People must be dreaming saying that the stand is too small and we need more seats.
I am very impressed with this initial outline that we've seen, it looks like a very neat and tidy stand which is there to provided the 7 day a week revenue streams that we need.
However the stand looks to be designed in a way which makes expansion backwards somewhat impossible without actually :censored:ing it all up. However, one a new chaddy end and George Hill stand are built then i'm sure corners and what not could be added.
I would hazard a guess that the stand that will replace the main stanx will have the same number of seats as this new stand just with no exec boxes, with the chaddy end following the same style, thus making expansion of corners easy.
However, this seems to be a short term kind of thing, if and that's a big if, we ever actually became a bigger club, on the current BP site we could probably accomodate a 25,000 seater stadium maximum, the way it is currently set out. I personally think it should have been changed with the pitch being moved over the car park, or being rotated 90degrees, thus allowing two big side stands with a small chaddy end (due to the housing at the back) and then the RRE which will do us for another good few years.
Anyhow, in the current climate and with us being in this league since before i started supporting Latics, this is the perfect opportunity now to get this built. It may not be stadium 2000 or Oldham Arena or Failsworth Arena, but i personally believe this is the best stand we have been presented with to date!
Keep the Faith, Ladies and Gentlemen.