please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Some old images created regarding Ashton vale but possible at Ashton gate [could hold 5-600] to replace the EE. Half decent?
What's the point in League 1? This is the way to do it - and second tiers on the other 3 sides providing another 8,000 seats going in next year taking it to 35,000. please log in to view this image
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image I remember these. An attempt to get an end into Ashton Vale after the club architect put lots of barriers in the way of certain type stands being included in design. What I hope fans do not want is another Barretts style development like South Wales. Plastic design for plastic fans, with the regulation dead atmosphere. I like the idea of combining the good bits of the Eastend with other stands like Wolves Southbank and a downscaled kop. I admire German stadia, and the ethos of "verein". The club should be about fans not just handed over to commercialisation. Germany has some cracking stands there where the design is catered for fans e.g acoustics/safe standing. City can't do the latter [yet!], but they can do the former.
It's Barratts by the way. You don't get it do you, or is some sort of turnip boy hang up? This is the future turnip head - nothing plastic about it. Concrete and steel with heart that beats like it's living, unlike that mausoleum you've got occupied by the living dead. Wise up turnip boy and come into the 21st century. Is the proposed redesign to overcome current health and safety issues with your shed?
Your highly basic stadium is the past. Missed the point regarding Germany. Fan centred stadia there have led to the highest average attendances in europe, atmosphere make the UK look abject. Consultation with fans to my mind is the future. Your stadium is held up as a benchmark of? Mediocre design allied to poor atmosphere, not just by root crops here, but all across the UK, and in your own City. Well done you. Is the proposed redesign to overcome current health and safety issues with your shed? No. The idea is relocation of offices in other stands, inclusion of boxes, pub, museum, and provision of services such as hospitality suites. Same thing as your owner has, but hopefully much less bland.
Relentless. The thing the welsh should get the least arrogant and giddy about is that BLUE ground. Can't do articulate because there are no other words for it as it looks so ****ing ****. City's ground might end up crap but at least it won't be as crap as that. No bowls aim for a bit of cool, like our City.
Here's another one along for the ride with a similar post. You don't like it do you? You and a few others on this forum can dish out the **** on the other threads mentioning Cardiff, but don't like it back on your own doorstep. Typical one way traffic just like the one way the pompous amongst you lot deserve to be going - and that's downwards. I've a lot of time for lots of wurzel posters having chatted with them for years, but there are a number of you across here I could talk under the table when it comes to football. A lot of you haven't got a bloody clue about the game. Unfortunately, and I suppose there is an element on all forums, there are a number that resort to the stone age approach as well. For the majority of decent posters over there however, the best of luck with Mr O'Driscoll. Despite my misgivings, I genuinely hope he pulls you out of the dive. ......and for the rest of you, like I said, you don't like it back do you?
please log in to view this image Because what we have is getting very old and can be improved upon without losing sight of the good things the ground has. Wow never posted on the cardiff forum but reading this "but there are a number of you across here I could talk under the table when it comes to football" just football or everything?? Write a book maybe get it off your chest..
If you want unconditional adoration try changing your log in to Jesus Christ, still won't happen though. You are delusional thinking that your club is the model all should follow. Your ground is a munter.
Thank you for your adoration guys - I doubt I deserve it, but I'll take it. In the meantime, if you need any help with your understanding of the game, or even an analysis of your personalities (I nearly said intellect ), please feel free to give me a shout as I'll be around regularly to check on your welfare. Thank you all for making this such a pleasant experience for me - I'm overwhelmed by your generosity.
please log in to view this image Back on topic compared to cardiff girls blouse of a ground this design is so hard it wipes its arse with a belt sander.
Unlikely to get safe standing areas while Richard Scudamore, a Bristol City fan, is Premier League CEO. He has come out as firmly against the concept over here despite its apparent success in Germany.
Maybe the safe standing campaign headed by a Bristol City fan can get enough support outside the EPL to go it alone. Looking better by the week as more and more clubs are in favour.
As for Mr Scudamore I have watched BCFC for decades, but apart from an away game is he a fan! I and others like me have never seen him at Ashton Gate.
I meant it. Aim for a bit of cool, and a design that deviates from the fluid mindset that creates most designs now. Odd indicator of the past and tradition does not mean a build is financially unviable. Partitions - boards cost bugger all. As a design the football stadium in Cardiff is a bit of a nadir.
Visited a stadium yesterday where a formerly passionate support has been consumed by the mediocrity of their surroundings. Cardiff of old with five thousand fans showed more.
Just a thought why would football League clubs care what Mr Scudamore thinks the seats are still in place with the Rail system of safe standing so if the clubs get promoted no problem, the Germans use it and in European games the fans know they have to sit in domestic games they can stand if they want. Those that want to stand tend to congregate in the sections dedicated for safe standing those doing it elsewhere apparently get moved those that prefer to sit throughout the whole match sit elsewhere no problems caused to anyone.
An absurd piece of legislation says Bristol City etc cannot have a safe standing area at this level due to amount of seasons played above division one. Peterbrough have an interim period to convert to seating, as evidently a terrace becomes dangerous when a team is promoted. Absurd probably does not do this justice.
