St James' Park

[Keegans Export]

1 minute ago, wyn davies said:

Can't see the point in moving and building a stadium with only an increase in capacity of say 13000, when as mentioned previously by other posters, get rid of seats and have a standing , before changing the stadium previously we used to get 60000 standing at certain games, unless the idea is to continually create a demand which is probably the club's intention by only increasing slightly.

I'm not 100% sure but there's a restriction on standing/seating ratio.

 

So we couldn't take out 5k seated and replace with 7k standing. I'm not sure of the exact rule.

[NUFC91]

2 hours ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

Tbf the Allianz has been sold out and massively oversubscribed for every single Bayern match since it was built so the argument there would be that it's too small for Bayern.

 

Spanish football is a bit different. Barca can't fill the 55,000 Olympic stadium they're currently playing in and Real hardly ever fill the Bernabeu. Obviously their worldwide fanbase absolutely dwarfs ours but gloryhunters in far flung corners of Asia don't fill seats at a football stadium.

 

A lot of comments I've seen on twitter rightly say that we could have taken SJP up to 60,800 so is it really worth losing all that history for 4k seats, the majority of which will be probably be swallowed up by corporate anyway?

 

I do think 70k would have appeased more of those fans who don't want to leave SJP more than just going for slightly more than we could have got in a renovated and extended SJP.

 

Anyway it's still only newspaper rumours at the minute so I'm hopeful that when the plans are released officially they've shown a little bit more ambition than building stadium we'd already be filling every week right now.

 

Obviously all paper talk but in terms of the grounds you have visited in Europe do you think any we should particularly model on, I'm hoping whatever the decision as close to pitch as possible and steep one tier stands.

[Wallsendmag]

5 minutes ago, NUFC91 said:

 

Obviously all paper talk but in terms of the grounds you have visited in Europe do you think any we should particularly model on, I'm hoping whatever the decision as close to pitch as possible and steep one tier stands.

 

I'm more the traditional 4 separate stands type rather than the wraparound bowls that are more commonplace. I just think they hold the atmosphere in better.

 

A bigger version of PSV would be quality. Ridiculously steep stands (theirs is 2 tiers) plus being close to the pitch so it seems like the crowd are on top of the players. 

 

A huge 1 tiered home end with safe standing which can fit in 20k would be tremendous. It would piss all over SJP for noise levels from that stand alone.

 

One of the best stadiums I've been to was actually the Millenium stadium for the Semi final. Huge 75k capacity but still close to the pitch and the steep stands still gave it that intimate feel. No coincidence that our atmosphere was off the scale that day. It's a far better stadium than Wembley in my opinion.