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New Villa stand gets the green light

RichD said:
The problem is they'll leave their real fan base behind who's supported the club through thick & thin. Real football fans are getting ripped off, it's just plain greed...
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Its' finding a way to break that Glass window, that is the top 6, if you look at it, they had to sell players last season, just so they didn't end up breaching PSR, so they have to find income from somewhere i suppose.
 

Startrite said:
Its almost as if Ratcliffe the Brexit supporting Monaco resident, is a bit of a hypocrite.
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You might possibly suggest this, I couldn’t possibly comment, just as I wouldn’t mention Union Jack nige and his pied a terres overseas and his eastern block born wife
 
CissesUnderpants9 said:
Its' finding a way to break that Glass window, that is the top 6, if you look at it, they had to sell players last season, just so they didn't end up breaching PSR, so they have to find income from somewhere i suppose.
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I still think a Euro super league will happen at someone anyway, (its just a matter of time) Then state run country's like Saudi arabia and others will have full control to do what they want..
 
Steedy M said:
Questionable if they have the demand for 50,000 people.

Tickets are still available on general sale for their home game tomorrow
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The whole intention of stadium extensions nowadays is about increasing corporate space/range of offerings. They won’t care less if they don’t sell out the additional pleb seats just as long as they are upscaling the expensive tickets.

Sadly, Premier League football is more of an experience for the middle classes nowadays.
 
RichD said:
I still think a Euro super league will happen at someone anyway, (its just a matter of time) Then state run country's like Saudi arabia and others will have full control to do what they want..
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For the 679th time European Super League or not in the future "no teams" will be leaving the Premier League not a chance of that happening.
 
niallquinnsdisco said:
It's a minging thing man utd are trying to do. Like NFL teams using public funds to build stadia who threaten to move the franchise.. The cost of moving the freight yard is many millions + infrastructure so even that element will cost the public a fortune but a private company reap the profits. Disgraceful situation.
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Get the government to reopen the.mines at Monkwearmouth Colliery and get 3 billion from the UK taxpayer to build a new stadium. Brilliant.
 
Steedy M said:
Questionable if they have the demand for 50,000 people.

Tickets are still available on general sale for their home game tomorrow
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Game has been moved to a Sunday night and is on tv hence the slower ticket sales. Palace have also sent back the upper tier of the away end which are on sale to Villa fans. We wouldn’t sell out every week at 50k unless we were doing really well but we’d sell out enough to make it worth while.
 
1874 said:
Game has been moved to a Sunday night and is on tv hence the slower ticket sales. Palace have also sent back the upper tier of the away end which are on sale to Villa fans. We wouldn’t sell out every week at 50k unless we were doing really well but we’d sell out enough to make it worth while.
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I think what you need to consider (as do many of our fans who don't think there's a need for us to expand the SoL) is that football is becoming more and more popular and attendances are growing year-on-year.

Attendances steadily declined after the war but since 1985 the overall attendances in English football have basically DOUBLED from around 20 million to around 40 million:

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Unlike our Stadium they are having to demolish 80% of the existing stand leaving only the bottom rows in order to create the new upper extension and sub structure. Probably why the cost is so huge.
 
Dirge said:
Reading that man utd are angling ( and looking likely to succeed ) to get public funding to build a new stadium…and we’re talking huge money, paid for by you and I.
Amazing that people like big Jim R eschews welfare, govt intervention etc etc, but wants the govt to give the worlds wealthiest football club a huge handout
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Haway the brexiteers who love their country I say ..😆
 
If the mags extend the Gallowgate by 7,000 - 10,000 it's probably going to cost well over £200M. Strawberry Place, the road that runs from the bottom of St James Street right along the back of the stand will need to be relocated or somehow moved underground and housed underneath the stadium. St James Metro station will probably need to be moved too. Hilarious that this is their easiest / cheapest way to increase capacity. Everything else is a nightmare of planning and insane costs.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
If the mags extend the Gallowgate by 7,000 - 10,000 it's probably going to cost well over £200M. Strawberry Place, the road that runs from the bottom of St James Street right along the back of the stand will need to be relocated or somehow moved underground and housed underneath the stadium. St James Metro station will probably need to be moved too. Hilarious that this is their easiest / cheapest way to increase capacity. Everything else is a nightmare of planning and insane costs.
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Pretty sure I saw an article stating that the additional tier in the gallowgate would cost closer to £400m due to all the work needed
 
Bomb Alley said:
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Just looking at that artists impression, it doesn't look particularly bigger than the existing one?
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Is it really worth spending £100 million on it?
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All about corporate facilities theses days to charge top dollar , love villa park they have managed to retain its charm even thou it’s a complete new stadium since early 90s
 
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