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GaryIPA wrote:Wottie wrote:Wonder if this will have Gary IPA calling for Petrie's head?
seen nothing to change my mind, for the stuff off the pitch anyway.
GaryIPA wrote:GaryIPA wrote:Wottie wrote:Wonder if this will have Gary IPA calling for Petrie's head?
seen nothing to change my mind, for the stuff off the pitch anyway.
Guess who just appeared as a fb friend recommendation!!?
The Feral Goat wrote:Don’t think Accies was ever going to be big enough, was the stand not only a couple of thousand and would require temp stands like Myreside and unless they were putting in an artificial pitch I would imagine would have same issues as Myreside with overuse through the winter as well. Although clubhouse etc would be more permanent.
Sure I also read somewhere the artificial pitch out the back of Murrayfield was nearing the end of its life and was needing replaced soon which may also be a factor rather than spend on one at Myreside and at Murrayfield.
Myreside worth the experiment to my mind, but need to get it right wherever we go next.
macdone wrote:The Feral Goat wrote:Don’t think Accies was ever going to be big enough, was the stand not only a couple of thousand and would require temp stands like Myreside and unless they were putting in an artificial pitch I would imagine would have same issues as Myreside with overuse through the winter as well. Although clubhouse etc would be more permanent.
Sure I also read somewhere the artificial pitch out the back of Murrayfield was nearing the end of its life and was needing replaced soon which may also be a factor rather than spend on one at Myreside and at Murrayfield.
Myreside worth the experiment to my mind, but need to get it right wherever we go next.
Is there much point in the back pitch option right now?
I was in favour of the myreside trial but it also showed we are far from being a world class operation off the pitch. If we have a few hundred thousand spare I think I'd be more confident giving it to Cockers rather than spending it off the pitch.
Think positive...where you going to play your games in the Champions cup next season? Still think Murrayfield is too big but where else is there? Or maybe Cocks like the wide open spaces that the library gives him.
Nobody wants to be associated with a bunch of losers. If we finally start getting sustained success on the pitch for 3 or 4 years we will suddenly find a lot more stadium options \ developments open to us.
The Feral Goat wrote:Both big Murrayfield and Myreside have proved to be divisive and largely unsuitable to Edinburghs needs one way or the other so we need to try something else. I have said it before but personally I think we have to get away from moving every “big” game to the main pitch at Murrayfield, so long as there is always capacity a significant number of fans will only come to the big games.
If we want the fan base to grow sustainably we need to sell more STs. To do that firstly we have to be winning and playing rugby people want to see, which we appear to be progressing towards, but it would also help if the only way to guarantee a ticket for the big games was to have an ST. Now I appreciate that not everyone can afford an ST be it financially or the regular time commitment etc but we need to increase demand and if there is only 7.5k tickets available to see Hamish run over Racing 92s Finn Russell next season that is good thing in my opinion.
Given our current crowd numbers we are a bit away from worrying about filling a 7.5k seater but we need to start somewhere, commit to the temp stands on the back pitches for the length of Cockerills contract and see where we end up, if we are selling out every home game within 2 seasons and need more capacity great, I don’t see any other more viable options at present there just isn't a suitable venue now or on the cards anywhere in the city I can see for the foreseeable future.
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