Warrington have annouced that plans to expand the stadium have been successful and that work will start before the 2012 season. It will see both corners of the North East side of the stadium and also the South East side be filled in taking it's capaticy to 15000.

not having a go here, but on average you only fill it twice a year and most times 2-3 thousand below capacity

Wether we fill it or not 15000 is not enough,if im correct St Helens new ground will hold 18000.going on stories ive heard they wont fill that.But if the expansion is being done with a view to getting HJ as a world cup venue it neds to be more than 15000 imo.

At least it's our own stadium. Not squatting in a footy ground.

I recogn this will be the first phase of an expansion. It was always said there was an aim to build towards 18k but there is no point jumping straight in, in this economic client. Also its not being done for "the world cup", the club bosses how only stated it will make the world cup bid stronger.

And in any case, even if the standing area isn't filled it might stop the Sunday pm claustrphobic whingers happier to have a bit of extra room.

The only stand that doesn't sell out every week is the away end!

Brilliant news. Shows further signs of our development both on and off the field. Also, looking at the image on the club website, appears the South East will be a terracing expasion rather than just an extension of the seats.

Full story and artist's impressions here www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/a ... Page1.html

Full story and artist's impressions here www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/a ... Page1.html

Theres nothing wrong with thinking big...

Not at all. Maybe only 2 sell outs but you'd rather get the extra thousand in there! Also what would happen if this year had 6/7 sell outs yet no plans to increase? Makes sense all around to me.

Makes sense to me, even if we DONT sell out a lot of games, it'll save the stewards (if you can even call them that) from walking up and down and squishing everyone in shifting them off the beloved yellow lines! i might have a bit of room to hold a pie as well as my 2 pinter!

Fantastic news- the return of Windy Corner!

Build it and they will come...

I remember 18 months ago Andy Gatcliffe saying that the fans needed to give him a reason to increase the capacity of the ground - that hasn't happened as yet - It's a nice to have not an essential. Even challenge cup semis dont sell out.
So are we loading unnecessary debt onto the club?

Need a new Pond Life Corner

I've heard the club are planning to try and tap into the towns polish community by naming the extension 'Polski Skelp'.

Great News.

doesnt matter that we dont sell out every week, how many people will be missing this Saturday and watching on tv because the South stand is sold out, I'd wager its a few...

the talk of only expanding when every games a sell out is a nonsense, if it ends up being a bit difficult to attend every Wires home game and certainly the big ones then we could end up losing fans to our neighbours and with Saints new ground on the horizon they are going to potentially steal a few warringtonians (the less bright and slightly odd Warringtonians but Warringtonians none the less).


I think there'll be more doom mongers from other clubs putting a negative spin on our positive work.
but we should leave them to stew in their flasks of hot Bovril.

I'm not bothered that we won't fill every week yet, if we carry on the way we are and the board carry on they way they are, promoting off field i think by 2014 we'll start seeing regular 13k crowds for some of the lesser supported games

The South Stand sells out quite often, it's common sense to increse the terracing in that Stand. The larger the ground, the more major events it will get picked for.

what as that got to do with expansion

it would help if you had a brain

I don't see how an expansion can be a bad thing. It's not like it's going to divert funds away from the on field activities.

Even if the extension is only really utilised for the games against Wigan and Saints it's still worth doing.

Good news.
The only worry for me re attendances, is the amount of specs some teams bring with them
Bradford used to travel in their thousands when they were in their pomp, now it's down to a couple of hundred (if they're lucky). Admittedly, they couldn't win a raffle with only 2 tickets sold, over the last few years.
Another, who's travelling support to the HJ over the last few years has dwindled, are this week's visitors. The game from a couple of years, being a case in point. SL champs bringing just a few hundred wasn't very good. A few of these games, have also been shown on Sky (which will affect numbers) but still, not great travelling support from big name teams.

Surely, we're not THAT horrible to away teams, are we?

oh the irony of that post, the word you were looking for was "has", we will expand as we need to, whether you see fit or not.

does anybody else find the terracing corner will be blocked slightly be the seats in that area? or is there a way around it so that if that corner is packed, everyone can see?

Perspex divide, like the zoo.

If the cap fits..............