Originally Posted by
gkotw
The away capacity at the NYS will hold us back at this level. It needs to be increased for the club to grow. When attendances are published nobody but the saddest of sad sacks is going to analyse the home/away split. People will simply see a nice, steady increase to RUFCs average attendance figures.
Take my favourite club up the road, the dingle dangles, as an example. Their away end (6k) is a third bigger than the home end (4k). They'll glady tell you they got a crowd of 16k for a match but not be quite so boastful of the fact that 6 thousand were away fans from leeds, Sheffield, etc, etc.
At the end of the day, money is money.
Id love to know the cost benefit analysis for increasing the South Stand. I reckon it would be self financing in no time at all.
Plus, on occasions when away support is rubbish, we can always put millers in half the away end as we sometimes do now.