Could the pitch be lowered?


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On our third champions league victory we’ll just knock it down and build the best ground in the country - it’s not a problem.
 
Think about your question. Iam no engineer, but stands are obviously built on a rake. Within a few feet you will be on the pitch.
The only way you can go is up as you can start the new structure further back


You want to go to West Ham
Well I watch Gateshead sometimes !
 
On the off chance we ever max out the expansion and had nowhere else to go, could we lower the pitch and add another few rows in?
If we are going full nut-job on this, then when Manure are in division 2, we can buy their stadium and bring it over the M62 and up the A19 to our gaff. We'll rename all the stands mind you, wouldn't want to be stupid, like.
 
You are actually incorrect regarding being closer to the pitch, the 35 degree steepness rule is correct, but distance to the pitch is a recommendation and is negotiable Spurs fans for example are far closer to the pitch than the likes of Wembley, the Emirates stadium or the SOL, the 17,500 wall at Spurs new stadium is less than 5m from the pitch as you can see below.

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Looks the same distance to me like, the only difference is there's no walkway at the front of the stands like the SOL (which was design flaw imo).

Emirates and Wembley are both curved the second in particular so will be above the minimum to get more seats in.
 
Looks the same distance to me like, the only difference is there's no walkway at the front of the stands like the SOL (which was design flaw imo).

Emirates and Wembley are both curved the second in particular so will be above the minimum to get more seats in.

I am not having a pop at Sunderland’s stadium mate I really like it, I was actually very envious of the SOL when I first saw it on TV just before it opened, I was just pointing out a fact to another poster the differences in distance to the pitch at both ends is extreme to say the least and the sides are also very clearly closer at Tottenham’s new stadium, your version of the same are obviously very different to mine and to reality.


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I am not having a pop at Sunderland’s stadium mate I really like it, I was actually very envious of the SOL when I first saw it on TV just before it opened, I was just pointing out a fact to another poster the differences in distance to the pitch at both ends is extreme to say the least and the sides are also very clearly closer at Tottenham’s new stadium, your version of the same are obviously very different to mine and to reality.


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Don't worry I didn't take it offensive, it was me ranting about it.

Dimensions wise though our stand technically ends at the railing at the front of the grey area rather than the railing at the front of the seats as for some reason we decided we needed an extra wide walkway at the bottom (design flaw imo) so it's not part of the pitch space.

Pitchside (the red tarmac and the grass) there's not much difference between ours and Tottenham's. We actually fail FIFA's newer regulations as your meant to have grass to the advertising hoardings.

The regulations are 5m from pitch to adverts, 3.5m from adverts to the seating. I had a Google before as I was curious.
 
If we are going full nut-job on this, then when Manure are in division 2, we can buy their stadium and bring it over the M62 and up the A19 to our gaff. We'll rename all the stands mind you, wouldn't want to be stupid, like.

Visionary, people like you should be in Government
Looks the same distance to me like, the only difference is there's no walkway at the front of the stands like the SOL (which was design flaw imo).

Emirates and Wembley are both curved the second in particular so will be above the minimum to get more seats in.

I imagine it was part of emergency escape route through the two tunnels. We have limited number of exits otherwise.
That or Murray calculated that by setting it back a little he could get x number more seats in as each stand is a little longer. He wasted no space in cramming seats in .
 
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I imagine it was part of emergency escape route through the two tunnels. We have limited number of exits otherwise.
That or Murray calculated that by setting it back a little he could get x number more seats in as each stand is a little longer. He wasted no space in cramming seats in .

Aye possibly like but couldn't you just walk on the red tarmac behind the railings and if you lowered the pitch slightly lower (or made the stadium slightly higher) it could've been another 2 rows.

Who knows, sure there's some reason behind it though.

There's quite a few weird design choices like the middle gangway being horribly narrow. I also never understood why the lower tier stairs don't align with the exit tunnels either tbh, we have 3 ramps usually when it's like the the left one is for the left stairs, the middle goes straight to the lower tier and the right goes to the right stairs which would remove the horrible bottleneck, especially in the East Stand.
 
Would be great to have the 2nd tier all the way round but unfortunately we couldn’t fill it. Maybe if we won a few titles and cups we might get a few thousand travelling up from Yorkshire 😂
The tramps from up the road would be there in droves, anything to be associated with success, the last cup they saw was in 1969 wasn't it
The only way is up.

We will just increase the price of tickets and that will force some people out clearing the way for our new affluent fanbase.

Huzzah!
At the first sign of success and crowd numbers increasing close the ticket office for longer.................that seems to work
 
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The tramps from up the road would be there in droves, anything to be associated with success, the last cup they saw was in 1969 wasn't it

At the first sign of success and crowd numbers increasing close the ticket office for longer.................that seems to work
We need to close the club shop in case people want to pay with cash the absolute rotters.
 
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