A full Villa Park at night, bouncing, one of the greatest places on earth. The atmosphere at the Everton game at the start of last season, it was like a release of a decade of shite.The brief as you say for the new North and or Wittion should be;Pitch side - large, imposing, intimidating Internally - vast and spacious Externally - grand, nods to 19th century origins (basically go onto the Holte car park and make some notes of what you see)I cant think of many stands like the Holte up and down the land really, from the outside.
Quote from: Ads on March 08, 2021, 09:33:50 AMYou couldn't retain it. It was small and pokey with restricted views owing to the posts. It had a lovely facade, but given how small it was, it would have been impossible to keep it in the footprint of a significantly larger stand.It would have been nice to have copied the exterior of the Holte and built something like that in homage, with stained glass perhaps on the first level etc.What was built took Lerner to finish mind, so there's no doubt HDE did it on the cheap.i am sure a compromise between retaining and bulldozing the whole lot could have been found.
You couldn't retain it. It was small and pokey with restricted views owing to the posts. It had a lovely facade, but given how small it was, it would have been impossible to keep it in the footprint of a significantly larger stand.It would have been nice to have copied the exterior of the Holte and built something like that in homage, with stained glass perhaps on the first level etc.What was built took Lerner to finish mind, so there's no doubt HDE did it on the cheap.
I'd almost have no issue with a bowl-type effect if they rebuilt the North Stand. but leave the Holte as a stand on it's own, I guess actually that would then be a horseshoe?Anyway, I reckon we could get planning permission to build the Witton Stand over the road, as we have with the Trinity. I also think there's a huge amount of space to re-do the North as a monster of a stand. In terms of capacity to aim for, I think 50k is conservative, we should go for more.
Where would we play our home games if any rebuilding affected the existing pitch?
40,000 seat commonwealth games stadium. Good opportunity to get it sorted.
Quote from: Drummond on March 08, 2021, 11:49:58 AMI'd almost have no issue with a bowl-type effect if they rebuilt the North Stand. but leave the Holte as a stand on it's own, I guess actually that would then be a horseshoe?Anyway, I reckon we could get planning permission to build the Witton Stand over the road, as we have with the Trinity. I also think there's a huge amount of space to re-do the North as a monster of a stand. In terms of capacity to aim for, I think 50k is conservative, we should go for more.You'd be imposing on the housing behind Witton Lane.