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Upthere said:
Can’t see this happening unless we’re in the Prem for a good number of years, even then if we were a steady Prem team I think the enthusiasm would die off if we didn’t push on
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True but different times I suppose. I didn't foresee sell out crowds and a season ticket waiting list.
Let's see where we are after 3 years.
Fact Hunt said:
No chance, there is way too many concession tickets as there is.
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Could argue given us a conveyor belt over last 20 / 25 years to adult season ticket holders I suppose as the Mags generally more attractive than us as an option for floating fans? The stadium is full every game. But yeah, we have enough concession seats.
 
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MainStandPaddock said:
To be fair, the corporate would not be use for concerts (if they are still looking into them) a its behind the stage area. And the demand at the moment would definitely be for more South stand Season Tickets rather than more corporate (that has not fully sold out this season).
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More and more stadium concerts are shying away from having the stage at one end and towards having a stage in the middle of the pitch with fans all the way around. It lets them sell a lot more tickets and the artist can put on a more visual 360 degree experience.

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Rob the Ref said:
I’m sure over last season or two we’ve upped the kids sc costs a fair bit and reduced the number of age bands.
Makes sense to keep costs down to get more kids and families in for future fan base rather than empty seats in an expanded stadium.
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Aye, when I started taking the bairn in League One under 8s tickets were free where we sat.

Did the job cos we're still going and his ticket went up from £55 last season to £80 this season.

Nephew comes along too, he's gone into the U18 age bracket so his ticket went from £55 to £140. I'm pretty sure previously there was an U16 age bracket he would have gone into.

They were early bird prices too.

Not that I'm complaining, just backing up your point about price increases and brackets being reduced.
 
Extend the south one massive end. This should be enough for the maximum attendance around 55k would be perfect. Then the east stand for corporate. Tv cameras should be this end be better view if we can somehow block the sun out.
 
YES WE GYAN said:
The plans definitely show a second tier, you can see the overhang:

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Correct and as shown in my illustration below of the North Stand Plans opposite the South Stand Plans, its exactly the same construction/design, level one, level two and level three are the same heights but it extends further out to (H) with more rows seats as per the Premier Concourse.
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The Beautiful Game said:
We've proven this several times over, I think we'd be mad to extend
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Why? There’d be money made on it whether full or not.
Brian Griffin said:
My assumption is that we have plans as place holders and something bigger will come along

A massive Kop in the south stand and external fanzone. Corporate boxes right along the east stand IMO

That covers concerts and football nicely
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That would look superb with a ton of railed seating
 
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cowan86 said:
Extend the south one massive end. This should be enough for the maximum attendance around 55k would be perfect. Then the east stand for corporate. Tv cameras should be this end be better view if we can somehow block the sun out.
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We need to extend South Stand to one big end as you say, if we stay in Prem over next few years like
 
Smiter said:
Times have changed mate.

Throughout the Premier league ALL grounds are at full capacity.

Only if there is a general downswing on premier league football interest would that happen but I just don’t see it happening.
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If we lose a few games and end up in and around the bottom three, we'll already be under capacity before the season is out imo
wigwams said:
Why? There’d be money made on it whether full or not.

That would look superb with a ton of railed seating
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How long would it take to recoup the tens of millions that it would cost for a gamble that we’d fill it. We’ve sold the ground out a handful of times since the last extension and had a whole tier closed off because it cost more to run than it made. We’d need to be successful, not just a premier league team to make it worthwhile. We were in the prem for 10 consecutive years without a waiting list last time round.
 
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The Beautiful Game said:
If we lose a few games and end up in and around the bottom three, we'll already be under capacity before the season is out imo

How long would it take to recoup the tens of millions that it would cost for a gamble that we’d fill it. We’ve sold the ground out a handful of times since the last extension and had a whole tier closed off because it cost more to run than it made. We’d need to be successful, not just a premier league team to make it worthwhile. We were in the prem for 10 consecutive years without a waiting list last time round.
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You do realise that empty seats in the "normal" areas are not important if extra corporate spaces are full?

Corporate in the premier league is a huge money spinner as are match by match tickets, they give a quicker and bigger return, especially with how reasonable our season ticket prices are.

The other option is to increase season card prices to compensate and price people out of going
 
errant said:
just had a quick gander on statcat at that match (40,579 attendance - presume segregation took the rest up). the reading midfield was packed out with ray 'oap' houghton & phil 'parky' parkinson... clark & ball would have had a field day that game! 🙃


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I played with the Reading left back when he was younger . Very good player but never thought I’d see him at that level
 
The Beautiful Game said:
If we lose a few games and end up in and around the bottom three, we'll already be under capacity before the season is out imo

How long would it take to recoup the tens of millions that it would cost for a gamble that we’d fill it. We’ve sold the ground out a handful of times since the last extension and had a whole tier closed off because it cost more to run than it made. We’d need to be successful, not just a premier league team to make it worthwhile. We were in the prem for 10 consecutive years without a waiting list last time round.
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With extra corporate money as well extra bums on seats, gigs etc. not that long, and that’s assuming we don’t get bigger and bigger.
 
The Beautiful Game said:
If we lose a few games and end up in and around the bottom three, we'll already be under capacity before the season is out imo

How long would it take to recoup the tens of millions that it would cost for a gamble that we’d fill it. We’ve sold the ground out a handful of times since the last extension and had a whole tier closed off because it cost more to run than it made. We’d need to be successful, not just a premier league team to make it worthwhile. We were in the prem for 10 consecutive years without a waiting list last time round.
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Completely disagree mate, there’s no way for me we don’t sell out generals sake tickets if we are in bottom 3, they aren’t lasting longer than 2 hours currently.

Re cost, the way these ground extensions are built now, is by financing, then paying them off against the extra revenue they create.

We currently get great rates of finance from Kyril’s mother, I’m not sure that would extend to a ground extension, but it may.
 
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