Stifler

Given was by the far the best player on the field that day.

Left behind.

Imminent for a new singing = About to be announced in the next few hours. Imminent for news like the new stadium = End of the week, or end of the following Monday at the latest. Imminent for NUFC = Don’t expect to hear anything from us within the next 6 months, and if you do, it will be just more cock teasing.

Yeah, it’s starting to become tedious, misleading, and getting the fans excited for no reason at all.

Aye, that was now a month ago.

I don’t think there is much to look at again. This will only be saying what is and isn’t possible, what we get with option 1, and what we would get with option 2 etc. Once it’s in the club will have a board meeting, look it, probably have a preferred choice themselves, then put it to the fans to see if they will swallow it, and also go to the council, and anyone else they need to go too and see if they will swallow it.

Much like SJP, we know they want to do something, but nothing has been officially mentioned.

College and high school sports are just not a thing here for spectatorship. We have our main teams, and we have our non-league teams. What you have to remember is that land is much more a premium in the U.K. football grounds used to be built in housing estates, even in the olden days, SJP being in the city centre was a rarity. Now new ones are generally built in out of town retail parks because there is no room in the city centres, and you don’t want to build stadiums in residential areas either. As such our stadiums never became the big capacity venues you got in America, so we are fairly used to >50k stadiums being fairly big. As discussed in previous posts, if Spurs had the land, if Arsenal had the forthright and possibly land, they would be bigger capacity stadiums than they are now. Liverpool for some reason decided to rebuild Anfield over moving to a new stadium, probably because their owners are cheap bastards. However when you say that college stadiums get 100k spectators or more, not many NFL stadiums come close to that, even newer ones are generally around 60k-70k in capacity. To future proof our stadium, I honestly think we either need to build to about 80k, or have the ability to easily extend to that.

Nah not really. The likes of Liverpool, Man Utd etc all have season ticket waiting lists. The thing is though those clubs have a lot of supporters who travel from outside the area and both have either had expansions in the past, or are having some in the future. So accommodating them is more possible. I don’t think the ownership of NUFC have fully got into gear on what to do yet, and I’m surprised that the membership, especially the Mags+ membership didn't double up as a season ticket waiting list when it was introduced this summer.

There is not enough people coming off each season to make a waiting list worthwhile to be honest. Also we have kicked out some season ticket holders for new corporate areas who will likely be on an unofficial waiting list.

We also have to factor in the rising population we’ll face here. The North East has had its housing targets doubled, we are one of, if not the least densely populated region. Over the next 50 years, I can honestly see the North Easts population double.

Just been looking at recent decent sized stadiums, Spurs’, SOFI, that Vikings stadium. They are all about 200 meters wide. Even if we look at Castle Leazes, there just isn’t the width there, and that is without factoring in land around it for fans to enter, and leave. The only option left then is to build steeper stands, but even then surely you are limited in what you can do. I just don’t think there is room for a stadium that has all the amenities that we want, and would need. If an architect is going to be able to do it, then it’s going to be some engineering 1st, and something expensive.

Got to put the away fans somewhere.

I believe they are entitled to a minimum allocation to capacity, but it is smaller than cup games.

Isn’t Eales and other board members supposed to be doing an interview during the international break as well?

This imminent is like waiting for the washing machine door to click and open when you need something that’s been washed.

Away fans will be entitled to a bigger capacity as our capacity grows. The thing we should be doing though is creating it so we don’t need a wall of stewards either side of them taking up unpaid seats, unless of course them lot down road come up for a game.

Yeah, they dug down to add an extra tier and put a roof over 1 stand after the Commonwealth games. It is a semi-modular stadium where it is relatively easy for expansion. They have already carried out an expansion since their takeover, possibly 2, and are onto another one.

When Arsenal built theirs, only Old Trafford would have been bigger than their stadium. If Arsenal were at Highbury now, and building the Emirates, they wouldn’t be building what they have now. They have actually ended up stuck with a stadium that is just generic stadium that isn’t really distinguishable from the Stadium De Luz, or Atletico’s stadium. Spurs’ was more constrained with the footprint. The advantage both of them have though, is London prices for tickets, and of course London events. Arsenal used to host Brazils friendlies in Europe, however the invention of Nations League etc means this isn’t really an option anymore.

Pretty much, the only advantage would then be what corporate we could fit in, and if it was more suitable for other events as well. I think they will be looking at 60k minimum really.

Drawing away against one of the favourites has to be considered a good result really. We really should have done more in the game, but a good foundation.

You would think that it has to be somewhere between 75k-80k really, but anything from 70k would be acceptable.

YouTube, Woman’s Championship.

Must be using a 1 fps camera.

I don’t know if they do international athletics there or not, but they do still do athletics there. My niece often went there when she was doing Athletics, although they were starting to go to Shildon often as well.