Definitely meant Blake as mentioned he is still part of group. I suspect he just didn't want to go in the minutiae of backroom organisation.Says they knew Neil Blake would be moving on from his role over a year ago and sees Pinto as his replacement. Kind of confused by that as surely their roles weren't equivalent? Maybe he got mixed up with Hughes?.
"We're going to rehabilitate it." Then talks about the digging down thing discussed on here earlier. South Stand would be a double deck. Then talked about rehabbing the East Stand to add a lot more hospitality and that going down is pretty much the only way to add the extra needed seats. North stand would stay as it is apart from a change to the roof. More seats in the Main Stand but all would be higher cost hospitality seats (if I understood correctly).
Even if we extended after the rebuild, we would top out at around 23k. I still think thats a very low ceiling on potential capacity. Kind of hoping we scrap the rebuild idea and go for the new build with more expansion potential.
At least they would have some PL in the city still?It all means at least a season at St Fairies. Get your railcards folks…
I think that's pretty much it. East and North remains virtually untouched as I understood it. Maybe theres wiggle room to make the pitchStruggling to get my head around the ‘dig down’ concept. To my mind, that would require demolition of two stands to enable the pitch to be sufficiently repositioned. The south stand obviously, but assume the main as well? They dug down at Man City after the commonwealth games but that was possible thanks to the athletics track.
I think you’d have to expand both into the ground to align with new pitch level - both would then require a larger roof, albeit at the same level as currently.I think that's pretty much it. East and North remains virtually untouched as I understood it. Maybe theres wiggle room to make the pitch
How would it work with digging down though? Surely some impact / expansion in North and East?I think that's pretty much it. East and North remains virtually untouched as I understood it. Maybe theres wiggle room to make the pitch
I’ll meet you by the north / east corner at 2.45 (turnstiles permitting) and we can measure it out. I think it would work on the basis that you’re shifting the pitch away from that pinch point and you’d re-profile that corner area to suit.Unless I’m being really stupid (no need to answer this bit) unless you go straight down which wouldn’t work with the current stands digging down just reduces the size of the pitch and we are tight on the pitch.
Can anyone explain how digging down would allow both two stands to remain and not reduce pitch size…
To me the only solution for current stadium is too large stands for the Tedmac and the Main stand and fill the corners.
I’ll meet you by the north / east corner at 2.45 (turnstiles permitting) and we can measure it out. I think it would work on the basis that you’re shifting the pitch away from that pinch point and you’d re-profile that corner area to suit.
Edit - you’d also possibly need rebuild the end block of both east and north - possibly, to create a wider and re-profiled corner.