http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/157851-atyeo-and-eastend-next-season/ Questions being asked on various forums. If this goes ahead, there is a chance City won't be able to keep fans together who have spent years, even decades alongside each other. Family stands, unreserved seats? Lot of questions there which can affect thousands.
Or the alternative is to keep a tired stadium that is no longer really fit for purpose.- There is always lots of sentiment with an old ground, but I have never heard any supporter with a new ground wishing they were back. The likes of Hull, Derby, Brighton and Southampton all spring to mind
I have heard fans of Coventry, Derby and Middlesbrough yearning for their old stadiums. Many Boro fans hate "theirs", easy to see why. Methinks though you have misread what is being asked. Where are City going to put fans they have now next season when the inevitable is announced? I would envisage the club have some ranks of priority. There are a lot of variables here. I purchase a season ticket [Its three for my family] on the basis of the experience. That experience depends on elements not totally connected to the match. That three season tickets can become none if the experience is devalued.
Yes, can understand Boro- Derby, I was more thinking back to the baseball Ground. It had a pitch that Weston beach could rival. I guess I did jump the gun and mis read a bit- I was aware that the fans do need to be housed somewhere, in the short term that's not good/nice but in the long term, there would hopefully be a better stadium to enjoy. We have been waiting a long time and having recently visited Newcastle's ground (which is a smaller city than Bristol) ours just doesn't compare
I was unaware when buying a season ticket the Eastend could be knocked down before the seasons ends. Despite all the rhetoric about pillars nobody knows anything again. Hard club to support this.
I was under the impression the EE won't be knocked down until season end. This might sound harsh, but if the redevelopment goes ahead it's happening so may as well get used to it. I can see some on OTIB are questioning the money increase but without reducing the prices throughout the stadium everyone will have to pay the going rate. The club won't put the redevelopment on the stop to please the 1000+ plus in the EE. I know you lot are pissed off with it, but it's happening so time to accept it. You might even enjoy it in the other stands if your moving together, who knows?
People are questioning the total lack of consultation again. As of yet there is nothing to get pissed off with because despite the club having a supporters trust and club, a fan parliament and forums they are not talking to anybody, or of they are fans do not know who they are. It isn't 1000+. It is also the Atyeo. Do families want to sit next to a team like Millwalls fans, its a possibility? Many around BCFC are leaving, or have left. Who is running the show?
Moot word process [SOD], but have a read of OTIB, fans in the Atyeo don't know which side the away fans will be, fans in the Eastend have no idea where your somewhere is and how that will be appraoched. Fans reps on the clubs parliament resigned due to the club not consulting support properly over the re-development. Evidently City are meant to be trying harder to connect with support. Where?
I would have thought it is difficult to give absolute firmed up plans for this when we have so say ' not given up on AV' Too many ifs and buts yet, but I agree the fans parliament and trust etc should be 'in discussion about it' at least.
