Ground reconfiguration for away fans

They've also been in the North West corner (Man United), blocks A and B of the main stand (Ipswich), the upper tier of the main stand (Portsmouth), the whole of the Bradford End, and the entire Midland Road stand.

What's your point?

 

I think the point is that if we need to or want to increase the away allocation then block E in MR is the obvious location as it was in 1996/97 when it opened.

 

I think the only need arises when we have to give more than 10% e.g. FA Cup games. Otherwise the current set-up is more than sufficient.

In terms of want, I can't really envisage a situation unless we turn awful again and somehow have a big team visit us in the league. Even then, that would only be for commercial reasons.

EFL rules state 2k tickets to the opposition or 10% if total capacity is below 20k. Therefore, I'd have presumed we'd have built the new MR gate further along to give the option of fewer tickets to away fans, not more?

 

I think a bit more clarity from the club would help here
What is the actual intention . Flexibility to allow more home or away supporters, or both on an ad hoc basis
As i said in an earlier post, further progress could start to test the capacity at VP and we don't currently have the money or even the space to expand,why would we when the pension fund own the stadium and all that would do is increase their wealth at no cost to them, they already have us other a barrel.

 

Promotion and being a stable championship club and we might well see a waiting list for season tickets.

 

And a healthy reselling market

 

Ha ha.. nice.

 

I think you've totally missed the point.

If we're selling out the ground on certain match days, why on earth would we want to make more room for away fans?

 

I can only think there is some safety reasons why we didn't get seats added to them when the TL Dallas seats were replaced a couple of seasons ago or even added them since then. It wouldn't take many games of them being used for them to pay for themselves, even in league 1 we are certain of at least 2 or 3 sell outs in that stand per season, in the Championship it will be more like 2 or 3 where they don't get used.

 

I don’t know. It must be a logistical nightmare having away fans in both MR and Dallas stands.
If away fans are in TL Dallas, do they close access towards Valley Parade after the match to prevent fans mixing?

 

They took the seats away nearest to the tunnel to protect the players and officials.
The stand cannot be extended towards MR I believe because the road is too narrow and foundations not suitable otherwise why wouldn’t they have built it in full from the start?
How many MR season ticket holders are actually affected by this potential change? Only half of E block is used by our fans anyway because of the segregation. Just give away fans the whole of E block and install a smaller segregation barrier similar to what’s at Huddersfield.

 

They sometimes close access. I believe it depends on the Intel police have received about potential trouble although it's not very consistent and I think it's only been closed on the odd occasion this year.

 

Again, I'll ask the same question.

Why do you believe the club wants to increase the capacity for away fans given we already give them around 800 tickets more than we need to when complying with the regulations?

 

Now emailed Ryan (Ryan.Sparks@BradfordCityFC.co.uk) - is that correct?

Still nothing from Paula.