Old Chestnut #1,045 - Rebuild The North Stand

[Ad@m]

I suggest we elect a committee here and send the honourable members to Dortmund to find out how to build a proper football stadium. Any volunteers?
About 10,000 safe standing to start with should be on the list.

You mean a bit like this...

in all fairness, that's a little bit fucking ace

I think that's the small stand at Dortmund too.  The big one behind the goal, the Sudtribune, holds 25,000!!!

The old Holte was bigger.

I know it was. It was also knocked down 20 years ago whilst Dortmund still have theirs.

[pauliewalnuts]

I suggest we elect a committee here and send the honourable members to Dortmund to find out how to build a proper football stadium. Any volunteers?
About 10,000 safe standing to start with should be on the list.

You mean a bit like this...

in all fairness, that's a little bit fucking ace

I think that's the small stand at Dortmund too.  The big one behind the goal, the Sudtribune, holds 25,000!!!

The old Holte was bigger.

I know it was. It was also knocked down 20 years ago whilst Dortmund still have theirs.

Also, the old Holte might have held more (23,600 I seem to recall being the figure in the 80s at least) but the stand at Dortmund has to adhere to safe standing requirements, which means more space per supporter, which makes it by definition physically much bigger.

[Louzie0]

I'd like something like the Birdcage (Olympics 2008) so that Gabby could run around the top of it and confuse the opposition.

[Irish villain]

The current stand has few admirers. It really takes away from the rest of the stadium.It looks ok in the Witton corner but the Trinity just makes it look ridiculous.

[not3bad]

A mirror of the Holte end would be good for me, but the "Lower North" would be a safe standing area.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I sound like a stuck record on this subject but I love the North Stand ( well, the view of it from the pitch, at least). The finest example of its kind in the country and the blueprint for dozens of other clubs' more inferior stands. Pioneering, ahead of its time, it'll be missed by me if it ever goes.

Thankfully/hopefully, it won't be going anywhere for a few years at least.

[Pete3206]

Wasn't there some shennanigans involved with the building of this stand in the 70's?

[sirlordbaltimore]

Love the view, hate the legroom and concourse madness

[Surrey Villain]

I sound like a stuck record on this subject but I love the North Stand ( well, the view of it from the pitch, at least). The finest example of its kind in the country and the blueprint for dozens of other clubs' more inferior stands. Pioneering, ahead of its time, it'll be missed by me if it ever goes.

Thankfully/hopefully, it won't be going anywhere for a few years at least.

Are you Doug Ellis in disguise?

[not3bad]

Wasn't there some shennanigans involved with the building of this stand in the 70's?

Loads.

[damon loves JT]

I think the north stand is a monstrosity, but George Orwell thought the same about the Sagrada Família.

I think the parallels are obvious

[eamonn]

Wasn't there some shennanigans involved with the building of this stand in the 70's?

Loads.

Probably been a lot of shagging in it since too.

[DeKuip]

I sound like a stuck record on this subject but I love the North Stand ( well, the view of it from the pitch, at least). The finest example of its kind in the country and the blueprint for dozens of other clubs' more inferior stands. Pioneering, ahead of its time, it'll be missed by me if it ever goes.

Thankfully/hopefully, it won't be going anywhere for a few years at least.

Looking at it from the pitch I'd say it's one of the ugliest stands in the top two divisions. It has always looked out of place from the day it was built and the sooner it goes the better.
Having said that, the priority at the moment should be in upgrading the cars in the car park at Bodymoor Heath and in ensuring their agents can afford to heat their pools 24 hours a day.

[PeterWithesShin]

It was a fantastic stand when it was built. Set the standard for a number of stands around the country that followed after. However like a lot of buildings built in the 70's, time hasn't been kind to it.

[dave.woodhall]

How can you say it looked out of place when it was built, when at the time it was the most modern stand in the country?