New stadium update...

[Roboklopp]

In the process of catching up to this thread I've discovered I've added about 6 posts of my own.

Viscious circle this one.

[Tom]

Coops going off topic you definatel need a full stop after the C. It's either all full stops or no full stops.

[zimbo]

This is a forum mate. Punctuation is best left at the door.


'Twas by the way.

The first casualty of a few beers is the pesky apostrophe.

'Twas ever thus.

[paulcooper4]

Coops going off topic you definatel need a full stop after the C. It's either all full stops or no full stops.

thats what I think too

[rushscored4]

to be honest i'm not sure they've gone for the HKS version for any other reason than it's in budget, and is similar to the last design which means:
a. they're not a complete laughing stock dithering between this design and that
b. the planning dept will let them start on this one without a new planning permission being sought as it's so similar to the old design which had planning approval.

i can't see the fact that they've gone for this design bears any relation to the future - i know HKS are from Texas, but if they wanted HKS and HKS alone then they wouldn't have invited AFL back to the table. IMO AFL just weren't good enough to take the job from HKS who kept near enough the same excellent design, and shaved £100m off the price.

Give Butch Cassidy some credit. He's obviously used AFL as a bargaining tool with HKS to drive the cost down by about £100m. If there had been no competition, HKS wouldn't have worked so hard on the re-design.

Iain, any ideas if some time down the future all the corners could be built up instead of having spaces? I want to have one seat more than the mancs or id rather stay where I am

You probably have no idea of the answer but you are the only cunt on here with a chance of knowing

Looking at the new plans and seeing what the Mancs have done it looks possible to add maybe another 10,000 seats in the corners. Plus, in theory, we could go higher in the future as the new stadium won't be land-locked like Anfield now.

My buddy at AFL reckons that the Mancs are expanding OT to around 82,000 but they won't be able to go any higher than that cost-effectively. Bazza, who's also an architect, said they are going up to 100,000 but they would have to re-route (or build over) the railway line then re-build the South Stand which I reckon would cost over £100m for 'only' an extra 14,000 to 18,000 seats.

We appear to have lost the full-stops in L.F.C. The first casualty of cost-cutting is acceptable punctuation. Twas ever thus. Also, getting superdan to do the font for the lettering probably saved a few bob, too.

Coops going off topic you definitely need a full stop after the C. It's either all full stops or no full stops.

Sorry, Tom, I agree with Coops - it should have just two full stops L . F . C for symmetry...

[zimbo]

This is a forum mate. Punctuation is best left at the door.

Oh, and my original comment was in relation to the loss of full stops on the 'LFC' on the seats in the new stadium design. Not to do with anyone's posts on here. Small point but needed clarifying.

[Neil Young]

Oh, and my original comment was in relation to the loss of full stops on the 'LFC' on the seats in the new stadium design. Not to do with anyone's posts on here. Small point but needed clarifying.

I think we know what a full stop is but thanks anyway.

[rushscored4]

I think we know what a full stop is but thanks anyway.

This post is pointless

[JohnOK]

Will we ever get to see the AFL design pics?

[Fowler_God]

Will we ever get to see the AFL design pics?

[wavydavy]

I've asked this before and nobody came forward with anything. Does anybody know if it's been indicated when work on the ground will actually start. Does current PP still apply. Will it get "called in" by the government etc. The sight of fences going up and digging plant going in would go an awful long way to settling the situation down for some. As the supporters groups said yesterday we've seen all the pretty pictures already months ago and **** all's been done yet. Work on the Gladstone is well under way. Surely time is of the essence for G&H in this respect. For face as well as money.

[Hansi]

On the funding:

What about the naming of the stadium, didn't Arsenal get something in the region of £100mil for the "Emirates?"

No they didn't.
That included eight years of shirt sponsorship as well as 15 years of naming rights.

[Hansi]

Times have changed,this will take awile,BLAME Morres and Parry.

Don't blame RP, blame PR.

[Red Chilli]

So this stradium is going up in 2011/12 right?

Am I right in thinking that the idea of this new stadium was first mooted in 1997?
That'll mean it's taken 14 ****ing years to get it built

Ridiculous

It was 1997 or 1999, not sure exactly, but shocking either way.

[Johnny]

Or one year if your name is Hicks or Gillette.(I am winding up this time,sorry,couldn`t resist)