I don't think Carew was big signing (well he was a bigger than me and you signing but...) as such, it's was more, for me, that we signed him and Young within a day and suddenly we looked like we had an owner willing to throw some money about and get the players to push us on.Deano, Collymore and Angel are the big signings I can think of since the premier league started, which sort of sums up Lerner (and more importantly mon)
I still think the ground can retain a traditional feel and escape the blandness of uniformity. I agree about consistent heights, but as somebody who sits Upper Holte, I think looking out onto a large horseshoe Trinity/North/Witton would be very impressive. The areas of Aston and beyond you can see to the sides of the North are a bit meh. Equally, away fans in the Witton corner would be dwarfed by the North and you'd get a good atmosphere.A single banked Holte end, 13,500 strong, the largest in the country, would be magnificent. I think given the the way the ground could look from the outside, blended with how impressive it would be inside would help us retain tradition and give visiting fans that bollock tightening feeling that they're somewhere sacred and perhaps for the first time, intimidating.
I don't think Carew was big signing (well he was a bigger than me and you signing but...) as such, it's was more, for me, that we signed him and Young within a day and suddenly we looked like we had an owner willing to throw some money about and get the players to push us on.Deano, Collymore and Angel are the big signings I can think of since the premier league started, which sort of sums up Lerner (and more importantly mon) because we spent a fortune in his first 3 seasons and not one of those signings was a 'missing piece' signing who had all the fans thinking we were on our way. When we get back up Xia needs to pull one of those out of the bag fairly quickly to show that he's not all talk.
I think the ship has sailed on any notition of the Holte being a single tier.