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Yep. This poster claims to be an ITK. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-mags-want-7k.1621347/post-39611684 Could be bollocks of course. And I'd be amazed if they just handed over their traditional home end to us.

They are saying we are getting the entire North Stand now. If that's true then we must have managed to secure the full 15% allocation.

Why on earth don't they just give us the upper tier of the North Stand behind the goal & also the adjacent corner, in the same way we gave Man City that entire part of Level 7 a couple of months ago? We've been in the North Stand upper tier for derbies before and there has never been any trouble with throwing stuff. They seem to be making an easy job much more difficult than it should be. The absolute hysteria on RTG is great though. Dangernonce is almost in tears about it.

It's a perfect illustration of how small time they have become. Kicking off with ludicrous conspiracy theories because they are playing a really big game for the first time in nearly 7 years, and spitting out their dummies as they have to comply with the rules around the truly big encounters.

Not gonna lie, this game is becoming rather worrying. With all of the massive games we have coming up, it’s a real concern as to how fatigued we will be going up against these fuckers. Got banana skin written all over it.

South Stand is the end we used to be in. North Stand is the end with the upper tier added on.

On RTG they are saying we have been given 4800 tickets, which might mean being behind the goal of the North Stand. They aren't happy about that. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-mags-want-7k.1621347/page-18

I’m impressed with how loud Villa Park is these days. In all my time watching football I’ve never rated their atmosphere but it seems a helluva lot louder right now. Fair play.

The council will be even more receptive to it this time. And if the club are going to give back the existing site as new parkland then this would surely keep the environmentalists happy too.

Yeah, that rings a bell. The club withdrew the bid as they couldn't be arsed with the hassle.

I always thought it was hard to believe that the stadium proposed in 1997 would actually be able to hold 70,000 people. The footprint of it looked way too small. Whatever the new owners come up with would be a much better design than this IMO.

Yep, it's truly the perfect solution. If there wasn't the headache of the park being listed I've no doubt that the owners would be driving this forward quickly. I just hope the relevant authorities can come to a compromise. The new stadium could easily still be called SJP. It would literally be "moving" it 100 yards up.

This is the prime location for a Leazes move, and the new stadium would squeeze nicely in. The obstacle of course is swallowing up some of the park. Remedy that by making the current SJP land into new parkland, but maybe try to give it an "aged" look, to give the impression it's been there for decades.

I think option 2 is a bit pointless because they simply wouldn't go to that much trouble if they were still limited by space. They will be thinking 50 years ahead and they don't want to spend a billion on a stadium only to find you only get 10 years of it being good enough. If they do a rebuild on the same footprint you can guarantee that there will be an engineering project on that entire area that blows people's minds, and one which takes away the problem of limited space.

Exactly. I'm not even a City fan and I get annoyed when I hear that nonsense spouted about their fanbase.

I think quite a few existing ST holders might go for option 2, but not the wider fanbase. Thankfully, the club now seem to recognise that ST holders are not particularly the core of our support. In fact, these days a lot of them are probably the worst representation of it.

Their support is as good as ours man. We probably do have more potential than them to regularly fill a 70k stadium though.

Lol. We'll see.

I've got no doubt at all that he regrets saying that.

Have you got your account set up to receive third party emails? Apparently you need to, in order to have received the email.

That's incredible. Unfortunately I don't see us getting anywhere near that. And yeah, those low prices look suspiciously low. On the other hand, this goes back to my original point that the club might use huge corporate revenue to keep standard ticket prices low.

The fact that they bought back the Gallowgate land is another indicator of their intention to build/rebuild a stadium pretty near to where the current one is. NUFC are not leaving the city centre, people need to calm down with regards to that.

I think we are going to have to accept that a standard season ticket anywhere in a redeveloped stadium will be £1k per year tbh.

We wont obliterate them, even at full strength. It's probably going to be uncomfortably close. That's the main reason for needing to go full strength.

Doesn't really matter on how he was quoted. Redevelopment is still a form of development. Also, I doubt they had a plan set in stone when they first thought about this, They have been learning on the job. All of the current stands in SJP are antiquated. I don't see any way in which they can be modified to meet the standards of the world's best stadiums and deliver high-end corporate facilities. The cost alone of extending the Gallowgate by 8k seats will probably be one third of the cost of building an entire new stadium with a 75k capacity on roughly the same site, or on Castle Leazes.