4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
I want a bowl, the wind down at the water front might be a factor in the design
17,000 apparently. Ace design
Exactly. December on the docks with the wind blowing down the Mersey is ridiculous, the port shuts down ffs
Exeter Gently
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Bowl stadiums are naff
Jack1882
Player Valuation: £950k
Been expanded to 17,500 in the recent capacity increase that happened this month. Going to be ace, can't wait.
Just want to say that The Emirates and Wembley are naff... there's nothing about a bowl shaped stadium that inherently makes it naff. There's no special spell the shape casts on a stadium that sucks the atmosphere away.
Good stadiums have good atmosphere from thoughtful design, not the shape.
That'll be an amazing site. They trying to get the Dortmund thing going??
Jack1882
Player Valuation: £950k
That's the idea I think, it's the same height and angle as Dortmunds. Obviously the capacity lower because theirs is terraced though.
Toffeeslam
Player Valuation: £35m
Going to the Emirates this Sunday so it will be good to sample an atmosphere in one of these new Bowl stadiums.
Mind you with Arsenal fans you get more atmosphere on the dark side of the moon so probably not the best place for that
I think being close to the pitch helps a lot, which it looks like your design is. It's why the old fashion grounds are so intimidating, everyone is on top of you.
The emirates is a pit of a ground, but then again so are the fans
Jack1882
Player Valuation: £950k
It won't be a very good sample. It's hard to design a stadium with as little thought for atmosphere as The Emirates.
You're going to have the kopites making up another imaginary "hatred" now, they'll be gunning for Spurs because "de kop is de biggest lid"
Toffeeslam
Player Valuation: £35m
Is that the thinking behind the large stand ? To generate the hostile atmosphere as the new stadium does share a lot of the same Emirates characteristics apart from that
Jack1882
Player Valuation: £950k
The Emirates has gaping holes in the roof which leak all of the sound, huge areas behind the goals before you get to the stands which suck away any home fan noise generation, a middle corporate tier that wraps around the entire ground which separates the bottom tier fans from the top tier and a shallower than necessary first tier. There are lots of differences.
Though yeh the single tiered stand is meant to draw most of the loud Spurs fans to that one stand sort of like a natural singing section that can get the entire stadium rocking.
