Stadium Expansion

[Rösler's Dad]

If there's a Tramline to the ground it will be dug up every 5 minutes and buses and cars will not be able to get to the ground along that route

That's going off what's happened to the Trams in the City Centre. Not reliable enough

That's a bit hard, Marvin!

Trams started in 1992, I've been a regular user and the city centre closure is probably only the 2nd or 3rd time that that's happened since then. And as regular users of motorways or City roads round COMS would confirm, roadworks are never necessary, and if they are, the work is finished over a weekend.;0)

The tram idea sounds brilliant to me, and I'm sure they could swing it.

 

[blueyorkie]

See my previous post re the company I work for.

If a quarter of the people coming on the tram buy 2 or 3 pints coz they aren't driving plus a pie to go with it, then it goes to paying for itself. If Schalke can subsidise the local tranport for fans, why can't we?

Because I guess City would quite like to keep the revenue from the 2 or 3 pints and pie for themselves. Whilst the system in Germany is nice, it's not a necessity. Why should we get free transport? You have to pay to make your own way to the cinema or to a shopping centre. Why should a football stadium be any different?

You may have missed my original post but we were told by the head of Experience that after the schalke game it was decided to look at ways of enhancing the journeys to the stadium. One way they have looked at is to provide free tram travel as part of the cost of the ticket.

 

[blueyorkie]

We dont need a bigger stadium yet, if we are selling out every week then i increasing the size of coms is something we could look at.

To the prospect of potentially moving to another stadium from scratch would be the worst thing to happen to us, were only just attaching some familiarity to coms and leaving their would be bluddy awful.

Once you have a run of sold out games - and i mean a decent run not 2 or 3 games, i mean 2 or 3 seasons then maybe expansion should be considered.

And then Ideally you would go up in smaller jumps rather than going from 48k to 75k. Thats a lot of extra fans to find immediately. We would be better of increasing it by 3 or 4k a time and seeing how that goes. So maybe an end first, and then the other end if it orks out. Not sure if thats feasible with our stadium though.

Have to say that the idea of expanding capacity is foresighted and shows ambition which we should applaud, so to knock it is unhelpful. The extent of expansion is a matter for discussion though.

 

[johnmc]

Once you have a run of sold out games - and i mean a decent run not 2 or 3 games, i mean 2 or 3 seasons then maybe expansion should be considered.

And then Ideally you would go up in smaller jumps rather than going from 48k to 75k. Thats a lot of extra fans to find immediately. We would be better of increasing it by 3 or 4k a time and seeing how that goes. So maybe an end first, and then the other end if it orks out. Not sure if thats feasible with our stadium though.

Have to say that the idea of expanding capacity is foresighted and shows ambition which we should applaud, so to knock it is unhelpful. The extent of expansion is a matter for discussion though.[/quote]

Who is knocking it? Surely you should only consider expansion once the demand exceeds supply for a decent period of time.

 

[blueyorkie]

why is it obssessed.. there are plenty of city /liverpool even aresanl fans who contribute on United forums...its called Banter..or ribbing ...do you get upset when rival supporters sing nasty songs and dont agree with you at games?....honestly ..dont be sooo precious

Fair play but your stats are way off mark.For example you say we only sold 84% of tickets last season, wrong . Capacity is 47500 and our average was 43000 give or take 50 or so. That makes a 90% sales capacity.
You have already been told the only £5 game was Hamburg.
Banter fine but get it right.
BTW would never consider going on a Rag board, I'm just not at all interested in them, so thanks for the compliment!

 

[blueyorkie]

Once you have a run of sold out games - and i mean a decent run not 2 or 3 games, i mean 2 or 3 seasons then maybe expansion should be considered.

And then Ideally you would go up in smaller jumps rather than going from 48k to 75k. Thats a lot of extra fans to find immediately. We would be better of increasing it by 3 or 4k a time and seeing how that goes. So maybe an end first, and then the other end if it orks out. Not sure if thats feasible with our stadium though.

Have to say that the idea of expanding capacity is foresighted and shows ambition which we should applaud, so to knock it is unhelpful. The extent of expansion is a matter for discussion though.

Who is knocking it? Surely you should only consider expansion once the demand exceeds supply for a decent period of time.[/quote]

Sorry John you miss my point, what i mean is that to expand quickly shows ambition and drive to wait shows lack of nerve and belief.

 

[johnmc]

Have to say that the idea of expanding capacity is foresighted and shows ambition which we should applaud, so to knock it is unhelpful. The extent of expansion is a matter for discussion though.

Who is knocking it? Surely you should only consider expansion once the demand exceeds supply for a decent period of time.

Sorry John you miss my point, what i mean is that to expand quickly shows ambition and drive to wait shows lack of nerve and belief.[/quote]

Fair enough but i would counter by saying going from 48k to 75k is an increase of over 50%. That would show lack of understanding. You don't sign robinho and adebayor and suddenly get 25k extra supporters overnight. It will take years of sucess to do that.

 

[pace89]

Giving City free tram travel would depend on whether the agreement is specifically between the club and the City Council or between the club and GMPTE. If it’s the later, and commercial, then there would be no obligation to do the same deal for the rags. If it’s an agreement with the city council then they wouldn’t have to do the same for rags as they’re based in Trafford.

 

[DeaconBlue]

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.

Make them take some kind of basic intelligence aptitude tests at the gate before letting them enter. That should eliminate at least 75% of them.

 

[blueyorkie]

Who is knocking it? Surely you should only consider expansion once the demand exceeds supply for a decent period of time.

Sorry John you miss my point, what i mean is that to expand quickly shows ambition and drive to wait shows lack of nerve and belief.

Fair enough but i would counter by saying going from 48k to 75k is an increase of over 50%. That would show lack of understanding. You don't sign robinho and adebayor and suddenly get 25k extra supporters overnight. It will take years of sucess to do that.[/quote]

Agree ,thats why I said the extent of expansion was the detail which needs to be sorted out.