If we could extend the South Stand back over the concourse I think it would add (roughly) about half of what's there already on to the capacity of the stand. Presumably the club have looked into this/will do with the major obstacle being those poles. I'm sure this could be rectified in a similar way to the poles overhanging behind the West Stand.

Ideally I'd add in the other two corners, convert the East stand into terracing (Bring back a bit of the Fletcher end feel) and add a tier to the North/North and East if needed. We're talking pretty long term here though.

Think we might be getting carried away here. The ground is the way it is down to cost. I'd be amazed and pleased if we ever get round to filling the last 2 corners in to be honest. Underwriting the cost of new tiers etc is a pipe dream unless someone wins Euromillions. If the first two corner fills are costing the reported £2million, that will take donkeys to payback even if they get filled every week(which they wont).

you got him there.

Just driven past n they have 3 corners dug up ! Thought they were only doin 2 ?

From what some people have said on here (never really reliable!) I think they are putting the SKY screen in the SW corner of the stadium.

Oh no.....

That's what I thought as well.

Old, old joke....

Thought it was costing £1 million.

As part of the expansion they are currently only development 2 corners (East end) BUT the club is taking the opportunity to move things around inside the ground, probably in advance of future redevelopment. I've heard that the groundstaff are getting new "accomodation" at the south-west end but also that the two small gates in that corner are being replaced by one of the big gates that they have removed from the redeveloped corners for emergency access.

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Notice how we kept the scoreboard on =#FF0040WOLVES 39-WIGAN 12 so all those stay behind Wigan fans -Could stand and gawp in orr.

Just had a quick search and the costing is circa £2 million, seems alot but what do i know.

I don't think it seems TOO much, Salford's stadium is costing £26m overall I think.

cant wait for next season now its gonna look awesome, my work is having there christmas do in the east stand hospitality suite aswell so ill get a sneaky peak

off.

and for that you get two sewage farms an oil terminal and the Manky ship canal all within 300 yards. Lovely on a warm sunny day.

LOL do you work for the Salford tourist board by any chance?

That's almost a contradiction in terms.

How's the [size=150H[/sizeoly [size=150J[/sizeesus looking at the moment for us that don't live in Wire?

Basically no different. The concrete in the NE and SE corners has been dug up and I believe the groundworks/foiundations are being worked on. Above ground level it looks like nothing has changed since the Leeds (or even the Huddersfield) game. The wall/gates have been replaced in the SW corner and I believe the grounds staff storage area is finished.

For people who were questioning the works being done "during the season" it seems it was a necessity as some of the work will "need to settle" before its added onto and also the changing weather will have an impact on the program. As somebody once posted, the reason they aint doing it all in the 3 month clsoe season is...........its gonna take longer than 3 months!

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Probably been covered before, but I take it if you filled in the other corners the capacity could go to around 17,000? Are there plans in place to do this should the new capacity get filled regularly?

That was the idea in the original press release.

The seat numbers for 2012 are being redone so that they start at "1" in the new corner by the Rodney. This would although the club to carry the numbering on when/should they wish to fill in the NW corner with seating.

As for the 4th corner, their have been may ideas for its "development" but as this is I believe the new home of the groundstaff the best idea I've heard banded around would be for a "media centre" to be put here. This would allow for a fixed screen/scoreboard but would also allow for the current gantry TV studio etc to be moved. This fits in with another idea banded about of putting hospitality boxes along the back of the South Stand (or the remote idea of double-deckering it!)

I see, so what would the maximum expansion capacity of the stadium be? Obviously as it will have been covered there is no point in expanding a stadium which may not be filled so it would not make sense financially. But it would be nice to think you would be able to fill a 15,000 capacity stadium more than not.