Re: New Stadium Capacity : Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:24 pm
Paul Youane wrote:
Don't forget original capacity was set at 14,000+ but was reduced as the terracing became too cramped at that level.
With it being the same construction company being responsible for the design and build of your stadium you have to hope they have learnt from their mistakes. I would imagine that the calculations for arriving at the capacity will be based upon the same design standards but at Warrington I think it is the layout and spacing of barriers together with size of the going on the terrace being in-adeqaute that causes the problems.
You'll never know until the opening night whether the calculations are right of not.
With it being the same construction company being responsible for the design and build of your stadium you have to hope they have learnt from their mistakes. I would imagine that the calculations for arriving at the capacity will be based upon the same design standards but at Warrington I think it is the layout and spacing of barriers together with size of the going on the terrace being in-adeqaute that causes the problems.
You'll never know until the opening night whether the calculations are right of not.
Funny you should write this, as when i found out Barr had got the job, my first thought was about Barr "manipulting" the stadium capacity figure when built, for the HJ in Warrington.
Looking at the projected terrace capacities at Saints new ground. They do look larger stands than at the HJ, yet have stand capacities approximately the same as your terrace behind the sticks. So hopefully we wont suffer anything like the issues you guys did when the ground opened.
