We always used to stand on the Western terrace by choice and although the terracing is a little low, the condition of the terracing is significantly better than the North Stand.
I take your point about wanting to encourage away fans and that an increase in their numbers helps the club coffers.
However, if/when the facilities improve for the home fans, do you not think that this number will increase and they will turn up every week and not just once a season.
There are a number of grounds where the away fans are catered for equally but, there are enough, where we are second class citizens and often charged a premium for that treatment.
Lets look after no 1 first of all and then worry about the away fans.

In an ideal world, we would have a great view and comfort for all that wish to come along but, right now, it has to be about where the club can maximise the return on their investment and if we were to give the away fans the 5* treatment, while leaving our own fans on crumbling concrete, what kind of message does that send to the loyal home fans.

Yeah I did, I meant West stand

From what I understand the West terrace was never originally a terrace, it was part of the Velodrome track that once ringed BV, ditto the East stand, which is why both the East stand and the old West stand were more or less pitch height. The terrace came later and rather and due to the height of the stands couldn't be elevated. It's this that tends to make BV look more uneven than it actually is. If you go on the Trinity heritage site there is actually a photo of BV as a Velodrome or at least I think there is, HTH

I agree that the East stand need sorting 1st. It is the side that most people first see the ground, people do go with first impressions. Wasnt it the Fev Chairman/CEO who said he was embarrassed everytime he passed?

Not sure I agree there PB but you may be right, I'm certainly not old enough to remember the track, how old are you a hundred

With all due respect, Your past Chairmen/ CEO's have been banging on about new news soon on the Stadium front from the day Super League was formed. Really cant see it happening to be honest.

No they haven’t

Up the Trin

Used to walk through there as a child with my dad. Always full of older men drinking, the smell of cigars and pipes.

And the long lost smell of Wintergreen, something I’ll never forget. That’s when the changing rooms where there before the bar

when I was their mid week a few weeks back the worker I spoke to was doing the surveying on the flats (south) end of the ground if that means anything

but you would think they wouldn't get rid of the corporates first .

but he 100% told me he was working on the first stage of the re development

I’m sure whichever side gets built first it will be a massive improvement on what we’ve got and will be the first piece of the jigsaw in bringing our iconic ground up to date and fit for purpose .