Ah, the Trainspotting toilet theme. I dig it.Feck upgrading the away dressing room. Downgrade them and make teams miserable. Something cosy like this...
With pristine toilet facilities...
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Old Trafford revamp/could be torn down and rebuilt according to Glazer plans
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
I’m excited for the next announcement that the carpeted areas in the hospitality suites are being refreshed
Seriously though, major work takes time, money and even more time. There’ll be planning permission, costs estimates, consultations, safety considerations and the rest of it. Even if tomorrow we were taken over by insatiable billionaires desperate to offload money we’d be 12-24 months away from hearing anything about major stadium improvements
Seriously though, major work takes time, money and even more time. There’ll be planning permission, costs estimates, consultations, safety considerations and the rest of it. Even if tomorrow we were taken over by insatiable billionaires desperate to offload money we’d be 12-24 months away from hearing anything about major stadium improvements
I sit over in E234 and there was a leak in the roof, dripping onto someone a few seats in front of me, should I report this? If so who to?
Also, our concourse ran out of lager and most refreshments before HT, I'm guessing the new prices meant more people had a drink before the game, Does anyone know if we have clarification when they will put some different beers in, Carling is abysmal!
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Also, our concourse ran out of lager and most refreshments before HT, I'm guessing the new prices meant more people had a drink before the game, Does anyone know if we have clarification when they will put some different beers in, Carling is abysmal!
Thanks!
IT
Imagine what a 500M investment on Revamp would do to this stadium. It will look grand
what record is this?
It wouldn’t do much. Sadly.
W202 ran out of beer as well pre kick off. Disgraceful scenesI sit over in E234 and there was a leak in the roof, dripping onto someone a few seats in front of me, should I report this? If so who to?
Also, our concourse ran out of lager and most refreshments before HT, I'm guessing the new prices meant more people had a drink before the game, Does anyone know if we have clarification when they will put some different beers in, Carling is abysmal!
Thanks!
IT
Spurs built their new stadium for a billion from start to finish, so to say “not much” for 500 million seems ridiculous.
Totally agree, especially the bolded. I used to always think "why don't they just build over the railway" but even taking that massive issue away, as well as any land ownership issues - and strip it back to the not-really-but-folk-think-they-are little things that get missed - you're left with a massive task of building more than just seats for fans. Power, data lines, fecking air conditioning in the private rooms, offices, shared spaces, plumbing, fire exits, health and safety for everything including the blooming door handles. Selling food? Need a gas line now, and talking to those cnuts will take as long as it takes to get BT to even decide to send two blokes in a van to link you to whatever sad hub they call a data center. And then six months down the line all the previous plans need to be scrapped because someone high up doesn't like the layout for the cheese room.
Do a lot of work with the Estates team at my job and, holy shit, I thought my job was difficult. Those folk are fecking machines.
Loads of NFL teams play mind games with their away locker rooms. Some of them have really narrow spaces, some have too few lockers in the room so players don’t have enough spaces etc.Feck upgrading the away dressing room. Downgrade them and make teams miserable. Something cosy like this...
With pristine toilet facilities...
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The Broncos have a carpet fitted in their away locker room that’s almost like a magic eye design, intended to make people feel a kind of motion sickness.
Really?
A new roof that didn’t leak, provided improved sight lines and gave the stadium a more unified look wouldn’t cost a vast amount but would give the appearance of the stadium a massive lift.
I’m pretty sure that any increase in capacity would absolutely cost more than £500 million, but other than bragging rights with Spurs I’m not sure that’s particularly important. A modest increase in match day income is hardly going to transform the club.
Given the club uses other non-football events as a revenue stream, making one dressing room a shithole probably isn’t the best idea
Talk about fair play eh.
I'm all for spicing the away locker room water supplies with laxatives and roofies...
First they shit themselves then we....wait, am i doing this right?
Some football teams have pegs too high so oppositions players might injure their back
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Is that supposed to be a railway line pose Bruce is doing? Not a very good one.
That is the best headline ever.
All newspaper headlines should start doing that to 'maximize readership and provide advertisers with greater surface-engagement across synergistic interests'.
Building over the railway line will probably be the less expensive option. Can't see them rerouting it or making it go underground.
Need to spend a few hundred million. Ideally they should knock it back to the bottom tier and do a Bernabeu style renovation. Will be interesting to see what architects can muster up.
Usual fee is 10% of total construction. #sothatswhykevinglazersoldhisshares
This isn't going to happen is it, Hungry?
What’s the maximum capacity we could expect to reach with a proper expansion of the south stand?
Would be brilliant if we could get 100k seats, modernise the stadium tastefully and re-establish ourselves as having the best stadium in the country.
Would be brilliant if we could get 100k seats, modernise the stadium tastefully and re-establish ourselves as having the best stadium in the country.
They need to get rid of that sloping roof, it makes the stadium look smaller than it is, Saint James park looks huge compared to Old Trafford.
It's got to be over 90k surely?
They'll probably do exec boxes...I can't see them expanding over the railway line.
Being that close I would go the extra mile and make sure it was 100k
Imagine that
They roof is a part of the structure.
In theory if it replicated the north stand you'd get around 95k total capacity, if I remember right.
Methinks you know the answer to that, Spoondog. Sadfaceemoji
Rough estimate, what you posted about - reduce to single tier and commence, plus assuming a general level of ‘modern’ quality - would cost between 800m to 1.4bn-ish. Or for simplicity’s sake around the amount that they’ve ‘taken out of the club’. Cryinginglazeremoji.
I think they'll fill the South Stand up with exec boxes, anything else will cost them too much.
Nice. Needs to be done, squeeze in some more safe standing and knock it up to 100k.
The roof needs changing as well, I notice somebody mentioned it's part of the structure, I hope they can change that as well as it detracts from the aesthetic of the stadium. Needs to really be stripped back and the tiers built up all around, then put a new 'designer' roof on top
. That's the way to go but would take a long time and put the stadium out of action for too long wouldn't it?'Will soon launch a search for a masterplanner'. This is basically the new DOF farce
I know they say ‘eat the rich’, but damn. (How much would you charge)
Build over the railway line and mimic the North Stand.
Fill in the last two corners.
Raise and restructure the roof.
Put toilet seats in the ladies jacks.
Done.
Let's not overcomplicate this and come up with something that screams "compensating for a tiny penis" like Spurs have done.
Fill in the last two corners.
Raise and restructure the roof.
Put toilet seats in the ladies jacks.
Done.
Let's not overcomplicate this and come up with something that screams "compensating for a tiny penis" like Spurs have done.
Been a bit of rain about today. Not looking forward to the inevitably leaky roof tonight!
That'd only be around 200-300m.
Roughly speaking it's around 2000-3000 pounds per seat to build a 'top-tier' sporting venue. It costs more/towards the higher end of that range to refurb/deal with existing construction.
I think that it could cost.more because of the railway line.
Why is this aspect so costly?
The stadiums are just made of steel beams essentially, Cant they just build over the top of it surely?