When are we likely to get definitive stadium news?

[Arl arse]

[Arl arse]

[Arl arse]

Some signs for you to moan about.

 

 

[Hades]

Are there any indications of how the new TV camera angle will look?

[BCM]

Are their any pics of the changing rooms and sign yet. Ive not seen any.

[Barrington Womble]

Are their any pics of the changing rooms and sign yet. Ive not seen any.

I read ages ago the 1st part of the season the changing rooms wouldn't be ready. I don't know if that changed on the back of pushing the 1st home game till September.

Are there any indications of how the new TV camera angle will look?

It was impossible to tell from my seat. My guess is there must be a gantry of sorts below the upper deck as there appeared nothing obvious from the upper.

[jimmycase]

Changing rooms wont be finished until the new year along with some other non fan related parts of the stand.

 

They should make the tv positions in the Centenary gantry the main ones to showcase the new stand. Besides, that's where the original tv gantry was (on the Kemlyn) until the previous Main Stand was re built with the now familiar gantry.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Those days are gone. My lot are building a glass tunnel so fans can pay extra to see the players in the tunnel - moving existing people out of their seats in the process.

 

The want the tourists - they spend more. Quite sad really when locals often can't afford to go to the game.

Oof.

The Shitness of Modern Football.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

It's a churlish and small gripe but I really don't like all these references to "The Kop" instead of "Spion Kop".

[Trumo]

It's a churlish and small gripe but I really don't like all these references to "The Kop" instead of "Spion Kop".

 

Daytrippers only know it as the Kop.

[kemskem]

Well daytrippers need an education

[kemskem]

Might be interesting to see these plans which are open to the public on Monday and Tuesday

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/revealed-radical-plans-completely-transformed-11817902

[PestiRed]

Bigger Spion Kop as part of those plans please

[jimmycase]

Plans for the area look good and a huge improvement.

[Mathewbet1]

Yes looks to me as if the road will be altered and the whole area behind the kop giving expansion possibilitie

[Barrington Womble]

Might be interesting to see these plans which are open to the public on Monday and Tuesday

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/revealed-radical-plans-completely-transformed-11817902

Tree lined avenues? Fucking hell, it's not the south end.

[lifetime fan]

Yes looks to me as if the road will be altered and the whole area behind the kop giving expansion possibilitie

Pub is still there in the plans.

[Kloppite]

Tree lined avenues? Fucking hell, it's not the south end.

Townsend avenue is tree lined and so is utting avenue and queens drive in walton

[RedKnight]

Pub is still there in the plans.

 

Won't take much to knock that place down. A gust of wind maybe?

[jimmycase]

The Kop's not being increased whether these plans go through or not.

[Trumo]

I pointed out on SSC that the pictures from the article suggested that WBR will remain in its current position, albeit with more pedestrianisation. Loads of people said the road was going to be moved, judging by the pictures. It didn't look like it to me, and the image below shows the road staying where it is, and if this is what goes ahead then the Kop footprint cannot be increased in future if and when they deem expansion to be necessary. Building something new on the same footprint would give a much lower capacity because the tread depths would have to be a lot bigger.

 

[jimmycase]

Townsend avenue is tree lined and so is utting avenue and queens drive in walton

 

Someone missed them roads obviously!

[an tha]

Townsend avenue is tree lined and so is utting avenue and queens drive in walton

so is muirhead up to a point but i wouldn't want to take me tart for a bevvy in the oaks or whatever they call it nowadays!

[jimmycase]

I pointed out on SSC that the pictures from the article suggested that WBR will remain in its current position, albeit with more pedestrianisation. Loads of people said the road was going to be moved, judging by the pictures. It didn't look like it to me, and the image below shows the road staying where it is, and if this is what goes ahead then the Kop footprint cannot be increased in future if and when they deem expansion to be necessary. Building something new on the same footprint would give a much lower capacity because the tread depths would have to be a lot bigger.

 

 

Personally, I dont think there's a cat in hell's chance of Walton Breck Road being re aligned. Unlike Anfield Road behind the stand which could be re aligned due to no existing houses in the way now, there's too many businesses albeit them small, that would need to be moved out.

 

I also dont think it would be practicable because of the petrol station on the corner. The corner would have to move too.

 

I think people need to stop dreaming of a bigger Kop. I dont see any circumstances of it happening myself.

[Trumo]

Personally, I dont think there's a cat in hell's chance of Walton Breck Road being re aligned. Unlike Anfield Road behind the stand which could be re aligned due to no existing houses in the way now, there's too many businesses albeit them small, that would need to be moved out.

 

I also dont think it would be practicable because of the petrol station on the corner. The corner would have to move too.

 

I think people need to stop dreaming of a bigger Kop. I dont see any circumstances of it happening myself.

 

I'm not talking about the whole stretch of WBR, just the section closest to the stadium.

 

The artists' impressions in the article talking about the revamp of WBR show a lot of new structures opposite the Kop. If the idea is to knock down the old structures to build new ones, then build them a bit further back from the current structures and have the section of WBR curve around the area behind the Kop, thus leaving space.

 

I just think it would be fucking retarded to assume that the Kop will NEVER need to be changed for any reason. It might not need it right now or in 5 years, but 10 or 15 years down the line, we don't want to be in a situation where we have a need for growth but no space in which to do so.

 

Here's a pic of Old Trafford and what I'm suggesting is looking at altering WBR behind the Kop like the stand on the right of this picture.