Keep seeing this and thinking imagine the XBOXONE stadium. look at that huge widescreen lol Halftime entertainment where fans play each other at FIFA and win prizes on the huge screen lol[/QUOTE]
A few stadiums have actually been testing their screen systems recently, as one of the games companies is considering sponsorship opportunities.
Microsoft may be sponsoring Real Madrid's stadium.
So if their season is going tits up they just Ctrl Alt Del
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No Stadium news of late?
No ](*,)
May sound a bit extreme but can we please close this thread now mods?
Could then re-open it when or more likely if there is any actual news/statements from the club regarding JUST the stadium, not the Sainsburys or technical college or property developments etc.
No ](*,)
May sound a bit extreme but can we please close this thread now mods?
Could then re-open it when or more likely if there is any actual news/statements from the club regarding JUST the stadium, not the Sainsburys or technical college or property developments etc.
Edmonton on coys said:The redesign isn't about capacity, we could get 60k in the previous design, not the 56k we got planning permission for.
Size is about the right balance of demand and supply.
The scum could have gone up to 80k but at that size current season ticket holders would have known they had an excellent chance of being able to pick and choose their games and wouldn't buy season tickets, thus starving the scum of all the upfront cash from ST sales plus having tiny crowds/gate receipts for minor teams. They judged 60k was right for them and their new fans and seem to have got it about right.
DL and those around him have been undecided on 50k, 55k or 60k for 10 years.
My guess is we will start at the 56k and go to 60k if the demand is there and at a time the Council are being more reasonable.
The KSS stadium was always designed to be able to increase capacity, once the transport proposals had been proven. The bowl was design to accommodate this.
We are no longer working on the Stadium scheme and have not done so for a year.
I understand that Populous are designing a completely new stadium based around NFL and Football. I understand that their Stadium will be much higher and very different to our design, incorporating a large sliding pitch!
Work cannot start on any stadium until the CPO issues, which are still outstanding, are resolved and Spurs would have to apply for a new planning permission for a much higher Populous stadium and a stadium with a much higher capacity (65,000 in NFL mode, I understand). Not straight forward. I would think a start on site in the second half of 2014 is very challenging
The last remaining CPO should go through next month, so that might cause things to start happening.
Although if new planning permission is needed for the 70,000 NFL-friendly revisions then that could signal longer delays.
Hopefully by then they'll have the longest cantilevered roof in League One.Looks like West Ham will be in there new home before us then
Looks like West Ham will be in there new home before us then
Credit to them, they named a date and they stuck to it. Their project is much less complicated than ours, so that mostly excuses us, but considering that talk of a new stadium started in 2001, I'm very faintly disappointed that they will have ultimately secured new digs before we are likely to.
Credit to them, they named a date and they stuck to it. Their project is much less complicated than ours, so that mostly excuses us, but considering that talk of a new stadium started in 2001, I'm very faintly disappointed that they will have ultimately secured new digs before we are likely to.
What? Ridiculous to compare their situation with ours, even remotely. They've been given the xxxxing thing for a song. No way they'd be anywhere near getting a new stadium otherwise.
There was no talk about a new stadium in 2001. At least, not from the club there wasn't.
When ENIC first came to the club, they couldn't have been clearer as to their priorities. They repeated them often:
First, the team.
Second, the training ground.
Third, the stadium.
When they first arrived at the club, there was no need for a 56-60K stadium. Not even close. We didn't even sell out every PL game back in those days.
Consequently, the first plan ENIC considered was just for a redevelopment of the West stand, which would have taken capacity up to 44-45K. You might have seen the renders. They did the rounds for a while but Spurs asked websites to remove them, iirc.
It was only later that Levy decided that a more radical and ambitious plan was required - quite possibly after he saw Arsenal's new stadium. And it was only in 2008 that, after an extensive search for suitable sites, Spurs announced that they had decided to build a new stadium adjacent to, and overlapping with, the site of the current stadium.
Given the complexity and scale of the project and the modest size the company, it was always going to take time to make it happen. It was no different for Arsenal. Took them the best part of ten years, all told. Likewise Liverpool. Seven years on from first deciding that they needed to build anew or redevelop, they are still a number of years away from realising their ambition.
West Ham is different, of course. And even if they do move into their new home before we do, we can take comfort in the fact that it will be a vastly inferior home - albeit in a well connected location.