Old Chestnut #1,045 - Rebuild The North Stand

[IFWaters]

We havent given this one a run out for a while. What with all the stuff in the news about the politicians saying the country needs to spend big on infrastructure, isnt it time Villa did the same and get rid of the abomination of the North Stand once and for all ? If Lambert can return us to nearer the top it would be good to have the stand ready for all the gloryhunters to come back to.

What design would you like to see ?
- Continue the Trinity round a la Newcastle (a great big corner stand)
- seperate stand - match the Holte ?
- just return it to a large grassy knoll ?

[Clark W Griswold]

I kind of liked what Bolton did at their old ground, i'd put a supermarket there.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I kind of liked what Bolton did at their old ground, i'd put a supermarket there.

Aye, on the spot where 35 Bolton fans were killed 60 odd years ago. What a tribute.

[Slaphead]

Destroy the Trinity too and rebuild it with the north.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I think we need to plough all our resources into changing the name of the Doug Ellis stand back to Witton Lane.

[VILLA MOLE]

lick of paint in these times of austerity please

[Chico Hamilton III]

We could sell Benteke to finance it.

[Nev]

I love it. The tiny concourse, tight stairwells, the boxes with curtins, that original concrete finish, the chocolate brown steelwork everything about it screams the 70's.

Keep it.

Forever.

[Toronto Villa]

Put a good team on the pitch for a sustained period of time and all good things will follow.

[bilsim]

That would look pretty snazzy.

[Legion]

A bit of sand-blasting wouldn't go amiss. Or a good scrub down with a power washer.

[mrastonvilla]

Probably a long way off developing the north stand just at the minute. I wonder if the club will wait to see how any safe standing trials turn out and if there would be sufficient demand to introduce a safe standing area into a redeveloped north stand that had been designed specifically for that purpose?

[VILLA MOLE]

We could sell Benteke to finance it.

is that you Doug ?

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Put a good team on the pitch for a sustained period of time and all good things will follow.

I think that if we get off to a reasonable start next season we would be filling up for pretty much for all of our home matches.
So might be worth looking to increase capacity, providing we keep our No1 assett. PL.

[paul_e]

Big no to rounded corners.  I much prefer 4 distinct stands.  I actually think replacing the seats and fittings and giving the whole thing a bit of cladding would enough - think the New Street Redesign - the time and cost of knocking it down isn't really worth it for me.