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LYDON said:
If NO improvements are made in and around the stadium, in five years time, 21/22 season beginning, it will be 15,500
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Hard to believe. If a club can be selected for an FA Cup Semi-Final with no up-to-date Safety Certificate (1989) and, as a result, 96 fans die - then before the official enquiry has finished, Hillsborough was chosen for two further FA Cup Semi-Finals (1992 and 1997) anything is possible.

If England had been chosen for either the 2018 or 2012 WC's, be in no doubt their 'friends in high places' (such as corrupt, drunk 'Sir' Dave Richards) would have made sure Hillsborough would have been re-built and modernised at taxpayers' expense - just like in 1966. In fact they're still holding out for this scenario (WC or Euros being held in England/Britain) According to Wikipedia:

Plans by the club to renovate the stadium and expand capacity to 44,825 have been approved by Sheffield City Council with the aim of hosting World Cup matches. The playing surface has been upgraded to a Desso GrassMaster including a complete replacement of the Under-soil heating and Drainage System.

I'm afraid that Kevin McCabe's hopes of United beating Wendy to a major tournament will meet with the same Council opposition as Reg Brealey did back in the '80s.
 



grafikhaus said:
Hard to believe. If a club can be selected for an FA Cup Semi-Final with no up-to-date Safety Certificate (1989) and, as a result, 96 fans die - then before the official enquiry has finished, Hillsborough was chosen for two further FA Cup Semi-Finals (1992 and 1997) anything is possible.

If England had been chosen for either the 2018 or 2012 WC's, be in no doubt their 'friends in high places' (such as corrupt, drunk 'Sir' Dave Richards) would have made sure Hillsborough would have been re-built and modernised at taxpayers' expense - just like in 1966. In fact they're still holding out for this scenario (WC or Euros being held in England/Britain) According to Wikipedia:

Plans by the club to renovate the stadium and expand capacity to 44,825 have been approved by Sheffield City Council with the aim of hosting World Cup matches. The playing surface has been upgraded to a Desso GrassMaster including a complete replacement of the Under-soil heating and Drainage System.

I'm afraid that Kevin McCabe's hopes of United beating Wendy to a major tournament will meet with the same Council opposition as Reg Brealey did back in the '80s.
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It is not fair but it is a fact, we have no chance of hosting anything in this City unless Wednesday go bust and the turn Hillsborough into an Asda. The pigs have "fans" in high places within the City and they will ensure we don't get a sniff.
 
Danny_Boy said:
It is not fair but it is a fact, we have no chance of hosting anything in this City unless Wednesday go bust and the turn Hillsborough into an Asda. The pigs have "fans" in high places within the City and they will ensure we don't get a sniff.
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Worry not because inside 3 years we'll be a league above them.
 
JordoBlade said:
Worry not because inside 3 years we'll be a league above them.
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I'd definitely be happy with that, won't change the fact thought that Hillsborough will get chosen for any world cup and the benefits that go with it.
 
I should coco said:
He stands on the edge of the pitch so doesn't need a seat.

If only some of those lazy St Johns Ambulance do-gooders would stand too, we'd have another 50 seats.
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And surely we could save some money by only having two stretcher bearers, instead of four? Why on earth do we need four? Two are all that is required, as this technical safety demonstration video clearly shows

 
32,702 no longer applies there have been changes.

The one i know about is the "new" gangway between G and H in the SS,which meant seats being removed from the bottom to the top.
 



Well OwlsTrashTalk seems to have a problem with their ground capacity too, next game they're being urged to bring stripey deckchairs to try and accomodate the 70 000 who will now be regularly locked out.
 
Thing is (trying not to do a Wendy here) if we were to get back to the top flight 32k is not going to big enough.
 
WhiteHawk said:
Westfield Lower? I always assumed that was classed as BL Lower.
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There was an extension to the lower tier when the new corner was built which just got counted up as "westfield lower". Pretty sure its just classed as part of BL Lower in every other sense though.
 
grafikhaus said:
I'm afraid that Kevin McCabe's hopes of United beating Wendy to a major tournament will meet with the same Council opposition as Reg Brealey did back in the '80s.
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I really don't know where you all get this myth and nonsense from that the council are still pro Wendy.

You do know, don't you, that at the time that Wendy's AND United's plans for ground developments, in lieu of the world cup bid, were BOTH approved, that the head of the planning service was - and still is - a season ticket holder at the Lane?
 
Blade In Flame said:
I really don't know where you all get this myth and nonsense from that the council are still pro Wendy.

You do know, don't you, that at the time that Wendy's AND United's plans for ground developments, in lieu of the world cup bid, were BOTH approved, that the head of the planning service was - and still is - a season ticket holder at the Lane?
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K McCabe commented on the speed of Wednesday's approval being much quicker than United's, and due process not being applied.
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk...-cup-dream-as-grounds-row-rumbles-on-1-458429
 
Blade In Flame said:
I really don't know where you all get this myth and nonsense from that the council are still pro Wendy.

You do know, don't you, that at the time that Wendy's AND United's plans for ground developments, in lieu of the world cup bid, were BOTH approved, that the head of the planning service was - and still is - a season ticket holder at the Lane?
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I'm talking about Reg Brealey's plans for The Bramall Centre in the late '80s. This would have involved the turning of the pitch through 90 degrees, running track, all-seater etc. I actually met Reg at the time and he was both stunned and disgusted by the Council's anti-United bias. Far better to waste Council-tax payers' money on the Don Valley white elephant.

Then there were the plans to make Bramall Lane into a dual carriageway (just like they did with Penistone Road for the '66 WC). CPO's were issued on all the businesses on the Lane (which, to be fair, consist of 2 pubs and a load of dodgy second-hand car dealers).The Railway & Cricketer's were closed but this plan was also dropped - unlike the dedicated Supertram route from the city centre to Hillsborough.
 
Presty said:
Yes.
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At the game last week I was idly wondering how many fit in the JSS upper - ie the seats outside the boxes. I worked out there was about 20 boxes each with two rows of 5 or 6 seats outside, so around 200? Plus there's another row of boxes with no exterior seats
 
Dkc said:
At the game last week I was idly wondering how many fit in the JSS upper - ie the seats outside the boxes. I worked out there was about 20 boxes each with two rows of 5 or 6 seats outside, so around 200? Plus there's another row of boxes with no exterior seats
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We're playing the best football in ten years and you're counting seats? :)
 



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