[Wooden Spoon]

Saltergate Stu, on Feb 25 2008, 05:40 PM, said:

It isn't a call I'd like to make - "If we hadn't have bought those bendly floodlights, we'd have been able to bring in better players and get promoted..." but something would be good to lift it above the very basic, from the beginning. It will only gain proper character with use, as memories become attached to it, but a completely bland, brutal place will be difficult to get attached to. Perhaps the "Percent for Art" scheme will provide a way to incorporate some attractive and distinct feature into the build.

4 `replicas` of the spire would be groovy

[frearsghost]

Saltergate Stu, on Feb 25 2008, 05:40 PM, said:

It isn't a call I'd like to make - "If we hadn't have bought those bendly floodlights, we'd have been able to bring in better players and get promoted..." but something would be good to lift it above the very basic, from the beginning. It will only gain proper character with use, as memories become attached to it, but a completely bland, brutal place will be difficult to get attached to. Perhaps the "Percent for Art" scheme will provide a way to incorporate some attractive and distinct feature into the build.

You could make a simple curved floodlight pylon with just two poles and interlocking reinforcers. Four poles would be better (cosmetically.) They don't have to cost the earth. The further they curved in the more spectacular they would look.

[fishini]

Looks like we have been misled once again, just like our managers, always the cheap options

[Bugerov]

Saltergate Stu, on Feb 25 2008, 05:40 PM, said:

It isn't a call I'd like to make - "If we hadn't have bought those bendly floodlights, we'd have been able to bring in better players and get promoted..." but something would be good to lift it above the very basic, from the beginning. It will only gain proper character with use, as memories become attached to it, but a completely bland, brutal place will be difficult to get attached to. Perhaps the "Percent for Art" scheme will provide a way to incorporate some attractive and distinct feature into the build.

A clock on the kop roof within a spire shape ... a bit like the old lapel badge?

[azul]

spireiteblue, on Feb 25 2008, 08:57 PM, said:

Anybody would think we are not having any floodlights lol.

This floodlight business is really getting boring - as if curved floodlights are ever going to recreate the character of Saltergate.

[Wooden Spoon]

azul, on Feb 25 2008, 09:16 PM, said:

This floodlight business is really getting boring - as if curved floodlights are ever going to recreate the character of Saltergate.

When Saltergate was built it was a cheap characterless bog standard Lietch Ground.

At least these floodlights wold give the place some individuality

latewinner, on Feb 25 2008, 09:15 PM, said:

A clock on the kop roof within a spire shape ... a bit like the old lapel badge?

I really like that idea.

[azul]

death, on Feb 25 2008, 10:08 PM, said:

When Saltergate was built it was a cheap characterless bog standard Lietch Ground.

When Victorian terraces were built, they were cheap optiON another ons for the working class, now in many areas thet are much desired

On a related issue was it clear from the exhibition whether the blue cladding on the stands is corrugated iron or something a bit more classy

This post has been edited by azul: 25 February 2008 - 10:24 PM

[Wooden Spoon]

azul, on Feb 25 2008, 10:24 PM, said:

When Victorian terraces were built, they were cheap optiON another ons for the working class, now in many areas thet are much desired

they are, compared to the 1960 tower blocks that surround them

What part of saltergate are you advocating we `keep`?

[azul]

death, on Feb 25 2008, 10:08 PM, said:

At least these floodlights wold give the place some individuality
I really like that idea.

I think we should preserve the real character of Saltergate by incorporating the open bogs somewhere in the development

Perhaps one could be mounted in the plaza between Tesco and the home end

[Wooden Spoon]

azul, on Feb 25 2008, 10:29 PM, said:

I think we should preserve the real character of Saltergate by incorporating the open bogs somewhere in the development

Perhaps one could be mounted in the plaza between Tesco and the home end

You can do better than that

[Wooden Spoon]

spireiteblue, on Feb 25 2008, 10:40 PM, said:

I think he's taking the pee Death lol...

I know, thats why I said he can do better.

How about a large dragon outside to represent st george, being as we are in the heart of ENGLAND?