Quote: knockersbumpMKII "No, I'm making a direct comparison between two stadia that had a lot of money spent on them and how the Olympic stadium could/should have been better for fans for the amount of money spent given the extra £272M spent to make it into what is primarily going to be a soccer stadium. if you can't grasp that, that's your problem not mine.'"
The core problem with the Olympic stadium was it was a mish-mash of ideas, the original plan was all about being eco friendly and leaving an athletics legacy, with the top tiers to be taken off the ground and the seats donated to charity/other sports. Leaving a 25k athletics ground. Years later the new government realised that athletics grounds are a financial black hole so they've retro fitted it in to a football stadium, and had to put things like bars/food outlets in which were previously outside the ground and temporary. A new roof also cost a fortune,my the original one didn't cover all the seats to save costs and I believe there are rules on the lighting/size of roof for some Olympic events.
Ideally the design should have been either like the Etihad where the running track was temporary and then bombed and a new lower tier and end stand added near the pitch, or designed to have retractable seats from the outset like the Stade De France.
All in all it may not be perfect but there are further changes to come when West Ham move in, and I still think it's an untapped part of London that RL can exploit.
