Vegans taking the Main Stand and Pontoon?

Other than my general objection to building on green land and to Forest Green Rovers in general i think its a cracking looking stadium. Timber a highly sustainable resource, visibly looks so much better than what else you may get....identikit concrete and steel box / bowl that is fking freezing in winter.
I thought when it was first muted though it was a much bigger capacity than 5000 ?  I know they dont get many in but unless its easily extendedable by design then its hardly fitting of the chairmans vision to grow the club.

As much as you may not like him or them, they have moved that club forward alot further than our own visionary JF did. Vince has had the club 10 yrs ......took them on when they escaped relegation from the conference only due to other clubs falling foul of rule breaking/ finances, since then 3 play off campaigns, promoted , another subsequent play off campaign in League 2 , currently sitting 2nd in the league with a new ground approved and ready to move to infrastructure building stage before stadium construction.....with the aim of Championship football.

With his track record i believe him......oh for a chairman with the drive, ambition and business mind to achieve that.....instead of

Great Coates, Peaks Parkway, Freeman St , Championship in 5yrs, ice rink, hotels, new training facilities...blah blah fking blah.

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Say what you like about Dale Vince - personally I wouldn't want meat products to be banned from BP just because the chairman is a vegan - but the national and international news coverage FGR have received under his tenure is nothing short of phenominal. They've been featured on BBC Radio 4's Today programme (the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, for frick's sake), BBC Breakfast, The One Show and have had positive coverage in countless national newspapers.

Wouldn't it be great if Town had similar national exposure across such a wide range of media for being forward thinking, rather than for inviting convicted fraudsters into the club and Covid darts?

For what it's worth, I think the stadium looks great as well.

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And the stadium looks excellent.

Looks great. And the carbon footprint claim is sound until you factor in the fact it is miles from anywhere.

Imagine the splinters

Just goes to show that each new football ground needs a USP.

Going back to the days when new stadiums weren't a thing — and I know this is nostalgia, and they weren't as safe as they are now — they all looked unique. You could immediately identify them from an aerial shot, or just a glimpse from the outside.

If you got rid of the lettering on the seats, you'd be hard pushed to separate one from another these days (Shrewsbury, Colchester, etc).

An iconic stadium on the docks would get media attention — if only in the short term — but you'd also like to wow visiting supporters and give fans of bigger clubs a reason to come to Grimsby, other than for the fish and chips.

As others have said, I don't like FGR for a number of reasons (my missus doesn't trust Dale Vince because of his pony tail) but he knows how to bring positive attention on his club.

Totally agree with those saying it looks great. I remember the planning application getting rejected a few years ago, but didn't realised they'd redone it. Good to see that it's actually going ahead now. Won't be cheap if it's being designed by Zaha Hadid though.

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Totally agree with those saying it looks great. I remember the planning application getting rejected a few years ago, but didn't realised they'd redone it. Good to see that it's actually going ahead now. Won't be cheap if it's being designed by Zaha Hadid though.

You are made of GTFC board member material mate , put an application in , i hear there is at least one vacancy coming up.    

Why waste all that money on design when "four independant stands as cheap as possible" as a working brief to the builders is much more achievable.

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You are made of GTFC board member material mate , put an application in , i hear there is at least one vacancy coming up.    

Why waste all that money on design when "four independant stands as cheap as possible" as a working brief to the builders is much more achievable.

Hahaha, the amount of money I've spent watching Town is probably more than some of the current board members have put into the club to be fair!

And while I'd love us to get something as good as this new FGR one, it's definitely not possible. I work for a fairly well established architecture practice who are quite expensive but Zaha Hadid's prices dwarf ours. They were doing the stadium for the Japan Rugby World Cup final but had to change the design because it was too expensive and then the government scrapped the "cheap" version after pressure from the public. They've also completed one of the Qatar World Cup stadiums too, to give you an idea of their client base. I had a read into the FGR stadium yesterday afternoon and it's part of a huge £100m eco park with the stadium being the centrepiece.Would love to know how much the stadium alone is costing.

Quoted from Son of Cod

Hahaha, the amount of money I've spent watching Town is probably more than some of the current board members have put into the club to be fair!

And while I'd love us to get something as good as this new FGR one, it's definitely not possible. I work for a fairly well established architecture practice who are quite expensive but Zaha Hadid's prices dwarf ours. They were doing the stadium for the Japan Rugby World Cup final but had to change the design because it was too expensive and then the government scrapped the "cheap" version after pressure from the public. They've also completed one of the Qatar World Cup stadiums too, to give you an idea of their client base. I had a read into the FGR stadium yesterday afternoon and it's part of a huge £100m eco park with the stadium being the centrepiece.Would love to know how much the stadium alone is costing.

I assume it will be made of cross-laminated timber won't it SoC? The go-to material for zero embodied carbon emissions I understand. I think the problem with CLT is, apart from being more costly than steel and concrete, that if you want to build every new building out of it, you have to cover the world with trees and stop growing food...

University of Nottingham built their new Chemistry building out of it, it burnt down a few days before handover. They built it again in the same material.

I'll be happy with a stadium built out of Scunthorpe steel and fly-ash concrete. As long as it has a Pontoon where we can all stand-up...

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As long as it has a Pontoon where we can all stand-up...

What's the latest on Safe Standing?

Maybe it will be allowed by the time we get the go ahead for the new stadium.

Not for me though at my age, I'll happily stick to a seat thanks.