They're pulling back money and building work on that big massive city in the desert called NEOM, there's no way their are spending any large amount of money in a area thousands of miles away. They have the ears of FIFA now they don't need a piddley little football club to do the talking for them
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SOL expansion
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Well apart from the exorbitant cost, and the fact that the SoL is nowhere near the end of its lifespan, and that it can be expanded to meet our needs through the original design and with space around it for that purpose, and the need to either ground share while a new stadium is built (with who?
), or find an alternative location for a new one when we have the best one available already (and a newly opened footbridge connecting it to the city centre)....no, I can't think of any reasons not to build a new stadium.
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The Saudi's own international club football now and are the major financial backer of FIFA for the foreseeable. The club world cup will probably be held every two years, after 2030. Be expanded to at least 48 teams. Be covered by DAZN which by then will likely be controlled by PIF or be covered by a newly created Saudi sports broadcaster. The competition will include at least one Saudi team but probably more.
In addition
Neom
Trojena (winter Olympics 2029/30)
2030/31 - World Expo
2034 - World Cup
Just a few of the bone crushingly expensive matters on Saudi minds in the coming years. PIF have confirmed (as the geo political think tanks have increasingly observed) that the investment strategy has pivoted and is now internally focused.
Could be wrong but spending $2.5B or whatever on a stadium on the town moor or leazes park doesn't appear to tie in with the above. Also quite convenient that complex planning wrangles will delay any potential plans up there by years.
ISOE II
Winger
I hear report that the Mags have 100k members in their lottery ticket scam ( a bit annoyed that a school in Dundee got tickets). I also know that some of those are lapsed season ticket holders who want back so they have demand well over 52k. I’m sure if we did well for a few years our appeal would be higher than now (the interest is higher than 15 years ago as has been discussed on this thread already and we’d get lapsed people back too. Expanding now funded by corporate may not be such a daft idea after all.
JL1985
Striker
Whilst they do have over 100k 'members, the majority are multiple accounts from the same person. There was one bloke moaning on twitter he couldn't get a ticket for any of his 8 accounts, one of which was his 4 month old son.
Our waiting list for season tickets is now closed apparently, seems an odd decision to make.
Wrenthorpe Mackem
Striker
We had something like 50000 gold card members back in day of 1980s when crowds were on their arse. Means very little.
RedandWhiteRebel
Midfield
Where was Newcastle's enormous catchment area when they were giving away 10,000 free season tickets?
DrewC
Striker
Revenues produced from new stadium will far exceed a patchwork on an old stadium if you take all the US data on new stadium’s you might change your mind. It’s Spend more get a lot more choice is yours? If you have the money spend it but in Sunderland case new stadium would mean increased prices across the board which would not sit well in the region..
AndrewP
Striker
In the same place it is now, they are just a fickle bunch. This is evidenced by their crowds when they struggle in the medium term.
Similar story for Leeds, except for whatever reason they've never attracted regular high crowds.
Honey Badger
Full Back
They get someone else to pay for them as well.
Rugby, I expect.
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Harbour Boy
Winger
I think if an extension happens then transport options have to improve. It's a piece of piss getting out of SJP to Durham, Berwick, Darlington etc but even just to get to Hetton, Washington or Durham on a matchday from Sunderland is hell.
Wrenthorpe Mackem
Striker
I live down here. I think they're finally waking up tbh.
AndrewP
Striker
Yeah, they seem interested in large numbers these days. They've got a huge catchment area
I think the new bridge is going to help.
DonaldDownTheWing
Striker
The new bridge will help get people back to the town faster, but going anywhere after that is shite.
Our public transport links are shocking.
AndrewP
Striker
It'll probably improve the public transport offering in that everyone won't be trying to get on in the same area at least.
old supporter
Goalkeeper
We've got 2 metro stations next to the ground but after the the match the system is useless waiting for over half an hour after the Brentford match. Gaps in service missing metros. They can't even organise extra metros to get people home after a half hour wait at the stadium of light station you couldn't get o because it was already full. Its not rocket science to have extra metros waiting at full time
oddbod
Striker
Its your interpretation of the timeline mate i dont agree with !and the comment from the club are just general stock answer pr bollocks ..Bob in his book said he was shown plans of an extension last year or so by kld himself so they have obviously developed an expansion strategy!... if your right it will be t least 5 years of his mythical sustained success before anything happens ,if im right they will announce a development at the end of next season or the next! Just a question :did you think at the end of last season we would spend 150 million on players over the summer?I would have called you a fantasist if you did ,so the same goes for the extension as they obviously had a well developed plan for when we got promoted and in the same vain i think they have a plan to extend the stadium and the unknown element is what triggers its deployment!
Personally i think physically there is room to extend the east stand but once all these homes are built and folk are living there they will object on nuisance grounds(nobody can stop them objecting) and the scuffers will be concerned with sub standard transport links and footfall.Realistically they need to get the south stand extended before the housing development is completed as assurances from the council are not worth the paper they are written on!
The new extension plans have 5500 seats rather than 7500 so it will take the capacity to around 53500 and i think the east would add another 9 thousand (going of old estimates)so that would give a final capacity of approx 62500?
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