RobSpurs
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Firstly, are we ever likely to see the south stand with safe standing? There doesn't seem any realistic prospect of anything better than 1:1 seat conversion at a 25 degree angle this side of 2023 unless I've completely misread the public and political debate. So, if the capacity is 52k in the all seater variant presumably we'd be looking a at slightly lower capacity with the 25 degree variant with 1:1 conversion?
Yes, it'll be built in from the start but as you rightly say it'll be 1:1. Why would the capacity be lower than if it was all-seated though? Have I missed something? Surely it'll be exactly the same?
Also, later conversion back to 32 degrees from 25 degrees doesn't look a quick job that can be done over one summer which makes it questionable whether that would ever occur.
You won't build it at 32 degrees in the first place! The single-gradient 32 degrees stand is, I would suggest, a complete fantasy at this point. It doesn't fit the regs for standing areas, and the club won't flout the regs and risk not being able to have safe standing. If I were you, I'd forget Option 1. Whatever will be built will have a change in gradient. Whether it ends up being as crude as the new diagram suggests (i.e. Option 3, the one that complies with the regs) we'll have to wait and see.