I'm convinced all those crying about the capacity must have been asleep these past 2 years. How have you not noticed that this 53k iteration almost crippled us financially?
What would the extra seats add to the cost?
Hundreds of millions.
If we had gone ahead and built a stadium of that size we would have a huge debt burden around our neck.
In fact we would already have gone burst before TFG ever entered the scene.
I think all things considered we have come out with a fabulous new home.
This could have been started and not finished, or have come with a cost that could not have been sustained and may have resulted in disaster for the club.
I wonder if...
And how would that have been paid for when club almost went bankrupt with this one? Moshiri had to purchase here, there and everywhere and club paid very high interest rates. Would you have been happy to sell Branthwaite last summer?
From the very first reveal of the stadium capacity to today, it's blatantly obvious that 52,000 was a laughable capacity in every context. It should have been 65,000 all day long.
It’s not just about getting more seats in. If the capacity increases then the concourses have to be built according to that capacity and additional turnstiles/exits need to be considered, all that in turn increases the build cost and the...
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But the season ticket holder has made the inital outlay to purchase a ticket for all 19 home games without 1) not knowing when the games are 2) not knowing how ‘good’ we are gonna be (i know it doesnt make a difference) but still.
Imagine we...
I wonder how many meetings of the Transport Working Group he has attended since construction began.
Perhaps someone could share his attendance record over the last 3-4 years and particularly the last 18 months.
I know that he probably delegated...
Exactly, I would be within my rights as a landlord, but I’d be a bit of a Berkshire hunt if I did that wouldn’t I?
I don’t give a monkeys chuff about legalities and precedents, it’s wrong, the end.
People defending clubs for demanding seats be resold, minimum games attended etc can GTF imo. Next thing it'll be requiring attendance at all cup matches or lose your ST etc.
Acceptance of these moves just means increased likelihood of supporters...