Stadium Expansion

scall1 said:
£400m??!!! The stadium cost about £120m to build!

Let's not get giddy though. Whilst we've been there I think we've only had about a dozen sell outs.

I prefer the stadium size as it is. It's better to play to a sell out crowd rather than echoing around for a Tuesday night Carling Cup game.
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not being funney m8 but it was sold out every week for the first cpl of years,but then the novilty wore of but i dont think it needs extending yet maybe in the future but lets win a few things first a? or at the least become an accomplished top 4-5 side
 
when we start winning trophies year in year out (which we will) the demand for tickets will greatly increase. 47,000 aint going to be enough.
 
mikeee said:
A mate who works at city has told me the owners have put 400 million aside to expand the stadium to 75,000.

Can't see myself why we would make it that big, but hopefully its true.
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I think that might be a bit of yet once they bought the ground after we've got the success and started selling out regulary
 
Here we go again this must be the most number of threads

Without a new roof all round then expanding the ends to three tiers is highly unlikely Easier to build a new stadium and if the poster who's mate is an engineer asked his mate to study the design he would see this
 
I'd rather not extend it if we can work out another way of bluffing our income, the traffic is bad enough so unless they do something about the transportation side of it. Doubling up the traffic would be mayhem!!!!!! Selfish I know, but I would like to get home before the next day when we play night matches, what with having a child and all that.
 
The tram will run to the ground from next season and im sure i heard at one of them forums that the club are in talks with Metrolink to provide free transport when you buy a ticket for the game-like they do in Germany.

we will need 60 000 when we win our first trophy easy
 
mikeee said:
A mate who works at city has told me the owners have put 400 million aside to expand the stadium to 75,000.

Can't see myself why we would make it that big, but hopefully its true.
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You could get a brand new 75,000 stadium for £400m!!!!

I'd like full houses for a few years before we get too far ahead of ourseleves.
 
If there is sucess on the pitch and provided the pricing of tickets is fair don't see any reason not to sell out.
 
i think i would add north and south tier 3's. i think a capacity of around 58-60k would be good realisticlly. remember chelski only get 41k in!
 
Bluemooner33 said:
Main Road was bigger so why not, there will be alot of cockney rag prawn sandwich boys jumping ship to us when we are at the top, will need the extra seats so us real supporters can get a bastard ticket.
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I must agree with this
 
city are coming said:
The tram will run to the ground from next season and im sure i heard at one of them forums that the club are in talks with Metrolink to provide free transport when you buy a ticket for the game-like they do in Germany.

we will need 60 000 when we win our first trophy easy
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Would be great if true.I think football in this country have uncovered the tip of an iceberg in terms of getting fans into stadiums.We still have thousands of fans of all teams that would go to a game at the last minute if they could.Transport isues,getting your hands on a ticket,security[home and away fans]have all played a part in keeping fans away.But we now have the technology.We do not require all tickets to come from the stadium.We could sell tickets at many outlets like the lottery machines.A coach layed on with the price.I don;t think we will have a prob filling a 75k stadium.
 
bluwes said:
Halfpenny said:
I heard the ground as it is is only capable of 60k. Where's this extra 15k come from?
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extra 12000 either end and down another 4 rows all the way round for the rest
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How could they possibly put an extra 12,000 on each end? Just think about it. The ends don't even hold 12,000 at the moment, so you're suggesting they more than double the current stand capacity by adding another tier? That simply isn't possible.

You might be able to get an extra 6k at the very most at each end and that would be a HUGE job in terms of time, effort and money. And digging down (even just 4 rows) would take even more time, effort, and money. I don't envisage either of these things ever happening; it just isn't worth it.

And if the owners really have set 400m aside, they may as well build their very own brand new super-stadium from scratch.
 
i8therags said:
city are coming said:
The tram will run to the ground from next season and im sure i heard at one of them forums that the club are in talks with Metrolink to provide free transport when you buy a ticket for the game-like they do in Germany.

we will need 60 000 when we win our first trophy easy
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Would be great if true.I think football in this country have uncovered the tip of an iceberg in terms of getting fans into stadiums.We still have thousands of fans of all teams that would go to a game at the last minute if they could.Transport isues,getting your hands on a ticket,security[home and away fans]have all played a part in keeping fans away.But we now have the technology.We do not require all tickets to come from the stadium.We could sell tickets at many outlets like the lottery machines.A coach layed on with the price.I don;t think we will have a prob filling a 75k stadium.
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Danny Wilson told us this at our supporters Club meeting in May. The use of the tram will be free with your match ticket
 
Just checked with my source and he was pretty evasive. After a bit of discussion I made some promises to him; he made some promises to me and finally got some info from him. If we paid cash upfront and didn't ask too many questions about moody seats (they might be red and have prawn stains on them) he'll do it for £150m - Khaldoon if your reading pm me and I'll give you Witold's number
 
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