| All this business about fans being relocated 00:28 - Jun 11 with 5842 views | Blueastheycome |
And with next to no spare other seats available
It does beg the question~ how the heck are the club going to find a solution to find somewhere for everyone in block A and B when the time comes to knock down the cobbold stand?
Also, the away fans will have to be put somewhere too! [Post edited 11 Jun 2024 0:29]
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 00:29 - Jun 11 with 4901 views | BLUEBEAT |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 01:00 - Jun 11 with 4846 views | mutters |
We are relocating to Ipswich Wanderers ground for a season whilst the work is being done. Predominantly standing only and you can bring your own chair |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:26 - Jun 11 with 4663 views | lurcher |
The new Cobbold will have more than enough capacity and the away fans end up in the Sir Alf. |  | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:36 - Jun 11 with 4602 views | Herbivore |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:26 - Jun 11 by lurcher |
The new Cobbold will have more than enough capacity and the away fans end up in the Sir Alf. |
Unless they are somehow erecting the new Cobbold overnight, there will be a period of time where we only have three usable stands. |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:45 - Jun 11 with 4562 views | Freddies_Ears |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:36 - Jun 11 by Herbivore |
Unless they are somehow erecting the new Cobbold overnight, there will be a period of time where we only have three usable stands. |
With 29,800 seats, and the Cobbold holding (this year) no more than 2,000 season ticket holders out of 5,500ish capacity it is fine. There would be 21000 season ticket holders and around 23800 seats (assuming we plead for zero away fans for a season) |  | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:52 - Jun 11 with 4535 views | EssexBloo |
Did Ashton say they have looked at ways of building behind the old one first? They managed to do that at Anfield when increasing two stands. | | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:24 - Jun 11 with 4390 views | NthQldITFC |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:36 - Jun 11 by Herbivore |
Unless they are somehow erecting the new Cobbold overnight, there will be a period of time where we only have three usable stands. |
Three-Sided W*nkers - was a comment about Oxford that still has me wetting my knickers every time. |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:25 - Jun 11 with 4380 views | Blueastheycome |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 06:45 - Jun 11 by Freddies_Ears |
With 29,800 seats, and the Cobbold holding (this year) no more than 2,000 season ticket holders out of 5,500ish capacity it is fine. There would be 21000 season ticket holders and around 23800 seats (assuming we plead for zero away fans for a season) |
There’s no way in hell prem rules will authorise no away fans. | | | |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:34 - Jun 11 with 4315 views | Churchman |
My suggestions are:
20 seats in the club shop window
Seat the roof of the pioneer - if the weight is too great ask people to bring a cushion
Seat the floodlight pylons and the space on the top of North and South Stands.
The Zeppelin idea is a bit daft. Too big. Smaller blimps would work. Or tethered helium balloons
Cherry pickers over the corners
Any other ideas beyond the obvious ‘Anfield’ idea of over-sailing the existing stand? |  | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:42 - Jun 11 with 4288 views | textbackup |
The only way has to be build behind/above current stand. Get a large upper tier in place to move fans into, then demolish the lower sections, to rebuild.
If we are to build back over the road it’s not actually too difficult for that to happen. As all steels and structure would be in place relatively quickly |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:45 - Jun 11 with 4276 views | WubbleU |
I think the Cobbold holds about 7,500 people???
So if capacity drops to about 22,000 during the work, the away allocation would drop to 2200 under Prem rules. So that leaves just under 20,000 for us. There won't be any new season tickets sold until the work is done, so anyone who doesn't renew gets us down towards that number. It will be the single match sales that miss out during the build, which is horrible for those who can't attend every week.
Then if the new Cobbold starts to be usable mid-season they'll sell them match to match. That's what happens at most other clubs during reduced capacity anyway (Fulham being a recent example). | | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:55 - Jun 11 with 4208 views | BloomBlue |
We will ground share for a season. Probably with Norwich as Colchester's ground isn't big enough |  | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:57 - Jun 11 with 4174 views | IPSWICHFANITFC |
Be interesting to know what the timeline would be. Didn't Fulham recently go a whole season with a stand being rebuilt? And even for a while it wasn't fully re-open. |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:16 - Jun 11 with 4103 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
The solution is simple, back to League 1 and all this goes away. The tixcket holders in the middle can keep their seats and we welcome 72 Fleetwood fans.
Bliss. | | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:37 - Jun 11 with 3980 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:45 - Jun 11 by WubbleU |
I think the Cobbold holds about 7,500 people???
So if capacity drops to about 22,000 during the work, the away allocation would drop to 2200 under Prem rules. So that leaves just under 20,000 for us. There won't be any new season tickets sold until the work is done, so anyone who doesn't renew gets us down towards that number. It will be the single match sales that miss out during the build, which is horrible for those who can't attend every week.
Then if the new Cobbold starts to be usable mid-season they'll sell them match to match. That's what happens at most other clubs during reduced capacity anyway (Fulham being a recent example). |
I’ve no doubt the main result of this is the ticket re-sale scheme will be expanded to all season ticket holder not just club members which will help ticket availability for sure. There will be tickets available, just less than last season.
We could see a ballot scheme introduced. |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:40 - Jun 11 with 3963 views | Churchman |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:16 - Jun 11 by WolfieAtTheBack |
The solution is simple, back to League 1 and all this goes away. The tixcket holders in the middle can keep their seats and we welcome 72 Fleetwood fans.
Bliss. |
People were much happier then. Could we rise to the challenge of Morecambe at home? Remember the news when the training ground portacabin was painted? My dad and I so admired the turnstiles when Clegg got a discounted tin of gloss in too. It was even the right colour. It was the nearest we got to excitement that season. The good ole days eh?
Ahh the ease of access to the fetid toilets at half time after watching McCarthy’s merry men defend the whole first half against Rotherham. And there was comfort in knowing they’d do the same in the second half. Every point a prisoner.
Ahh the comfort of knowing the atmosphere would improve the smaller the crowd as the badges on the ground faded and Evans remained invisible.
Little did the cushion + programme brigade know that a load of Americans would roll in and spoil everything. | | | |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:42 - Jun 11 with 3939 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Perhaps they can sit in 3–D seats and watch the match on their play stations?
I suspect you know the answer to your own question….it isn’t going to happen, | |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:49 - Jun 11 with 3922 views | itfcjoe |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:42 - Jun 11 by textbackup |
The only way has to be build behind/above current stand. Get a large upper tier in place to move fans into, then demolish the lower sections, to rebuild.
If we are to build back over the road it’s not actually too difficult for that to happen. As all steels and structure would be in place relatively quickly |
You'd effectively need the stand built across the majority of a season, and then on last day knock the old one down from inside and then spend the 3 month break finishing it.
It should be possible, but would be a real feat of project management and design to make it all work |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:53 - Jun 11 with 3888 views | chicoazul |
Our on pitch history after redevelopments as a result of success is really excellent so I can’t wait for this to happen. |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:55 - Jun 11 with 3877 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:49 - Jun 11 by itfcjoe |
You'd effectively need the stand built across the majority of a season, and then on last day knock the old one down from inside and then spend the 3 month break finishing it.
It should be possible, but would be a real feat of project management and design to make it all work |
You imagine in that situation we would ask for our last couple of games in a season to be away, and then the first of the next.
I think the situation playing out now will accelerate the process of building the new stand if I’m honest. | |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 08:59 - Jun 11 with 3862 views | N2_Blue |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:25 - Jun 11 by Blueastheycome |
There’s no way in hell prem rules will authorise no away fans. |
I should think the club have calculated this and factored in with the season cap. They haven't just made up a number. They probably calculated that they have a seat for every season ticket holder (21k) and approx 2K away fans without the cobbold stand. Won't be any match day tickets though [Post edited 11 Jun 2024 9:01]
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 09:08 - Jun 11 with 3816 views | Guthrum |
Mark Ashton will have had direct experience/knowlege of exactly this problem at Bristol (tho it was instituted before he joined). |  |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 09:19 - Jun 11 with 3719 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 09:08 - Jun 11 by Guthrum |
Mark Ashton will have had direct experience/knowlege of exactly this problem at Bristol (tho it was instituted before he joined). |
In all honesty, I was photographing at Bristol City quite regularly when they were knocking down the old Ayeto Stand. There were still plenty of available seats in the place.
This creates a bigger problem, in that there are very few available seats where two, three or even four people can sit together.
I guess we could see others asked to move in all available areas, for example where there are a group of ST holders then one empty seat then another group of ST holder and so ons, its not inconceivable that people could be asked to 'budge up' to create multiple seats in a row. | |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 10:14 - Jun 11 with 3518 views | Guthrum |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 09:19 - Jun 11 by Cheltenham_Blue |
In all honesty, I was photographing at Bristol City quite regularly when they were knocking down the old Ayeto Stand. There were still plenty of available seats in the place.
This creates a bigger problem, in that there are very few available seats where two, three or even four people can sit together.
I guess we could see others asked to move in all available areas, for example where there are a group of ST holders then one empty seat then another group of ST holder and so ons, its not inconceivable that people could be asked to 'budge up' to create multiple seats in a row. |
Indeed, they didn't have the "problem" of selling out the ground on a regular basis.
If it is a temporary measure, then groups may just have to split up for one season, with the promise of sitting together again once the new stand is commissioned. That last shouldn't be too hard to tessellate given the increased capacity. | |
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| All this business about fans being relocated on 10:37 - Jun 11 with 3380 views | Swansea_Blue |
| All this business about fans being relocated on 07:24 - Jun 11 by NthQldITFC |
Three-Sided W*nkers - was a comment about Oxford that still has me wetting my knickers every time. |
Wolves was a funny rebuild. After they build the first stand of the current ground, and before they moved the pitch across, their supporters would have needed binoculars just to make out the nearest lino. |  |
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