One thing is for certain.. they need another entrance/exit point for the Southstand by the next game. Having everyone exiting in the corner by the Carnegie Stand doesn't seem safe in the event of having to evacuate the stand in an emergency.

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In an emergency couldn’t you just enter the pitch?

It’s not ideal entering from Carnegie Stand but I don’t see what option we have while building work is on going under the South Stand. Hopefully this will be completed soon.

When its finished the southstand will be a huge improvement on what was there before

Correct, the biggest improvement though will be the new north stand. Some of those pesky pillars/posts in the old north stand a complete pain in the neck.

The North Stand had many fewer supporting pillars than the South Stand. Whilst the new South Stand is excellent the north structure will be a highly unsatisfactory compromise in myriad ways.

It will be the best ground in Super League when completed IMO

Outside of the soccer grounds used by RL teams

The north stand was even worse than the southstand - anything has to be better than the old North stand

it will be way better than most/all of them also, personally i think the Kc is the best football/new ground/shared ground. the rest not very good.

Which of the football grounds do you rate as better than the new Headingley Sal?

Even with the crappy Western Terrace I think the new ground is the equal to Hudds and Wigan, never been over to Hull FC stadium.

Another couple of photos from today.

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On the new SouthStand, you can see the final bits of steel going in for the terrace, the roof will no doubt follow.

The other shot is the corner of the North Stand. I think the girders have been put on top for reinforcing purposes. Either that, or they are demolishing it, and removing them is the next stage.

Personally I like grounds with some standing rather than all seating.

Watching rugby league at Leeds, Warrington and Saints is far better than Wigan, Hull and Huddersfield.

I agree but that probably has to do with how empty they look, especially Hudds.

This is how I would rank club’s stadiums.

1 Leeds
2 Warrington
3 Saints
4 Hull FC
5 Catalans
6 Huddersfield
7 Wigan
8 Widnes
9 Salford
10 Castleford
11 Hull Kr
12 Wakefield

Sometimes “best” and most “spacious” etc equals soulless, lacking in atmosphere and even bland.

I’m not particularly thinking of Headingley

Agreed.

Terraces are what makes grounds.

there was an article in the YEP the other about the development and it was suggested that maybe they could just put a roof on the W T similar to what they have done at Wakey . I would not like that at all ,if they cant build a new larger modern covered western stand then leave it

If they can't get planning or if they can't fund a new Western terrace for a while, then they should try to make the Western terrace more user friendly. Some form of weather protection should be provided if possible. It would might encourage more away fans to come and tip their hard earned into our coffers, especially when the weather is dire.

We could put a roof over the WT and some away supporters would still whinge.

Yeah, you're probably right, but we could charge them more to come and whinge

It'll be whinge's of jealousy

Flatten the away stand up to the screen. The space when flattened imo would be huge. Have a standing stand just like the temporary north stand up to the height of the scoreboard. Move the scoreboard to the front of the seating tier on the Carnegie Stand. Happy days. I think it could be done.

I’d rather leave the Western terrace as it is.

It’ll be nice to look nostalgically at the only remaining original part of the ground, from the comfort of the three new modern stands. It’s only for away fans after all.

Feel free not to come to Hull then.

It's a ground that was built to the REGULATIONS for combined use, not a ground for a sole purpose.