The marquee has been a welcome addition to creating a better all round match day atmosphere. As you mention, it encourages people to come down earlier and spend money.
What Hilton needs to be looking at is expanding on this, not taking away. The iron bar isn’t fit for purpose, in an ideal world it would be knocked down and a more adequate replacement built; Fleetwood’s bar is the best example I’ve seen in lower league football.
If not, Can we take away the car parking spaces directly behind the DRE and expand the area where fans can gather, a couple of bottled beer bars and another food outlet would do a roaring trade.
Additionally I thought that the fenced off area near Debenhams was proposed as fans zone ?