ccfcway
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my personal fav is the boca juniors stadium, its something else. woeful if you don't like heights though, its crazily steep. The top tier behind the goal was like climbing a ladder
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my personal fav is the boca juniors stadium, its something else. woeful if you don't like heights though, its crazily steep. The top tier behind the goal was like climbing a ladder
TTG
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OH GOD, NO AS YOU WERE...
Think it was the first FA cup tie played on a Sunday.
Gynnsthetonic
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I remember Italia 90 thinking what a great stadium the Genoa on is, I'm a bit of a stadium geek myself and will check out the ones mentioned. Another 4 sided stadium I like is FC Mainz, it has glass corners with one over looking the City Centre!
Ring Of Steel
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Wow, so I’m not the only one, fantastic! I used to be absolutely obsessed with Simon Inglis- ‘the football grounds of Britain and ‘the football grounds of Europe’, utter stadium porn. To this day I can rattle off capacities, attendances going back years and all that, as certain posters reading this will testify while cringing
Germany has some great grounds and it’s like we’ve swapped places with them, in the 80s & 90s everyone there was jealous of what they called ‘English style’ stadiums- ie dilapidated but loud as hell & close to the pitch, while they had huge bowls with athletic tracks. Since then they’ve gone down the route of having the grounds designed for atmosphere and we’ve gone down the corporate/ less atmosphere route.
whisper it but it’s one of the reasons I never really disliked Villa as much as others- the ‘old’ Villa Park was a fantastic ground- tradition, grandeur, bloody loud and every stand unique.
Gynnsthetonic
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Nothing wrong with Villa Park, one of the finest stadiums in the country!
Ring Of Steel
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Well I know where you’re coming from
ccfcway
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you want a stadium owned by someone else ?. its not ours, never has been and its highly likely it never will be.
sadly, we need to be moving on
Wyken Sky Blue
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New stadium announced in three weeks apparently...
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Ring Of Steel
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Don’t completely agree, the current owners would not necessarily pay for it all themselves while retaining ownership of the club.
Sky Blue Pete
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What does that riddle mean?
MalcSB
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Except we could hope for a better standard of pitch.
fernandopartridge
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The Ricoh is a sub standard stadium, cheaply finished with no particular design features. It has a decent capacity but that's it.
Ring Of Steel
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Haha- it means that they would use other people’s money- a new ‘stadium company’ would be set up and other parties would pay and have an exit route. They’re not going to stump up £40m on their own, but there are ways around it. Whether they have the appetite or the desire, that’s the question.
Ring Of Steel
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It’s actually not.
But I know where you're coming from in terms of individuality to us.
Ring Of Steel
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This is it. They could if they wanted to but why would they bother. I think they’d sell rather than build, it’s likely to be our ‘next’ owners that do that.
ccfc1234
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Think he is talking about us winning the state aid claim and the council needing to build us a stadium as some way of righting their wrong.
SkyBlueDom26
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Gynnsthetonic
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The Estadio Do Bessa home of Boavista, check out that stadium if your s fan of the Sampdoria and Genoa Stadium, it looks like our 2 tone design away strip!. Now would I love to walk to that on match day located on Hearsall Common after a skinfull of beer on Craven St before handWow, so I’m not the only one, fantastic! I used to be absolutely obsessed with Simon Inglis- ‘the football grounds of Britain and ‘the football grounds of Europe’, utter stadium porn. To this day I can rattle off capacities, attendances going back years and all that, as certain posters reading this will testify while cringing
Germany has some great grounds and it’s like we’ve swapped places with them, in the 80s & 90s everyone there was jealous of what they called ‘English style’ stadiums- ie dilapidated but loud as hell & close to the pitch, while they had huge bowls with athletic tracks. Since then they’ve gone down the route of having the grounds designed for atmosphere and we’ve gone down the corporate/ less atmosphere route.
whisper it but it’s one of the reasons I never really disliked Villa as much as others- the ‘old’ Villa Park was a fantastic ground- tradition, grandeur, bloody loud and every stand unique.
ccfc1234
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A huge ultras style Kop end with safe standing at the back would be good and seats in the other areas that give lots of headroom are ideal.
I know it's hypothetical but if we do build one what an exciting blank canvas to start from. Could we be the first club to design an away end that have the first 4 rows of reserved for children and those who can't stand for 90 mins?
The Stade Velodrome: Olympique de Marseille looks impressive too.
I know it's hypothetical but if we do build one what an exciting blank canvas to start from. Could we be the first club to design an away end that have the first 4 rows of reserved for children and those who can't stand for 90 mins?
The Stade Velodrome: Olympique de Marseille looks impressive too.
Ring Of Steel
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That would be perfect, Craven St used to be my haunt on HR matchdays before staggering into town
Ring Of Steel
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seats with headroom? I like the enthusiasm mind you
Why sell ? There’s still lots of family silver to sell off, just cashed in on one Sam McCallum there will be others. I tend to stay away from sisu topics they annoy me but we have a team I think will get to the next division and I can’t see for one minute MR getting anything like the funds that will be needed any budget increases for Championship wages. I don’t trust her and certainly don’t trust the now never seen or heard Tim Fisher.
Gynnsthetonic
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That was some walk and pubs to get through before hand, I was a Gosford St drinker!That would be perfect, Craven St used to be my haunt on HR matchdays before staggering into town
ccfc1234
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Haha I was meaning a decent gradient to the seating.seats with headroom? I like the enthusiasm mind you
Gynnsthetonic
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We'll have to wait and see, who knows what there end game is. They could pump in millions to get us to the premier League we don't know. Being as secretive as they are the could do anything that's the hope I'm holding out for otherwise it's too depressing to think we'll just go straight back down again.
Ring Of Steel
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I tended to be an everywhere drinker come match day, but Craven St was always the start point, and afterwards usually ended up in the Four Provinces..
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Sky Blue Pete
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Wow I love people commenting on things they have no way of knowing the truth of
If we go up and IF our manager is allowed to bring in three or four better players perhaps a couple of loans I don’t think we will struggle as much as others think, big statement and I know it’s a bold statement but we have a talented group of players add better quality to them I think we can be a surprise package.
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shmmeee
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Planning policy is public, the point of an outline planning application is to get what you want. It’d depend what the specifics of the site are and what’s being built so would require at a minimum a fully worked up plan first, but that depends on the site bought so it’s chicken and egg. Unless you want the planning office to take a couple of years off approving extensions and TPOs and do a land agent and planning consultants job for them.
I don’t, but every year I see starlets sold off the latest to a club we might well be playing next season mainly because our owner has decided to lose £200000 a home match and for what ?
SlowerThanPlatt
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You are aware we sold players at the Ricoh too and would be even if we played in front of 40,000 as we are a League One club?
Also who out of Coventry or Norwich who do you think would be better equipped if we found ourselves in the same league next season?