St James' Park

[gbandit]

5 minutes ago, JT24 said:

I’m sure Craig Hope’s column this evening will reveal the exact number of seats. 

😳 Due to SHOCKING global developments (trade war 💵 🔥) noises from the St. James’ elite 👑 suggest they’re scaling down plans for the rebuild 😳.

 

🗣️ Talk is currently turning to an 8,000 seater with 7,500 spaces for corporate 👩‍💼 🧑‍💼 , 480 seats for Season ticket holders 🎟️ and 20 seats in the ballot 🍀 

[JT24]

8 minutes ago, gbandit said:

😳 Due to SHOCKING global developments (trade war 💵 🔥) noises from the St. James’ elite 👑 suggest they’re scaling down plans for the rebuild 😳.

 

🗣️ Talk is currently turning to an 8,000 seater with 7,500 spaces for corporate 👩‍💼 🧑‍💼 , 480 seats for Season ticket holders 🎟️ and 20 seats in the ballot 🍀 

Leaving out international fans? Makes you think. 

[Paully]

I had a feeling after the cup parade that they'd realise that 65K isn't enough - I'd go for 75K personally.

 

 

[r0cafella]

AHH the weekly stadium update, the clicks these nothing articles generate must be phenomenal. 

[Keegans Export]

42 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

AHH the weekly stadium update, the clicks these nothing articles generate must be phenomenal. 

From Luke "I think we all need to wait for final plan to be made public" Edwards.

 

Three weeks ago he posted that and he's posted at least two more articles about it since. 

[PauloGeordio]

52 minutes ago, Paully said:

I had a feeling after the cup parade that they'd realise that 65K isn't enough - I'd go for 75K personally.

 

 

Never believed the figure being banded about. Don’t think thats been officially confirmed or denied. I always felt 69,000 would be the sweet spot.

[PauloGeordio]

7 minutes ago, Keegans Export said:

From Luke "I think we all need to wait for final plan to be made public" Edwards.

 

Three weeks ago he posted that and he's posted at least two more articles about it since. 

Basically I’m not ITK, I’m speculating as fact  click my news. Eat my goal. Boof!

[Fenham Mag]

If they're changing their mind on capacity at this late stage, they'll be miles away from making any announcements. I think baldy is wrong on this one. 

[PauloGeordio]

2 minutes ago, Fenham Mag said:

If they're changing their mind on capacity at this late stage, they'll be miles away from making any announcements. I think baldy is wrong on this one. 

Baldy doesn’t know!  He’s edging his bets! 

[gjohnson]

Simple conclusion. Edwards knows as much about what is going on as the rest of us. ie nothing beyond rumours and conjecture. 

 

 

[gjohnson]

11 minutes ago, Fenham Mag said:

If they're changing their mind on capacity at this late stage, they'll be miles away from making any announcements. I think baldy is wrong on this one. 

If I was in charge, and saw the 29th, I would be thinking yes this crowd is euphoria and joy, but shows what we could fill at absolute maximum. Let's assume a 50% loss for people just making a day of it. Take another 10% who just happened to be there, another 10% who wouldn't be able to afford a ticket, let's say 5 % for corporate or boxes. That works out to 70-75k as realistcally fillable as long as we're performing well

[Paully]

37 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

Never believed the figure being banded about. Don’t think thats been officially confirmed or denied. I always felt 69,000 would be the sweet spot.

 

69 sweet spot?! PORVORT!

[LFEE]

1 hour ago, Paully said:

I had a feeling after the cup parade that they'd realise that 65K isn't enough - I'd go for 75K personally.

 

 

Said that on Sunday. Have heard since that the club (& council) were shocked at the enormity of the turnout that day.

 

Not sure if that’s comforting or not 

 

70K feels it makes it all worthwhile and fits the clubs no empty seats agenda. 75K feels more future proofed and where I’d be aiming for if possible on the correct site which possibly is the issue. 
 

The closer to the current SJP site possibly the smaller the space allows it to be.

[Wilson]

Fucks sake just tell us what's happening at this point. 

[Wallsendmag]

25 minutes ago, gjohnson said:

If I was in charge, and saw the 29th, I would be thinking yes this crowd is euphoria and joy, but shows what we could fill at absolute maximum. Let's assume a 50% loss for people just making a day of it. Take another 10% who just happened to be there, another 10% who wouldn't be able to afford a ticket, let's say 5 % for corporate or boxes. That works out to 70-75k as realistcally fillable as long as we're performing well

 

I also know loads of matchgoing fans who didn't go to the parade. I think we'd fill a 70k stadium for every match. This 16% ballot success rate backs that up.

[Stifler]

3 hours ago, LFEE said:

Said that on Sunday. Have heard since that the club (& council) were shocked at the enormity of the turnout that day.

 

Not sure if that’s comforting or not 

 

70K feels it makes it all worthwhile and fits the clubs no empty seats agenda. 75K feels more future proofed and where I’d be aiming for if possible on the correct site which possibly is the issue. 
 

The closer to the current SJP site possibly the smaller the space allows it to be.

It’s also worth noting that building on Leazes Park would retain our NE1 postcode.

Building on Castle Leazes would give us an NE2 postcode.

For what it’s worth, the Arena site would have given us an NE4 postcode.