Quote: Hessle rover "Maybe I am being over realistic, but on average on our crowds this year, the south had est 400 to 500 every match (and that's being generous). Take that figure off our average over the year and that puts us to 7000 fans.
Next year with the north stand open to home and away support, you would have to say at least 80% of the stand would be filled every home match making that a total of just over 2000 fans. Add a smattering of south stand fans, then I cant see why 9000 wouldn't be achievable.'"
The North Stand is flling up nicely, but most (if not all) are people migrating from the East or West Stands. The trick for Rovers is to backfill this capacity with new or lapsed supporters. I still think we may have misjudged the allocation for away fans somewhat and could find ourselves turning down away fans once they sell 900 seats. Opening up the South Stand for them is hardly going to appease either.