Clockwork
Clockwork
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I presume there must be a reason for it but why do we have the pitch slightly raised and then the drop off so suddenly. Looks like it’s really awkward to take a corner because you’re starting on an uphill. Used to be the same at Goodison as well but thought they might have sorted it for this stadium.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Lovely stadium - but we need to be talking about the team in these terms this time next year. Yeah, we need patience, but I'm not convinced we're as far along as we'd need to be in our rebuild when two thirds of our transfers are currently failing.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Maybe they simply did not have the winch in place. Isn't that new? If it is installed now, then tifos like this should become a regular feature.
Yet they will give full coverage to the cult and that song.
Sky and the corrupt PL make me sick.
He’s right though, Villa are a top old club....how many third division titles?
Lol.
Imagine wanting to defend those Brummie gobs
A proud history, probably better than ours with their European cup.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Those lights were constant during the tifo display.
You really should pay greater attention and stop mocking people with that illness.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
They're a 2nd and 3rd division outfit..
FFS they're glory period was in the 1890s.
Villa.
'kin ell.
Good to see that the new stadium is bringing in new income. 63m uplift forecast for this season and expect more to come. Should banish our money problems for a decade or two
PhilEFC
Player Valuation: £35m
Seems an angry chap.
Tom Hughes
Player Valuation: £15m
Refused to address? I personally paid for a transport analysis for one of the neighbouring docks (where central Park is now being constructed) in 2008/9, after working on transport modelling schemes in Liverpool and elsewhere. I also raised the issues several times directly in discussions with the club via minuted shareholders meetings. I don't remember seeing you there. Similarly on this thread.... I often led the discussion, mentioning my concerns and reservations multiple times from the start.
In more recent times, I simply explained to you how/why the transport plan comfortably passed the planning stage, largely due to the proximity of the city centre, and the walking option ...... which, if you attended the matches, you would see the thousands of people happily walking to/from the city centre, as predicted. So that has now been at least partially vindicated by the fact that we're now on course for the highest average attendance in the club's history, and the stadium is already securing other events. The Shuttle bus issue has been the main transport problem (for roughly 1 hour, both before and after the match) but is already improving, and fully resolveable by better management of the Leeds St/Grt Howard St junction and extending the bus lanes..... again, all as predicted previously, and mentioned multiple times. Full BRT in the next 2 years and in the longer term a new station at Vauxhall will all greatly improve that accessibility and public transport capacity.
Yesterday, I joined thousands of fans at Sandhills to travel to South Parkway immediately after the match.... Nightgames are the biggest test of the system. it was relatively effortless.
well, it is the 'front' of the stadium and the view towards the city has derelict docks/building sites before the city view
doesnt bother me either way, the stadium's a looker from any angle
does anyone apart from people from the city know it is a sewage plant though? it could be any industrial building as far as most are concerned
Getting away last night was more chaotic than the last few weeks. Sure, the drink probably didn’t help in a lot of cases, but they really need to try to do a better job of directing people away from the bottlenecks
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
You really should stop desperately seizing on the tittle tattle on here of my non-match attendance. While I haven't got a season ticket (which apparently is the golden ticket qualifying you to make a comment) I've been to 4 home games including the Roma game - with the last being Forest - so I have a little bit of an idea of how it's shaping up down there. I know you do it to bolster your shaky arguments, but nevertheless it does a disservice to you, one of the forum's two esteemed technocrats.
To the point: yes, you did speak out about the shortcomings of transportation. But you did also rebuff all arguments from others in that respect when they focused on external bodies like LCR and their failure to address transportation problems. And you did it to such a degree and level of determination that in the end you simply restated the transport plan as part of your rebuff of others on here and then, self-satisfied, folded your arms declaring it to be up to the task if carried out by fans.
My point here is to agree with what you said yesterday that there is a demographic that are getting a shake out now from the very predictable failure of the transport plan - and it is a failure despite your attempt to row back a bit in your last post - which 'believed' that fans would act as 'rational man' and do as they wanted them to do on paper.
My pointing that out though has just left you in a bit of a cleft stick situation: because you joined in that stage army approach with the authors of the plan to face down any criticism of LCR/LCC/Merseyrail etc over it on here.
I cant be blamed for your own entanglement which you put yourself into.
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