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[cdbearsfan]

No, by all accounts.

[pauliewalnuts]

I’d like two things from the new North Stand.

1. The feeling of being as close to the pitch as possible, to create a properly intense atmosphere.
2. Exterior done in quality brick, no cheap cost cutting steel and glass bullshit.

[CT Villan]

I like Fred Rinder's plan to get us to 120,000 in 1914...

[Brazilian Villain]

What about adapting it as a sitting on laps stand?

Sounds like my type of venue.

[eamonn]

John Carew, Carew!

[Zouch Villa]

I like Fred Rinder's plan to get us to 120,000 in 1914...

I like the stadium design, but it looks like we were trying to play out from the back even then.

[pauliewalnuts]

I like Fred Rinder's plan to get us to 120,000 in 1914...

I like the stadium design, but it looks like we were trying to play out from the back even then.

You can tell by looking at us in that picture, even then we had no idea how to use space.

[eamonn]

Magnificent picture all the same.

[algy]

I like Fred Rinder's plan to get us to 120,000 in 1914...

How big are those ends to have a capacity of 120000? Reckon you're maybe looking at 16000 tops in the Witton Lane + Trinity Road stands, so ... 52k capacity?

[Beard82]

I like Fred Rinder's plan to get us to 120,000 in 1914...

I like the stadium design, but it looks like we were trying to play out from the back even then.

You can tell by looking at us in that picture, even then we had no idea how to use space.

Great Picture - we were playing west ham - if you look close enough you can see a young Mark Noble in their midfield

[nigel]

I like Fred Rinder's plan to get us to 120,000 in 1914...

How big are those ends to have a capacity of 120000? Reckon you're maybe looking at 16000 tops in the Witton Lane + Trinity Road stands, so ... 52k capacity?

Back then when the Holte was standing I think the original capacity would have been about 35000 (I’ve heard it was more), so increase by half again gives your 52000. Mirror that at the Witton End and there you go

[dave.woodhall]

There was also standing in the Trinity & Witton Lane.

[robbo1874]

Maybe a smart, sloping roof that has lots of angled bits to reflect light back onto the surrounding area, or something fancy like that, would be possible.

The problem is that the sun rises over the Trinity, so going higher on the Witton Lane just casts a bigger shadow.

Maybe they could sell the houses at put Blose there instead.

think you’ve got it the wrong way round mate. The sun sets behind the trinity. Geek that I am - I looked at it on Google Earth yesterday. I reckon both footpaths are about 2m wide and the road itself is about 8m wide. If they built out across the road like with the trinity and took a 1m strip of the park for the supporting steel columns, you’d effectively have a 3 storey facade with probably 25-30m separation from the backs of the houses.

If it was built similar to the trinity with the cantilevered roof the facade could probably be a bit lower than the current facade and I reckon you’d probably get an additional 13 rows (~2000) of seating along the whole side of the ground. Whether or not it would stack up cost wise to add 13 extra rows is another matter, though it would also solve the problem of the current stand being cramped and people wanting to leave after 75 minutes because their knees are fkd from scraping the back of the seat in front.

 But my point is that it could probably be done without much impact on the neighbouring houses, in terms of loss of light or overshadowing. To do it I reckon we’d have to knock the whole thing down and start again. I think when the Witton lane was expanded they left the original bottom tier in place.

[algy]

But my point is that it could probably be done without much impact on the neighbouring houses, in terms of loss of light or overshadowing. To do it I reckon we’d have to knock the whole thing down and start again. I think when the Witton lane was expanded they left the original bottom tier in place.

Wasn't there a reason for that, though? Seem to remember my dad saying it was listed or something like that.

[VILLA MOLE]

i think originally they left the bottom tier but then had to go back and rebuild it when they built the upper tier .  I seem to remember issues with asbestos ??