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Unless they can move Leazes terrace brick by brick, I just can’t see how any ambitious owner could build something to match Spurs etc on our current site.

 

As much as I love St James it is completely restricted in what we can do with it. Fifteen thousand people are stuck up in the gods with a debatable view and it currently looks like 2 separate stadiums stuck together.

 

A new purpose built facility at the arena site with great sight lines for everyone, a large single tier stand behind one of the goals, better acoustics, stands closer to the pitch, better hospitality and something architecturally imposing and striking as visitors enter the city would be far superior to St Jame’s.

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Unless they can move Leazes terrace brick by brick, I just can’t see how any ambitious owner could build something to match Spurs etc on our current site.

 

As much as I love St James it is completely restricted in what we can do with it. Fifteen thousand people are stuck up in the gods with a debatable view and it currently looks like 2 separate stadiums stuck together.

 

A new purpose built facility at the arena site with great sight lines for everyone, a large single tier stand behind one of the goals, better acoustics, stands closer to the pitch, better hospitality and something architecturally imposing and striking as visitors enter the city would be far superior to St Jame’s.

I absolutely adore its lopsidedness and I'd hate to see us move away from SJP for most of the reasons listed by Haydn above. It's already architecturally imposing in its current location, fantastically so. I'll never understand this ravenous desire some people have for a brand new site.

 

It's all pie in the sky stuff at the moment anyway, so in this little fantasy land I'd buy the Strawberry Place land back and expand over it in some way. Some sort of sloping design that meets with a renovated East Stand would be ideal.

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Unless they can move Leazes terrace brick by brick, I just can’t see how any ambitious owner could build something to match Spurs etc on our current site.

 

As much as I love St James it is completely restricted in what we can do with it. Fifteen thousand people are stuck up in the gods with a debatable view and it currently looks like 2 separate stadiums stuck together.

 

A new purpose built facility at the arena site with great sight lines for everyone, a large single tier stand behind one of the goals, better acoustics, stands closer to the pitch, better hospitality and something architecturally imposing and striking as visitors enter the city would be far superior to St Jame’s.

I absolutely adore its lopsidedness and I'd hate to see us move away from SJP for most of the reasons listed by Haydn above. It's already architecturally imposing in its current location, fantastically so. I'll never understand this ravenous desire some people have for a brand new site.

 

It's all pie in the sky stuff at the moment anyway, so in this little fantasy land I'd buy the Strawberry Place land back and expand over it in some way. Some sort of sloping design that meets with a renovated East Stand would be ideal.

 

That’s the great thing though isn’t it we all like our own thing. I certainly wouldn’t want some soulless new bowl, however in this dreamland of a Saudi takeover I just think we could build something that would be the envy of everyone. The arena location would be a tremendous visual on the river and for people entering the city.

 

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Hopefully the takeover goes through and they build a new stadium outside of the city, creating a mini city around it and the club owning all the businesses. See how important your block of tatty flats is to your economy then you daft council wankers.

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Hopefully the takeover goes through and they build a new stadium outside of the city, creating a mini city around it and the club owning all the businesses. See how important your block of tatty flats is to your economy then you daft council wankers.

 

You want it "outside of the City"?

 

Or, do you just mean "outside of the City Centre"?

 

I do not think that moving it outside of our great City, into Gateshead, North Tyneside, Sunderland, or South Tyneside, is a very good idea at all !!

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Hopefully the takeover goes through and they build a new stadium outside of the city, creating a mini city around it and the club owning all the businesses. See how important your block of tatty flats is to your economy then you daft council wankers.

 

You want it "outside of the City"?

 

Or, do you just mean "outside of the City Centre"?

 

I do not think that moving it outside of our great City, into Gateshead, North Tyneside, Sunderland, or South Tyneside, is a very good idea at all !!

 

Wherever it needs to go so Newcastle City Centre doesn't benefit from it. They had their chance to protect the clubs future, they fucked it off and us over. Wouldn't have happened in Liverpool or Manchester.

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bars around central and centre for life would be rammed, haymarket etc would die off on a matchday

 

disagree with that. some will start at haymarket and have some round there and gradually move towards the ground as they do now.

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The company behind the developments on the Gallowgate land are apparently suffering from cash/funding problems with them only having about 50% of the funding required to build the development and another development they have in Gateshead.

Maybe, just maybe if the takeover goes through there is a last minute opportunity for the new owners to buy the land at the last minute.

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Guest neesy111
5 minutes ago, GWN said:

Has Ashley improved the stadium in any way in all the years hes been here?

Improved?  Nope.

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