New south / south west stand

Wasn’t there meant to be a disabled section in the new south stand at the bottom left corner? What happened to that?

There are supposed to be two, one at the end of the South West nearest the West Stand, one at the end of the South Stand nearest the East.

Having said that they are not part of the stand and will be built in front of what's currently there - and that area is obviously not finished as we're still waiting on other things like advertising boards.

I agree with this, but maybe not the reasoning.

If you had an asset that wasn't being fully used, would you:

a) buy more capacity
b) sweat the asset for a couple of years

It's not just seats and overall capacity, I'd have thought the real driver would be match day and non match day revenue generated by the facilities behind the seats.

If that adds up, it'll get done. If not, it won't.

Rather like the promised upgrade to 'The Quarters'!!!!!!!!!!

I guess it is a chicken and egg thing. Even with the new stand the rest of the stadium looks a tip. If you are wanting to project something attractive to entice new supporters the you have to have better facilities. If we built an all seater east stand with an extra 2 or 3 K seats i think you may not see sell outs but you would get more people in than you do now. It would be about growing the club and bringing it in to this century.

Jesus Christ, they've not long since completed phase 1, let's give it a chance eh!!

My thoughts on the new stand after my first game sat in it for the Burton game. Clearly still some work required to complete it.
At the entrances to the stairways the voids under the stand presently screened by canvas. Clearly solid partitions should be put in place.
No problem with the seating areas and views despite the steelwork pillars obstructing slightly.
Good atmosphere, if the team would have performed better this would no doubt be quite a noisy area.
As regards the concourse under the stand, clearly plenty of room to move the outside kiosks and toilets as plans under here. Perhaps will be done in the close season. The two new kiosks outside against the fence were open, one as a bar and the other selling chocolate bars and soft drinks( not clear to me what else they were selling. The outside catering burger van was again in attendance.
The existing outside toilets look to be very temporary indeed, perched on bits of wood etc etc and there is still temporary fencing in the concourse against the back wall cladding where I assume the toilets etc will be as plan next season. After all on a wet day why on earth would you expect people to queue for food, drink and toilets outside in the open when they have paid to sit under cover in the stand.
No way is crowding an issue for this area, there will be plenty of space for the kiosks toilets etc as well as the fans.

Wasn’t the gap for a large screen? Or is that another gap?