"They would lose a fair number of season ticket holders if safe standing is introduced"......
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Really? How many season ticket holders in the North Stand? 400 or 500 perhaps max? How many of them would buy a standing season ticket? A fair few i'd imagine. How many of those who were not happy would move to the East or West Stand?
They weren't proposing to do the whole stand anyway were they?
Rather than make up bollox like they have in the statement, why not just come out and say that we wouldn't make much if any additional money out of this yet it would of course cost money to convert. That's probably nearer the truth isn't it?