A word of warning

Logically it'd be at the start of a closed season where the club own the ground (they don't) and there was adequate chance that the investment would be repaid (promotion would be a start).

 

Leave the West Stand alone, I've built up a resilience to heavy rain, wind and coldness from being sat there.

I dread clicking on posts about Oakwell as I know my beloved West Stand will be threatened.

You Ponte enders and East standers just don't understand what makes a West Stander a West Stander.

 

Of course we do ! We were also from stands from a by gone age , progress isn’t just about ripping up old unsafe, uneconomical buildings but about bringing comfort not seeing us waste hard gotten resources propping up dying stands .

 

12 months ago while the stadium has sat empty

 

Hindsight is a wonderfully thing for sure

 

I'm sure you're intelligent enough to know what I meant mate, I bet you're quality at the conundrum on countdown

 

I really meant no slight by it, I was merely firming up on your suggestion which l happen to believe will be the fate of the old stand in the event we are promoted

 

Re the OP. there's not such a rush to renew.
We've got till end April to renew at the reduced rate..

 

I'm a Ponte ender and have been an East stander but I have solidarity with you!

 

So if we get promoted you think we will knock down a stand and reduce our capacity for what could be a one off season in the Prem?

 

Didn't Notts County pretty much rebuild their stadium during a close season in the early 90s?

 

The best time would be the end of next season(should we make it to the promised land). Spend next season drawing up the plans, getting planning permission and preparing it, then 5 minutes after the final whistle start the demolition. It would have a double benefit as the kids and overexcitable man-children would have to get off the pitch sharpish after their annual pitch invasion.

Do it that way, and you would only have half a dozen games at the start of the season where the stand probably wouldn't be ready.*

*It's all hypothetical anyway, as unless the ground ownership is sorted there would be very, very little spent on the facilities(barring the mandatory upgrades that will be forced upon us).

 

Yes I believe we would have little option to get the ground and other facilities up to the standards required for the premiership. I really have no idea how long it would take to build back a new stand ready for supporters to go into but I do suspect it may be much quicker than you might at first think. I certainly think the scale of it would be nothing like any of other modern stands.

 

I'm thinking back to the Ponty and North Stand builds. Wasn't the Ponty done between seasons, and the North a bit more than an off season? So if we say that the West stand would be at least as high as the Ponty, but what, 3 times longer? That should mean it would take longer than a pre-season to build it.

Obviously, building techniques and technologies have improved a lot since them but I couldn't see them having a new West stand done in that short amount of time, personally.

 

It’s April; the ground is owned 50:50 by the Cryne family and BMBC, neither of whom would have anything to gain from a new stand.

So you’re genuinely suggesting that between today and the end of next month (approx 7 weeks):

The club buys the ground
The club has an architect draw up plans
The club secures funding for the project
The club secures planning permission
The club finds a contractor ready to go this summer.

Completely reasonable when you put it like that

especially in light of the fact that the club have had a ‘desire’ to purchase the ground for >3 years and haven’t managed to sort that yet.

 

Well when you put it like that I guess in the event we did win promotion we would simply have to forfeit our our place in the premiership. Either that or ground share with an oven ready premiership stadium like Leeds or Sheffield Utd. Which would you prefer? Come to think about it l don’t know why we don’t simply turn out the under 23s for the remaining games and just forget about promotion. Problem solved.

 

Already gonna get mine. While we are not in the ground im still happy to fund my club...but you're right our regular holders need to shape up! Utr

 

Are you suggesting that at present, Oakwell doesn’t meet the minimum requirement for a Premier League stadium?

 

Also, Premiership!? Time for bed grandad.

 

Why?