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Investment in the stadium


Be Here Now said:
Sunderland won't get any Euro 2028 games and can't see Newcastle getting any either

If it was just England hosting then we probably would have but with it being a UK/Irish bid with just 10 stadiums then think this region will miss out
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It won't miss the North East they'd struggle to miss it out, there's (or was) rules that it's 1 ground per city bar the host city where it's allowed 2 grounds.

So it's pretty much
Us
Mags
Everton’s new ground
City or United
Villa
Croke Park
Hampden
Millennium
Casement (Belfast)
Wembley
Spurs or West Ham
Aviva stadium.

Personally and I hope I'm wrong I think it'll be us, Man City, West Ham and Croke Park that'll be dropped.

Then the grouping will be

Glasgow - Newcastle
Manchester - Liverpool
Cardiff - Birmingham
Belfast - Dublin
London - London
 
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INigle said:
I do think that the cramped concourses are choke points which are dangerous. It’s hard to navigate on match days.
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I've give up like, I'm not missing five ten mins of the first half to get a chance of a drink or scran. Those fuckers who get served then stand about reet near the bars pisse off but it's because there's not much room when it's packed.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
I've give up like, I'm not missing five ten mins of the first half to get a chance of a drink or scran. Those fuckers who get served then stand about reet near the bars pisse off but it's because there's not much room when it's packed.
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Agree. It’s absolutely awful trying to get through the concourses.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
I've give up like, I'm not missing five ten mins of the first half to get a chance of a drink or scran. Those fuckers who get served then stand about reet near the bars pisse off but it's because there's not much room when it's packed.
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INigle said:
Agree. It’s absolutely awful trying to get through the concourses.
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Where the concourses always as busy? I only came back home last year so only have this season and a few random visits to judge
 
Zimba said:
It won't miss the North East they'd struggle to miss it out, there's (or was) rules that it's 1 ground per city bar the host city where it's allowed 2 grounds.

So it's pretty much
Us
Mags
Everton’s new ground
City or United
Villa
Croke Park
Hampden
Millennium
Casement (Belfast)
Wembley
Spurs or West Ham
Aviva stadium.

Personally and I hope I'm wrong I think it'll be us, Man City, West Ham and Croke Park that'll be dropped.

Then the grouping will be

Glasgow - Newcastle
Manchester - Liverpool
Cardiff - Birmingham
Belfast - Dublin
London - London
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Casement won’t happen mate. The last time I checked, they didn’t even have funding
 
FalkirkMackem said:
It's an excuse peddled by people who don't realise that sunderland afc is in the entertainment business. Would you go to a cinema where the bogs were overflowing? No. Why should football fans put up with it?
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That particular issue is, or should be, routine maintenance. I'm on about improving/upgrading the facilities.
 
Zimba said:
Be surprised if they don't have a ground at all in Northern Ireland like but suppose if there's no ground then they'll have to avoid it.
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They were looking at ways to increase Windsor Park but I can’t see that happening either. They effectively have to rebuild two stands.
 
Galloping Foxley said:
The way Newcastle and Gateshead councils have left the Tyne Bridge to rot is a bloody disgrace. I drive over it frequently and it's more rust than metal now. Huge chunks missing.
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We walked from the metro arena, the life centre and then the train station was lifting.
 
Galloping Foxley said:
The way Newcastle and Gateshead councils have left the Tyne Bridge to rot is a bloody disgrace. I drive over it frequently and it's more rust than metal now. Huge chunks missing.
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It's not the best is it. Even just the streets always seem to be full of litter and just filthy. Not quite sure what the reason is for it

Oher than all the stinky mags of course
 
People are forgetting Sunderland is going to look a very different city in the next 5 years as well.
I'm not saying it'll defo come to ours but I'd argue there's less for us to do than Newcastle have to do with investment wise if we're gonna get the euros bid
 
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