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SOL expansion


Wearson said:
Does “23 times a year” not give you the clue that we have a massive structure that is massively underutilised?
Hence the new grounds built today including hotels, conference facilities and restaurants etc etc
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To be fair the ground already has most of them. Most people aren't going to be eating in a stadium full stop hence why Tottenham has one restaurant which shuts early outside match days.

I couldn't think of anywhere worse when there's loads of independent restaurants around.

You're kidding yourself if you think the ground is going to have any use outside of football.
 
CaptainRed said:
We're not suddenly going to host loads more concerts by adding 10k seats :lol:
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No, but we could if we add to/improve the corporate and hospitality offerings. Which we should be looking at anyway, as other than the Quinn's Bar redevelopment, we are way behind the times when it comes to that side of the business.

Why are people so blinkered to assuming any expansion is going to be tens of thousands of seats!?
 
TheCat99 said:
I was disgusted at the turn out until a realised I would have been one of them sitting watching it in the house had my 12 year not insisted on going!
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Me as well mate I had just dried off from Saturday . Up until Roberts scored and Ballard had a great chance to win it I was wishing I had stoped in with a fish lot
 
halfpast3 said:
Because it would give us 15m quid extra per season as a starting point. That’s every penny we get from football crowds doubled. That can be spent on the football club. Ideally spent well and into the premier league and up. I am not particularly saying increase the capacity more the corporate side but more seats would help attract it. Then who knows we might start using the seats as well. Yeah we do well out of them but we can do better, we lost the Taylor swift gigs over this. The artists hire the ground based on what they can make. So 10k extra seats at what is now 100/200 quid a ticket is 1 or 2m extra in revenue for the artist and that’s before the 400/500/1000 pound a ticket extra corporate stuff. Can’t wrap my head around you thinking the club shouldn’t be massively into this. The more stuff at it the better for the football team.
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It wouldn't. Literally no guarantee of that at all.
 
halfpast3 said:
Because it would give us 15m quid extra per season as a starting point. That’s every penny we get from football crowds doubled. That can be spent on the football club. Ideally spent well and into the premier league and up. I am not particularly saying increase the capacity more the corporate side but more seats would help attract it. Then who knows we might start using the seats as well. Yeah we do well out of them but we can do better, we lost the Taylor swift gigs over this. The artists hire the ground based on what they can make. So 10k extra seats at what is now 100/200 quid a ticket is 1 or 2m extra in revenue for the artist and that’s before the 400/500/1000 pound a ticket extra corporate stuff. Can’t wrap my head around you thinking the club shouldn’t be massively into this. The more stuff at it the better for the football team.
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What's the source for this 15m extra? Have you made it up?
 
fixxxer said:
No, but we could if we add to/improve the corporate and hospitality offerings. Which we should be looking at anyway, as other than the Quinn's Bar redevelopment, we are way behind the times when it comes to that side of the business.

Why are people so blinkered to assuming any expansion is going to be tens of thousands of seats!?
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We don't needa an expansion :lol:

There's 1000s of spare seats every week and that's been the case for.the majority of the time we've been at the SoL other than for a brief time in the late 90s/00.

What is required is an improvement to the current stadium. A good tidy up and improved hospitality areas.

We also need a good team!
 
johnlights said:
Because in cup games, Nufc season ticket holders often don't go.
Their seats are filled by others.
Can I ask they also have a sell on service.
Like we used to.
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Stub hub. Yes, useful for exiles like me with season tickets but who couldn't always attend. Club should resurrect that in PL. I'd buy one in a shot and would influence loads others.
 
Mowgli said:
What's the source for this 15m extra? Have you made it up?
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To be fair I wouldn't be surprised if it was £15m, the catch-22 is that's revenue rather than profit. All the costs to come off after that.

Liverpool make £3.5m per game anyway supposedly.
 
Mowgli said:
What's the source for this 15m extra? Have you made it up?
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No why would I make it up
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that’s one of any number of reports. This one states next summer they have 6 gigs by 4 artists. There is no suprise that they added more seats and corporate recently and now suddenly have loads of gigs. 15m is from the estimated 10m I see ( this report is 7 to 9.5) plus the fact they had 2 nights of pink. Fair to assume 5 gigs make you 15m
 
Zimba said:
You're kidding yourself if you think the ground is going to have any use outside of football.
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Let’s see…
Hotel rooms, hotel related restaurants, conferences , meeting rooms, concerts, graduation ceremonies, massed meetings for trade unions or big companies etc, religious services, stadium tours,

Senior supporters association closed shop meetings 😂

social functions, weddings, charity dinners, Christmas parties, school prom nights,
I could go on.
Most of which happen at our and other stadiums on a regular basis.

Do you live in the real world?
 
halfpast3 said:
No why would I make it up
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that’s one of any number of reports. This one states next summer they have 6 gigs by 4 artists. There is no suprise that they added more seats and corporate recently and now suddenly have loads of gigs. 15m is from the estimated 10m I see ( this report is 7 to 9.5) plus the fact they had 2 nights of pink. Fair to assume 5 gigs make you 15m
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But we currently have concerts already that will obviously earn less than that. So doing the upgrades wouldn't make you 15m extra per season as we probably already make a third of that on the few we do.
 
Mowgli said:
But we currently have concerts already that will obviously earn less than that. So doing the upgrades wouldn't make you 15m extra per season as we probably already make a third of that on the few we do.
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So with improved facilities we can make more money .
 
Mowgli said:
But we currently have concerts already that will obviously earn less than that. So doing the upgrades wouldn't make you 15m extra per season as we probably already make a third of that on the few we do.
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Did you miss the bit where we lost out on big money gigs due to the lack of hospitality areas?
 
Wearson said:
Did you miss the bit where we lost out on big money gigs due to the lack of hospitality areas?
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Hospitality areas i can see. But you've also got numpties on here wanting to put the capacity up to 60k at the same time 'because we may as well future proof'.

Any sort of serious expansion or even upgrading to a major level would probably be tens of millions these days when you look what other clubs pay.

No chance whatsoever that KLD will be funding that for something that would take years to pay for itself
 
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