| Cobbold Stand redevelopment 12:30 - Oct 6 with 6684 views | Illinoisblue |
When the time comes, from a health and safety perspective, is there any way half the stand could be demolished but still, with some modifications, keep the other half open and usable? Insticnt says no and that you’d never get a safety certificate for it. But if Gillingham’s away end is built on Lego and Meccano, maybe there is a way.
Fascinating to see what happens. Cutting capacity when demand for tickets has never been higher is madness but doesn’t seem an obvious solution. |  |
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| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:47 - Oct 6 with 1852 views | burnbudgiesburn |
Main job for anyone designing the new stand is to include IPSWICH TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB in the same font at the top.
I fear it would be replaced by a sponsor tho! |  | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:50 - Oct 6 with 1832 views | OldFart71 |
I don't see adding another tier being viable as the technology of the current stand is 1970's and would imagine that the Cobbold would have to be dismantled. As some have suggested if the new stand was say twice the size of the current stand it could be possible to build up and over the old stand. If as I think should happen that the stand holds another 5,000 taking capacity to around the 35,000 mark then Town won't want to be a yo-yo club, that's why it's important that all aspects of building the club are done in unison. | | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:57 - Oct 6 with 1818 views | baxterbasics |
Last game of the season they should just invite every fan to bring their own sledgehammer and then they all muck in demolishing it in a couple of hours. That should speed things up, and H&S shouldn't be an issue if they all get issues a hard hat, hi-viz and safety boots  |  |
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| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 14:07 - Oct 6 with 1792 views | RonFearonsHair |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:09 - Oct 6 by Illinoisblue |
The other question is what to do with away fans. A much reduced allocation will be controversial if we go up (and even if we stay down). Massive logistical challenge to get it right re timing and trying to keep fans happy. |
I expect the away fans may be moved to upper Churchmans. The new turnstiles allow for them to be directed straight upstairs and having the land behind allows for them to be filtered out much more easily than was previously the case. |  | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 14:11 - Oct 6 with 1783 views | blueprint |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:45 - Oct 6 by Illinoisblue |
Get rhe Blie Action boys decked out in high-viz and they can drum their way to and from the dump. Bit of pyro along the way, job’s a good un |
Commercial waste innit. Need a permit. |  | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 14:15 - Oct 6 with 1775 views | Illinoisblue |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 14:07 - Oct 6 by RonFearonsHair |
I expect the away fans may be moved to upper Churchmans. The new turnstiles allow for them to be directed straight upstairs and having the land behind allows for them to be filtered out much more easily than was previously the case. |
That would make sense and surely improve the atmosphere up there | |
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| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 14:19 - Oct 6 with 1770 views | le2blue |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:47 - Oct 6 by burnbudgiesburn |
Main job for anyone designing the new stand is to include IPSWICH TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB in the same font at the top.
I fear it would be replaced by a sponsor tho! |
Wasn't that one of the first things Ashton said when he joined, he'd driven over to Ipswich before the deal was done and his wife looked at the font used o n the cobbold and said he could never change it. Bit weird but true. Now they use it across their digital formats. |  | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 15:16 - Oct 6 with 1710 views | Asa |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 12:51 - Oct 6 by BluePG |
‘Only’ selling 21,000 season tickets would mean no ST holder would be affected if we only had three stands open for any part of any given season also. |
Everything that has gone on in the last two years seems to all hint at part of the same plan.
The road has been closed for some time now. I think it's obvious to say that will not be opened again and that we will be allowed to build on it.
Ashton has been vocal about the reception facing away from town and wanting to rectify that. So you'd imagine the re-vamped Cobbold would have a centralised large reception area that you see in modern stadia.
The use of the Staples land to create that walkway almost suggests that is where home fans will funnel in and out from and I would imagine long term that the away fans will be moved into the left-hand side of the Alf Ramsey Stand, with the lower or upper section being sold first, then the other one being offered out should the away allocation call for it. This would allow the new stand, the reception and so on to be exclusively for home fans.
The only slight thing that throws me off there, as I'd heard that was the original plan for away fans, is the memorial garden. Doesn't seem like something you'd place next to away fans who, let's face it, are far more likely to cause an issue with it than home fans, just as our away fans would be at a visiting ground than that teams own fans. Low risk of course but we've seen with the Bradley Lowery incident that some proper scum is still out and about.
The moving of the new reception, including a new tunnel, changing rooms and so on, would allow the current one to be demolished and some work to be done on the area in that corner to allow fans in the Magnus to be able to flow in and out in both directions, potentially with some of that used for a fan park style attraction. I can imagine the practice pitch will go and maybe that just becomes one huge, sheltered fan zone with bars etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if long term that included double facing bars and outlets so they could shut down the awful ones built into the back of the Magnus.
The 21,000 season ticket holders, plus 2,000 away is roughly the 3 sides of the stadium without the Cobbold Stand. So it does make you wonder if that's been picked deliberately so that, if we did go up, we could built that stand over the other, reduce the capacity there and sell the remaining seats on a match by match basis offering the Cobbold ST holders placement elsewhere if they wished. | | | |
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| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 15:21 - Oct 6 with 1682 views | grow_our_own |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:13 - Oct 6 by burnbudgiesburn |
We did similar with the Pioneer stand. My very first game v Liverpool took place against a backdrop west stand looking ever so slightly like an unfinished death star
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Can clearly see how many obstructed-view seats there are. It's a wonder they didn't make the Pioneer a cantilever. Sheff Weds had one back in 1961, so the construction tech had long existed. Maybe we'd have bankrupted ourselves even worse! I suppose you could consider it semi-cantilever as the obstructing pillars aren't at the front like older stadia. | | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 15:26 - Oct 6 with 1670 views | blueprint |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 15:21 - Oct 6 by grow_our_own |
Can clearly see how many obstructed-view seats there are. It's a wonder they didn't make the Pioneer a cantilever. Sheff Weds had one back in 1961, so the construction tech had long existed. Maybe we'd have bankrupted ourselves even worse! I suppose you could consider it semi-cantilever as the obstructing pillars aren't at the front like older stadia. |
It is what is known as a Propped Cantilever. The same goes for the Cobbold. Upright supports are pushed to the back of the stand to reduce the number of seats obstructed . Cheaper than a true Cantilever but still one all the same. | | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 18:17 - Oct 6 with 1557 views | MillsyVOR |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:19 - Oct 6 by burnbudgiesburn |
Speaking of all things 'stadia' - amazing that the ground in the top image hosted Barca, Real Madrid, Lazio etc and the one in the bottom hosted Forest Green rovers.
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Post of the day, young man!! 👏 |  | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 18:53 - Oct 6 with 1524 views | tivo |
I think we should all be drawing our design in paint tbh | | | |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 19:08 - Oct 6 with 1497 views | Help |
| Cobbold Stand redevelopment on 13:19 - Oct 6 by burnbudgiesburn |
Speaking of all things 'stadia' - amazing that the ground in the top image hosted Barca, Real Madrid, Lazio etc and the one in the bottom hosted Forest Green rovers.
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Love these images. Look how much the trees have grown! |  |
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