Dunty

You don't need to be a qualified architect, you can read any new stand or stadium plan that has been submitted to a council - there's 1,000s of them online, take your pick. UEFA currently let Aberdeen away with having smaller run-off areas than they're supposed to have because of grandfather rights. As soon as you knock the stand down, they lose those rights, and have to rebuild it to Uefa pitch regulations. So a wider and/or longer pitch, which reduces your footprint. Likewise, new safety regulations mean you need bigger concourses, evacuation areas, ambulance and police access, stands can't be as steep as they once were, you can't cram as many seats into a small space, so the footprint they get built on has to be significantly bigger. Essentially the space behind the stand has to be able to hold the capacity of the stand in the event of an evacuation. The South Stand fails that, the RDS passes it. Example 1: Hearts' three stands built in the 90s, they're fine because they were built in the 90s, Hearts wouldn't get permission to build them now. New main stand, you'll notice it's further from the pitch than the other three, not as steep, and they had to knock down the nursery behind the old main stand & move it elsewhere to expand the footprint. Example 2: Liverpool are rebuilding Anfield, but it can't host Euro 2028 games because the pitch is too small. They didn't have to widen the pitch because they didn't knock the main stand down, they build a third tier, but in order to do so they had to buy and knock down the houses behind it. For Aberdeen to stay at Pittodrie, they either need to accept a significantly reduced capacity (12,000 most likely, maybe a stretch to 14,000) or knock down the flats behind the south & Merkland, and buy land behind the main too, then rebuild. It's why I use Hamilton's New Douglas Park as an example. You could build stands like that on a small footprint - small stands with a big concourse below. However, you don't need me to tell you the capacities are small - the main stand & one behind the goal have a combined capacity of 5,500. It's cheaper and more realistic to move.

It was built in the 70s and 80s. This will shock you, building & uefa regulations have changed significantly since then.

Blackpool had to buy additional land in order to build it, so you've just fucked your own argument.

In what is a crowded category, congratulations on being the thickest person on this forum.

No, the story was Celtic fans tweeting Miovski to ask him to sign for them. Completely different from the made up story you came up with.

Have you got a link to a single Glasgow media outlet that have said Miovski is moving to Celtic because he was spotted in Glasgow?

Stealing patter off Shoofta, being unable to defend your shite post, and being raging at a player smiling. What a state to be in.

Oh no, he smiled!! Yet your username is in tribute to a guy who signed for the huns.

For someone who accuses him of slagging Miovski to get attention, you've literally just replied to a post where he doesn't mention Miovski, to give him attention about Miovski. 🤷‍♂️

Yeh, with two players who never played under him, and the captain for the day someone who rarely played under him.

Aye I'd go with that.

Yeh, have you been to Pittodrie recently? Far bigger footprint at RDS than there is at South Stand.

You're forgetting it's a completely different council now from when it was first mooted. Labour were doing what they always do, promising the world in return for votes, knowing they would never have the money to pay for it. If you remember, plan A was to get the Conservative UK government to pay for a Labour idea. Plan B was to get the SNP Scottish government to pay for a Labour idea. Plan C was to get Dave Cormack to pay for it. And now it's an SNP/Lib Dems coalition where the Lib Dems have always been vehemently opposed to helping the club with the stadium.

No, you couldn't.

What is "fixing" the South Stand? You mean rebuilding it, which due to modern building regulations, the small footprint and the that's behind it, we could only give it about a 2500-3000 capacity? £80m at the beach, £60m Kingsford, going by Dave Cormack's latest guesstimate.