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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 17, 2012 23:55:51 GMT
Just driving home from work 15 minutes ago and came up with a question in my head as I drove down the D road.
Would the Brit fit on the Vic site ?
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Post by scfcmacca on Apr 18, 2012 0:01:02 GMT
no chance its a fairly small piece of ground and the brit just by it self would take up allot of it if not more space it would not be possible to build a ground of that size and for the local area to be able cope with it.
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Post by scfcmacca on Apr 18, 2012 0:02:10 GMT
but alos adding to that i think we should of brought the land back and put the training ground there when we rebuilt it.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 18, 2012 0:05:43 GMT
but alos adding to that i think we should of brought the land back and put the training ground there when we rebuilt it. That would have been a great idea. It would have kept that special place in the hands of our great team. |
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Post by Meggsy on Apr 18, 2012 6:58:06 GMT
If you have been down to Clayton wood and seen the place then you will see that it would not fit on the Vic site, especially with the new extensions planned.
I would just love to see something done with the land for once.
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Post by StokieMatt on Apr 18, 2012 8:44:24 GMT
We don't own it do we?
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Post by lordb on Apr 18, 2012 11:23:34 GMT
no,St Modwen own it
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Post by boothenender7 on Apr 18, 2012 11:26:00 GMT
put the academy there, its gotta be do-able!!!
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Post by StokieMatt on Apr 18, 2012 11:28:04 GMT
Must be too expensive n too hard develop on then  Plus didn't the locals moan about the vic? Will have bob hope of planning permission |
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Post by lordb on Apr 18, 2012 11:29:42 GMT
St Modwen have a very long record of owning 'brown'field' sties across the midlands & doing nothing with them for years,decades.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 18, 2012 11:42:31 GMT
What I'd love to see on the Vic site but will never happen for a multitude of reasons is that it is turned into a community football centre. Run properly it would have a club house, a number of pitches and teams of all ages playing the game. The aim would be for the community and hopefully to find the next Andy Wilkinson but with better distribution!  But alas it's just a dream. |
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Post by stevetheboater on Apr 18, 2012 11:44:29 GMT
I would love St Modwen to build apartments on the Vic site in the same external height and footprint as the old Vic stands, with the pitch left as public open space. You wouldn't need any of the old structure for it to work if properly done, for example using red surface finishes on the Butler Street side. I bet they'd have no problem selling them either.
If anyone has been to the redeveloped Highbury they will know where I'm coming from. (Yes I know it's A*senal but that's not the point.) Very little of the old stadium is visible but it is still an amazing space when you walk into it because your mind fills in the missing bits.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 18, 2012 12:06:57 GMT
Must be too expensive n too hard develop on then Plus didn't the locals moan about the vic? Will have bob hope of planning permission The ground was there a lot longer that 'the locals'. Most of 'the locals' have lost a community now we are at the Brit and the town centre has an abundance of closed shops. I'm sure they never moaned when matthews and the rest were gracing the place and the town was vibrant on a match day bringing money into the town. Yes they'll moan about fighting but that was a small period in a long history at the vic. If they didn't like it they should have moved and let genuine football fans live there, I would loved to have lived by the vic as a kid. |
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Post by stokiejoeofalsager on Apr 18, 2012 15:45:30 GMT
I would love St Modwen to build apartments on the Vic site in the same external height and footprint as the old Vic stands, with the pitch left as public open space. You wouldn't need any of the old structure for it to work if properly done, for example using red surface finishes on the Butler Street side. I bet they'd have no problem selling them either. If anyone has been to the redeveloped Highbury they will know where I'm coming from. (Yes I know it's A*senal but that's not the point.) Very little of the old stadium is visible but it is still an amazing space when you walk into it because your mind fills in the missing bits. I would love St Modwen to build apartments on the Vic site in the same external height and footprint as the old Vic stands, with the pitch left as public open space. You wouldn't need any of the old structure for it to work if properly done, for example using red surface finishes on the Butler Street side. I bet they'd have no problem selling them either. If anyone has been to the redeveloped Highbury they will know where I'm coming from. (Yes I know it's A*senal but that's not the point.) Very little of the old stadium is visible but it is still an amazing space when you walk into it because your mind fills in the missing bits. i see what you mean now. that would be brilliant. look at this picture. they have even named each block after the stand it sit in place of and shaped the roofs of the blocks like the roofs of stands and also redone the front of the main stand on the front of the flats in its place. they could put some sort of plaque in the middle as well with the history of the site on   |
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Apr 18, 2012 15:55:01 GMT
Its criminal to see that nowt has been done with the site
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 18, 2012 16:42:50 GMT
I would love St Modwen to build apartments on the Vic site in the same external height and footprint as the old Vic stands, with the pitch left as public open space. You wouldn't need any of the old structure for it to work if properly done, for example using red surface finishes on the Butler Street side. I bet they'd have no problem selling them either. If anyone has been to the redeveloped Highbury they will know where I'm coming from. (Yes I know it's A*senal but that's not the point.) Very little of the old stadium is visible but it is still an amazing space when you walk into it because your mind fills in the missing bits. I would love St Modwen to build apartments on the Vic site in the same external height and footprint as the old Vic stands, with the pitch left as public open space. You wouldn't need any of the old structure for it to work if properly done, for example using red surface finishes on the Butler Street side. I bet they'd have no problem selling them either. If anyone has been to the redeveloped Highbury they will know where I'm coming from. (Yes I know it's A*senal but that's not the point.) Very little of the old stadium is visible but it is still an amazing space when you walk into it because your mind fills in the missing bits. i see what you mean now. that would be brilliant. look at this picture. they have even named each block after the stand it sit in place of and shaped the roofs of the blocks like the roofs of stands and also redone the front of the main stand on the front of the flats in its place. they could put some sort of plaque in the middle as well with the history of the site on They've also made a small fortune from it! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 20:19:18 GMT
I think any redevelopment of the old vic site required the river trent being re-routed which pushed up costs
they were on about running the stadium the other way so the home end would have been where the tunnel was
nothing wrong with the new stadium other than location
our stupid council fucked it up - the stadium should have stayed where it was and the city would have been thriving
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Apr 19, 2012 10:41:36 GMT
Has anybody got the photoshop skills / time / inclination to combine this: and this:  And then send the results to St Modwen entitled "Get it sorted FFS!!!"? |
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Post by foster on Apr 19, 2012 10:59:50 GMT
Has anybody got the photoshop skills / time / inclination to combine this: and this: And then send the results to St Modwen entitled "Get it sorted FFS!!!"? There you go mate: |
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Apr 19, 2012 11:02:08 GMT
It's a valiant effort, but I was thinking more along the lines of the flats superimposed onto the Vic site, and with the Boothen End pitched rood superimposed on the block at the top left. |
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Post by lagwafis on Apr 19, 2012 11:10:27 GMT
Has anybody got the photoshop skills / time / inclination to combine this: and this: And then send the results to St Modwen entitled "Get it sorted FFS!!!"? There you go mate: I don't think he meant rebuilding the Vic brick for brick in North London |
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Apr 19, 2012 11:54:02 GMT
I dunno, if you want something piss-poorly mocking up in this world you've just got to piss-poorly mock it up yourself sometimes. I do hope my efforts to include the Boothen End roof and the Butler St entrance (including 1980s badge) haven't gone unappreciated. |
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Post by lordb on Apr 19, 2012 12:06:09 GMT
What I'd love to see on the Vic site but will never happen for a multitude of reasons is that it is turned into a community football centre. Run properly it would have a club house, a number of pitches and teams of all ages playing the game. The aim would be for the community and hopefully to find the next Andy Wilkinson but with better distribution! But alas it's just a dream. this would be great |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2012 12:19:00 GMT
It should be bought by the council and turned into a park. They've spunked enough cash on the vale to merit it.
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Post by lordb on Apr 19, 2012 12:26:47 GMT
my guess is nothing will happen with the site for many years
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Post by paulinespens on Apr 19, 2012 14:19:53 GMT
Just driving home from work 15 minutes ago and came up with a question in my head as I drove down the D road. Would the Brit fit on the Vic site ? they should turn it into a fishing complex. It wouldnt take much doing and the trent could feed the lakes. |
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Post by mozzer68 on Apr 19, 2012 14:50:10 GMT
It's a disgrace that it's being allowed to remain un-developed.
Surely the council were aware of st modwens track record on this.
The whole town has gone down the shitter and the useless short sighted council sit on their fuckin arses and do fuck all.
Too busy re building Hanley-on Trent and spunking away millions on having plans drawn up repeatedly until their vision of the"city centre" is complete and no more fuckin money left to do anything else for another year.
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Post by jarhead on Apr 19, 2012 15:11:35 GMT
15 years and counting and the only development on the site in that time has been thousands of Dog Turds!!!
fuckin disgraceful this council is.
Couldnt run a fuckin bath.
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But alas it's just a dream.
