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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that this looks too much like BLAVDES?


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I don't, but then I sit beneath the base of the V.
 
Yep looks useless. Big writing on stadium seats was briefly stylish in the mid-1970s ( New York Cosmos). If your stadium isn't quite big enough it gets embarrassing (too 'pixelated' and curves are too difficult to form and look stepped, which is why the swords don't looked curved enough).
That stand was always a sub-optimal design because a previous ownership had 'ordered' it and though a more recent owner didn't want it, the contract was honoured (I SEEM TO REMEMBER).
United should realise that Black seats also suit the colour scheme its not just red or dead.
 
vorpal blade said:
That stand was always a sub-optimal design because a previous ownership had 'ordered' it and though a more recent owner didn't want it, the contract was honoured .
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It is the best stand in the ground. Good facilities,easy access and ext,plenty of toilets and space underneath,mezzanene used for business and restaurant reguarly in use. What is sub-optimal about it ?
 
I say sub-optimal mainly (given occasional forays into the premiership and aspirations for hosting international matches again), its capacity is too low for a stand running alongside the pitch.

This means that any attempt to increase capacity in future has to concentrate on vastly raising the heights of the Kop and South Stands. With a consequent lob-sided feel (c.f. Elland Road, St. James's Park). What could have happened is that the John Street stand could have been built nearer the pitch which was a scenario envisaged in the siting of the south stand in 1974 (or whenever).

The pitch would have been moved towards the south and this would have allowed the John Street stand to have been built taller and therefore with more seats; its height always being constrained by the length of the shadow it casts on the houses on John Street.

Obviously the club chose not to buy up those houses, which would have been the rational approach. The construction deal was done before McCabe's tenure.

The problem with some stands looming over the others is one of sub-optimal (sorry) sight-lines and viewing distances and that the spectator feels cut off from the rest of the crowd because he can only see the roofs of the stands opposite.

The stand is really much lower than the rest at BDBL its roof sloping up to the front to give the illusion it is higher but also to give a uniformity around the stadium which is admirable.

Had the club chosen to build the John Street Stand further south, they would possibly have had to remodel the corner of the Kop and the Bramall Lane stands. What they did build in both those corners is hopeless architecturally by the 'B'-team at a sub-optimal practice from Leeds.

Quality eludes us off and on the pitch.
 



vorpal blade said:
Yep looks useless. Big writing on stadium seats was briefly stylish in the mid-1970s ( New York Cosmos). If your stadium isn't quite big enough it gets embarrassing (too 'pixelated' and curves are too difficult to form and look stepped, which is why the swords don't looked curved enough).
That stand was always a sub-optimal design because a previous ownership had 'ordered' it and though a more recent owner didn't want it, the contract was honoured (I SEEM TO REMEMBER).
United should realise that Black seats also suit the colour scheme its not just red or dead.
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I think i'm getting a headache. :eek:
 
vorpal blade said:
I say sub-optimal mainly (given occasional forays into the premiership and aspirations for hosting international matches again), its capacity is too low for a stand running alongside the pitch.

This means that any attempt to increase capacity in future has to concentrate on vastly raising the heights of the Kop and South Stands. With a consequent lob-sided feel (c.f. Elland Road, St. James's Park). What could have happened is that the John Street stand could have been built nearer the pitch which was a scenario envisaged in the siting of the south stand in 1974 (or whenever).

The pitch would have been moved towards the south and this would have allowed the John Street stand to have been built taller and therefore with more seats; its height always being constrained by the length of the shadow it casts on the houses on John Street.

Obviously the club chose not to buy up those houses, which would have been the rational approach. The construction deal was done before McCabe's tenure.

The problem with some stands looming over the others is one of sub-optimal (sorry) sight-lines and viewing distances and that the spectator feels cut off from the rest of the crowd because he can only see the roofs of the stands opposite.

The stand is really much lower than the rest at BDBL its roof sloping up to the front to give the illusion it is higher but also to give a uniformity around the stadium which is admirable.

Had the club chosen to build the John Street Stand further south, they would possibly have had to remodel the corner of the Kop and the Bramall Lane stands. What they did build in both those corners is hopeless architecturally by the 'B'-team at a sub-optimal practice from Leeds.

Quality eludes us off and on the pitch.
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Headache confirmed. Going for a lie down ;)
 
bartman said:
It is the best stand in the ground. Good facilities,easy access and ext,plenty of toilets and space underneath,mezzanene used for business and restaurant reguarly in use. What is sub-optimal about it ?
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The sun gets in your eyes in some places at the John St stand
 
I have a question.

Why are the three stairways on the left painted green when all the rest are white?
 
Should have never took our wooden seats off us in the South Stand.
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
I have a question.

Why are the three stairways on the left painted green when all the rest are white?
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When working out how much white paint they needed for painting BLAVDES they forgot to take into account the "V" and subsequently ran out....
 



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