all the pics are missing
all the pics are missing
Drone footage of new BMO Field (including customary trolling by an Impact fan in the comments lol):
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/0...vation-project
Some shots from the GO Bus today
That gap is ridiculous, still grateful for the upgrades...but wow!
Can the whole upper stand on the west side be replaced? it's atrocious! :P
what a ugly roof
Good to see clear shots of it now without all the scaffolding.
I like it more than no roof at all, but this isn't what I envisioned.
It seems to lack the intimacy that a lower roof and side walls would provide.
Anytime there is both rain and wind (which mostly what we get), those roofs will leave thousands exposed to it (including the entirety of the south end).
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
After driving by last night, I honestly think it looks like hot garbage - but (not to sound like an after-school special) it's what it's like on the inside that counts.
Toronto 'til I die - but I think they're trying to kill me.
I'm wondering what this will all do for the gnats, which are due to be around the opening weekend if past dates hold up.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/05/t...ed_to_toronto/
Probably nothing.
Last edited by RealG-TFC; 04-10-2016 at 01:27 PM.
sorry, I should have said every stadium where the roof doesn't cover a significant portion of the field. I'd like to think I've been to quite a few different stadiums both in NA and in Europe, and in my experience it's sort of a given that if it's raining and you sit in the first couple rows you're gonna get rained on, even with a regular old roof like you'd find at most grounds in Britain.
But yeah, at some point the west side is going to get knocked down regardless, it seems.
Last edited by molenshtain; 04-10-2016 at 03:14 PM.
If only it were a few rows.
If I was to guess, I say 2/3 or 3/4 of the fans will not be protected in a driving rain.
Only the upper deck on the east side is really protected.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Mlse have always called it a canopy, not a roof. Traditionally a canopy is for shade, not protection from rain. Of course people expect to be protected from the rain but that's not whats been built.
If the stadium has as many empty seats as it did most games last year, you'll be able to pick a dry spot depending on the wind direction etc, no problem -- especially when the weather is bad.
Uh, Buffalo and New York are not our weather patterns.
Our bad weather almost always comes from the west. Been watching this for all my life. That's the weather pattern in Southern Ontario. Summer storms off Lake Huron that make it to us and thunderstorms that basically come up from the South West towards our area.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 04-11-2016 at 06:27 AM.
Seems to me that when we get rain and wind it's swirling around all over the place - I know this because any perceived advantage or disadvantage in the second half often seems to have changed, by the second half.
I think a lot of people are getting wet.
I wonder what affect putting these high "blades" up there will have on wind conditions generally - that could be interesting.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
I am pretty sure they will put skyboxes up there under the westside roof eventually. Trend in sports now to put all the skyboxes on on side, Levi stadium and ford field biggest examples. Hamilton's new stadium is like this a bit too. they just build out and up like the current press box, except all the way across the west side, probably can fit 3 levels of skyboxes under the roof
Bestikas just opened their brand new stadium to their fans.
Now THIS stadium has a roof. BMO Field has a canopy/umbrella.
http://imgur.com/a/dxOPV
Besiktas also has a significantly bigger brand and much higher revenue than we do. yes, their new stadium is nicer. They have a significantly bigger incentive and opportunity to build that sort of stadium because of their circumstances.
We'll get our version of that eventually. Rome wasn't built in a day.