thisGRAEME Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 If I could write [1] citation needed on that webpage I'd write it a hundred times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthLanarkshireWhite Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 How about dropping the Hampden pitch twenty feet and adding six more rows to the bottom- might get another 5000 or so seats just from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 I think it's discussed earlier in the thread, but supposedly there's a stream or culvert or something under the current level.Also you'd worsen existing views from the back of the ends. IMO, the only option at Hampden could well be rebuilding the ends, South Stand-style and 'square', Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawfieldAggro Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 I think it's discussed earlier in the thread, but supposedly there's a stream or culvert or something under the current level.Also you'd worsen existing views from the back of the ends. IMO, the only option at Hampden could well be rebuilding the ends, South Stand-style and 'square', That is affirmative. I believe the pitch, in its pre-tear up condition, was raised around 3 feet as part of the 92-93 reconstruction phase, with basically better quality soil giving it more strength. Bear in mind the actual bowl, from the outside, looks ground level, but the pitch still does not. Even recreating South Stand& enclosure-esque behind goal ends, would still leave the North enclosure looking a tad pathetic at half the size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qpsnapper Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 I think it's discussed earlier in the thread, but supposedly there's a stream or culvert or something under the current level.Also you'd worsen existing views from the back of the ends. IMO, the only option at Hampden could well be rebuilding the ends, South Stand-style and 'square', Moll's Mire runs underneath Hampden, from approximately where the West tunnel is to close to where the East Stand meets the North stand. Not sure how deep under the pitch it is. As part of the 1999 redevelopment I think they also built water storage tanks underneath the pitch where rainwater is stored to water the pitch, they would have to be moved as well. Rebuilding the two ends would be a great idea, but the issue, along with all the other plans like Stirling, is simply who is going to pay for it? It took Queen's Park over 30 years to get the funding together for the 1999 redevelopment, and if it hadn't been for the National Lottery we'd probably still be waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Oh, I totally agree, short of some huge upsurge in the national team's following and a tonne of public cash I wouldn't forsee any major remodelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthLanarkshireWhite Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Mr Salmond can add it to his list of promises for post - September Another pie in the sky vision of Heaven on earth won't make any difference. Paid for with oil I assume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Well I have to say, Hampden looks great as an athletics stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Well I have to say, Hampden looks great as an athletics stadium. Aye, much better like that. The SFA should try to flog it to whatever athletics authority has money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbelle Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 How about dropping the Hampden pitch twenty feet and adding six more rows to the bottom- might get another 5000 or so seats just from that. They could always just take all the seats out on 3 sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClydeNewcomer Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I love hampden. Nothing better in football than seeing scotland play well at a packed hampden. I feel at home in hampden. Love that stadium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClydeNewcomer Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Those fuckers better get those seats back pronto. No one gives a flying f**k about the shite olympics. Did they ask the public if it was OK to start wrecking our stadiums? As usual the sheep public just accept everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placidcasual Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Those fuckers better get those seats back pronto. No one gives a flying f**k about the shite olympics. Did they ask the public if it was OK to start wrecking our stadiums? As usual the sheep public just accept everything You should have let us all know about the protests you were arranging. They weren't particularly well publicised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 How about dropping the Hampden pitch twenty feet and adding six more rows to the bottom- might get another 5000 or so seats just from that. The sight lines are rubbish as it stands. Dropping the pitch further would make matters worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainspotter Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Did they ask the public if it was OK to start wrecking our stadiums? 'Our'? But yeah, they did ask them to buy tickets, which seems to have gone rather well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Do we really need huge white elephant grounds in Inverness, Killie or whatever in off-chance that we can host some championship? Rugby Park is already a white elephant. far to big for Kilmarnock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Well I have to say, Hampden looks great as an athletics stadium. Looking at that picture was there any need to raise the level at all. The track looks well away from the front row and it does show how far away the fans are from the action behind the goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Looking at that picture was there any need to raise the level at all. The track looks well away from the front row and it does show how far away the fans are from the action behind the goals. If you look the corners of the 100m straight are almost in the mouths of the access tunnels, if they hadn't raised it then it wouldn't have fitted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestersKTID Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Rugby Park is already a white elephant. far to big for Kilmarnock. Wasn't always, I remember a certain game against St Johnstone of all people drawing over 15000. But now yes it is far too big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Wasn't always, I remember a certain game against St Johnstone of all people drawing over 15000. But now yes it is far too big. I know I was there, it must be as sole destroying for your fans as ours running around with half the stadium or more empty each week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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