Mattys Greyhound 12:38 Sun Oct 2
Retractable Seats
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Excuse my ignorance I have not been to the Olympic Stadium due to living miles away from London these days and having young kids but from what I have seen of the new ground on TV it looks ok apart from the fact you are miles from the action. I always thought the idea was that the seats would retract to become nearer the pitch on matchdays and I remember Karen Brady making a big play on this when we were thinking of moving. Does this actually happen? For me its the one big thing that spoils the ground....
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LaindonHammer16
12:41 Sun Oct 2
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Athletics stadium end of story not fit for football
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On The Ball
12:57 Sun Oct 2
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They are forward. There are other seats underneath/behind them that are behind the running track - the ones we sit in are over part of it.
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Cheezey Bell-End
12:59 Sun Oct 2
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How you see it on TV is as good as it gets. Would make a good cricket/Aussie rules stadium, but it will never be as good as Upton Park.
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penners28
9:08 Sun Oct 2
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We havnt got retractable seating...
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Takashi Miike
9:24 Sun Oct 2
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scaffoldable seating
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Far Post
10:16 Sun Oct 2
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You can dress it up all you like but it will never be anything more than a tarted up athletics stadium.
The lower tier is a real 'miss mash' and the gapping between the two tiers is covered by claret and blue tarpaulin - it's a bodge.
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13 Brentford Rd
10:20 Sun Oct 2
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It's tempory/ demountable not retractable.
Looks shit as it's on scaffolding and you can see the athletics seats and bits of the track underneath. Then thete are the huge 35 odd gaps between the 2 tiers which is a joke..
It also sounds and feels hollow which is why that annoying stamping goes on at corners or freekicks.
And after all that the distance from the pitch is still a lot.
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Huffers
10:29 Sun Oct 2
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Doesn't help the cosmetics from within the upper tier but as it isn't retractable, why dont they build the temporary scaffold further forward?! It would mean longer BRIDGES
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penners28
10:35 Sun Oct 2
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Its basically everything that the DRUIDS said it was going to be....
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Northern Sold
10:38 Sun Oct 2
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They should have put roller skates on the breeze blocks it would have been retractable then
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i-Ron
11:46 Sun Oct 2
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It has a feeling of a stadium that's not completed. Like a building site.
No idea why but the piss stained concrete really pisses me off the most. It just seems like such an obvious eye sore. Why not put some paint or something over it.
Also...what cunt thought of those screens in the first place cutting into one of the best views? I'm no builder or designer but they're just so weird looking.
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1964
11:50 Sun Oct 2
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Sure the cutouts where the screens are could be filled in for not too much money. Hang the screens from the roof like old Wembley.
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On The Ball
12:00 Mon Oct 3
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Here are some nice views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zNA1coaAY
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On The Ball
12:01 Mon Oct 3
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1964 - they were only little two-line scoreboards!
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i-Ron
12:02 Mon Oct 3
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I really hope they build on the stadium and redo things like that. There's gotta be a way to fill the gaps around the pitch, make it a wrap around too.
It is 2/3 of a football stadium all spread out. We knew that though.
There's some great things about it but there's some real obvious design flaws.
To be honest I'd love to see someone else come in and complete the job. That stadium could hold another 20k if it was designed properly.
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ACIrons
12:07 Mon Oct 3
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13 Brentford Rd 10:20 Sun Oct 2
That is exactly how it is. I made my first visit Saturday, it's an awful place, not good for football at all. The gap between the scaffold seating and the upper tier is vast, I dread to think what it's like sitting up there.
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harold
12:35 Mon Oct 3
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If the seats are not retractable, how do they move them back for the athletics?
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Johnson
12:38 Mon Oct 3
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They dismantle them and hold them at a place near Pudding Mill Lane. The process takes a week.
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Gavros
12:57 Mon Oct 3
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It's a work in progress.
It's going to be fantastic.....one day.
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brundal
10:44 Mon Oct 3
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The so called retractable seating is no more the scaffolding similar to what is used at other sporting events like golf etc, but what pisses me off more is the fact that Brady said it would cover all of the running track I can see eight lanes from my seat, also why did the seating need to curve surely it could have been straight,
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