Uffa1964 wrote:Expanding the ground is fine but if they don't then get 10,000 every week it's more debt if they self fund it and another big nail in the coffin.
Calling it "another big nail in the coffin" is imho a really rather large exaggeration. I'm not aware we've even decided on a cremation or burial yet as far as us going down the pan.
Our average over the last couple of seasons has been around the 8.5k mark, I don't think we need to target away support (see you lot, state of the art reasonably priced easy to get to stadium and still hardly anyone from the wrong side of the Pennines can be bothered to come), I think with more seats, which is what the new North would give us we would easily get another 1500 on a regular basis. Unfortunately we don't have access to £6m or whatever it would cost, so we're going to have to further extend the East and keep on gradually building from there.
It does look as though we're realistically heading towards a couple of years of consolodation where the biggest advances will probably be off field and therefore not all that visible. I'm in the camp that's over joyed to see the level of returning and new (as long as they don't stand in my spot!) fans that we've attracted over the last few seasons, but will they be happy and still come through the gates if we finish 6th and 8th and go out in the first round of the play offs?
