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Many moons ago, whilst we were embroiled in the 1st Public Enquiry, I raised the opportunity of making the new stadium truly unique in this country with the Club. Heated stands.
During the early '90's I managed to catch a PSV Eindhoven game when I was living out there. My host kept banging on about heated seats and all I could think of was the one's used by the squad in American Football...a kind of heated comfy bench.
The match was on a Saturday evening in late November, it was very windy and the rain was horizontal it was so strong. However, after taking my seat high up behind one of the goals I soon found myself peeling off the top of the many layers I'd put on to brave the weather (undressing in public is something I don't regularly do I might add!). It was not long after that I realised there were about 3 industrial sized 3-bar electric heaters suspended from the roof and facing inwards to the seats!!
I then watched a truly great PSV side (with half of the Dutch team in it) demolish some mediocre team 4-1, on a stormy November evening, in real comfort & warmth.
Considering the Gory Years with all that entailed, the drudgery of Gillingham and then the Wet Windblasted Withdean era, and the tremendous work invested by all the Albion Supporters over the years.....is this something that cannot be provided at Falmer? As a "thank you" to the supporters and a statement that we truly have a stadium to make even Premier League clubs envious?
The stadium will arguably have one of the biggest roofs in Sussex. With the advances of solar technology, providing the power to use the heaters for a couple of hours every other week between say November and March, is surely viable now?
Going back to raising this with the Club many years ago, though I received a polite response, it was non-committal and I have not seen / heard anything since.
Perhaps they thought I was a nutter or that it would be cost prohibitive etc etc?
Does anyone know whether this was ever raised or heard it mentioned?
I reckon the supporters deserve it after all these years of loyalty, high ticket prices and poor conditions. After all PSV had this almost 20 years ago!
During the early '90's I managed to catch a PSV Eindhoven game when I was living out there. My host kept banging on about heated seats and all I could think of was the one's used by the squad in American Football...a kind of heated comfy bench.
The match was on a Saturday evening in late November, it was very windy and the rain was horizontal it was so strong. However, after taking my seat high up behind one of the goals I soon found myself peeling off the top of the many layers I'd put on to brave the weather (undressing in public is something I don't regularly do I might add!). It was not long after that I realised there were about 3 industrial sized 3-bar electric heaters suspended from the roof and facing inwards to the seats!!
I then watched a truly great PSV side (with half of the Dutch team in it) demolish some mediocre team 4-1, on a stormy November evening, in real comfort & warmth.
Considering the Gory Years with all that entailed, the drudgery of Gillingham and then the Wet Windblasted Withdean era, and the tremendous work invested by all the Albion Supporters over the years.....is this something that cannot be provided at Falmer? As a "thank you" to the supporters and a statement that we truly have a stadium to make even Premier League clubs envious?
The stadium will arguably have one of the biggest roofs in Sussex. With the advances of solar technology, providing the power to use the heaters for a couple of hours every other week between say November and March, is surely viable now?
Going back to raising this with the Club many years ago, though I received a polite response, it was non-committal and I have not seen / heard anything since.
Perhaps they thought I was a nutter or that it would be cost prohibitive etc etc?
Does anyone know whether this was ever raised or heard it mentioned?
I reckon the supporters deserve it after all these years of loyalty, high ticket prices and poor conditions. After all PSV had this almost 20 years ago!
