St James' Park

[Miggys First Goal]

2 minutes ago, 54 said:

Make it 76k so we have the biggest stadium in the league.

Until Man Utd build their 100k seater. 

[Stifler]

11 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

Until Man Utd build their 100k seater. 

Aye, but ours would seat people, rather than being an oversized dolls house with lots of plastic figures inside it.

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Stifler

[Dokko]

14 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

Until Man Utd build their 100k seater. 

 

Can't be bigger than Wembley, can it? Or is that a rule i've just made up? 

[Rafalove]

15 minutes ago, Dokko said:

 

Can't be bigger than Wembley, can it? Or is that a rule i've just made up? 

 

 

Surely that rule would t hold up in court?

[Keegans Export]

Hasn't he been proven to be full of shit? 

 

Pizza Rob that is, not @Dokko...

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Keegans Export

[astraguy]

As an Newcastle fan who has only been to the ground and City Centre , surely building on a park would create ALOT of local anger? i also see it has a pond so wildlife 

[JonBez comesock]

22 minutes ago, astraguy said:

As a Newcastle fan who has only been to the ground and City Centre , surely building on a park would create ALOT of local anger? i also see it has a pond so wildlife 

Easy enough to relocate the park / pond to the St James Park site 

 

The current park/ pond / area is absolutely lifting (run down)

 

New owners could make a stunning new park / new green area and maintain it 

 

 

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by JonBez comesock

[jack j]

16 minutes ago, astraguy said:

As an Newcastle fan who has only been to the ground and City Centre , surely building on a park would create ALOT of local anger? i also see it has a pond so wildlife 

Leazes Park is a run down shithole full of smack heads and rats. It's a place women don't feel safe walking on their own at night.

[The Butcher]

18 minutes ago, astraguy said:

As an Newcastle fan who has only been to the ground and City Centre , surely building on a park would create ALOT of local anger? i also see it has a pond so wildlife 

Fuck them squirrels. Get it built.

[JonBez comesock]

1 minute ago, The Butcher said:

Fuck them squirrels. Get it built.

Have to blob up ?

[Danh1]

Pizza Rob has had a few things right in the past, but not for ages. 

75k would be too big imo, 65k the sweet spot. The club are the ones with the data though. 
 

Said before I don’t want a new stadium but I’ve accepted it. Just hope it’s different and has bags of character. 

[manorpark]

54 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Pizza Rob has had a few things right in the past, but not for ages. 

75k would be too big imo, 65k the sweet spot. The club are the ones with the data though. 
 

Said before I don’t want a new stadium but I’ve accepted it. Just hope it’s different and has bags of character. 

 

70,000 (perhaps 75,000) would be the perfect numbers for me, and would also solidify our intent and ambition, alongside PIF.

[LFEE]

Still never understand the “65K is the sweet spot” rhetoric. The demand is already far surpassing that for basic tickets without even expanding the corporate areas and fulfilling the waiting list for them and that’s just the football alone. 
 

Got to look further down the line when we crack PSR and can compete and secure some of the best signings for decades to come.

 

We’ve really got to be aiming to have the biggest stadium in the league or thereabouts to catch up. Building anything smaller or similar size to our competitors just keeps the status quo unless there is a rule change.

 

The smaller the stadium the higher the ticket price increases will continue to be.

 

I appreciate the idea of having people locked out to maintain a certain degree of value to the ticket price but it be foolish to have 10k plus missing out every game as and when we grow.

 

 

 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by LFEE

[r0cafella]

26 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Still never understand the “65K is the sweet spot” rhetoric. The demand is already far surpassing that for basic tickets without even expanding the corporate areas and fulfilling the waiting list for them and that’s just the football alone. 
 

Got to look further down the line when we crack PSR and can compete and secure some of the best signings for decades to come.

 

We’ve really got to be aiming to have the biggest stadium in the league or thereabouts to catch up. Building anything smaller or similar size to our competitors just keeps the status quo unless there is a rule change.

 

The smaller the stadium the higher the ticket price increases will continue to be.

 

I appreciate the idea of having people locked out to maintain a certain degree of value to the ticket price but it be foolish to have 10k plus missing out every game as and when we grow.

 

 

 

 

 

People have this weird hangup about some empty seats as if it matters

 

Much better to have extra capacity than it is too have too little leaving money i

On the table week in week out. 

[Conjo]

Building a brand new stadium just to increase capacity by a little over 10k seems an awful waste. 

I'd love for us to have a stadium size where I can on a whim book tickets to get to Newcastle and know that I'll be able to get ticket for the match instead of having to plan weeks/months ahead. 

[tgarve]

Here we go 

[TheBrownBottle]

I’d rather have 5,000 empty seats vs Fulham than 15,000 locked out vs Man Utd

[Superior Acuña]

I failed ballots for AFC Wimbledon and Bromley, there’s def quite a lot of room for capacity growth…

[Sima]

Pizza Rob knows fuck all, man.

[Groundhog63]

4 hours ago, Conjo said:

Building a brand new stadium just to increase capacity by a little over 10k seems an awful waste. 

I'd love for us to have a stadium size where I can on a whim book tickets to get to Newcastle and know that I'll be able to get ticket for the match instead of having to plan weeks/months ahead. 

 

4 hours ago, Superior Acuña said:

I failed ballots for AFC Wimbledon and Bromley, there’s def quite a lot of room for capacity growth…

 

It's not just about the capacity, visa vi seats, it's the make up of the attendance. 

Huge areas of "growth" for corporate. Access to the next generations. Suitability for alternate revenue events. 

 

 

If the capacity was 65,000, for example, and that meant Mrs G & I couldn't get season tickets we'd want it increased to 65,002

[Stifler]

65k isn’t enough, and considering they said a new stadium would have a lot more seats than an extended SJP which everyone estimates to hold 60k, it is quite apparent that it would be more than 65k.

 

Personally I think 80k is the sweet spot. We have to consider that since the pandemic, event attendance/demand is on the up. That’s everything from football, large concerts, to bands playing in pubs.

We as a club have the duo fa tors of demand being the after effects of the pandemic, and the takeover from Ashley, to a possible trio factor if we gain success.

[Checko]

I think it should be 69k, just because even the most hardcore stay at SJP would have to admit...

 

Spoiler

 

[Jackie Broon]

3 hours ago, Sima said:

Pizza Rob knows fuck all, man.

 

Whether he knows fuck all or not it's almost certainly going to be a new stadium on Leazes Park / Castle Leazes that the club go for.

[Boey_Jarton]

3 minutes ago, Jackie Broon said:

 

Whether he knows fuck all or not it's almost certainly going to be a new stadium on Leazes Park / Castle Leazes that the club go for.

Exactly. A broken clock is right twice a day. 

[Dokko]

If we're gonna move it has to be worthwhile and worthwhile is 75k. 60-65k is achievable stsying put, so if it's a new stadium pizza Rob guesstimate is probably right.