[Albion] Yet another club to increase ground capacity….

[Redinpeace]

@Redinpeace is the new main stand likely to happen anytime soon?

This has been rumbling on for years already, personally I can’t see it happening, nor can I see the club moving from the current site ( why would you as it sits a beautiful location).

One of the sticking points is that Nottingham Boat Club are unwilling to relocate, again why would you as it’s a stunning setting.

Possible solution would be to fill in the corners properly not with metal containers, it’s a blessing the owner is a shipping magnate and not a scrap man as he’d have used wooden pallets, and raise the Bridgford upper tier ( away end) to match the height of the Brian Clough stand and the Peter Taylor opposite.

Nottingham Forest are a small provincial club who punched above their weight for 5 years or so at the end of the 70’s and 80’s where crowds were around 35000 and 27000 respectively, in part this is due to County, Notts Cricket Club, Nottingham Rugby Club and many other sporting clubs locally all pulling potential fans away.

In short 36-38000 would be more than ample as when we end up back in the lower leagues the place will be half full.

Fill in the corners, lick of paint and fix the lightning the bogs, job done.

 

[trueblue]

This has been rumbling on for years already, personally I can’t see it happening, nor can I see the club moving from the current site ( why would you as it sits a beautiful location).

One of the sticking points is that Nottingham Boat Club are unwilling to relocate, again why would you as it’s a stunning setting.

Possible solution would be to fill in the corners properly not with metal containers, it’s a blessing the owner is a shipping magnate and not a scrap man as he’d have used wooden pallets, and raise the Bridgford upper tier ( away end) to match the height of the Brian Clough stand and the Peter Taylor opposite.

Nottingham Forest are a small provincial club who punched above their weight for 5 years or so at the end of the 70’s and 80’s where crowds were around 35000 and 27000 respectively, in part this is due to County, Notts Cricket Club, Nottingham Rugby Club and many other sporting clubs locally all pulling potential fans away.

In short 36-38000 would be more than ample as when we end up back in the lower leagues the place will be half full.

Fill in the corners, lick of paint and fix the lightning the bogs, job done.

Interesting and informative. I think you're being too self-deprecating with 'small club' though. To me, a small club would be one that can fill a ground up to about 10,000 people and, usually through location, not really aspire to much more. No less important but not in the same ball park as Forest.

 

[Redinpeace]

Interesting and informative. I think you're being too self-deprecating with 'small club' though. To me, a small club would be one that can fill a ground up to about 10,000 people and, usually through location, not really aspire to much more. No less important but not in the same ball park as Forest.

Perhaps you are correct “small club” was possibly the wrong term.

Due to the fact I’m a boring bugger and numbers driven a while back I had a look to see where Forest fall in relation to average league position from 1923-2023 and found we would be around 32nd or mid championship level, the fact we had 18 consecutive years of Brian and Peter in the top league slightly distorts the figures.

Big club is subjective, is it ground attendance based, how much you’ve won, what you’ve won ? when you’ve won it etc?, some clubs can tick all the boxes and some clubs have an inflated opinion of how they’re perceived, Derby County or Attendance FC as we call them being a great example. ( me being a bitter Forest fan having a nip at Derby ).

 

[Hometownglory]

Yes it can be done -----its just expensive !
Currently the club have been digging up large sections of the north stand concourse floor ready for expansion .

You obviously havent been to Anfield or Eithad
The north and south can be extended by travelling further back and cantilever out !
East and west a more costly venture

Judging by the demand at the moment, probs best we hold fire eh?