[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St

I can't vouch for the state of the ladies' at Stanley but the gents are fairly typical at unmodernised grounds: pretty disgusting. But then most men will put up with a lot of things as long as they can watch the match. However, (IMHO) most women, rightly, won't put up with toilets that are not clean.
My wife and I try and get to as many away games in the south as we can, and she has her own list of least-favourite grounds. It's not those where Stanley lost the points, but where she was faced with, to her mind, a disgusting toilet. Farnborough Town was an all-time low, I recall.
Those who are not die-hard fans, i.e. Stanley's missing customers, may be equally put off by squalid toilets.
In trying to encourage bigger crowds, don't under-estimate [1] women's ability to influence who goes where on a Saturday afternoon and [2] the importance of clean toilets to most women.

P.S. Given the subject, it was a real challenge to avoid using the word c**p.

I'm not suggesting for one minute there shouldn't be decent toilets, or that there shouldn't be decent roof on the stand. Of course there should be. Its more the trend in football to things like corporate hospitality and other such things that I'm not over impressed with.