Whats matters most, the future financial security of the club or a few seats with a restricted view ? The CSH is going to transform the club's long term future.
The CSH would never have been viable if built far enough back so as not to affect the view, the club knew all along that the CSH would affect the view, however since until the play off final we had not had a full stand for 30+ years it wasnt seen as something critical and anyway 80% of the main stand seats are still fine. I agree that the club should ideally have notified the dozen or so season ticket holders who are affected but I suspect that it was just overlooked with so much going on in the summer, I know it wasn't a deliberate thing.
The very small terrace was done so as not to create a brick wall 6 feet from the pitch which would have looked awful. It doesnt bother me in the least where I stand in the ground, I have spent the last 6 months on the popular side myself and its fine.
The club has made sure that the CSH funding has NOT affected the clubs normal funding at all, this request is only to enhance the matchday experience of fans for improved TV and WAP broadband access and if you dont want to contribute then dont.
You never know, in a few years time in the football league maybe the club can afford to build a new main stand without a column in the middle and each side and then even cult will be happy.
Ian,
Thanks for your kind apology.
Oh no, sorry, there wasn't one.
Oh well, thanks for your heartfelt sarcasm and contempt anyway.
You really are devoid of any empathy genes, aren't you?
I'm really not convinced that as many as 80% of the seats in the main stand are unaffected by this development.
So, we've not had a full stand for 30+ years, have we?
Erm...
Wigan Athletic (1987);
Barnet and Wycombe (1991);
Chester City (1992);
Wigan Athletic (1994) and
Darlington (2001)
to name just a few examples.
FA Cup replays against Luton Town and Burton Albion, respectively, and visits from the likes of Wrexham and Stockport County in recent years have also seen the main stand pretty well-occupied, in my memory.
It's just as well that we lost at Blyth and thereby avoided any subsequent potential 'big' FA Cup tie having to be staged at the J Davidson Stadium then!
How much would you have considered charging for those seats in the main stand from where you can't even see the goal at the Golf Road End?
"The very small terrace was done so as not to create a brick wall 6 feet from the pitch which would have looked awful."
Forgive me but that is claptrap, hogwash and piffle.
It was created out of self-interest.
There appears, to me, to be a dichotomy in existence here.
On the one hand, there are all the self-congratulatory posts saying how well the club has looked after the recently-retired Mike Williams during his long absence owing to injury .
Well, that's absolutely fine and commendable.
However, he has been associated with this club for merely 18 months.
Some of the season ticket holders whose view of the pitch you have so gleefully trampled over have been supporting Altrincham FC for in excess of 30, 40 and even 50 years.
Yet we are treated with arrant and utter disdain.
And, finally, if your bold prophecy of us reaching the Football League in the not-too-distant future is fulfilled and we do erect a new main stand, I pray to God that you won't be called upon to design it...!