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SOL expansion


Be Here Now said:
And within a few short seasons we had a 48,000 stadium with crowds dropping to as low as 22000
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It cost £7m and has more than paid for itself and will this season be sold out.

Sir Bob wasn’t daft, perhaps more of our fans should have some of his vision.

Football is only going to get bigger and we need to get kids into the ground and away from Saudi clutches
 
Northumberland Rocks said:
It cost £7m and has more than paid for itself and will this season be sold out.

Sir Bob wasn’t daft, perhaps more of our fans should have some of his vision.
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Its used by away fans now

Not to forget we had an entire section of our stadium closed for a few seasons

Perhaps more of our fans should turn up for all games rather than just because we are in the Premier League
 
AndrewP said:
He also knew we got up to 35k in Division 3.
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45,000 fore one game.
Be Here Now said:
Its used by away fans now

Not to forget we had an entire section of our stadium closed for a few seasons

Perhaps more of our fans should turn up for all games rather than just because we are in the Premier League
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Do away fans not pay?

I have heard reasoned arguments why we shouldn’t expand but Haway. :)

Our support is nothing short of magnificent given what we have been through as a side.
 
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horselover said:
Corporate needs adding to East & South Stands, maybe a small increase of capacity to 55,000 and that would be appropriate for a club of our size....Our current capacity will sell out every week in the PL if the club show some ambition, and I'm not talking about competing for the top 4, but just not being there to finish 17th every season
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What's wrong with finishing 17th in the Premier League 🤣
 
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fixxxer said:
Corporate will be sold out, that's what needs to be extended/improved. Thats the revenue stream we need to maximise to really kick on.
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This I do agree with, which technically is capacity because it counts towards overall crowd and ground capacity. The current corporate capacity is around 2k iirc. I just think until we are consistently selling out the regular seats, there is no point adding any regular seating capacity.

Coventry home showed that to me there’s no better ground in the country when it’s packed and rocking like that, so I’d rather we focused on filling what we’ve got regularly and working on the atmosphere rather than add more seats that apart from one off occasions won’t be filled unless we became a decent side. Let’s hope we do, but take small steps at a time.
 
Northumberland Rocks said:
45,000 fore one game
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In division 3, before the stadium was built? I only remember 35k. Notts county maybe.
fixxxer said:
Corporate will be sold out, that's what needs to be extended/improved. Thats the revenue stream we need to maximise to really kick on.
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Makes sense, but then other than just adding boxes at the back of the NEC/East Stand, then it'll mean adding more regular seats too.
 
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AndrewP said:
In division 3, before the stadium was built? I only remember 35k. Notts county maybe.

Makes sense, but then other than just adding boxes at the back of the NEC/East Stand, then it'll mean adding more regular seats too.
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It would be interesting to see how they would do it.

Another row of boxes along the back of the East Stand should be under consideration but i wouldn't be in favour of losing regular seats on the back rows to make space.

A mirror image of the Monty stand/ Premier Concourse would solve the issue of limited hospitality but it would also leave us with thousands of extra seats we don't need currently.

If the South Stand is ever extended it should be a single tiered home end so I wouldn't like to see that split in two for corporate reasons.
 
RedandWhiteRebel said:
It would be interesting to see how they would do it.

Another row of boxes along the back of the East Stand should be under consideration but i wouldn't be in favour of losing regular seats on the back rows to make space.

A mirror image of the Monty stand/ Premier Concourse would solve the issue of limited hospitality but it would also leave us with thousands of extra seats we don't need currently.

If the South Stand is ever extended it should be a single tiered home end so I wouldn't like to see that split in two for corporate reasons.
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Crazy suggestion just to build boxes.
Mowgli said:
Is there any evidence?
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Aye mate got the plans here 😬

There’s plans tho
 
Blyth said:
Crazy suggestion just to build boxes.

Aye mate got the plans here 😬

There’s plans tho
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It's the hospitality aspect that needs increasing now but not so much regular seats at the moment.

Would they possibly mirror the Monty Stand/ Premier Concourse, install the padded seats required to offer more hospitality and leave the regular seats uninstalled until required in future.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
This I do agree with, which technically is capacity because it counts towards overall crowd and ground capacity. The current corporate capacity is around 2k iirc. I just think until we are consistently selling out the regular seats, there is no point adding any regular seating capacity.

Coventry home showed that to me there’s no better ground in the country when it’s packed and rocking like that, so I’d rather we focused on filling what we’ve got regularly and working on the atmosphere rather than add more seats that apart from one off occasions won’t be filled unless we became a decent side. Let’s hope we do, but take small steps at a time.
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More like 3,500 with 76 Yards being full hospitality and not available via normal ticketing.
 
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