Sir A1ex
Full Member
No, not by my understanding. The point being that the walls are there to avoid this.So basically those seats are on a slight gradient?
No, not by my understanding. The point being that the walls are there to avoid this.So basically those seats are on a slight gradient?
Oh, right... yeah, would be a bit odd!I don't think he meant that you are sitting in a lob sided seat, at least I hope that's not what he meant.
Found the old thread discussing this but my illustration has long since disappeared, so I've stuck it back up on Imageshack:
Thie idea is that it shows how the North stand having a shallower gradient than the ends leads to the need for the "walls" in the quadrants...
...if you think I'd be better off sticking to badly photoshopped pics of Ralphie as Pete Boyle with Mick Hucknall's hair and Dame Edna's glasses, just say.
I dont' think they do, though that would certainly render my diagrams incorrect. I don't think I've ever seen the quadrants form the North stand - Will check the photos!I've seen that before. That still doesn't explain how the lower parts(exec seating, connect to both stands, seamlessly(or so it seems).
Your diagrams are a bit off, Aidan. Just look at the pictures of the quads that Weastey and myself have posted. The lower parts below the wall almost merge seemlessly.I dont' think they do, though that would certainly render my diagrams incorrect. I don't think I've ever seen the quadrants form the North stand - Will check the photos!
I reckon it's due to a lack of space ie the quadrants have been squeezed in.Maybe they just put the walls there to give us something to talk about?
How come the South doesn't fit properly then (whereas the North does)?You have to remember that all the stands apart from the North (I think that was demolished completely) have basically built on the top of the old bowl, so it should be almost right at that level that once held 44,000.
Cool - any pics?They've painted them red Spoons. So, the mess is far less noticable.
Really? Where's the space for that? Are they removing the back row of the North Stand seating?They were also putting balconies on the North Stand exec boxes, so that the prawn sandwich brigade can watch the match without looking through a glass wall.
Blimey, there won't be much space in those boxes then, they're tiny at the best of times.No, I think that they were simply moving the glass wall back, putting on a glass door and then a rail to stop people falling off.
Does Martin Edwards still have a box up there?Or not much space on the balconies, two people having to sqeeze past each other, will go down great when the ladies are invited.
Wasn't it done months ago?The odd thing is, and you can't really see it from that angle, but the paint is highly glossy. Maybe they hadn't finished yet? They were also putting balconies on the North Stand exec boxes, so that the prawn sandwich brigade can watch the match without looking through a glass wall.