New south / south west stand

Good answer.

Where in the ground shall we put that cattle grid?

I don't see why Derby or any other away following should be given most of the South stand. We have had to put up with poor facilities at the Mem for years, so when we finally get a decent new stand , why do some on here want to hand it over to the away support. Derby supporters get to sit in a decent surroundings every week , they only have to visit the Mem once a year , so they can stand out in the open or miss the game because they can't get a ticket , just like home supporters . Two blocks of seating (1,100 seats) plus the away end is fine for them.
I suggested to TG once that when away clubs bring a small following we could put them in part of the old South tent and close the awfull away end down , his reply was that all fans have to be treated the same and offered stand and seating. But there has been a few occasions since when away supporters were just housed in part of the old tent.
But my point is home supporters should be given a fair chance of being able to buy a seat in the new stand and not give 3,000 seats to away fans as suggested on here.

If they did, Jed would save it!

Until the rest of the ground has been developed I guess the club will have to configure the use of the South Stand on a match by match basis. If we don’t have enough home fans to fill the ground and the opposition have a large away following just pure economics mean the club would be mad not to get the maximum revenue, especially given our annual losses.

Longer term if the East and North get extended/rebuilt then the South can be handed over to away fans every week. 

I like your thinking, however there are a couple of issues:

1) How to maintain that segregation - You could use the South West corner for the segregation between the two sets of fans in view of the pitch.

2) A barrier at the back of the west stand somewhere, that then removes the toilets and the food options from the West stand, so creates another issue for home fans.

That’s more than fair . Thanks for the info.
Thinking which block to buy season ticket for next season and want to make sure it’s in a block that won’t be given to away fans …..so guessing by this it’s blocks A-F 

I suppose it all depends on demand, but I can’t imagine the club selling season tickets for blocks G, H and J so they can be flexible with allocations to away fans. Well, that would seem sensible to me, anyway.

Btw, does anyone know why the block next to the away terrace only goes halfway up? Apologies if this has been asked before.

I don't feel there's any need to give Derby the whole stand but we could give them 2,000 tickets, lose, say 300, to segregation and 1,000 to home fans. Plus they get another 800 in the away end.

Although if we win the next 3 games the share of tickets may have to change in our favour.

Thanks 👍

Does make sense in a way, but officially the South is a temporary stand, and who knows when the East Stand will be built. I’d have built it all the way to the top and crossed that bridge later on. Could have got a couple of hundred more fans in there for bigger games. That section would come down very quickly. And it looks a bit odd. Hey ho. What do I know?