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Originally posted by Lawrie
I’m sure someone has said this before, but I’ll say it again now, I was under the impression that when the Whitehorse lane stand and sainsburys were built it was done with the footings in place to put another tier over the top without having to demolish anything at a later time. I wouldn't be too pessimistic, with the rate at which technology is advancing, some of us may well be alive in 400 years time.
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No so sure about that Nicholas.
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Originally posted by Nicholas91
I wouldn't be too pessimistic, with the rate at which technology is advancing, some of us may well be alive in 400 years time. We're 3d printing the new main stand but we've run out of space in Parish's garage.
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Whitehorse road end is due to have changes at the same time as the new stand is built
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Originally posted by ex hibitionist
You heard wrong, it's Plough Lane.
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Originally posted by m/k mick
Whitehorse road end is due to have changes at the same time as the new stand is built Looking at pictures, I worked out that you could probably add around another 3000 seats to the WHL if you used the space currently taken up by boxes. That would make it hold around 4500 with the longer pitch. That would take the capacity up near 37k with the new corner section next to the Holmesdale. Ideally, another modest sized tier could add say another 5k. That would take us over 40k. You can tell I have time on my hands this morning. Edit. The issue with the AW is that a second tier would presumably have to sit over the existing one due to lack of room behind it. That might cause an issue with sight lines for those at the rear of the lower tier. This all just proves that I'm no architect. Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (08 Jul 2024 11.35am)
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Looking at pictures, I worked out that you could probably add around another 3000 seats to the WHL if you used the space currently taken up by boxes. That would make it hold around 4500 with the longer pitch. That would take the capacity up near 37k with the new corner section next to the Holmesdale. Ideally, another modest sized tier could add say another 5k. That would take us over 40k. You can tell I have time on my hands this morning. Edit. The issue with the AW is that a second tier would presumably have to sit over the existing one due to lack of room behind it. That might cause an issue with sight lines for those at the rear of the lower tier. This all just proves that I'm no architect. Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (08 Jul 2024 11.35am)
1. replace the roof with a tier of seats but with no subsequent roof (i.e. it is an open top tier). That shouldn't alter the overall height too much. Several stadiums abroad have them. Put the away fans up there and if it rains hand out free red and blue ponchos!
hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing. |
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Originally posted by Behind Enemy Lines
1. replace the roof with a tier of seats but with no subsequent roof (i.e. it is an open top tier). That shouldn't alter the overall height too much. Several stadiums abroad have them. Put the away fans up there and if it rains hand out free red and blue ponchos! There aren't actually that many houses directly behind the AW. They could be bought up I suppose. One would have to question the need for a public road in that case. A pedestrian area could then be created with police access, and the new tier could then come backward. Obviously, anything like this would be several years off. We won't see the Main Stand for 2 or 3 years, but it does seem like the club has to take advantage of our current status and grow to the levels of a bigger London club. If at some point we bought out Sainsbury's or incorporated it into a stand, we could probably then go to around 46K. Do we really need more? Not until we start winning things. I'm sure Steve Parish would be laughing if he read this stuff. It would be years of headache ahead for him.
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
Fair. My reply was probably more suited to the previous post. Ultimately all projects like this start with predatory work... why bother with a press release if nothing was happening? It's not like they're putting this stuff out there because they're worried it won't happen FFS. Just trying to communicate that things are moving, the journey has started, ITS UNDERWAY I suppose because certain posters can't see immediate progress then it's all a sham. Absolute dross Certain posters or maybe majority have no clue about how construction works so just weirdly decide to spout dross on here to be negative. People saying Fulham has been going for 4 years when it's actually more like 10+ given all the pre construction phases etc. That's exactly the phase we're in. Stands and stadiums are very different and harder things to construct that your usual office or resi projects which also still have to go through all the pre con phases, hence why the stand is taking a while. Not like have a Russian oligarch backing the project either that will just proceed with everything no expensive spared / money no object etc Edited by akiisalegend (08 Jul 2024 4.25pm) Edited by akiisalegend (08 Jul 2024 6.20pm)
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
Fair. My reply was probably more suited to the previous post. Ultimately all projects like this start with predatory work... why bother with a press release if nothing was happening? It's not like they're putting this stuff out there because they're worried it won't happen FFS. Just trying to communicate that things are moving, the journey has started, ITS UNDERWAY I suppose because certain posters can't see immediate progress then it's all a sham. Absolute dross Well we are 'the Eagles'.
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Originally posted by ex hibitionist
You heard wrong, it's Plough Lane. Nope you're wrong - it's definitely Imperial Fields
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Originally posted by Behind Enemy Lines
1. replace the roof with a tier of seats but with no subsequent roof (i.e. it is an open top tier). That shouldn't alter the overall height too much. Several stadiums abroad have them. Put the away fans up there and if it rains hand out free red and blue ponchos! I'm just looking at a picture of the AW having its new advertising strip fitted, and that made me think about looking at a drawn plan of the stand. The footprint could remain the same and the roof could be replaced with something more in keeping with the main stand. Just time wasting of course, but it would be nice to know why this couldn't happen from someone who knows about building. The camera platform will be removed, and I expect the club will remove the uprights and support the roof from above in the nearish future as a shorter term improvement.
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