So many questions and every answer is rather complicated!!
Briefly, we currently only offer away fans terrace accomodation and we have to charge them what we charge on the home/Clayton end; ie:£13. If we make the away fans sit down we can charge seating prices of £15, ie £2 more each. That was the reason behind the plan to seat the Whinney Hill, it would create additional revenue. However the overall costs are currently very prohibited.
The all signing, all dancing new stand would be superb. But could anybody GUARANTEE even without "the credit crunch" that massive extra corperate revenue would be raised immediately. We tried to make the Sportsman all corporate, that didn't work, in fact the debate behind this has caused more uproar than this issue. To whom are we going to sell office space to now?? Who will buy corporate boxes; Burnley Blackburn and PNE can't fill them them for normal games.
We could charge more for visitors (currently £2 per person) but that will only bring in around £1000 per match, £25k per year. Pay back would be 10 years!!
With regards to what it will look like. Please look at the match gallery for Macc away last season (29/3/08) Look at pictures LC1Y1000 + 1002 + 1014 + 1011. They give good pictures of how their stand looks.
With regard to how it will operate on a match day. Good point the safety team are currently working out the practical implications.
Finally, with regard to seats to the back at either end, to leave the middle totally terraced. My first thoughts are that vision from the seats MAY be impaired. If you sat on the end and across the gangway somebody is stood up, my guess is that the seated person may have his/her view blocked; need to think about that in more detail. I do know Dave O'neill checks the MB regularly, so I'm sure he'll give it some thought, if its practical
