Quote cheshirecat57="cheshirecat57"what a load of rubbish ! How often do you here of trouble at a rugby game rare! But when you invite your own fans to take over the part of the ground were away fans have been welcomed to stand for years then you are asking for trouble! I think glover was badly advised by asking home fans to take over the north end, dont forget he's not from a rugby back ground he does'nt know the rivalry'"
It's the adrenaline that comes from a roofed terrace though. Quiet fans want to sing, aggressive and or drunk fans want to goad or worse.
You have to imagine what a fully mingled Wheldon Road end would be like against Us or Fev. (We used to share the Wheldon road end until it got too intimidating 9 years ago) Imagine throwing Hull FC fans into the covered standing at Craven Park. Fev fans into the covered Halifax home end if more ground improvements took place at the Shay. Bulls fans sporadically sharing the South Stand during one of Headingley's many daft Stand cordoning off escapades.
It's just a fact that there is more passion from fans who are occupying a kop like area. To share the north stand in any fashion just isn't feasible IMO.
It might be traditionally an away end but since I've followed Trin (circa 1992) there as always been around 500-2000 Trin fans occupying that end. It would be unfair to make those feel like interlopers. Until around 2005 many fans used to swap ends. Something that died out at most grounds as fans almost subconsciously opted for segregation.
I remember plenty of Wakey fans swapping at Leeds, Bulls, Hull FC, Cas and even Salford at a time our away following wasn't that large. These end swaps always saw us mingled. I think rising crowds and the SL intensity factor has given the game an almost football feel.
I can't quite remember if we did it at Post Office Road.

I never saw it at Wilderspool, who would have fancied that?