Premier League Central Register of Club Gambling Related Agreements Clause 3.5.2 of the code: “Ensuring that mechanisms exist to enable supporters to have the ability to purchase adult replica kits that do not include gambling sponsorship logos...
What if half of those tickets sold are for OAPs or kids? It would probably be more like a 25 to 33% but you never know. Certainly would bring the average down.
An extra 8,000 seats would have generated less than £6m per year in revenue at a cost of hundreds of millions.
Theres no argument for it other than willy waving, based on our current finances and on pitch performance.
So my Ikea Billy Bookcase built itself? I don't think so mate.
As I'm in a position to talk about these things, I'll confidently say, we should've aimed for 100k. Anything less shows a lack of ambition.
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...
I think the initial design (and indeed one of the main motives to go to BMD) was for if we'd gotten the Commonwealth games. That would've come with a lot of additional funding. Unfortunately, that got brought forward 4 yrs due to Durban dropping...
We traded off a higher capacity with good expandability options in a poor location (Stonebridge Cross) for a lower capacity, almost zero expandability in a good but not perfect location - perfect would have been staying at Goodison, levelling the...