Dalton Is God":39szg335 said:
There's no crush barriers on the terrace anymore so they'd have to be paid for and installed anyway.
A new grandstand, that's what we need. The day we start re-installing crush barriers will mean we've given up on getting one. I know that doesn't take a huge leap of imagination given the way it's dragging on, but even so.
The bottom line requirement for a grandstand aside, so talking hypothetically, purely to scratch an itchy curiosity, what are the rules preventing/allowing us to re-instate good old fashioned terracing?
We all know that a club has to go 'all seater' if it stays in the championship (or above) for three seasons. I don't personally agree with that but thems the rules.
But what then?, we dropped out of the championship in 2009, are we allowed to re-instate terracing five full seasons after last hosting a championship game?, and if not why not?
If there's no equal and opposite reverse to the '3 year championship rule' to help clubs who've fallen on harder times then potentially a ridiculous state of affairs could exist. Imagine for a second (it's easy if you try), we hadn't successfully cleared administration and had to re-start in some gawd awful non-league pyramid system. Would we STILL have to provide an all-seater venue, just because we had three years plus in the championship?
Seems harsh. We SHOULD be able to re-instate terracing after a designated period, accepting that in year three of a championship return we'd have to rip it up again. Yet I've never heard of any such dispensation.