If you could change the Mad Stad

[Rex]

What would you do.

Me - i'd change the ugly concrete walls inside the concourse. Montage the walls with the clubs history

Put a form of controlled queuing system into place at the food kiosks. Amazingly clear the bottlenecks arounfd the kiosks and the toilets.

[working class hero]

Put in standing areas behind the goals.

Enlarge concourses to improve queues.

Extend the roof to cover those in front rows.

Provide better disabled provision.

[sheshnu]

Expand it to around 30,000 seats.

[Whore Jackie]

Move it to within reasonable walking distance of the town centre and station, surrounded by a decent selection of pubs and takeaways. Don’t know how practical that would be in Reading.

[Thaumagurist*]

Bigger concourses, move the food/drink bars away from the entrances/exits to the stadium bowl (so that queues don't block up the entrance/exit!).

[Deathy]

I would add that glass extension to the roof so those that sit near the front can stay dry.

Remove Madejski Stadium from the seats and replace it with:

-------------Reading-------------

----------Football Club----------

Also remove half the blue seats and replace with white so we can have hoops around the ground.

[John 3:16]

What would you do.

Me - i'd change the ugly concrete walls inside the concourse. Montage the walls with the clubs history

Put a form of controlled queuing system into place at the food kiosks. Amazingly clear the bottlenecks arounfd the kiosks and the toilets.

I was thinking about this at the last game. In the North Stand concourse there is only one piece of club history on the walls... Gordon Neate. And it is out of date (it refers to how many years he has been at Reading, but it is written as quoting a number of years rather than just saying when he started, which means it is quickly out of date... let alone that it is now 10 years old). It also has a spelling mistake in it (tsk tsk, Spacey must spit if he's ever in the North).

There is plenty of wall space in the North so why not fill it? How many such pieces are there in the East and West? And who do they cover? Who would you like to see covered? As it's behind the goal then I think Death should be in there, but I would imagine he's already been done and is in some other stand... Along with Friday?

[Deathy]

I would name the stands after previous Reading legends.

I know money bollocks doesn't want to direct attention away from himself, and his usual excuse of sponsors, but you can work with both.

The Robin Friday [insert sponsor] South Stand for example.

One thing I hate about us since moving to that ground is we don't try and remember where we came from!

It would cost the football club nothing.

[The 17 Bus]

Failing that why not get the stands sponsored, and call them by the sponsors name.

The Virgin East Stand!!

[Elm Park]

What would you do.

Me - i'd change the ugly concrete walls inside the concourse. Montage the walls with the clubs history

Put a form of controlled queuing system into place at the food kiosks. Amazingly clear the bottlenecks arounfd the kiosks and the toilets.

I agree with both of those. Also, add a concreted path from the bottom of Hurst Way (next to the service road for Comets etc) sloping up to the area next to the STAR hut, giving easier access and exiting from the ground.

[Wycombe Royal]

1) Remove the TV's from the concourses so that you can actually walk along them again rather than have to fight your way through the crowd that completely block the entire concourse around them.

2) Remove the safety gate. I really don't see what purpose it serves as the home and away fans just mix round the other side of the stadium instead.

[Wycombe Royal]

Provide better disabled provision.

I would have thought that was one thing that didn't need improving when you look at what is provided at other stadiums. At the Madejski there is plenty of place and the view not from pitch level like most other stadiums provide.

But maybe I'm missing something as I don't need to use it.

[Thaumagurist*]

Provide better disabled provision.

I would have thought that was one thing that didn't need improving when you look at what is provided at other stadiums. At the Madejski there is plenty of place and the view not from pitch level like most other stadiums provide.

But maybe I'm missing something as I don't need to use it.

I seem to remember that there was a problem with the seats in front of the disabled area where people would be standing up at moments of excitement and thereby blocking the disabled's view - they seem to have forgot that the disabled in wheelchairs cannot stand up when they designed the disabled areas!!!

[Whore Jackie]

Failing that why not get the stands sponsored, and call them by the sponsors name.

The Virgin East Stand!!

Some are. There's the Foster's South Stand and Quintiles East Stand. HP used to sponsor one of the others.

[working class hero]

Provide better disabled provision.

I would have thought that was one thing that didn't need improving when you look at what is provided at other stadiums. At the Madejski there is plenty of place and the view not from pitch level like most other stadiums provide.

But maybe I'm missing something as I don't need to use it.

Disabled parking is hard to get. Visually impaired STs are sold out. Wheelchair areas could be slightly more elevated to assist viewing. More disabled toilet facilities would be good.

RFC have much better facilities than most others - but still plenty of room for improvement. I would suggest Derby as the model to follow.

[Wycombe Royal]

Provide better disabled provision.

I would have thought that was one thing that didn't need improving when you look at what is provided at other stadiums. At the Madejski there is plenty of place and the view not from pitch level like most other stadiums provide.

But maybe I'm missing something as I don't need to use it.

Disabled parking is hard to get. Visually impaired STs are sold out. Wheelchair areas could be slightly more elevated to assist viewing. More disabled toilet facilities would be good.

RFC have much better facilities than most others - but still plenty of room for improvement. I would suggest Derby as the model to follow.

Fairy nuff. Like I said I don't use it. Don't they have a corresponding number of disabled places to car park places? That would just be common sense to me.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

2) Remove the safety gate. I really don't see what purpose it serves as the home and away fans just mix round the other side of the stadium instead.

I believe Dirk Gently has covered this on previous threads - it's something to do with ensuring the flow of pedestrians around the stadium is in one direction. Or something like that...

[Wycombe Royal]

2) Remove the safety gate. I really don't see what purpose it serves as the home and away fans just mix round the other side of the stadium instead.

I believe Dirk Gently has covered this on previous threads - it's something to do with ensuring the flow of pedestrians around the stadium is in one direction. Or something like that...

In which case it doesn't work because as soon as you get round to the hotel you meet all the people coming round the other way (including the away fans) - so I still don't see that it serves any purpose except for making it take longer to clear the stadium area for those fans from the East Stand who want to leave the stadium by the road behind the South Stand.

Isn't the road behind the South East corner wide enough to handle people walking in both directions?

[T.R.O.L.I.]

In which case it doesn't work because as soon as you get round to the hotel you meet all the people coming round the other way (including the away fans)

But by that time, a good proportion of the people from the East and North stands are already on their way down towards the Bennet Road roundabout. I can't remember the exact reasons but I'm sure Dirk can enlighten us.

[Wycombe Royal]

In which case it doesn't work because as soon as you get round to the hotel you meet all the people coming round the other way (including the away fans)

But by that time, a good proportion of the people from the East and North stands are already on their way down towards the Bennet Road roundabout. I can't remember the exact reasons but I'm sure Dirk can enlighten us.

But when you think of the volume of people from the East Stand who want to go the HP park and ride and the bus stops that way you are just creating more congestion in front of the hotel, when in reality those people should only need to walk a 50 yards or so to get on to Hurst Way, but instead they have to walk almost an entire circumference of the stadium to reach the same point.

If there is a logic to it I can't understand it and I would have thought it had more to do with keeping the East Stand supporters clear of the away fans coaches than a one way flow of pedestrians.