sbcmfc Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 If you had to build a new stadium, livingston's is probably the best of a bad bunch, corners are filled in, 10k seats. Or a miniature version of huddersdield's. I like the main stand at Falkirk from the outside, but soulless inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_P Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 It seems inevitable to me that it'll be a case of 'When' rather than 'If' for me. Just down to the timing. I'm pretty sure the club will already be weighing up factors such as the costs of maintaining Fir Park set against the costs of building a new stadium, the value of the land Fir Park sits on, prospective financial grants and potential credit terms and when those hit a particular tipping point that makes a new stadium viable then that's where we'll go. I'm sure when the time comes it will be done sensitively as possible given there will be plenty who don't want to move ofcourse. On an actual design I remain a bit fearful of a claret and amber New Broomfield but I do take a wee bit of heart of how the club seemed to have their eyes opened with Aalesund's set up when we played them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 The longer we leave it, the more expensive it becomes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Unfortunately, in the current financial climate fir park, or the land it's on anyway isn't as valuable as it might have been a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkySuperSub Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Maybe any new ground could be styled on the existing Fir Park. One stand behind the goals could be twice the size of the other, the main stand could only run three quarters the length of the pitch and in the single tier stand opposite, we could install an inaudible tannoy system and the steps could be needing painting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigColin08 Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Maybe any new ground could be styled on the existing Fir Park. One stand behind the goals could be twice the size of the other, the main stand could only run three quarters the length of the pitch and in the single tier stand opposite, we could install an inaudible tannoy system and the steps could be needing painting. Love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Stall Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Maybe any new ground could be styled on the existing Fir Park. One stand behind the goals could be twice the size of the other, the main stand could only run three quarters the length of the pitch and in the single tier stand opposite, we could install an inaudible tannoy system and the steps could be needing painting. Need to remember to build rivers of pish into the design! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special aka Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 ........................................... Seeing Van Der Gaags equaliser against Hibs ............................ Don't you mean Dunfermline ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan09 Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Would love something like this, obviously financing it would be an issue but it would be great if the council or whatever helped out so that we had a decent community stadium in Lanarkshire Would be good to make extra revenue by having Scotland under 21's matches etc as they do at st mirren park . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrazMFC96 Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Circular stadium about 8 rows high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stv Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Exactlly where is all this money going to suddenly appear from ? Another well society appeal ,grant from government,sell Murphy to Arsenal for 4million quid or a massive loan from the banks ,who are just fallin over themselves to lend money to Scottish football clubs. Dont thinks so . We can fantasize all we like but there is a big feck off ressesion in full swing and no one will be buying Fir Park in the imediate future for any reason . So its make do with what we have and repair it till the money comes back into the game, if it does. At least the playing surface seems good enough now after three attempts .Anyway we cant spend money we dont have on a new stadium and expect to put a half decent team on the park. Iether or but not both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Why do people think we could afford anything other than what St Mirren have? Plus the sale of the Fir Park land surely wouldn't cover the costs of building a new stadium, so redeveloping Fir Park might well be the cheaper option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 What would we expect any new stadium to be called - Fir Park? Or something different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobey_Dosser Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Any idea how much the ground at the old college sold for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Pepper Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Would it be cheaper to redevelop the 2 stands to maybe a smaller capacity in them than build a completely new stadium? If so the answer would be to stay at fir park as the south and cooper have been redeveloped in the past 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomjac Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Love this thread, and especially the way that it re-appears every 5-6 months or so is some guise, usually immediately after some "calamity" befalls Fir Park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Rebuild the east stand with a smaller capacity but really steep like tynecastle, taking up a smaller footprint allowing for more exits at the back. Rebuild the mainstand, again quite steep so keeping close to the pitch, the offices and whatever else you can pack into a stadium can stretch out to the pavement as long as it is on 'stilts' leaving the same room for the small carpark underneath. Sorted. ...-if we had any money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burn_Broomfield Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 What would we expect any new stadium to be called - Fir Park? Or something different? Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov Imperial Stadium or Ayatollah Khomeini Memorial Sports Palace These sound pretty good to me, naming the new ground after eccentric dictators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2/6 tae get in Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Would not want to move from Fir Park for purely selfish and sentimental reasons. A lot of memories of going there for 50 years, firstly with my dad then paying 2/6 tae get in at the boys gate at the Taggarts end . Would hate to see us move to an Aifix kit stadium stuck in the middle of a barren windswept Ravenscraig site but do see the sense of having to make improvements. My ideal if we did have to move to Ravenscraig would be a decent size 'bowl' type stadium as close to Flemington side as possible so we don't lose our identity with Fir Park too much. Money as always will be the problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 No, just no. Apologies, I didn't express myself very well. I meant retaining the Cooper and South Stands AND demolishing the POD & East Stands and rebuilding them. We'd still have 4 stands. My point is that such a scheme wouldn't be an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weesacs Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 how about............. reduce the capacity of the east stand in half and turn it back into terracing (safe standing areas - and i dont mean the fancy ones in germany, i mean like the good old ones like we seen at Somerset Park earlier in the season) - this can be the MFC seats give the cooper to away fans(and encourage the away fans to bevvy in there beforehand eg, £25 is entry to the game and 2 pints/drinks) and those in the cooper and those from the east who dont want to stand can go into the south stand when the south stand has a decent crowd it can generate a good atmosphere, turn it in our favour let the "bois" run the roost in the east, with loads of flags at each end of the stand to add some colour (and of course everyone who does go into the east signs a disclaimer that allows smoke bombs and claret n amber flares) the area between the east and the south should be turned into a home fan area - even if its just some sort of large gazebo. Sell food and drink at reasonable prices £2 for a burger, not £3............and if it is £3 give us some chips with it! encourage folk to come along, its another way to get much needed money into the club. Change the gate at the south / east end into a turnstyle maybe some radical changes listed, but it shakes it up a little and does keep us at fir park and i think at not that much expense 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 The problem is, we can't afford to do anything with fir park. To build a new place would need someone to make a very generous offer for for park, and in an ideal world let us stay there until the new place was ready... Seems a bit pie in the sky, I know. Redeveloping fir park isn't a viable option, as where would the money come from? I don't know if selling for park to finance a new place is realistic either? Anyway, fir park has character, I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONeils40yarder Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Return the East Stand to a terracing, if the SPL give it the go ahead. Use the Main Stand for Directors, and officials only, as well as dressing rooms etc. anybody who wants to sit, can do so from the DC and the remainder can stand in the shed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazzie Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Sounds good to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Greenback Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Any idea how much the ground at the old college sold for? When the site was sold in 2007 to Cala Homes they agreed to pay £12.8m. They subsequently renegotiated this to £10.05m following the crash in 2008. Mind you the site was/is a fair bit bigger than FP..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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