Seems a reasonable solution to me too. I'm sure the club is, as always, keen to get new fans and £revenue in. But this precaution will (hopefully) stop away fans sitting in the wrong areas and potential problems it will cause. Well done Notts!
And trouble in the home stands especially the family stand will probably stop any "casual" fan ever coming back & leave them with a bad opinion of us, so it seems a reasonable move to me.
Seems a reasonable solution to me too. I'm sure the club is, as always, keen to get new fans and £revenue in. But this precaution will (hopefully) stop away fans sitting in the wrong areas and potential problems it will cause. Well done Notts!
We'd know if the Grimsby fans were in the home stands, they stink of fish!
I heard the Grimsby allocation capped at 2,000 and no extra. Surely the Jimmy Sirrel holds a lot more than this? Some safety reason? Seems crazy that with a ground built for 20,000, the club is losing revenue and creating crowd safety issues??
We are not losing revenue though. The gate receipts are pooled after match day expenses are deducted and distributed amongst the play off teams. Those expenses would go up with a significantly higher following, particularly this mob.
We get more money for being promoted and giving Grimsby the minimum required by the regulations increases that chance compared to them having a full Sirrel. It would take away a huge chunk of the advantage letting them have 4500 following them.
I also hope Notts have that meshing along the front block to keep there fans tucked in to the top blocks of the Sirrel.
100% agree, I said a week ago I really hope we only give them 2000. If they filled the Sirrel I would say they virtually have home advantage crowd wise as let’s face it they would just come down for the day, beered up and it would be deafening. I wasn’t sure if Notts would do it or not as they always try and do everything ethically correct but some times in football u have to be a bit cute with stuff.