New Ground/ Stands

Quoted from chaos33

There already are seats in the corner between the main and the Osmond. Do you mean between the Osmond and the findus? Isn’t the Fanzone there?
Think the imperial corner might have some scope. Maybe the Harrington but there’s a police box, catering etc there.

It’s clear we are outgrowing BP on this trajectory but there’s no quick fix. I’d start my limiting visitors to the seats in ‘the cage’ - between main and Osmond. Don’t know how many that holds (maybe 1000-1500?) but it’s more than some clubs give away fans in L2 and exclusively offering the Osmond to Town fans if demand is there.

Possibly they reinstalled some and I missed it but in the pic there's none there

just realised HOW old that pic is..... ignore me

Did we not have this exact discussion about a week ago?

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1654577141/s-0/

Quoted from Oly1987

Possibly they reinstalled some and I missed it but in the pic there's none there

There never were seats in the cage . It's still the original terrace from the standing days . Not suitable for seating

Quoted from It Bites

There never were seats in the cage . It's still the original terrace from the standing days . Not suitable for seating

What are you talking about?! It’s got seats in.

Quoted from It Bites

There never were seats in the cage . It's still the original terrace from the standing days . Not suitable for seating

There’s a thin slither of the corner that has nothing in but the majority of the corner is seated and has been for a long time!!!

It's not a thin slither

I always thought that corner section was unuseable for some reason, but I can't think what it is.

Not had any fans in it for years.

I think our friend It Bites is referring to the very corner between the Main and the Osmond, an area of old terracing which is currently inaccessible because of the way it has been ‘caged in’.

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It’s years since I sat over that side of the ground, but you used to be able to see the fixings in the concrete where the old crush barriers used to be. You can see them when that part of the ground was in use in this photo.

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I’m not sure what year that is, but at a guess it’s late 80s or early 90s, pre-Taylor report. When I first started watching Town in 1992, I’m sure that area was in use then but I might be misremembering that through the eyes of a child.

I don’t know why that wasn’t converted along with the rest of the Osmond at the time, perhaps the angle of the corner terracing is too acute to accommodate seats. If it were possible, there would be quite a lot of work needing to be done to the terracing itself as you can’t just bolt seats onto old steps designed for standing.

Interesting idea though.

I’d have thought it is fairly straightforward to extend the Pontoon round the corners. There will probably be some egress limitations but you just have to do things a bit different like opening the big gate at the back of the Ponny/Imp corner. Surely though they could be overcome. What would that add 750 to 1000 perhaps. Then phase things around the ground starting with the dear old beloved Main, you could add additional capacity there too without much impact on the roof line.
Short term we need 2-3000 more seats, that could do it.