Quote ="HXSparky"This keeps on coming back, but the ground capacity is 9600 and with 8000 in there then there wouldn't be many gaps to be seen at all - but it still looked pretty sp in places. If, as has been said before, a lot of folk are in the beer tent then that says it all as well. A game of this enormity and they can't be @rsed to watch the game?'"
The ground's legal capacity (fire & safety regs) is set at 9600. That doesn't necessarily mean that every seat in every row in every section of the stadium would have to be filled in order to reach 9600. That's the maximum number allowed in.
There are anywhere from 500 to 1000 people in the north end beer garden and another 200 or so in the south end where there are more tents and the VIP tents.
I was at the game (were you?) and believe me, people were rivetted. It was the closest home game we've ever had at Lamport and an absolute nail, er, biter.
