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New Birmingham Stadium - 60k+

Cridge said:
The Muslims around inner city Birmingham may like football as well but they don’t attend games. There’s a big Somalian community a mile away from their ground. I’d wager that not one attends football matches.
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Would your fans be enthusiastic about a merger with Birmingham City?

It doesn’t make sense having 2 separate stadiums when you could ground share.

Birmingham Villa United?
 

Ned Land said:
Would your fans be enthusiastic about a merger with Birmingham City?

It doesn’t make sense having 2 separate stadiums when you could ground share.

Birmingham Villa United?
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Having lived there, I can tell you that that has the same probablility as us merging with the Mags.
 
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Really hope they get relegated. One of their scumbag fans punched a mate of mine for no reason down at St Andrews last season.
 
It's mental really.

Obviously being from Coventry, I have a lot of mates who are Birmingham fans. They are very similar to Millwall in the sense that they like to be seen as a 'proper club'. Very few football shirts in the stands, a working class club, no bowl stadium with a drum etc. Little success but a famous reputation off the pitch.

Villa are different. More middle class and attract fans from many of the towns and villages outside Birmingham and wider area.

What is funny is seeing their reaction to this. Since the takeover they've slowly made changes like adding light displays and fireworks before matches. They are now aiming to build a modern bowl which will very Americanised and with zero atmosphere.

We've seen what can go wrong with projects like this. Darlington and ourselves the two most famous examples. Both completely collapsed after moving to stadiums that at the time were too big for our struggling teams.

Even West Ham. On the pitch things have improved but you ask any of their old school fans and they completely despise the place. They've filled it because they are a big club with basically the whole Essex as a catchment area and being in the middle of one of the world's most visited cities.

At least if things go wrong, they can rent the place out to us when Mike Ashley inevitably falls out with us in 5 years time 😂
 
mackembhoy said:
Yep villa can't even fill there's

See Darlo stadium and Stadium MK
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They’re very different cases. And, particularly with reference Darlo, the ‘fit and proper’ owner test has since been introduced.

If the owners of clubs pass those tests, it’s up to them how they run their clubs. If there is suspicion that they’re not fit and proper they shouldn’t be in charge in the first place.

If an owner is ambitious, has financial backers willing to invest, then they should be allowed to do so without interference from football governing bodies. Local authorities will decide on whether building projects are suitable and feasible and make decisions on that front. And this project looks / sounds like it could be beneficial for the club and the city.
 
Zimba said:
I know it's stupid from a Birmingham City point of view but outside of football, the fact the second biggest city in the UK doesn't really have a world class stadium is poor. Definitely a place for it for stuff beyond football.

There's nothing really between the Welsh National Stadium / London / Manchester.
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Great point.
 
Modern stadiums are a huge money spinner, they have shops, bars, restaurants, entertainment like cinemas, bowling alleys.
It's basically like building an entire entertainment quarter, that's why outside private investors are putting the money in. Birmingham is a huge city with plenty of money about it, this stadium will have people in it all week long spending that money. It will have all the big concerts on too and probably other sports occasionally.

Look at spurs increase in revenue since they built their stadium, it's the biggest in London now. Birmingham will see an increase too and with that money they can build the club into premier league regulars. That success will bring more fans. There are still masses of untapped potential fans in that area despite having a few clubs.

All yous sneering have no idea about business. I wish Sunderland had investment to build our concourses out to increase revenue, our stadium is a good size but it's not a money spinner. Very dated.
 
Wakoro said:
Modern stadiums are a huge money spinner, they have shops, bars, restaurants, entertainment like cinemas, bowling alleys.
It's basically like building an entire entertainment quarter, that's why outside private investors are putting the money in. Birmingham is a huge city with plenty of money about it, this stadium will have people in it all week long spending that money. It will have all the big concerts on too and probably other sports occasionally.

Look at spurs increase in revenue since they built their stadium, it's the biggest in London now. Birmingham will see an increase too and with that money they can build the club into premier league regulars. That success will bring more fans. There are still masses of untapped potential fans in that area despite having a few clubs.

All yous sneering have no idea about business. I wish Sunderland had investment to build our concourses out to increase revenue, our stadium is a good size but it's not a money spinner. Very dated.
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Agree with the bit in bold bud.
 
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Are people forgetting here that Coventry will probably be using it as well?
Hank Scorpio said:
They can - but it would involve investment. For example, the concourses from the East stand right across the South Stand can be extended by simply pushing back the turnstiles a few metres.
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People keep saying this but the safety certificate isnt just about the stadium, its the access and egress as well. If they push the walls out there is less space for people to queue and exit safely.
Hank Scorpio said:
They can - but it would involve investment. For example, the concourses from the East stand right across the South Stand can be extended by simply pushing back the turnstiles a few metres.
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People keep saying this but the safety certificate isnt just about the stadium, its the access and egress as well. If they push the walls out there is less space for people to queue and exit safely.
 
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tynevalleyblackcat said:
Are people forgetting here that Coventry will probably be using it as well?

People keep saying this but the safety certificate isnt just about the stadium, its the access and egress as well. If they push the walls out there is less space for people to queue and exit safely.

People keep saying this but the safety certificate isnt just about the stadium, its the access and egress as well. If they push the walls out there is less space for people to queue and exit safely.
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You’re quite right mate but the club have large areas of land that can be utilised. For example, if you push the walls out in the East Stand, they could simply do away with some of parking in the car park.
 
Sky cameras picked up on Wagner doing the Methven/Sartori trick of wandering around pitch side shaking hands with punters like he's royalty tonight.

Sacked Eustace, appointed Rooney and is potentially relegating Birmingham to the third tier but he's hitting out with wild promises like that?

This definitely won't end in tears.
 
joop said:
It could well be built to host a variety of events but no way is it suitable for Birmingham FC. They’ve always been a reasonable sized club but could never ever fill that stadium.
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Tbf, they don’t have to fill the full stadium. Although the stadium could have an overall capacity of 60,000+, for Birmingham homes games they could easily limit tickets to 40,000.

In the states, Atlanta makes changes to the Mercedes Stadium when the MLS club are at home. As per the video below, you can see they cover the tiers and it still looks good. Birmingham could easily do the same, but with a bit of forward planning, they could still keep a very good atmosphere

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