He said the front few rows could also now be moved under the stage to leave standing space and "allow us to recover some of the atmosphere of the original design".
Early in the year, a Soyuz rocket carrying an unmanned Progress spacecraft suffered a launch failure, a failure that had some concerned that NASA might decide to leave the International Space Station without a crew.
That levelled matters and the Crusaders were soon in the lead when hooker Lincoln Withers found space to dive under some bodies from a few yards out to leave Quinn an easy kick.