Expanding the Riverside Stadium..

Better name than the bland , generic Riverside
The Riverside is about the least inspiring name that it is possible to come up with. Some stadiums have nicknames and I think that ours would benefit from that. I have almost convinced myself that when Anish Kapoor designed and named his giant sculpture, he had this in mind. Temenos means an area surrounding a holy site, or a place where people gather to worship Gods. Perfect. The sculpture even looks like a Loony Toons version of a bulging net and "are you going down the Temenos on Saturday?" sounds ok to me.
 
Why the obsession with how full the stadium is?

Two seasons that were amongst the best in terms of football and atmosphere were 73/74 (average gate 22,000 in a 40k ground) and 86/87 where a large chunk of the ground was closed.

Is the current generation more concerned with image than the actual football on display?

Agree with this.
If you have 20k in a 20k stadium, you're exactly as well-supported as if you had 20k in a 40k stadium.

I don't know where the idea that the stadium should be full every week, or that the club needs it to be full every week, has come from. Part of it is all-seater stadia: space is more visible, but 14k crowds at AP in the 2nd tier weren't cause for concern, and we're filling a higher percentage of the Riverside now than we were AP back then.
 
The fans chose the name out of a choice of 4 options
Aye, and I don't think going with the majority is always the best option. I remember when we were first building the Stadium and mulling over the names, someone in the Gazette letters suggested Steel River Stadium which to me sounded much better. I can't remember the final four but I would bet that Captain Cook featured.
 
Aye, and I don't think going with the majority is always the best option. I remember when we were first building the Stadium and mulling over the names, someone in the Gazette letters suggested Steel River Stadium which to me sounded much better. I can't remember the final four but I would bet that Captain Cook featured.
One was in Latin 😁
 
The overall average is bumped up because we usually always sold out when we played Man United or Liverpool but even in our last Premier League season there were games where we only had 27k.

I think we had 9 home sell outs, by which I mean the only space was in the away end, such as against Stoke the first day.

That, for me, means the ground is about the right size. It's built for PL football, and you don't want to be turning fans away for the big games. That inevitably means empty seats when it's not such a big game, but that doesn't really matter, does it?
 
Aye, and I don't think going with the majority is always the best option. I remember when we were first building the Stadium and mulling over the names, someone in the Gazette letters suggested Steel River Stadium which to me sounded much better. I can't remember the final four but I would bet that Captain Cook featured.
Wasn't new ayresome one of them?
 
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