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Striker
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Loch Ness Drogba fan
Full Back
There’s absolutely no way we need an expansion. It’s not been filled this season until the play offs.
The stadium we currently have wouldn’t have been built as it would have been too expensive, the stadium we’d have would probably be like the riverside
Aye mate but what happens if we got back to league one
That’s the spirit. Honestly our fan base sometimes.
Yeah and now they’re expanding. You’re so afraid of a bright future
That’s not the capacity and you know it. If you think it sounds better it doesn’t.
There is. If we’re successful and be where we want to be. The goal is to be a regular top 10 premier league side. We don’t have enough hospitality areas and you’ll see this season not enough season tickets.
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Which catchment area are you referring to? We’ve got support from all over the country not just a few miles from an SR postcode. I agree that corporate is inadequate as are the concourse areas
And they’re all going about that.
Sgt Pepper
Striker
I’m not sure that argument even stands up anyway because our concourses are still ground level and the walls aren’t load bearing so could easily be moved backwards a good few metres to create loads more room.
The club should be developing links with the local Universities to grow support.
People wanting to put corporate in the East Stand need to be careful imo. If it's in an upper tier then fair play but moving people in the East Stand will result in a lot of people giving up their season tickets imo. A lot of people in there are older and they won't be walking up into the gods.
One thing's for certain, if KLD or corporates had to endure the same conditions as we do in cattle class, the extension/widening would have happened years ago.
The concourses are hideous. Pinch points and jams where people queue for drinks or stare At the TV screens.
DonaldDownTheWing
Striker
Aye mate but what happens if we got back to league one
That’s the spirit. Honestly our fan base sometimes.
Yeah and now they’re expanding. You’re so afraid of a bright future
That’s not the capacity and you know it. If you think it sounds better it doesn’t.
There is. If we’re successful and be where we want to be. The goal is to be a regular top 10 premier league side. We don’t have enough hospitality areas and you’ll see this season not enough season tickets.
There’s just no need to extend/expand until demand meets supply, or at least gets close to it.
We need more hospitality because we’re close to full, especially in the more popular areas. We don’t need more standard seats.
They’ve been on sale for over 24 hours and it’s still dead easy to buy one. If we were needing extending they’d have gone in hours.
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK
Winger
If we doubled our match day prices we probably we'd probably get nearer the Leeds Utd match day revenue. However doubling the price means losing fans. There's a limit to just how much the club can milk the fans.
Even hoying £100 on every season ticket next season which an average of say 42k SAFC crowd would get £4,200,000 (we can't increase away tickets) which in the grand scheme of things isn't exactly title challenging money. That £100 increase however may push a parent and child to the financial limit so they stop going, along with a few others.
More so due to fewer 3pm games in the Premier League and this season being even easier to watch on legit TV (unlike the Reidy era when it sold out as there was only dodgy boxes back then). You then need to sell those seats at the higher price to new people or it's now lost revenue.
We don't have the luxury of some clubs who can take the piss and milk the fans to the limit when there's more affluent people willing to pay the high prices or they're limited by capacity. Nor do we have the 'tourist' factor. Even that price rise for the bandwagoners is only going to generate a a few £100,000 extra. Yet here we are in the Premier League with a guaranteed £200m coming soon
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Sgt Pepper
Striker
To be honest they only seem to have become a major talking point in the last few years. Barely got mentioned on the likes of here during our last Premier League stint, so seems to coincide with other new grounds being built that have bigger concourses. I personally don’t mind it all that much because I accept the hustle and bustle is part and parcel of a football match and the crowds. Accept others have different views or feelings about it than I do though.
How many seats are unsold?
DonaldDownTheWing
Striker
Same in every walk of life though, not just football. KLD wouldn’t accept flying Ryanair economy either.
dancingradio
Central Defender
Dead easy is not right. 2 people looking together now and the only option is a few areas on front row or right to the back of pc
DonaldDownTheWing
Striker
There’s still blocks they haven’t released yet. Someone posted a tracker t’other day.
Pretty much started when another ground in the North East first started getting mentioned about being rebuilt. Genuinely think some people just want to expand it so it's bigger than the mags, the same people keep mentioning them in their posts so they're clearly in their mind when posting.
