if that is the case, how do you explain our highest average attendance since accurate records began as well as record sales of season tickets (the single biggest cost of the rugby season)?

Stranger things have happened, queues at tickets offices and nothing at the turnstiles

Cash gates open on the East and South Stands.

does that mean unreserved seating in East?..or pot luck on where u get the ticket for?

Still reserved seating - you get given a ticket as you go through the turnstile with a seat number on. If you want to choose your seat then you can still buy it from the East Stand Ticket Office on the South/East corner.

or find an empty seat at the side of me.......as was the case