Thought you were serious for a minute then realised Swales died 7 years earlier
A Season Ticket to play on it?
Thought you were serious for a minute then realised Swales died 7 years earlier
A Season Ticket to play on it?
Not been following this thread for a while , so forgive if it has already been mentioned.
Liverpool built the extension to there new stand at the back of their existing stand and then joined the new part to the existing stand -
an increase of 9,000.
The current roof hangs on a cable that is supported from outside the stadium on the supports, the original cable for the south stand roof is still there, even though the new roof is supported on higher supports that were built specially for the job. If they took the old cable away the rest of the roof (east, west, and north stand) would fall down, so the cable had to stay. Many also say the "old" roof is in a bad way, and will need replacing anyway, which could see some other changes.I've seen others talk about the roof cable net but don't really know what that means.
It makes me happy we now earn enough from being set up properly that if we did get a bill for some upgrades we could afford it. Just 12 years ago or so would have seen us fucked having to fork out 20m or whatever it will cost.The current roof hangs on a cable that is supported from outside the stadium on the supports, the original cable for the south stand roof is still there, even though the new roof is supported on higher supports that were built specially for the job. If they took the old cable away the rest of the roof (east, west, and north stand) would fall down, so the cable had to stay. Many also say the "old" roof is in a bad way, and will need replacing anyway, which could see some other changes.
Personally I don't see the clamour for a single tier north stand, I don't see it as some great panacea to the atmosphere anyway, I can't see many of the SS3 moving there, nor those that like the 'banter' with the away fans, I certainly won't be moving again. I also don't see them moving the family stand easily either, it caused a big enough fuss when it was decided to create it in the first place, and where would you put it ? Next to the away fans ?
Also I can't see the club being willing to lose up to 10k off the attendances for 2 years to build it either (even if we are always empty), then there's the cost of a complete redesign of the roof structure.
The current roof hangs on a cable that is supported from outside the stadium on the supports, the original cable for the south stand roof is still there, even though the new roof is supported on higher supports that were built specially for the job. If they took the old cable away the rest of the roof (east, west, and north stand) would fall down, so the cable had to stay. Many also say the "old" roof is in a bad way, and will need replacing anyway, which could see some other changes.
Personally I don't see the clamour for a single tier north stand, I don't see it as some great panacea to the atmosphere anyway, I can't see many of the SS3 moving there, nor those that like the 'banter' with the away fans, I certainly won't be moving again. I also don't see them moving the family stand easily either, it caused a big enough fuss when it was decided to create it in the first place, and where would you put it ? Next to the away fans ?
Also I can't see the club being willing to lose up to 10k off the attendances for 2 years to build it either (even if we are always empty), then there's the cost of a complete redesign of the roof structure.
Is it possible to change the seats in the SS to safe standing? If so I imagine it could be done over a summer break which would increase capacity there by around a third. They could then expand the 2nd tier in the NS back leaving the majority of the families in NS tier 1 until the expansion was finished?Personally I don't see the clamour for a single tier north stand, I don't see it as some great panacea to the atmosphere anyway, I can't see many of the SS3 moving there, nor those that like the 'banter' with the away fans, I certainly won't be moving again. I also don't see them moving the family stand easily either, it caused a big enough fuss when it was decided to create it in the first place, and where would you put it ? Next to the away fans ?
Also I can't see the club being willing to lose up to 10k off the attendances for 2 years to build it either (even if we are always empty), then there's the cost of a complete redesign of the roof structure.
Is it possible to change the seats in the SS to safe standing? If so I imagine it could be done over a summer break which would increase capacity there by around a third. They could then expand the 2nd tier in the NS back leaving the majority of the families in NS tier 1 until the expansion was finished?