Found this on the Maidstone United site.

I've taken the liberty to check out the current cost and on a flat site (south stand) the current cost of this stand is 950k approx. A seated version costs roughly the same.

This is the kind of money that over time a supporters organisation could raise especially with the help of a major sponsor/benefactor.

I'm sure that with a firm target and some dedicated people on board and with the clubs support this could be done. Be nice to be involved in something positive for a change for most pro-active fans.

Anyway, this is it....



If it's what the club wants I'm up for it.

Not big enough

Seriously!!! It holds 2,400, just count the number of terraces (it's 16 deep if that helps) that's not much smaller than the North terrace, not sure what you're looking at.

Looks tiny imop ,could be the photo

I count 11/12 rows tbh mate. It looks pretty decent though, maybe it would look even better if it went touchline to touchline.

Agree sc touch to touch ,bit small in size but looks good

Course it's big enough. At 2400 it holds half our average behind the goal. Would be ideal along the western terrace.

Like the steep angel too, should give a great view.

Need to factor in Sky for the Western Terrace though. Would need a gantry adding.

It's ok but doesn't exactly inspire the mind and say I can see me in that on a Sunday afternoon - it looks more National League Football- a souless shed. I do hope those designing a Belle Vue fit for Superleague have had a tour of all the other grounds and take the best and create soemthing thats more than functional.

I am aware finance is a big issue but Belle Vue needs to compete with the best for a long term future

It looks ok touchline to touchline i would have and more [uimportantly[/u i would have it with seats for the away fans on the south stand, The need to look at grounds all around the country is not needed we just need to combine in our own view grounds like Leigh's/Salford/Doncaster and that would be sufficient for us.

I have been going on about us having some kind of trust fund for a while now for the Fans/Business and whoever to contribute to help pay towards whatever is needed, Can't remember who it was who founded a fans trust to help pay for things for their not so rich club.




Up The Trin

I agree to a degree but as I can only guess how we are financing the whole stadium redevelopment then this is my offering as a belt and braces effort. That said it looks pretty decent to me and hardly soulless especially with a bit of colour added, certainly up there with grounds like Widnes and HKR. A lot depends on what the 'community' stand offers if it's all singing and dancing then for me the rest of the ground like this would be fine and a million miles from what we have now.

Here's a different angle, if you use a bit of imagination I can see it running down the west terrace as well.

If the capacity of the stand is 2400, then it would be great for the home fans in the North Stand, especially if there are some facilities underneath (a couple of bars and toilets)
Agree with others that it wants to go full width but, compared with what we've had for soooooooooo long, this would be absolute luxury.
Seems cheap at £950k

Agree and how about one a bit longer for the west terrace ?


I am also surprised that there has been no initiation to start a supporters fund raising effort - perhaps everybody is waiting for someone else to start one?

Sounds like a great idea in theory but unfortunately the apathy even within the current support would suggest this will never happen.
The Supporters Trust has just been wound up due to a lack of interest/membership.
Maybe I'm wrong and this is just the kind of thing that would have got folk interested but I just don't see it sadly.

In terms of the stand, then I think something like that would be more than sufficient provided we can get a decent East Stand with seating and hospitality built in.

Looks very good in my opinion!
I also agree that a Blue roof with RW&B seating would liven it up a lot.

Assuming that the East stand has all the bells and whistles required then one of these at either end and another one running the full length of the West Terrace would put us in the same bracket as Leigh and Warrington.

Working on the cost you gave, then those three stands could cost around 3.5 million, while still a huge amount of money its not a lot for the new modern stadium.

A fund raising venture by the fans with the lofty goal of £1 million is a very long shot but nothing ventured nothing gained.

I can understand the apathy Fordy if it was linked to ground development prior to the club buying the ground. I think most of us had lost the will to live, never mind support the effort!
Now things are different.
If plans are in place and when they are shown to the public, I'm sure it would re-kindle genuine interest and efforts to help.

Could work, but the initial pictures, do look a bit small, but would only do so for north and west stands. I think we need to look at something a little better for east stand, and maybe south, thinking of hospitality.

Regarding fund raising, I know a little late now, but something built into season tickets etc, to raise a little extra, but then have the costs spread. I know they are now, but aren't they just spread over 3 months

It is a decent Stadium for the National South league Standing 3408 and Seating for 792. Belle Vue has amuch bgger footprint that needs using to the maximum, I have no idea on the financial position of the Club but I am sure that the Directors are looking to provide a Stadium to be proud of.

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Quote ="wrencat1873"If the capacity of the stand is 2400, then it would be great for the home fans in the North Stand, especially if there are some facilities underneath (a couple of bars and toilets) Agree with others that it wants to go full width but, compared with what we've had for soooooooooo long, this would be absolute luxury. Seems cheap at £950k'" Was actually less than that when built https://www.maidstoneriverpark.co.uk/20 ... r-stadium/

I'm not sure why people think that's small, it's actually too big for the west terrace all be it by only a foot or so, I do think people have a bit of an over-inflated idea as to the size of BV and the kind of stands we require tbh.

The Maidstone stadium is fine if you use all four sides to get the capacity up and you want to build to our present average attendances (bearing in mind many supporters both Wakefield and away fans do not use BV because of its present state) but maybe we need to be ambitous and have a capacity to aim towards, being able to compete for representaive games. Belle Vue can accommodate a Stadium for about 12K and as the club now own the car park area the East Stand can be developed outwardly. Obviously finance will be the key to how big how shiny and I'm pretty sure the club could actually be working on this project already and may well have some plans in place

They do, supposedly there is news due out in the next week or two if the timescales given after the London match are still revelant.

The east stand should be the all singing/dancing structure where there is the room to construct it. The remaining three can be something like what has been posted for me. It's not what was promised, we are way past that now, however given where we are it will feel like Wembley to the regulars and not too shabby for newcomers.

That's how I see it, we have to be realistic.

There’s actually quite a lot of depth and space on the South end, if we wanted and could afford 2 major stands we have the room on the East and South