Stifler

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.

A member of SSC is fairly on the ball with TPO’s. He is constantly identifying trees that Newcastle City Council have felled that have TPO’s on them. NCC obviously seemingly do not care, however the spotlight would be on them if NUFC are planning on building a new stadium at Castle Leazes, so they would have less scope of being able to get away with it.

I’m not sure I can see that to be honest. Don’t Gateshead college use it for Athletics? If Athletics can’t be used there anymore, then surely there is no point in keeping it, it might as well just be knocked down and either rebuilt as a football club, or we just realise that it’s going to become an industrial unit like everything else around it.

Nah, I’m tired of us when we start getting good, ruining it by buying the top 6’s cast offs. We should be avoiding buying anyone from those clubs, unless they had actual potential.

Yeah, either that or say that Howe is in trouble. If we had a couple of poor results, that would be the narrative, although I’m not convinced that they won’t go down that route in order to help their mates in the gambling industry make a few extra pounds in the back of the reduced odds it would result in.

Just reading, apparently the EFL rules have changed. They would need a 5 year lease, with the option to extend it to 10 years if they stay up for a 2nd season. If they got promoted though, a stadium of their own would really need to be looked at. Gateshead Council should be helping them to be honest. Outside of the Quayside, the whole of Gateshead is needing investment, and they are in the process of demolishing half the town centre.

It’s like a month into the season.

Full build up of a goal from a youth team in Florida. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/rG1FRj9FXK

Internally I think it looks poor. It’s very 2006 generic German stadium-ish. It just lacks something, I guess Lego Blue never helps either. Outside the renders look great.

The only problem is that the listed park status follows the tree line, and it’s unknown if the trees themselves have any protection. That may make it tight at 1 section to fire the stadium in, but there might be leeway. The tree preservation society will certainly kick up a fuss.

Well since our takeover the Premier League have allegedly closed the door on state backed takeovers. We have seen evidence of this with Chelsea’s takeover, the no buyers for Liverpool, and Roland Rats takeover of Man Utd. All 3 clubs who would have been ripe for Middle Eastern takeovers. So let me get this right, when Chelsea sold things like their hotels, did they sell to Clearlake? If so, do Clearlake still retain ownership? If they do, and Clearlake sell without selling that stuff back to Chelsea, surely they have been asset striped?

I wonder if that blue trim will be blue like the Northern Rock one.