[Albion] Amex expansion.

BeHereNow · Jan 26, 2021

If anyone’s interested, I finally got round to making the new tier steeper. It was too shallow before and the view from the back wasn’t very good, I think this is more realistic.

Let’s hope it will get built one day and we’ll all be allowed to go.

BeHereNow · Jan 26, 2021

Oh, and just for fun...

*Gullsworth* · Jan 26, 2021

BeHereNow said:
Oh, and just for fun...
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Do you own a lot of lego?

brighton_tom · Jan 26, 2021

Will this happen in the summer?

BeHereNow · Jan 26, 2021

*Gullsworth* said:
Do you own a lot of lego?

No. If only I could make it in real life though :drool:

BeHereNow · Jan 26, 2021

brighton_tom said:
Will this happen in the summer?

It might if the council allow it. They can build it, but they need permission to be able to host 32,000.

el punal · Jan 26, 2021

BeHereNow said:
If anyone’s interested, I finally got round to making the new tier steeper. It was too shallow before and the view from the back wasn’t very good, I think this is more realistic.

Let’s hope it will get built one day and we’ll all be allowed to go.
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That looks lovely, but we are Brighton and Hove Albion and those goals need to be bigger, much, much bigger.

British Bulldog · Jan 26, 2021

BeHereNow said:
It might if the council allow it. They can build it, but they need permission to be able to host 32,000.

There are times you wonder why we have local councils? All they ever do is object to things and waste a fortune of our council tax on constant meetings and expenses. Bit like MP's really.

TheBigUnit · Jan 26, 2021

BeHereNow said:
If anyone’s interested, I finally got round to making the new tier steeper. It was too shallow before and the view from the back wasn’t very good, I think this is more realistic.

Let’s hope it will get built one day and we’ll all be allowed to go.
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Let’s hope it happens, really helps the ground look properly finished and would help us battle it out with St. Mary’s for any potential World Cup bid. :amex:

Plus the added match day revenue will only help the club longer term (in a post-COVID world obviously...).

TugWilson · Jan 27, 2021

British Bulldog said:
There are times you wonder why we have local councils? All they ever do is object to things and waste a fortune of our council tax on constant meetings and expenses. Bit like MP's really.

It makes me genuinely livid that these councils are so bloody ungrateful towards The Albion . 200 MILLION added to the local economy in one year because of The Albion and they bitch and whine over a few added seats , utter morons . :angry:

BeHereNow · Jan 27, 2021

TheBigUnit said:
Let’s hope it happens, really helps the ground look properly finished and would help us battle it out with St. Mary’s for any potential World Cup bid.

Plus the added match day revenue will only help the club longer term (in a post-COVID world obviously...).

Amen to that. I think similar can be done to the South Stand too, they’ve already got some seats up there.

maltaseagull · Jan 27, 2021

BeHereNow said:
Oh, and just for fun...
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I think you got the signage wrong.

Should read BHAFC 0

TheBigUnit · Feb 1, 2021

BeHereNow said:
Amen to that. I think similar can be done to the South Stand too, they’ve already got some seats up there.

Would be great to see the club slowly push towards that 35,000 mark that the Goldstone use to see back in the 70s and 80s - Martin Perry as always said that they’s always room for the odd extra seats here and there. With this bringing the ground to 32,500 a capacity of 35,000 then doesn’t seem too far away :amex:

Hugo Rune · Feb 1, 2021

TheBigUnit said:
Would be great to see the club slowly push towards that 35,000 mark that the Goldstone use to see back in the 70s and 80s - Martin Perry as always said that they’s always room for the odd extra seats here and there. With this bringing the ground to 32,500 a capacity of 35,000 then doesn’t seem too far away

I think 32,500 is it sadly, anymore than that will need to see a rebuilt stand from scratch I would imagine. Certainly a roof would need to come off somewhere like that have down at Citeh’s ground.

gazingdown · Feb 1, 2021

Not sure how possible it is, however if you lowered the pitch, a whole 1 seat row added is about 750 seats? Not sure you could more than 2 rows, so 1500 seats. Plus doing the same to the south stand as north with upper tier, that's another say 500 seats.

So that's 2000 that "could" be added (physically at least).

Easy 10 · Feb 1, 2021

Hugo Rune said:
I think 32,500 is it sadly, anymore than that will need to see a rebuilt stand from scratch I would imagine. Certainly a roof would need to come off somewhere like that have down at Citeh’s ground.

Seen this floated a few times, but there's no way that roof is coming off. The entire roof is connected by a ring of steel that is embedded deep underground in concrete thrust blocks at the north and south ends.

You'd basically have to disassemble the entire stadium roof in order to raise it anywhere. Not gonna happen.

TheBigUnit · Feb 1, 2021

ac gull said:
The minutes from the Falmer Parish Council meeting in November 2019 include below as "stadium issues"

- large out door tv screen, shop with toilets and food kiosk all where old bandstand was
- two new executive boxes and increase in capacity to 32,750

Above to be included in a planning application by BHA "sometime in the new year"

32,750 from FPC minutes so that’s another 250 closer to 35,000!!! :amex:

El Presidente · Feb 1, 2021

Easy 10 said:
Seen this floated a few times, but there's no way that roof is coming off. The entire roof is connected by a ring of steel that is embedded deep underground in concrete thrust blocks at the north and south ends.

You'd basically have to disassemble the entire stadium roof in order to raise it anywhere. Not gonna happen.

Exactly, and there's also the impact on the bats to take into account.

TheBigUnit · Feb 1, 2021

El Presidente said:
Exactly, and there's also the impact on the bats to take into account.

And the City Council being in favour of any development, anywhere. Guess we’ll just have to expand only the section of the ground that lies in the Lewes District Council area

Easy 10 · Feb 1, 2021

El Presidente said:
Exactly, and there's also the impact on the bats to take into account.

Indeedy.

Plus any talk of rings of steel and thrust blocks is liable to get folks a little hot under the collar.

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