Cockney Cobbler
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We can't expand the East Stand without also having to pay to relocate the athletics track, part of the agreement of the 150 year leasehold was the athletics track was maintained by the club. Expansion of the East Stand would require building straight on the athletics track so its an immediate no-go unless we can rehome it, which would be more cost.
Expanding the West Stand, regardless of aesthetics, is easier because we're just building out on to our own car park.
Although personally I'd actually build out the South Stand, and think about swapping away fans in to the East Stand as that would then allow us to charge a different amount for travelling fans than have the current situation where we have to peg it to the North Stand because of the same facilities.
And the point about 2006 is so historic it's irrelevant, you're talking about 6 years ago, pre-credit crunch recession. Everyone had more money, football was cheaper and we were a better side. We've been nowhere near the capacity in the last couple of years so in the immediate term we do not need to hike the ground size. What we need is corporate facilities. If you want a 12K+ capacity stadium we would be better off moving out of Sixfields altogether.
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