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17 minutes ago, Jonas said:

In the last 40 plus years 26k is about their average attendance.

They were playing League One football in that time.

Also like I said, since the pandemic, demand for attending events has shot up.

 

Leeds is always going to be a momentum club, but if they are ran right, they can attract a lot of fans. The same applies to West Ham. Get things right with them and they could be giants, but a problem if things aren’t going well.

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1 hour ago, LFEE said:

 

Populous doing the stadium designs? Craig Hope had them pegged for the training ground. 
 

Makes a lot more sense that they’re involved with the stadium. Would be funny if Hope got it mixed up and its Stadium/Populous and Training Ground/KSS. 

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5 minutes ago, JT24 said:

Populous doing the stadium designs? Craig Hope had them pegged for the training ground. 
 

Makes a lot more sense that they’re involved with the stadium. Would be funny if Hope got it mixed up and its Stadium/Populous and Training Ground/KSS. 

Looks like he has. KSS designed the training centres for Palace, Leicester, Liverpool and Toulouse.

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1 minute ago, Nucasol said:

Looks like he has. KSS designed the training centres for Palace, Leicester, Liverpool and Toulouse.

And Populous have designed stadiums for Spurs, Buffalo Bills, most of Saudi. 

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On 25/02/2025 at 23:08, madras said:

Wonder if they'll try to sell it for 100billion but keep the revenues from it.

 

 

 

...to themselves - pretty what they have done with everything else

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17 minutes ago, JT24 said:

Populous doing the stadium designs? Craig Hope had them pegged for the training ground. 
 

Makes a lot more sense that they’re involved with the stadium. Would be funny if Hope got it mixed up and its Stadium/Populous and Training Ground/KSS. 

I'm sure one of the articles mentioned that multiple companies were putting proposals/designs forward for a potential new stadium and Populous was one of those named

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37 minutes ago, Keegans Export said:

I'm sure one of the articles mentioned that multiple companies were putting proposals/designs forward for a potential new stadium and Populous was one of those named

This will be the case.

The club will have outlined what’s possible on the sites provided by the feasibility studies, and will have put out a contract which everyone has to bid on.

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5 hours ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

There's been a couple of games this season that haven't sold out so would be interesting to see how many of those new fans would take a season ticket if offered.

 

As I say they only averaged 22k as recently as 2018 which is 4k less than their current waiting list. If a load of fans want to jump on the bandwagon pretty quickly like that it usually works the other way, and they'll not need much encouragement to jump back off again.

 

Historically they are the 12th best supported club in the country. It's hardly remarkable.

Their support tends to preface it based on ‘biggest one club city’ type crack. 

 

But it’s not a one club city - it’s a two sport city.  Swathes of them prefer rugby league. 

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9 hours ago, huss9 said:

despite going to away games for decades, last night was the first time i got to Anfield.

i despise Liverpool only slightly less than the mackems and just slightly more than arsenal.

but i have to say thats the best away ground in England I've been to.

the building has character, great facade, is clean, and beautifully lit.

loads space around it.

even inside the concourses, though dated, werent cramped.

stands close to the pitch.

strange that it has no giant screens but thats ok.

 

pisses on the likes of new builds like citeh, emirates and even spurs.

 

just a shame about who plays there.

 

 

 

Was my first time there last night also. Agree, whatever you feel about their team and their fans arrogance. It's a proper football ground.

Agree, really impressed by the lighting and classic yet modern feel. Huge steep stands and not over complicated or flashy. Great atmosphere in patches also, but certainly no better than the Arsenal Semi. The stadium does help keep the sound in though. That along with some strong songs, rather than chants did make it feel quite special and certainly not at all scripted, like most clubs are becoming. It felt real and quite special, so I can see why folk speak so highly of it.

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3 hours ago, Stifler said:

They were playing League One football in that time.

Also like I said, since the pandemic, demand for attending events has shot up.

 

Leeds is always going to be a momentum club, but if they are ran right, they can attract a lot of fans. The same applies to West Ham. Get things right with them and they could be giants, but a problem if things aren’t going well.

Totally agree its a different era now. So this is probably redundant but historically if you left out league one their average since the 70s is probably lower still as their gates in league one would have been way better than what they got in the 80s. 15-16k was a good crowd for them then/

In the first six years of Premier League football they sold out (28-40k capacity) to not selling out 32 times to 82. 12 of the 32 were at 28k capacity.

Someone posted that their 12th historically and that feels right.

 

 

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Hope has said in his article tonight that we are possibly playing a pre season game at the Kai Tak Stadium in Honk Kong, which was designed by Populous.

 

”In fact, from conversations I’ve had, the exterior of the main stadium at Kai Tak is not dissimilar to the ‘bubble wrap’-type design that has been seen on some drawings of how a potential new home for Newcastle could look, even though Populous are not involved in that project”

 

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32 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Hope has said in his article tonight that we are possibly playing a pre season game at the Kai Tak Stadium in Honk Kong, which was designed by Populous.

 

”In fact, from conversations I’ve had, the exterior of the main stadium at Kai Tak is not dissimilar to the ‘bubble wrap’-type design that has been seen on some drawings of how a potential new home for Newcastle could look, even though Populous are not involved in that project

 

Appears Silverstone all but confirmed they are in involved so that’s a huge L for Hope. 

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39 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

 

 

”In fact, from conversations I’ve had, the exterior of the main stadium at Kai Tak is not dissimilar to the ‘bubble wrap’-type design that has been seen on some drawings of how a potential new home for Newcastle could look, even though Populous are not involved in that project”

 

Bring back Archibald Leitch - all is forgiven

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