Seat count

Just released my ticket so one more available in Upper - good seat.

Left...

Pontoon       1   Sold Out   1   SOLD OUT
Lower            2  Sold Out 2   1
Upper           7   5    4   3   5
Main            79   80   75   70   65    45
Osmond     96   87   63   48   26   1

Total LEFT          185   174   142   123  97  52

BEEN OUT ALL DAY - At least 45 sold since last night.

As of Wednesday @ 21:04

Quoted from crusty ole pie

No keepto tradition the pontoon money to build raised by fans for the fans.now what I would do if money was not tight is to extend the pontoon up to the main stand and findus that would give us a cauldron of noise

That might be the plan.

37 tickets now remain

Quite a few releasing seats

The plan was (dunno if it still is) to knock the police box down and extend the Main outwards towards the Pontoon.  Makes perfect sense for me because you're both improving the shocking seats in that corner (let's be honest, they should never be on sale in the first place) whilst maximising that corner at the same time and effectively having 3 sides of the ground joined up (better utilisation of space and for acoustics with sounds that could travel round that side of the ground).  I do think this would be the start of that bit-by-bit-by-bit rebuilding of the whole ground.

In the short term though I really would get behind switching the Osmond and the Pontoon round. Noise generated in the Pontoon is completely lost due to the open sides.  According to the official site the capacity of the Osmond and the Pontoon is near identical (1808 in the Pontoon to 1884 in the Osmond).  I guess the only issue is that at present we can split the Osmond when it's limited away support, splitting the Pontoon would be a far more difficult task.

One more option...EFL rules are 2000 or 10%.  Our current capacity is officially 8777.  The Lower capacity is 826, or 9.41%.   60 temp seats would adjust that to just over 10%.  Not that simple I know and be highly unpopular.

Crux of it all is that we're a bit restricted until we do something, regardless of what that is.  What will be really disappointing on Saturday is if the gate is 6500 or so.  Hopefully enough season tickets have been released to push us closer towards that official capacity.

Quoted from The Yard Dog

That might be the plan.

They could save themselves the bother if they adopted the Osmond plan because if that is the home end it would be all of the Main and Osmond joined up already.

The Pontoon is the perfect away end with it being isolated from the home support.

Any ground improvement plans could then be spent on other areas.

I'm sure the owners have their own ideas but if we can get a full house when sitting 4th bottom of league 2 the subject of the stadium and any alterations won't go away.

Quoted from diehardmariner

One more option...EFL rules are 2000 or 10%.  Our current capacity is officially 8777.  The Lower capacity is 826, or 9.41%.   60 temp seats would adjust that to just over 10%.  Not that simple I know and be highly unpopular.

Fúcking too right it would. Only reasons I’ll accept for having to move from my seat there are:

a) we’ve knocked it down to build something better
b) we’ve moved to a new ground
c) I’m dead

Preferably a) or b).

Is there any scope at all for removing seats and returning a stand - say the pontoon - to standing, and, if so, would that increase capacity?

As far as I understand we cannot change back to terracing, even if a new stand from scratch. Would have to be safe standing which gains virtually no extra capacity.  

We were in the Champ when all seater came in so due to the legislation can't revert back .

Wrong place at the wrong time on that front  .