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New Birmingham Stadium - 60k+

wigwams said:
60k modern stadium bang in the middle of the country. It’ll be used for far more than football, especially if Brady has any say, which he absolutely will.
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That’s my thinking as well mate. It will almost certainly take gigs away from Villa Park, plus as you say, Brady will have a lot of influence if the NFL want to move away from Wembley etc
 

Alfa said:
I can see them finishing the season with about 48 points. That mightn’t be enough to keep them up.
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The games vs Rotherham and Huddersfield will likely define their season. Shows the unpredictable nature of this division (or 80% of it) as Brum look decent on paper as do one or two others in the dog fight, Blackburn especially.
 
wigwams said:
60k modern stadium bang in the middle of the country. It’ll be used for far more than football, especially if Brady has any say, which he absolutely will.
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Exactly, they could just open the lower bowl for footy to start off with, could see a NFL game being played there
 
Kumbuka said:
It sounds crazy and could very well end in disaster, but I think they would end up getting decent crowds with long term success and investment.

As soon as Brighton got a new stadium and ended up doing well in the Prem they averaged 30k out of nowhere. Appreciate their history is a little different with all the issues at the Withdean, but people are fickle and will turn up if there is some success. They also have a huge catchment area when you consider there is no modern day heavyweight in the region. I know Villa are a huge club and are doing well at the moment, but it's not like they've had consistent trophies or top level European football in the past 30-40 years.
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Aston villa are like real Madrid history wise to Birmingham man. A new stadium can only do so much 60k stadium is a massive white elephant for that club. I guess it'll attract gigs and stuff but as a football stadium that will very likely never be filled not unless they flip their entire history on its head and start being a top end of the top division side even then they'd struggle.
 
League Wan said:
Dunno like everyone seemed to laugh at west ham when they moved to the Olympic stadium and our 42k probably got laughed at considering the previous roker park capacities
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It would've if we'd stayed down for much longer that first season. We had new stadium buzz and a team playing cracking football the stadium just happened to be at a time when the team was changing for the better with a bigish name manager. Birmingham have been scrating around lower mid table championship for how long and are this season flirting with relegation. Unless it takes five or six years to build and in that time they build a side challenging for promotion they've got Bob hope of filling that. It'll do well for gigs and other stuff though just imagine it looking a bit shit playing a 0-0 against Rotherham in a bottom half championship game.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
Aston villa are like real Madrid history wise to Birmingham man. A new stadium can only do so much 60k stadium is a massive white elephant for that club. I guess it'll attract gigs and stuff but as a football stadium that will very likely never be filled not unless they flip their entire history on its head and start being a top end of the top division side even then they'd struggle.
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Agree completely on the club size point, but don't think "modern" football fans will care that much.

Hypothetically, if Birmingham did get the investment, there's a good chance both them and Villa will be in the Prem together in 2030. Despite Villa being a vastly bigger club, in reality both clubs would have likely only won 1 trophy each in the past 40 years, and Villa might (depends a lot on this season) have a couple of years in the Champions League to Birmingham's none.
 
danthemanSAFC said:
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— 60,000 + capacity
— £2bn/£3bn
— Completed by 2029

Very ambitious for a team that could be in League 1 next month
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Tom Brady invested in Birmingham City as well….Sunderland going to need a new stadium in the next 10 years if it wants to compete
 
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What were west hams average crowds before the new stadium? That was a canny leap. I am sure Birmingham could get close, it's a massive city
 
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