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Could see them potentially adding boxes at the back of the east stand, but that would be it would reduce capacity by a few thousand if anything
 
Leeds now seriously talking about going to 53000 based on them selling out every home game for years and allegedly having 27000 on a season ticket waiting list.
Oh and Elland Road being a dump.
 
Our support is absolutely fantastic, but there's little room for it to grow if we're honest. We have a core of around 25k season ticket holders who'd turn up in the Northern League, another 10k more fairweather supporters and around 5-10k casual supporters who turn up for the big games. Very few top tier clubs can boast those numbers so it's in no way deriding it, but we tried everything when Niall Quinn was chairman; free tickets given to schools, cheap tickets for cup games etc. and it scarcely made a difference.

I'd love to see the South Stand extension simply because it'd be necessitated by a golden era for the club, but expanding to 63k would be George Reynolds level of bampottery.
 
Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
Tbf it is more than that....but I take your point.

But those were the recorded attendances. We averaged 46.5 K in 2 seasons but 2k under capacity back then.

Nowadays the practical capacity seems to be 46K.
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But it still makes no sense, how were we averaging a nearly sold out attendance for 2 seasons with constant gaps in the crowd? I get it people don’t turn up but like I say this was more than just the odd seat or two it was big areas of the crowd empty which I can only imagine were seats given to schools, work places, charities etc which means we were struggling to shift tickets
 
TexasMackem said:
Our support is absolutely fantastic, but there's little room for it to grow if we're honest. We have a core of around 25k season ticket holders who'd turn up in the Northern League, another 10k more fairweather supporters and around 5-10k casual supporters who turn up for the big games. Very few top tier clubs can boast those numbers so it's in no way deriding it, but we tried everything when Niall Quinn was chairman; free tickets given to schools, cheap tickets for cup games etc. and it scarcely made a difference.

I'd love to see the South Stand extension simply because it'd be necessitated by a golden era for the club, but expanding to 63k would be George Reynolds level of bampottery.
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I think football more popular than Quinn's tike tbf. We don't have the Freebies anymore or at least not in numbers back then. We've been outside top flight for 7 years now and averaging 40k.
 
TexasMackem said:
. Very few top tier clubs can boast those numbers so it's in no way deriding it, but we tried everything when Niall Quinn was chairman; free tickets given to schools, cheap tickets for cup games etc. and it scarcely made a difference.
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You're confusing us with the Free Ticket Mags. Discounted tickets to schools.
Grimes said:
But it still makes no sense, how were we averaging a nearly sold out attendance for 2 seasons with constant gaps in the crowd? I get it people don’t turn up but like I say this was more than just the odd seat or two it was big areas of the crowd empty which I can only imagine were seats given to schools, work places, charities etc which means we were struggling to shift tickets
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The stadium held over 48k and the empty seats back then tended to be near the front of the stands and in the away end.
 
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Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
I think football more popular than Quinn's tike tbf. We don't have the Freebies anymore or at least not in numbers back then. We've been outside top flight for 7 years now and averaging 40k.
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Not sure what you mean with your first sentence. The point is we weren't suddenly locking 15k out in the premier league which proves there wasn't the swathes of dormant support that people think. In fact, you could argue that it's likely diminished over time with the gap between us and Newcastle in recent years, prompting the casual 'on the fencers' from Co. Durham to fall on the black and white side.

The consensus on these type of threads generally arrives at the same conclusion; everyone who wants to go to SAFC home games already goes.
 
AndrewP said:
You're confusing us with the Free Ticket Mags. Discounted tickets to schools.

The stadium held over 48k and the empty seats back then tended to be near the front of the stands and in the away end.
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Front of the north stand was a nightmare for being empty and still is tbh
 
AndrewP said:
You're confusing us with the Free Ticket Mags. Discounted tickets to schools.

The stadium held over 48k and the empty seats back then tended to be near the front of the stands and in the away end.
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I definitely got pairs of free tickets from the school for my son, the local WMC around 2009 - 2012 ish were always offering them too. Felt a mug being a season ticket holder at the time so it probably had the reverse effect.
 
I don't know why this keeps on coming up.

There is no need for it whatever.

If we fulfill our absolute max potential we could get to the situation where we are selling out the existing SoL for most big games, but not enough to need an expansion even then.

We don't want to be playing games in a stadium that feels half empty.
 
BaconButty said:
Could see them potentially adding boxes at the back of the east stand, but that would be it would reduce capacity by a few thousand if anything
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Think the issue there would be that it's not just boxes, it's all the facilities needed to cater to those in the boxes before and after the game. Would be a pretty big job.
 
TexasMackem said:
Our support is absolutely fantastic, but there's little room for it to grow if we're honest. We have a core of around 25k season ticket holders who'd turn up in the Northern League, another 10k more fairweather supporters and around 5-10k casual supporters who turn up for the big games. Very few top tier clubs can boast those numbers so it's in no way deriding it, but we tried everything when Niall Quinn was chairman; free tickets given to schools, cheap tickets for cup games etc. and it scarcely made a difference.

I'd love to see the South Stand extension simply because it'd be necessitated by a golden era for the club, but expanding to 63k would be George Reynolds level of bampottery.
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Have a like for “bampottery”. Has to be word of the day (didn’t know it’s origins ‘til I looked it up). 😀
 
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