I admire your optimism, but Leeds united cant sell out ER for big championship games when over the last few months they have looked like serious contenders for promotion (granted that looks a false dawn right now

) but no chance we get close to capacity for a few poxy SL games. People may be willing to go to big one off games in their droves but unless they are practically giving the tickets away i would be surprised if we filled over half of ER.

You might want to wait until we see what crowds they get, sure you claimed we would get loads more than usual. And I think it's a move born out of necessity rather than us wanting to move games there.

Yeah I think I might be one of the people he's referring to. For the record my position was that if Headingley can accomodate 12k, there's no need to move 6 games to ER as they wouldn't get great crowds, it would look rubbish, and the club would lose money. I also disputed how easy it would be to "sell it out", considering there's often lots of empty seats at Headingley and even the semi took an age to sell out. IF there's a simple trick to attracting more people through the gates, we should use it to fill Headingley. I hope that's not too contentious

Having 2 games there is a bit different. Especially if Headingley can only take maybe 10k. You can exploit the pent up demand and let people in for a fiver.

Not sure the KR game will get a great crowd, but Cas should easily beat 23k

BIB - I'd be very angry if people are being let in for a fiver when I've paid full price for my season ticket.

I think your season ticket allows for you to get £5 tickets for friends



I'm guessing there are about 30,000 individuals who go to Headingley in any given season. About 10k ST holders and 20k going to between 1 and 12 games a season seems about right??? If you can get just 2/3rds of them in for the Cas game and say 5k curious people and those in on their mates' £5 vouchers, you'd only need 5k from Cas to get 30k. Easily achievable. Think the Thursday V KR will be a tough sell though and could undercut the potential of the Cas gate

Obviously it was a coomplete fantasy the SS and a temporary stand plonked on a building site would be up and running by Feb.

Season tickets probably slow. So the club announces games at a proper stadium rather than a building site nobody know what will look like.

For me its more to do with what Headingley will look like in Feb/Mar/Apr I for one will not be spending money to stand in a buidling site with no facilties. Now I would pay to got to ER until at least one side of the ground is up and tested.

Both games are almost certainly going to be on Sky, that'll make getting a high attendance tougher. It's not like ER is some brand new stadium like the Olympic Stadium that people are quite keen to see.

As the article earlier said...,."As owners of Elland Road, Leeds United know, as we do ourselves, how it is important to generate income from the stadium by hosting a variety of events"......so they won't be letting us use it for free.

We should have played this season at Elland Road. It's fantastic. And now we own it I doubt Radrizzani would have charged us much, if at all?

With some effort Leeds - are you cannot really knock the commercial efforts at Leeds - couldn't sell out Headingley - are you seriously suggesting that the attraction of Elland Rd will double the crowd - really?

Elland Rd for the most part is similar to Headingley - one new stand and three decrepit sides. It is a disgrace for a club the "supposed" size of Leeds and the embarrassment to the city.

Ah god I love it. Its the best. But I would say that wouldn't I.

It's obviously an ingenious/sneaky* ruse by GH to prevent Cas stuffing you at Headingley every season.

* delete as appropriate.

The only sneaky ruse was continuing to let you stuff us at Headingley so we could school you in the Final.

You lot can be so hurtful.

You can knock the commercial efforts of Leeds. They arent brilliant. In fact they arent even to the level of say a decade ago.

The maths changes at Elland Road. Not only do we need less revenue per ticket, but we can also spend more on selling each ticket. Such is the different scale.

I dont think the attraction of Elland Road will attract anyone, its capacity will allow us to attract plenty.

I think the uniqueness of playing there will attract a good few. Playing on the south of the river will also put some off.

Yup I'll go to the two games but a full season there and I wouldn't have got a season ticket. It's a crap ground in totally the wrong location which would be two thirds empty for us. Widnes or Salford there would be horrendous.

If you'd had Paul Deacon playing for you in that GF you wouldn't have lost

U R SO RIGHT XXTETR







Tigertit was well jealus of King Deacs

And he's off again..

Seems I am not the only one

In the last 15 years when football clubs have been doing up their grounds or building new ones, Leeds have had far more worries than sprucing up their ground. The disgrace at Leeds United is how far they fell and how poorly run their were, not that some of their stands weren't getting upgraded.

Risdale was out of depth but Bates didn't run the club badly given what he inherited - he just ran it as it should have been run i.e. in a business-like manner, unfortunately that didn't agree with the view of the fans who preferred Risdale's descent into bankruptcy but that's fans for you.

The Italian was just bonkers - the latest Italian seems better but lacks financial muscle.

Now that is hurtful.