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greatwhitenorf said:
Those comments in the Haringey Indy from the Chick King fellow won't do much for match-day sales.
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What, this? It's hardly dynamite is it?

Alex Tryfonos, the owner of Chick King, said: “The council is trying to make the area nice for Spurs because they threatened to leave the area if they didn’t get their way.

“We are all happy to work with the council to find a solution but right now the authority is completely out of touch with the community.

“We just want someone to listen and to work with us in a nice, mature way.”
 
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Well, he uses the term 'We." That infers he's part of 'them'. And thems the lot what think "the authority is completely out of touch with the community" and are looking to stifle the stadium construction process.

Did you happen to look at the poll results? Running 90-10% in favour of regeneration. So who's out of touch?

Get 'em out by Friday
You don't get paid until the last one's
Well on his way

Get 'em out by Friday
It's important that we stick to schedule
There must be no delay

And that's the name of that tune. The one Daniel Levy whistles while he works.
 
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greatwhitenorf said:
Well, he uses the term 'We." That infers he's part of 'them'. And thems the lot what think "the authority is completely out of touch with the community" and are looking to stifle the stadium construction process.

Did you happen to look at the poll results? Running 90-10% in favour of regeneration. So who's out of touch?

Get 'em out by Friday
You don't get paid until the last one's
Well on his way

Get 'em out by Friday
It's important that we stick to schedule
There must be no delay

And that's the name of that tune. The one Daniel Levy whistles while he works.
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This country has a funny attitude to building projects and unrealistic expectations a lot of the time, i wish we would just go crazy with road building schemes. The A27 was utter madness again today.
 
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SWP29 said:
Hahaha, the Tottenham Thread on Bluemoon attracts the worst of City fans. I think I could safely guess that more than 50% of the posts on there are hateful posts aimed at your club, your fans, Ricky Villa and THFC6061. The moderators there stopped him posting links to his website, I'm amazed he still goes on Bluemoon.

As for the stadium situation, and in particular the atmosphere: at the moment, its brick. Before the Sheikh, it was brick. Before the move to Eastlands, it was great. A whole host of excuses have been thrown up as to why this is. Apparently the acoustics of the stadium are poor, the placement of the away fans splits up the singing sections, the lack of standing makes it difficult to 'get going', the fact there isn't a Kippax is still rather alien to a lot of us... the list goes on. I don't think we could fill 60k, even with cheaper tickets. We have an ageing fanbase and even though season tickets sell out ridiculously quickly, we are still a club which relies heavily on our core fanbase. Expanding the stadium will do nothing to help the atmosphere. You can cram as many people into a stadium as you want; but this doesn't guarantee noise. Point of reference: Old Trafford.
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Interesting reading.

I've been to both Maine Road and Eastlands a fair few times (more Maine Road obviously) and was always a corker of a day out, yes. I have to say though, Eastlands has upped it's game in the last couple of seasons IMO. It felt a lot better than when it first opened that's for sure, but I absolutely think the single biggest killer of all these things is the lack of 'home' area. We survived it largely because we have the Park Lane and largely because we only have 36,000 seats, but the key to us building on that with a new stadium will be the 'one end without tiering' concept which was in some plans. Dortmund style koppage (and scousers I suppose)...I would agree re: placement of away fans. If I was the Eastlands director in charge, I would absolutely put the away fans in a corner. I LOVE your away end, it's excellent (the stewards, BTW, have also always been great, very friendly and very decent). And yes, round curves are not good for stadium atmosphere.
 
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greatwhitenorf said:
Well, he uses the term 'We." That infers he's part of 'them'. And thems the lot what think "the authority is completely out of touch with the community" and are looking to stifle the stadium construction process.
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These plans affect the larger regeneration plan and the proposed stadium approach, not the stadium itself. While the broader regeneration may help slightly in making the flats in the enabling development more desirable, the stadium can go ahead without removing these businesses.
 
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greatwhitenorf said:
Well, he uses the term 'We." That infers he's part of 'them'. And thems the lot what think "the authority is completely out of touch with the community" and are looking to stifle the stadium construction process.
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I read it as "We" meaning the local residents and businesses. And that he hadn't felt consulted or in touch with the council/authority, although that should have course be down to his lack of motivation/effort to get involved.

I guess he's worried that a brand new KFC will be installed opposite his chicken shack and he'll lose half his business, as I would be. Maybe he can be guaranteed a 1 mile fried chicken exclusivity deal, in return for 6 free nuggets for Levy?
 
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Six free nuggets a day, surely.

As to jts' comment: It would be interesting to see just how the enabling development works in regard to how Spurs earn revenue from it.

Do they make it in one great whack by selling it off to a developer who then has to handle the individual sales of housing units? Or do Spurs only earn money as each housing unit is sold off?

If it's the latter, then Spurs have an interest in seeing the overall area improve. No one wants to buy a pearl in a pigpen. And I mean that euphemistically.
 
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Really looking forward to getting back to the Lane in a fortnight and seeing the changes in the development
 
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Alex Tryfonos of Chick King has a point. The small independent businesses going to be shafted by corporate interests. Of course some of you don't give a toss because you don't live in Tottenham. You only venture into Tottenham to watch a football match.
 
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The Portugeezer said:
Alex Tryfonos of Chick King has a point. The small independent businesses going to be shafted by corporate interests. Of course some of you don't give a toss because you don't live in Tottenham. You only venture into Tottenham to watch a football match.
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Its a front, people go to WHL and associate themselves with local dine outs before and after the game. I have mates that will only eat at Chick king and that will not change.

I spoke to Alex last week as it goes and he knows that the expansion could potentially give him even more revenue. Nice bloke.
 
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The Portugeezer said:
Alex Tryfonos of Chick King has a point. The small independent businesses going to be shafted by corporate interests. Of course some of you don't give a toss because you don't live in Tottenham. You only venture into Tottenham to watch a football match.
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I wish I could live in Tottenham, I live pretty close, but pretty close is close enough. I'm sorry the place needs a lick of paint, but when you do your house up do you keep the 80's kitchen or the 80's pastel bathroom, of course not. And no I don't eat KFC, cannot stand that brick.

The Chick King guy just needs to rent out another location that I am sure will be available. Does he have more than one, maybe its time to expand and not rely on Tottenham football club. Maybe he can rent another location on the high road instead of the gazillion bookies and there casino bots that continue to pop up.
 
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Tottenham is desperate for the development to change it from a no go area to a place to be. Hopefully it will create real local jobs and new housing as well as encouraging "high street shops" back. An Entertainment venue would certainly help.
 
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The Dallas Cowboys have announced there naming rights deal. It will be called the AT&T Stadium and is rumoured to bring in around $18m a year. Some say its a 20 year deal, others a 30 year deal.. which makes out at $360m over 20 years or $540 over 30 years.
 
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We all love what we know and fear the unknown. Change fosters that fear. But last summer's riot clearly showed that status quo is not acceptable. So change must come.

As it does occur, those open to adapting and evolving their own circumstances will prosper. Those who can't will move on.

Those who can't conceive of doing anything different from what they did yesterday will join Our Tottenham.
 
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Superhudd said:
The Dallas Cowboys have announced there naming rights deal. It will be called the AT&T Stadium and is rumoured to bring in around $18m a year. Some say its a 20 year deal, others a 30 year deal.. which makes out at $360m over 20 years or $540 over 30 years.
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NFL franchises are already massively profitable from the league TV deals, licensed commercial revenue, personal seat licenses and sweet suite sales. Plus there's a salary cap that limits expeditures.

The naming rights will go straight into the pockets of owner Jerry Jones.
 
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greatwhitenorf said:
NFL franchises are already massively profitable from the league TV deals, licensed commercial revenue, personal seat licenses and sweet suite sales. Plus there's a salary cap that limits expeditures.

The naming rights will go straight into the pockets of owner Jerry Jones.
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Because he spent a Billion building the stadium
 
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Gazza said:
Its a front, people go to WHL and associate themselves with local dine outs before and after the game. I have mates that will only eat at Chick king and that will not change.

I spoke to Alex last week as it goes and he knows that the expansion could potentially give him even more revenue. Nice bloke.
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That's fair enough Gazza. I guess my comment was a bit OTT. Just like to see Tottenham get regenerated, make the area more attractive to visitors without the local business losing out to the big corporate entities. The community is important.


Superhudd said:
I wish I could live in Tottenham, I live pretty close, but pretty close is close enough. I'm sorry the place needs a lick of paint, but when you do your house up do you keep the 80's kitchen or the 80's pastel bathroom, of course not. And no I don't eat KFC, cannot stand that brick.

The Chick King guy just needs to rent out another location that I am sure will be available. Does he have more than one, maybe its time to expand and not rely on Tottenham football club. Maybe he can rent another location on the high road instead of the gazillion bookies and there casino bots that continue to pop up.
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I can't really disagree with that.
 
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