I would like us to build a new stand in place of the North Stand but I like many others don't want the corners filled in keep it as it is.
If I built a football stand, I'd make sure anybody over 6 foot can sit down comfortably. Only sat in the North Stand once and I can only assume it was built with children and midgets in mind.
Steve Wyness is talking about 60,000. The only way that will happen is by a horse shoe design and leaving the holte free standing. But it's all academic until we establish the club as a Premier league club top 6/8. Until then it would be financial suicide.
We'd get bigger crowds if we showed more ambition.One thing that always made me feel a bit sorry for Lerner was that when MON was spending huge amounts of money, he spunked it mostly on solid but uninspiring players in the 5-6m mark. What he didn't get for his money was a single bums-on-seats player.Ashley Young was closest and even then, he wasn't much of a sells-tickets player.Another unfortunate thing about the MON era was that even when we were finishing sixth, we were doing so by way of being brilliant to watch away from home when we got to counter attack and extremely uninspiring (by comparison) at home. Yes, we were much better at home than in the last seven years or so, but other than our annual five goal drubbing of Bolton, we were hardly entertaining - take away that once a year five goal game and we averaged about a goal a game at home. Poor return and hardly a putter of bums on seats, but even then, we had 40k averages.
Quote from: The Edge on March 26, 2018, 10:44:44 PMSteve Wyness is talking about 60,000. The only way that will happen is by a horse shoe design and leaving the holte free standing. But it's all academic until we establish the club as a Premier league club top 6/8. Until then it would be financial suicide. Indeed, the financial pressure has forced us to merge Steve Round and Keith Wyness
You're not going to be able to dramatically do anything about the Witton Lane without purchasing the open space behind the Witton Lane and likely the houses, shifting the road- which just isn't worth it for another 4-5000 seats there.
Quote from: Ads on March 27, 2018, 11:08:22 AMYou're not going to be able to dramatically do anything about the Witton Lane without purchasing the open space behind the Witton Lane and likely the houses, shifting the road- which just isn't worth it for another 4-5000 seats there.I may have made this up, but when the Witton Lane stand was rebuilt, didn't we buy all the houses opposite and flatten them with this very intention only to have planning permission refused? This is why there's now a park over there.