I agree completely.



According to posters on here, the problem isnt one of cost, its to do with the houses behind the stand. But cant they just make it as low a roof as possible (rather than a really high one such as the carnegie stand), and buy the local residents agreement with a few free season tickets or something like that?

I didnt mention the licensing criteria at all. The scorn is merely that some other clubs have produced fancy pics and videos but have nothing in reality to show for it

I fully agree with you that Leeds are not under threat of relegation.

However if they dont improve Headingly soon, they will become the butt of a lot of sniping from various parts of the RL community.

have Leeds every actually made plans to put a roof over the away end and tried to get planning permission? if not how do they know what would be 'acceptable' or not to the residents. Sounds like a cheap excuse for giving away fans such poor facilities IMO



also surely it woulden't be that costly to just buy the row of houses and demolish them, not in the context of a 10million+ redevelopment anyway.

at least we are allowed to play on our grounds come play off time and didn't need to sell out to a supermarket because we were in danger of going broke

Not in recent years, no, but the 1995 masterplan indicated a stand there - this never got even close to planning permission though.







Headingley is different to most of the other older stadia in that a) an old infrastructure hasn't prevented it being updated on a practical level - plenty has been spent on the place over the years; whilst the two main stands are certainly nearly life-expired, SS in particular, it isn't exactly Knowlsey Rd/Belle Vue/River Caves b) the people who ultimately make the decisions will only ever see the inside of the corporate side of the ground which is bigger and better than any other in the league

That's because it is always sunny in Yorkshire whilst it is always foggy, raining and miserable on the dark side!

If they can't put a roof on, I don't see why they don't just demolish the stand, move the pitch right up to where it used to be, and then extend the other stand? They'd have to dig down though to be able to make the Carnegie Stand deeper (more terracing though at least), but they could always sell the extra earth to Bradford to raise the pitch as part of their redevelopment

For the alleged richest team in the League the ground and the facilities are woefull. One end uncovered, half the South stand taped off out of bounds cos it's falling down. Pitch like a sand pit courtesy of the Union club, hardly any decent public Bar area's. The list goes on! I'll believe it when I see it when Mr Hetherington & Co spend any money on it.

Like this...

Before...



After





You'd lose the capacity of the Western Terrace, but you'd make it back and more on extending the Carnegie Terracing, and being able to make the new North Stand longer. Would take a hell of a lot of digging though. Would make Headingley much better however, and you could also use the area where the Western Terrace used to be into the new tunnel, with a screen, sponsors around it, etc. It could be like WWE!

Leeds will then get Bentham every week to ensure the result goes to the RFL's script.

Pitch is looking mighty fine right now thanks.





You're joking right?

Are you related to Damo?