Old Chestnut #1,045 - Rebuild The North Stand

[john e]

That would look pretty snazzy.

Looks good to me

looks like a carbon copy of every other modern ground to me

[IFWaters]

I like the cheap and cheerful option to keep costs and ticket prices in it down.

Perhaps just make it one massive tier and a family / locals stand with cheap catering underneath. 10,000 would be about right, perhaps a football museum under part of it.

And i'd like a tower in the corner. About 300 feet high. Not sure what in it - perhaps a bell tower so the bells can ring for claret and blues. And a massive neon club badge with the blinking eye of Sauron atop, looking over all of Birmingham and down on our smelly local rivals.

[Steve R]

The ground as a whole has too many bad seats. I don't see any point in layout out a large capital sum just to add another 5-7,000 to capacity.

If we do anything about the ground, it needs to be something a good deal more imaginative than redevelop the Witton end or fill in the corners.

[Smirker]

looks like a carbon copy of every other modern ground to me

This ^

I too would really like to see it redeveloped but if it is I'd want to see something different, not just a corner being filled in or something. That picture just looks like a small scale Old Trafford.

[VILLA MOLE]

I like the cheap and cheerful option to keep costs and ticket prices in it down.

Perhaps just make it one massive tier and a family / locals stand with cheap catering underneath. 10,000 would be about right, perhaps a football museum under part of it.

And i'd like a tower in the corner. About 300 feet high. Not sure what in it - perhaps a bell tower so the bells can ring for claret and blues. And a massive neon club badge with the blinking eye of Sauron atop, looking over all of Birmingham and down on our smelly local rivals.

THAT COULD FIRE A LASER 

[MoetVillan]

is chestnut 1044 tilting the big screen between Doug and Witton end so I can see it in the Trinity?

[danlanza]

Don't think we have the cash at the moment to do anything to the ground. Something does need to be done with The North Stand though.

[The Man With A Stick]

Didn't they give the back of it a good clean up around the time Lerner took over?  Could definitely do with the same again.  I don't think we need a new stand though.

[curiousorange]

It's shit, but I like it.

[LeeS]

That would look pretty snazzy.

Looks good to me

looks like a carbon copy of every other modern ground to me

Big no from me. If you fill that corner in but not the others then it means you have a lopsided stadium. Either go the whole hog and make it rounded all the way around or keep the 4 stands separate. Personally, I prefer separate stands as it marks us out as different from the Sunderlands, Middlesboros. Leicesters etc.

[curiousorange]

I presume having that vile skeletal nonsense on the roof of your stand is the cheapest way to build a cantilevered one these days. It does make you wonder how older grounds like Craven Cottage and Goodison manage to stay upright.

[cheltenhamlion]

Give it a glass roof and a John Lewis like New St but with a Wonkavator in it.

[TopDeck113]

Clean it up a bit, but we should keep it exactly as it is.  The one surviving stand to have witnessed the glory days of 80/82 - plus part of the reason why those days were so short lived.

[john e]

Clean it up a bit, but we should keep it exactly as it is.  The one surviving stand to have witnessed the glory days of 80/82 - plus part of the reason why those days were so short lived.

Yep, it's been so bad for so long it's now becoming good

[eamonn]

Give it a glass roof and a John Lewis like New St but with a Wonkavator in it.

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