It wasn’t just the SFA who forced through all seater stadia. Both Hibs and Hearts requested to retain the terraces for an extra year while their removal to Straiton/Millerhill were clarified or details of redevelopment of Easter Road/Tynecastle were finalised. This was turned down flat by all. Hibs ended up having to install benches with bucket seats in the whole of the visitors end only one year before it was demolished. Correction it was more like six months.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-01-2018 01:54 AM #31
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06-01-2018 07:59 AM #32NamelessLeft by mutual consent!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-01-2018 10:14 AM #34This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-01-2018 11:28 AM #35
Even with the renovations which have taken place since the 90s Scottish stadiums are still lagging pretty badly with far too many still needing work done. If your definition of a modern stadium is the same as mine. That being 4 stands covering the length of each side of the pitch all seated and all covered, we have 41 professional clubs excluding Queens Park and most of them don't fit the bill so far, here's a list of those that do.
Easter Road
Tynecastle
Celtic Park
Ibrox
Pittodrie ....... I'll allow them the uncovered seats in the corners
Tannadice
McDiarmid Park
East End Park
Starks Park ..... they couldn't extend the main stand any further even if they wanted to so get a pass
Rugby Park
Fir Park ........... same as Raith Rovers, there are reasons they cant extend the main stand the length of the pitch
St Mirren Park
The Toni Macaroni arena
The Excelsior stadium
Victoria Park
So of 41 professional clubs only 15 have a 4 sided all covered all seater stadium and even some of them are badly in need of modernisation. If a 4 sided all covered stadium was a requirement for promotion to the premiership Hamilton, Dundee and Partick Thistle would be out of the league.
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06-01-2018 11:40 AM #36This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-01-2018 01:10 PM #37
Pittodrie doesn't just have uncovered seats in the corners. The front 5-6 rows in the south stand are also uncovered, as the roof doesn't go all the way to the front.
Have a look at THIS photo, in particular the nearest of the yellow seats to the pitch, and then how far back the roof is in comparison.
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06-01-2018 09:41 PM #38
You're all talking nonsense. Hearts were the first club in Scotland - probably the world actually - to have an all-seated, all-covered modern stadium. It's even got chips and toilets and an inexplicable bit at the front of one stand that gets raised on props for some reason. They were first in the world to introduce a press area totally exposed to the elements and a Director's Box that isn't a Director's Box. They were also the first to have function suites that don't actually exist yet, to sell season tickets for a stand that also didn't exist and to claim they could see a castle somewhere when they couldn't. Hearts were innovators with cost over-runs, chronic delays and apparently they invented glass. They nearly succeeded in building a seated stand without any seats because they were being too casual with the shopping list and must be the first club on the planet to have so many seats that you can't see the pitch from. McDiarmid Park doesn't have a pitch that's too small for UEFA requirements, Pittodrie doesn't have steps so steep that folk are falling down them and the hospitality lounges at Ibrox aren't all facing away from the pitch. Hearts have achieved all these things. None of these other grounds (including that Lego brick thing at Easter Road) can hold a candle to the financial foresight, aesthetic brilliance and project innovation that is Tynecastle Park - the pride of the nation and a cert for UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
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07-01-2018 09:03 AM #39This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I agree
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11-01-2018 10:47 PM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-01-2018 07:18 AM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Mercer and Budge both seemed to think they could do a better job than professionals.
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12-01-2018 09:39 AM #43This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-01-2018 11:29 AM #44
It's a shame that we see so many identikit stands in Scottish football now which gives a lot of grounds a sterile feel, but strangely enough I don't get that feeling at St Johnstone and always enjoy visiting. Maybe because it was the first of its kind.
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12-01-2018 03:06 PM #45
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13-01-2018 02:30 PM #49
There's a whole umpteen page thread on Sickbag dedicated to Aberdeen's proposed new stadium, its full of Yams giving the forums tame Sheep fan financial advice, advice on the best way to build new stands and criticising Aberdeen for overspending and buying players when they should have been rebuilding Pittodrie
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