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SOL expansion


John J Rambo said:
If demand is there, then suppose it needs to be considered. Bit off topic, but if demand is that high, think the club should introduce a cup scheme ticket with season tickets. Obviously everyone has a choice, but if you choose, Automatically get your seat, loyalty point when activated at turnstile and could also help on priority phases for potential semi/finals. Our attendance at cup games has been abysmal for years and an even bigger stadium would be horrific with 15k in 1 stand.
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Yeah, they need to bring it back and have an option where you just auto-buy your own ticket unless you opt out for a specific game.
 
Blyth said:
It’s more like 10-12 rows. Counted the other week the different between SW corner and the South Stand.
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I thought it would just be the temporary ones. That's a load of people to move.
HearMeRoar said:
I always said it would be east stand. More room for boxes, premium and new bars etc.


They would be given compensation and first pick of the new seats imho
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If season tickets are sold out I wonder if they'll make match day tickets into new batch of season tickets for the hundreds that will have to move.
 
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payne said:
I thought it would just be the temporary ones. That's a load of people to move.

If season tickets are sold out I wonder if they'll make match day tickets into new batch of season tickets for the hundreds that will have to move.
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Depends how long it takes to complete the rebuild.

I work it out as between 500 and 600 people effected if its just the last 3 rows along the east stand. They would either have to go into part of the away fan section or be housed in premium over on the west side..
 
HearMeRoar said:
Depends if it mirrors the south stand.

They might be offered two seasons in Premium over on the new east side.

They wouldn't be able to just disregard them. They would have to be given new seats
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I agree, but I wouldn’t trust our ticketing department to microwave a lasagne tbh.

There could be groups of 5 or 6 who’ve sat together for 20 years and there’s nowhere in the ground with that availability next to each other.
 
HearMeRoar said:
I always said it would be east stand. More room for boxes, premium and new bars etc.


They would be given compensation and first pick of the new seats imho
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Makes sense for gigs as well. If they did the South stand first it would add basically zero for gigs given where the stage is. With a larger East stand it would add a lot of value, however.
 
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I’m still firmly in the ‘wait a few more years to assess sustained demand’ camp, but if it was to be the East Stand if it happens, I really hope the outside of it is built like the outside of the West Stand. I don’t think there’s many better looking outside’s of stands in England nicer to look at than our West Stand. By comparison the North Stand got that metal cladding added to it that looks a bit crap and tacky compared to the West Stand brickwork and huge badge, metal gates etc.
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
I agree, but I wouldn’t trust our ticketing department to microwave a lasagne tbh.

There could be groups of 5 or 6 who’ve sat together for 20 years and there’s nowhere in the ground with that availability next to each other.
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L18SFC said:
You’d think not but recent stories from the ticket office suggests they f***ing might like
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Hopefully they plan it better than that. I agree its gonna be stressful for those in the back rows of the east stand so best they announce all plans for what happens to them soon as possible.

The SOL was designed to build up so in theory if they started building work once the last game of the season is over they could be half way ready with the new seated areas by the start of the new one. Possibly all done by autumn of the same year. It really shouldn't take too long to do it. They could even ask the PL for their first few games to be away games if they needed more time.
 
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Is any of the Legends Way work associated with the fabric of the South Stand?
If so, it might signal that the South Stand will be the final extension, East first.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
I’m still firmly in the ‘wait a few more years to assess sustained demand’ camp, but if it was to be the East Stand if it happens, I really hope the outside of it is built like the outside of the West Stand. I don’t think there’s many better looking outside’s of stands in England nicer to look at than our West Stand. By comparison the North Stand got that metal cladding added to it that looks a bit crap and tacky compared to the West Stand brickwork and huge badge, metal gates etc.
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I think we should build now but completely agree with the idea of a new ‘west’ stand on the east side.
In effect, a freestanding new building including expanded ground floor concourses and packed with new hospitality offerings but with normal season card seats in a new top tier.
Main building works would be outside the current stadium footprint so less disruptive and the combining disruption of old and new could be carried out over a close season.
Having renewed facilities in the new block would allow further remodelling of the west stand.
Costly but what a stadium we would have and doing it this way would allow the south stand to be a single bank as corporate would already be sorted.
I can dream!
 
Blyth said:
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“I think we're incredibly fortunate that in the renewal window for our season tickets we sold 96%, the other four percent will sell out against the waiting list that we had. We had 15,000 people on our waiting list and around 1,400 tickets left so they will go very quickly and that waiting list will remain a large waiting list.

“I also think there is a piece here which is that we currently in the South and the East stand are not necessarily servicing our premium partners as much as we could do, so we have have 60 hospitality boxes of which we have a waiting list of 35 - that's the highest yielding ticket that we have in the stadium. We also have the ability that most of our premium outlets are all completely sold out as well so is there an inventory mix question that we can begin to develop.”
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And yet we lost a generation of support to the Mags some say 🤔
 
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