Comments on: Pretty Stadium Pictures…and a Video Too!

By: guignol

guignol — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:21:09 +0000

personally i’m only lukewarm for this project… my personal wish would have been for gerland to have the corners filled in, that could have brought attendace to about 55,000, but the original shell is a historical landmark (more due to the local architect who designed it than its own merits)… it’s only function these days is so i can tell my son with a fond smile, “see boy, back when i started coming to gerland we used to have to sit way back here”… to which he answers, “jeez dad, you’ve told me that like a HUNDRED times, are you losing it?” ah the joys of fatherhood…

anyway, i wasn’t even sure décines was in france until they started this OL-land (for me, asia begins in bron) and it’s a trek. our old apt. was about 100 yards from the tramway that goes to décines, but in any case they’ll hopefully extend the metro to the new stadium, there’s no way the tram can handle that kind of volume…

as for the stadium itself the first pictures i saw seemed better, more angular, more assymetric, this looks too timid to be great architecture… but don’t mind me, i like candlestick better than whatever the latest name for china basin is…

btw, did you ever realize just how far away from the action the virage nord used to be? gerland in those days…

By: Ronald

Ronald — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:32:36 +0000

Im a little tired ( coming back from the gym ) so ill keep this short.

Meh……in my opinion Lyon are building THE GREATEST STADIUM IN THE WORLD!!! ( you like the way i built that up lol ).

ouch….i think i hurt myself yelling :3(

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:50:41 +0000

Ronan, don’t forget OL will have more tickets money and won’t have to pay to play in this stadium, which is not the case with Gerland.
And we are still waiting for the name of this stadium ! We are pratically sure that it will be an asiatic brand.
Which one ?

Maybe we can bet !?

I guess… “LG’s stadium”.
Because Life is Good with OL, and we want “que… Lyon Gagne”
LG is a south corean brand.
Any ideas ?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:15:24 +0000

The plans for the stadium looks amazing.
Surely Lyon deserves such an awesome stadium.
The sooner it’s built, the better

By: Misareaux

Misareaux — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:46:24 +0000

That’s really amazing…

By: lefutur

lefutur — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:02:45 +0000

does it really change colors?

wouldn’t it be perfect if Parliament Funkadelic played at the inauguration and played ‘mothership connection’?

By: polky

polky — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:46:36 +0000

Sweet!!!

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:37:27 +0000

It looks great, and Ronan, dont think so short term. This stadium will increase the teams transfer money.

By: Ronan "The Don" Napier

Ronan "The Don" Napier — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:28:15 +0000

Looks nice-BUT this thing is wasting the clubs transfer money!