They have decided the money will not be worth it as the they have been told for safety reasons they can't give the away fans the space and facilities such as bars and toilets without giving them large parts of the concourse behind the north or east stands that are needed for home fans. You seem to think you can give them a corner and that is all that is needed, you need to take into count all this and other logistics such as enough turnstiles etc.
The safe standing is for 13/14/15 and is to deal with the constant standing that the club are constantly warned about.
This is from the people owe own and run the stadium.
Also the 2000 empty seats is the wish of SAG, if the sag didn't want segregation of that account we would be able to sell tickets in the south stand as we did before for home fans
Either way, money will need to be spent or Doug will be throwing away 2000 tickets whenever we demand a sell out. In the Premier League, that would be every week.
It's obviously not easy, it would cost millions to move the away fans. It's something that needs sorting, despite the cost.
Not sure the SAG have fully explained the reason they had to segregate home fans from each other in a play off semi final. The fact Doug is mentioning the fact that he goes everywhere and sees fans next to each other is important. It's an issue that needs addressing because we are not far away from needing those seats.
When Leeds come to town, or Leicester, we'll have thousands of empty seats, despite the demand being there.