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Re: Championship stadium requirements

By StirlingBoro9122/9 09:36Mon Sep 22 09:36:54 2025In response to Championship stadium requirements

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I think there's an interesting, quick, and probably cost-effective solution to the seating quandry if we go up.

Most PL clubs and quite a few Championship clubs have safe-standing sections. Instead of turning the East Terrace into a seating stand, we could convert it, over the space of the summer, to safe-standing. This would put us in full compliance with the Championship requirements (I think).

I think IF we went up (and god it's far too early to even be thinking about the play-offs let alone promotion) we would be straight back down but the experience and money it would give us would be huge for the club and honestly, with us pulling in 4k crowds now and cementing ourself as a League One club (or at the very least an established FL club) converting the East Terrace, regardless of where we are next season, makes sense.

If we go up then make the conversion over the summer. It shows ambition.

If we don't go up then spend a few more years in League One but set out a timetable for conversion by the start of the 2028/29 season.

I say this as someone who has only ever been on the East Terrace for league games (I've been in the West a handful of times over the past 20 years). The idea of changing it feels like losing a family member, but ultimately, now the North has been done and bedded in, it is the black sheep of the ground. Safe-standing preserves some of it's character while bringing it into the 21st century.