Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:56 am  

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Anyone notice on the CGI that the stadium had "home of Salford Reds" emblazoned on it across the entrance. Are we going to lose the city part of our name when we move stadium?

With a bit of luck, yes.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 10:01 am  

DirkDiggler wrote:

The original CGI I saw had the corners covered or was this the later phases?

Does anyone recall this and do they have a link.

You are correct the corner terracing was originally in phase one. I'm told this was changed to phase 2 because non of the building contractors that tendered could meet the build price target figure of phase one.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:10 pm  

Suppose we have to move but gotta say I'm a little more than dissappointed with that stadium design. Yes I know all the pro's and con's so don't bother replying with some BS. Just dissappointed thats all!

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:14 pm  

Im with you two above, just to get my head around this is the pic below what it will look like after phase 3 or was this the original phase one and it has now changed again as it looks some what different to what we are now getting. Apart from the banqueting suite is there going to be drinking facilites. Ive also not heard anyone mention or seen in the plans if a watering hole is planned to be built near by such as a brewers fayre or toby cavery?

Im with you two above, just to get my head around this is the pic below what it will look like after phase 3 or was this the original phase one and it has now changed again as it looks some what different to what we are now getting. Apart from the banqueting suite is there going to be drinking facilites. Ive also not heard anyone mention or seen in the plans if a watering hole is planned to be built near by such as a brewers fayre or toby cavery?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:29 pm  

DirkDiggler wrote:

Im with you two above, just to get my head around this is the pic below what it will look like after phase 3 or was this the original phase one and it has now changed again as it looks some what different to what we are now getting.

That looks like phase 3 to me, with standing along one side.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:36 pm  

Iain wrote:

That looks like phase 3 to me, with standing along one side.

Ah? If that's the case not all bad I suppose but do you have any idea of time scales to reach phase 3 Iain or am I expected to be in my zimmer by then?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:42 pm  

The Black Cat wrote:

Ah? If that's the case not all bad I suppose but do you have any idea of time scales to reach phase 3 Iain or am I expected to be in my zimmer by then?

I guess the timescale is a bit of an unanswerable one at the moment. The ground will be growing with the growing support the Reds get. So i guess its 'the more friends you bring the faster it will be developed'.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:12 pm  

Right, I guess it'll never get to the capacity of The Willows then, we may get the odd full house of around 8k but I doubt we'll ever achieve much beyond that unless we could maintain a winning side for a few years. They'd probably then start 2nd and 3rd stage only for us to be down on our luck again! Not good.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:21 pm  

The future development depends on two things.

Firstly financial matters, they will not consider upgrading until the retail has been sold off thus getting back the money they will have already laid out.

And the secondly the team/clubs performance, there will have to be the need to increase the capacity so for me it looks like it's be 12k for a very, very long time.

Oh and without sounding like I'm having a whinge, I agree the final design (if this is it) is fairly disappointing without anything being unique about the stadium. Even the main stand roof and floodlights are now looking to be bog standard, when before they had a little something about them.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:24 pm  

The Black Cat wrote:

Suppose we have to move but gotta say I'm a little more than dissappointed with that stadium design. Yes I know all the pro's and con's so don't bother replying with some BS. Just dissappointed thats all!

I know what you mean but quite frankly I don't give a to*s as long as we keep our license and attract new sponsors/fans, allowing us to improve the quality of the squad.