than Wire ) with one game to go: a crowd of 11,856 tomorrow (a certainty IMO) would see us improve on our 2009 average if my hungover maths is right.

We're doing pretty well to average 11k in that dump, hopefully we'll be up to 13k+ in the new gaff.

I'm talking about in an ideal world. In an ideal world they wouldn't care.

No point adding space for 'normal' spectators. Don't sell out all games.
Add plenty of corporate boxes, where the money is. Who cares if they understand the game or know who Reilly is.

Plenty of space over both the South and North to do something like what FC Groningen have done and put skyboxes in.



Could get about 40 extra hospitality boxes that way.

Am I the only one whose immediate thought on seeing that image was Prisoner Cell Block H?

Going from about ten boxes to forty would be a bit optimistic!

Our crowds are now good, but not good enough to justify financial outlay on altering the stadium. We seem to have 9-10,000 fairly committed regulars, and the balance are the occasional fans who comes to see the 'big' games plus away support. We need to be posting all attendances over 12,000, with regular sell-outs versus Pies, Saints, Leeds, possibly even Hull ( big support but a long way away ).

No point at all in going for 'machismo' and building for pure speculation.

we're virtually at the 'waiting list' stage for East stand season tickets. There's only the odd single seat here and there plus a few on the very front row.

I don't buy into this 'we need to be selling out more often talk'
How many times have saints sold out this year?, yet they are building a bigger stadium than the hj.
If we expanded to 16-18000 then i'm sure we could average 14000. At the moment, especially for big games you have no chance of a walk up crowd as they know they won't get in. Strike while the iron is hot Gatcliffe!
How about a Bulls style offer (but obviously not so ridiculously cheap) £100 to stand £150 to sit if we can get 11000 season tickets.