by muirinho »
13 Mar 2019 10:35
Hendo muirinho Duffy Surely it would make sense to move Club1871 to say the East Stand, near the away fans? Granted, this could only be done at the end of season. Leeds would have filled than end last night and the club would have got around an extra £40k - £50k in revenue just off ticket sales alone.....
Reckon a lot of those extra Leeds fans were scattered around the ground, and in hospitality. So we still got some of their money,
There aren't that many games where the away support makes it worth while having both sides of the stand open.
Mostly (pre Club1871) that was just half a stand wasted.
Leeds, Villa, Darby, Forest, Swansea maybe? Who else?
Maybe put the away supporters in half of East (that would be about 3.6K seats, as opposed to 4.3K for all South Stand), and make the entire South stand home. With one section of it Club1871. So that the away supporters are not behind one of the goals and the louder singing sections are together. I think the players are generally supportive of Club1871 because they don't like the vibe of a full away allocation behind the goal.
I don't think that is a viable option.
It would displace a lot of STH who have had their seats for a number of years.
I for one wouldn't want to give my seat up for the away fans to be moved.
Additionally, where you have the away fans at the moment, the majority of them can be ushered onto their coaches/down the hill without too much issue.
If anything, I would just swap C1871 and the away fans around so they are in the SE corner rather than SW.
Yeah, it was more - if you're going to move East Stand fans anyway (to make room for Club1871), as Duffy suggested, why not go the whole hog and move them into the south stand?
Agree on swapping sides, but I think the "East" side of the South stand has bigger capacity than the "West" side which would restrict revenue further. (I'm sure I've read that somewhere, when it was all first being discussed, but I could well have imagined it)
FWIW, I sit in Y24, and I like it there, I wouldn't want to move.