Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:28 pm  

REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:

Maybe the East stand development will be constructed further back from the pitch allowing more room in the future to develop the Western Terrace.

Sorry to sound like the self-appointed expert but to do that you'd have to move a floodlight pylon and you'd hit the Rollin shack after about 8 feet, just not worth it when the money could be spent elsewhere.

All the west terrace requires IMHO is better re-profiled terracing and a new outer wall and later a basic roof. I suspect the west terrace will always be for away fans from now on, so basic and functional will do.

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Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:48 pm  

REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:

Maybe the East stand development will be constructed further back from the pitch allowing more room in the future to develop the Western Terrace.

That would be massively expensive.
Not a bad idea but I don't think we'll be able to do that.

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:40 pm  

That would ‘do’ for the west terrace FC . I wasn’t suggesting the new stand should be there . Just wondered why nothing had been suggested for an improvement there.

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:56 pm  

Fishermanscap wrote:

Sorry to sound like the self-appointed expert but to do that you'd have to move a floodlight pylon and you'd hit the Rollin shack after about 8 feet, just not worth it when the money could be spent elsewhere.

All the west terrace requires IMHO is better re-profiled terracing and a new outer wall and later a basic roof. I suspect the west terrace will always be for away fans from now on, so basic and functional will do.

New lights are quoted in the plans

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:57 pm  

Fishermanscap wrote:

Sorry to sound like the self-appointed expert but to do that you'd have to move a floodlight pylon and you'd hit the Rollin shack after about 8 feet, just not worth it when the money could be spent elsewhere.

All the west terrace requires IMHO is better re-profiled terracing and a new outer wall and later a basic roof. I suspect the west terrace will always be for away fans from now on, so basic and functional will do.

Floodlights are coming out anyway - unless the suggestion is to "re-lamp" the existing towers???

A Q for tomorrow...

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 4:03 pm  

dboy wrote: Floodlights are coming out anyway - unless the suggestion is to "re-lamp" the existing towers??? A Q for tomorrow... 4th bullet point, 'An upgrade of the existing floodlights to latest LED technology' https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2020/ ... velopment/

dboy wrote: Floodlights are coming out anyway - unless the suggestion is to "re-lamp" the existing towers??? A Q for tomorrow... 4th bullet point, 'An upgrade of the existing floodlights to latest LED technology' https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2020/ ... velopment/

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 4:06 pm  

That just means they're sending Connor down to Screwfix to buy some LED bulbs !!!

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 4:12 pm  

FIL wrote:

That just means they're sending Connor down to Screwfix to buy some LED bulbs !!!

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:43 pm  

Western terrace is a bigger footprint than it looks. Pitch doesn’t need moving. Ideally we’d replace Benidorm flats with a stand for away fans and western stand with media facilities for home fans.

Re: New Stadium Updates : Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:46 pm  

BarnsleyGull wrote:

If memory serves, JM said that there would a hospitality suite in the East stand, not boxes.
When this opens, maybe knock the flats down and replace it with boxes in that new build??

Boxes are getting a thing of the past, most new corporate facilities don’t seem to have separate boxes anymore.