Time For Khaled To Open The North Stand To Reds Fans..

Pull
It
Down

 

Luton & Sunderland fans in the same clapped out old stand hmmm!

 

Just saddens me that 2nd leg of a play off, regardless of 1st leg scoreline, with a chance of getting back into one of the best divisions in European football ....,.. nobody at the club even contemplated attempting to sell the place out to its maximum possible. It's almost like they settled for scraps. I mean yeah, they've asked us to clap and shout a lot. Even that could backfire if South Yorkshire's finest hear us cheering too loud.

 

Might go in a 'NOT MY KING' t-shirt, just to test SYP's patience.

 

I sit West Lower and there’s nothing wrong with it from my point of view. I can’t imagine there’s many better views in the ground than what I get.

I know absolutely naff all about architecture but would the prospect of taking the top tier away and just replacing that work? And of course, some toilets towards the north stand side.

 

That'd look rude next to me in my Ronnie Glavin top

 

Is my N.W.A one overtly provocative u think?

 

I'm WSL too, and remember there are at least 20 seats behind each dugout unuseable.

 

100 year old foundations are probably insufficient to build on directly; and too costly to modify. Cheaper to pull it down and start anew - mek a good car park extension in the interim.

 

Okay, I'll go with 'JUST STOP OIL'

 

It's all in the article. I'm usually a big defender of Khaled but this is a major faux pas from him. Not only have we not sold any more tickets at home than we would have done had Bolton had a full allocation (making his words even more bizarre), he actually caused less of us to be at Bolton. I think it's rubbish to be honest.

 

Yeah he should come out and explain why we cost the team getting more support for the away leg, if it wasn't set in stone we could sell for home fans in the North stand.

 

My take fwiw is that we took the view, rightly or wrongly, that we wouldn't sell 5k for Bolton but they would sell 5.5k for second leg so limiting numbers levels the playing field to an extent. Not saying its right but think that's the logic at any rate.

 

There will be more Barnsley fans on Friday than against Wednesday,Derby,Plymouth and the atmosphere was brilliant but also the away end was noisy too.So with more of us and only 2000 away fans spread about in a 5000 seater stand, this must benefit us.This could have been the thinking because selling another 2500 home tickets in north stand was possibly unlikely

 

Agree.

Historically (in recent times) we’ve not needed the extra seats - and I suspect actual people wanting tickets is less than 200. The club’s database was updated a few years ago - so all the sales patterns are on there.

Look at the Wallsall game with Hecky - didn’t sell out then either.

You have to have an additional amount of staff, stock and police to segregate the North. 200 probably doesn’t warrant it. It’s not amount money to an extent, but we can’t come out of this game losing 5 figure numbers.

 

We sold the upper tier of the other end of the west stand that day suggesting there's appetite for at least another 1000 seats.

In order to cost us 5k in stewarding costs we'd have to spend about 40,000 on stewards

 

Worth it whatever if we get through, we supposedly lost 7/8 million with relegation, so without being a bachelor of maths, surely it has to worth at least that to get promoted