Just had the newsletter from GH...



So I just thought I'd do my own mini investigation...

Thoughts and comments please!!

Before people get carried away, read this....



.......and before you all get excited about the vote on the plans, remeber the vote for the nick-name.

At the moment, the South Stand is the biggest capacity terrace in the UK and Europe, maybe the world, but correct me if i am wrong about that one.
This is a accolade on its own, so why not keep it this way and even make it a bigger terrace.
Take Liverpool FC for example, on their new ground that they are making, they are incorperating the Kop stand back into the new stadium, just making it a larger stand, because they know what the stand means to the fans.
Why can we not do this?

Because we need to cater to corporate business' and by keeping 8k (when its sorted) standing with a few K seats by building up and back would bring in more money to the club. I have no problem with people being behind me... scared they might catch you doing something you're not supposed to be

I don't think anyone is expecting it to happen any time soon or "getting carried away", it's just a general poll for interest really! Will be interesting to see what people think!

Personally, I'm of the "all standing" persuasion! Really don't like sitting at a match! Although I think that's very unlikely to happen IMO as most (if not all??) modern stadiums are all seated these days.

There's no way it's the biggest in Europe. Some German football clubs have stands that can be all seater for European games, but are easily converted to standing for normal league games. Somewhere like Dortmund will have a far bigger terrace than us.

EDIT - Dortmunds terrace actually holds rl24,454rl

Why not have a 2 tier South Stand, with the Standing capacity remaining the same as before, and a Top tier for the UNION toff's to sit in.



Something like this, by don't quote me

I agree with Homer. Maybe keep the standing capacity the same, but have a tier of boxes and then maybe seats above that. There doesnt need to be loads of seats, even if the second tiered seating was between 10 or 20 rows back.

Do you think those pitch markings get confusing for the soccer players

Yeah I'd settle for that. As long as the standing capacity would be the same. Not sure the people in the boxes would be too happy though, right above the band etc!!

To be honest, I reckon the club have already decided what the stand will look like, basically a clone of the Carnegie.

That's fine by me, as I quite fancy a seat in the new stand, but would also like it to keep its standing area.

if they did make it the same as the carniege stand, i wonder if they'd consider putting a corner section in inbetween the SS and CT

Was just thinking that myself but I suppose it depends on the size of the SS terrace. Also there would be a lot of blocked off light caused due to the filling in of the gap.