bored this evening so took a closer look at capacities of sections and tickets sold in the reserved sections.
These are my figures for the various blocks
North Stand
C= 542 tickets sold
D= 523 tickets sold
E = 522 tickets sold
F= 507 tickets sold
G= 425 tickets sold
I make it 2519 tickets sold out of a possible 2787 capacity within the reserved seating area.
South Stand
C= 13 tickets sold
D= 212 tickets sold
E= 149 tickets sold
F = Corporate prawn sandwich only
G= 251 tickets sold
H= 123 tickets sold
I = 158 tickets sold
This amounts to 906 sold
Hence in just the reserved seating areas we would appear to be looking at 3425 season ticket holders at present.
This is significantly greater than the seating capacity at Knowsley road which was only 2300. So already the club will be benefiting from the greater income generating capacity of the new stadium as seats are more expensive than the terrace.
On top of these figures we need to add in people who have purchased season ticket seats in unreserved blocks of the north and south stands, also the family seating areas, the Western terrace and also the premium seat holders in the South stand.
. Looking at the Western terrace side of things. The East stand At Widnes were current season ticket holders for the new West stand will be located, has a capacity of 2443. This is pretty much filled by season ticket holders, infact i recall that early in the season someone commented that only a couple of hundred tickets for this stand go on general sale for each match.
Therefore its quite feasible to assume that we will be automatically transferring 2000 season ticket holders into the Western Terrace in the new stadium from this current season.