Re: east stand, : Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:21 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

I don't see how they can, given that we have a voucher exchange scheme. If season ticket holders were included on the attendance if their voucher wasn't used, they'd be counted twice, i.e. the second time when the unused voucher was swapped. Sounds a bit dodgy on the tax side of things.

Why do people claim that artificially inflating or reducing your crowd figures is a tax no no? The HMRC is only interested in the money side of things, not how many people turn up each week

Re: east stand, : Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:12 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

I don't see how they can, given that we have a voucher exchange scheme.

The club dont.. it's a myth.

They count the number of people walking through the turnstyles.

Re: east stand, : Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:48 pm  

attendences is a massive thing for me and the club should be doing everything possible to improve on the decent gates we get but potentially theres plenty more support out there obviously without going into the agar situation to much but he has to go and be replaced with a good coach that will bring good attacking entertaining rugby to attract people, also i like the idea of the family ticket but for me this has to be available for all areas of the stadium as season ticket holdes then can bring along family members ect

Re: east stand, : Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:28 pm  

Might aswell get it off my chest too...
Ive relocated to the South Stand due to the new change in the East Stand and all I can say is the clubs dropped a bo@@ock big time.
Now I was never part of the 'chav corner' but now most have moved on the atmosphere has gone, I used to sit in the block next to it but having seen it from the South stand on friday night it was embarrassing, the area that pretty much generates the most noise was empty, I know it was on sky and I know it was cold but it was still against Leeds and it still was our 1st home game of the season....Now having watched it back (just incase the result changed) it looked shocking on the tv cameras, looked like we were playing Harlequins. We need the old way back because attendences are only going to drop...
I for one hope they do scrap it for next season because the south stand is painful, some people like it, some dont. You can hear people having full on conversations its that dead...
If it was me id have the 'chav corner' section and only that reserved only and leave the rest as it was last season, surely its do able...

Re: east stand, : Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:48 am  

Cant get to home games anymore since the switch to Fri nights, but watching it on tv looked awefull, the stadium looked empty, there was no atmosphere, a real shame, sad to see, like an earlier posters have said, a massive clanger by the club imo, heart ripped out. reminds me of when they knocked the old 3p stand down.
And 12500 for the first league game against Leeds, 16200 for the game in Sept, see people are voting with their feet and their wallets and staing away in their droves.
Agar gotta go. wake up Kath and Rule, do something!!!