Only thing wrong with CCS is the hideous, cheap and now dirty and worn cladding - other than that, the location, size, atmosphere when full house is all very good indeed - shit article.
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Only thing wrong with CCS is the hideous, cheap and now dirty and worn cladding - other than that, the location, size, atmosphere when full house is all very good indeed - shit article.
...is the right answerOriginally Posted by Freitag 4.17
The stadium is excellent in many ways but exiting the stadium from the terraces takes longer than it does at Barcelona. There's a real choke point before reaching the vomitorium.
P.S. FAO Mr Morris: still no tbg smiley
Used to love/hate the penguin march in NP. CCS is better than that at least when exiting IMO.The stadium is excellent in many ways but exiting the stadium from the terraces takes longer than it does at Barcelona. There's a real choke point before reaching the vomitorium.
P.S. FAO Mr Morris: still no tbg smiley
Our stadium’s location meant that nothing changed pre or post match for the fans, one of the main things for me.
Even if it had glass cladding or something, it's still an uninteresting, generic construction.
When people talk about "What would have happened had we stayed at Ninian Park?" I just think about Craven cottage. It's much more interesting to redevelop individual stands as and when the need arises.
Instead of moving to the CCS they could have redeveloped the Grandstand and made a beautiful 7k stand, which would have upped the attendance enough for a championship side with average gates of 20K. After that , do something with the canton stand. After that , put a new roof on the bob bank with a repainted Captain Morgan Rum on the top. Extend the Grange End back a bit.....maybe an overhanging top tier.
All of this done well and overtime would give us a stadium with and attendance of between 30-40k
What we have is functional but souless space to watch sport. When people talk about atmosphere, this is something that is generated by the fans and having a successful football team. I'd prefer to go to watch City play Carlisle in the 4th Division at Ninian Park than I would watch us play Morecambe in League Two at the CCS. The CCS is a totally horrible place to be when there are 5k people there.....just in terms of the venue itself.
Yeah but a developed NP would be a horrible place to be with 5k. Just like the old NP used to be horrible holding 2.5k in a 20k stadium.
A 20,000 stadium? Let’s not forget, 2 and a half thousand of us were rattling around in a 60,000 capacity stadium really, the footprint hadn’t altered that much.
It's not just the seating. It's the facilities. How are you going to develop the bob bank? It was basically a giant hill. And there was no room at either end. Not to mention the undersoil heating, changing rooms, storage, office space, parking etc. Next time you're enjoying a piss after your third pint, remember the Bob-bank.
Ninian Park had the massive disadvantage of being boxed in by the railway behind the Bob Bank. Access all around the stadium is so much more practical.
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