I think it would be great if they could make the extended North Stand a safe standing Kop style home end, but we've never really had that have we? Maybe when the North Stand was redeveloped into a covered terrace the early 70's at Maine Road for a season (before my time). Or maybe when the Kippax was knocked down and the singers were reallocated to the North Stand, but a part of the stand was still the family stand. Some of the best atmosphere's I experienced was when a big away following took up the Platt Lane (Sunderland 1991), so not having a home end didn't effect us then, in fact isn't it what made us a bit different from the norm having the big vocal terrance down the side of the pitch? Why can't we replicate that now in tier 1 of the east stand...