Hmm

I think the stand alone wont effect the attendance much at all, maybe a few hundred come down occasionally for big games or just to look.



The most important thing is the playing side, having them fit, motivated, paid, hungry for a trophy. The stand should only really allowing the club to run itself in better offices and generate more corporate activity and funding for players. The fans will come off the back of this. We need to win something, the stand wont play a blinder in a final or away day. Success on the pitch is what we need, granted we need solid foundations to assist this, but the teams what its all about. Its Rugby after all. Saints have a crap ground, but you would hardly say they would have won more or attracted more fans if they played in something like the Leigh Sports Village. Warringtons a different story, they got money and big signings, that attracted the fans.



p.s. i still reckon the Skircoat roof should be taken off and the seating extended along the grassy knoll, as a first phase to completing it in the future. It would be great for people to sit in the sun watching RL with a cold beer or ice cream, and it would look much tidier as a stadium. Surely selling the roof scrap would help costs.

Totally agree. The roof is ugly and it would be a good idea to give people an option of standing in the open, especially in the summer .... I think the top half of the Skircoat should be seated with a shortened roof (in case it rains), with the lower half being terraced, and unroofed, for standing but easy access to the seats if preferred. I don't think a "grassy bank" would work because we do have wet weather which could make it a bit of a mud bath!

Like the idea of that.

Great idea , but a total waste of money and effort



Filling the Skircoat should be the main focus , not knocking it down

I agree with you starbug

Got to agree with this got to keep the stand as full as it is now or else it will just wither and die and be allowed to fall into a bigger mess than it is now.

A proper focus is needed eg a family stand complete with entertainment and a seperate family ticket for that stand so it builds up it`s own identity.There should be as much work put into filling that stand as the other.

Excellent idea plus an upgrade of toilet facilities

It only looks bad compared to the east stand.





We could money to better use like the under 20's team!

Have to agree we are probably short of money but surely having another thriving stand would be self financing? Families coming down together instead of dad coming on his own means more money spent in the shop on shirts ,programmes etc.When you go to other stadiums you usually find that they have a family stand that is sponsored for instance I know it`s hard to sell things like that but it can be done.The sponsorship would pay for the entertainment it would not have to be a lot ,just a few extra freebies to hand out at matches and things like that.

If you mean the stand itself would be a wate of money spending on it I disagree .Yes the under 20s need the money but keeping up with the stand is the councils responsibility isn`t it? The more people who use that stand the better for me lets see it full, we don`t want an excuse for it being left in a state of disrepair.

It may sound greedy, but we need funding to sort out the Skircoat Stand as it has now replaced the East Stand as the stadium eyesore. For an extra quid or 2 you can now sit in a far better stand, with substantially more facilities. The Skircoat is in big danger of becoming a deserted delapidated relic, a 19th century stand in a 21st century stadium. My idea of an open stand is to distinguish it from the East stand. An open stand also embraces the concept of summer rugby. Maybe it would be best to be entirely standing terracing with facilities at the back such as a bar.

Oh yes don't get me wrong, I agree with you. But since we have now checked the stadium box. it would be a good idea just to get some strong and secure youth teams set up. Because thats what will put us in contention for Super Dooper League.

But like I said it may not be a case of "one or the other" with some hard selling both may be possible. The upkeep of the stand is the responsibility of the council and if enough people use it they will keep up with the upkeep of it.