Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:01 pm  

Oh to be able to stand undercover, us lot just dream.. cladding or no cladding!! lol

On a serious note, the ground looks sweet, just going by the pics Gruntfuttock kindly posted. So thanks for those, the panoramic is a beaut!

Look forward to visiting as an away fan

Regards, David

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:17 pm  

your welcome mate , we cant wait for the new season and welcoming you all

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:54 pm  

Gruntfuttock wrote:

So let me get this straight, instead of completeing the bridge as planned with the extra lights you would like the council to spend millions of YOUR council tax to widen and completely redesign the bridge? you do know what it would entail to widen the bridge? , very poor trolling attempt Rogues , I know the wide boulevards leaving the DW rented stadium never get packed with fans , and yes the bridge was busy on Friday but no way was it dangerous in any way , we were leaving a game not evacuating the Titanic!

Hmm

Gruntfuttock wrote:

hellfire it wasnt that bad when we came out , mind you we spent about 20 mins in the shop

The DW caters safely for more fans than your new stadium ever will, and the bridge on the South East corner is wider that the Saints Bridge. The concourses are dry, as were the ones at Salford last night although the view there isn't particularly good from the North Stand as the terracing is shallow.

As I come from an engineering background I prefer something that works efficiently to something that looks pretty.

It would have been better to have a wider bridge initially, I'm not saying to change it now. The council and Saints have advised people to park in the town centre car parks, so the bridge is the way most people will go.

SaintsFan has probably got it right in that there needs to be some sort of wall/fencing before the bridge to stop someone falling down the embankment.

hth

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:47 pm  

Wouldn't the council have been better making the bridge wider and safer rather than spending money on fairy lights?

Yes you are saying just that ,

and we all know the DW is bigger than our new stadium there is no need to troll on about it , we all know your opinions , like I said in another thread it IS our first new stadium in 125 years so mistakes , teething troubles will happen, , the place isnt finished yet , so yes there WILL be fencing etc , we have enough Saints fans moaning about petty little things without you chiming in , all the things mentioned are not exactly major items , despite your trying to make them sound like a cross between the towering inferno and Titanic.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:07 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Wouldn't the council have been better making the bridge wider and safer rather than spending money on fairy lights?

Oh by the way it rained all day at Salford yesterday and the concourses were dry.

It's far more safer than having big Balls, on the route from the stadium to your car, outside the Soccerdome!!! When it's congested with the size of crowd that comes out of the DW it becomes a major hazard as my Sister-in-law found out

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:09 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I walked over that bridge with the rest of humanity on Friday night and there was no crush, no struggle, nothing like that at all. The crush was down the side of Tesco, something the club is discussing with Tesco. We were all moving very nicely over the bridge. The bridge was built for the purpose of moving thousands of fans from the site to the town centre. That is its purpose. It is still there today. It didn't collapse!

The only work being done on the bridge is the addition of fencing on either end so as to avoid people taking a nosedive down the slopes on either side. That is sensible because although the bridge area is well lit, people could slip and so some form of fencing to guide people away from the edges makes perfect sense.

As did I Saintsfan, along with some few thousand others that had been at the game, and the problem like you said was down the side of Tesco and the fact a few sad people were looking in the Tesco Staff Room on the way out!!!

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:15 pm  

The only issue with the bridge is that there is no fencing up the embankment at the side of Tesco. If that started earlier the funnelling of people would start earlier and there'd be no issue.

The LEDs are most likely the most energy efficient lighting available, I doubt that the different colours cost more.

The wetness of the concourses is an issue, but hopefully the cladding will sort that out and in summer I'm almost certain that the wide, airy concourses will be much more pleasant to have a beer and a chat in than the small concourses at the DW, HJ and Salford.

I've met RG, I like RG, but I do wonder why some of you bite at every jibe he makes. I'm looking at you Mr Futtock

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:31 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Hmm
The DW caters safely for more fans than your new stadium ever will, and the bridge on the South East corner is wider that the Saints Bridge. The concourses are dry, as were the ones at Salford last night although the view there isn't particularly good from the North Stand as the terracing is shallow.

As I come from an engineering background I prefer something that works efficiently to something that looks pretty.

It would have been better to have a wider bridge initially, I'm not saying to change it now. The council and Saints have advised people to park in the town centre car parks, so the bridge is the way most people will go.

SaintsFan has probably got it right in that there needs to be some sort of wall/fencing before the bridge to stop someone falling down the embankment.

hth

I haven't the time or energy to enter into a debate about whether "your bridge is bigger than ours" but if the bridge your referring to is the one going over the canal then I can't see how that is any more efficient than the linkway one. I've been stuck in log jams for both rugby and football many a time and thankfully there's been no one injured on the steps going up and down. Also it's a potential flash point probably more so for football especially when you've got Liverpool fans chanting "you're just a town full of inbreds" at that very bottleneck.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:00 pm  

point taken BL ill ignore him in future

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:39 pm  

Mrs G took a better vid of the new lights , I think it looks great !! http://youtu.be/eA4A-K9mwpI

Mrs G took a better vid of the new lights , I think it looks great !! http://youtu.be/eA4A-K9mwpI