St James' Park

[TomYam]

1. New stadium on Castle Leazes

 

2. Extend Leazes Park on to land vacated by old stadium

 

3. Build a couple of 30 storey commercial buildings on Gallowgate (in front of metro station)

 

Result: the club can take a giant leap forward and 20,000 more can attend, the city can finally get a worthy park in a great setting...and St. James's metro station would have much greater weekly use. 

[Arknor]

5 hours ago, ShootShoot said:

Divert the St James Metro tunnel under the Sela fan park demolish the original station build the Gallowgate massif 

 technically that station isn't even important to the city anyway.
I live in Arthurs Hill, 10 mins from St james but I'd rather walk through the park to the Haymarket or the Monument anyway.

does it really get much use on a match day? everyone seems to walk up from town anyway.

It's probably a station that loses money even.

This is how it runs now

Since it doesn't go to the west end they probably wish they never built it, and all the new uni buildings must prevent it ever going into the west end

 

 

 

Edited March 27, 2024 by Arknor

[Pancrate1892]

Such an opportunity lost with the brewery site, not so much to build directly on the site, but to actually move the ground away from leazes terrace and the conservation area. A slight adjustment of barrack road further west towards the site would have worked well.

Even if the council had plans you'd think the clubs relationship with the brewery would have given them some options. 

Theory-wise we are looking a horseshoe arrangement at an astronomical cost of redeveloping the gallowgate with a new east stand that will be modern but no additional benefit of increased capacity. 

There's also the cantilever option over the metro option (shepherds casino project) for a very large gallowgate but undesired look to the stadium and make the east stand look even smaller. 

A third option is an Aviva type bowl that sweeps around the four stands which would give us a bit more in the corners but would need major work on the leazes and milburn as well to fit the overall design. 

 

All 3 options are now looking inferior to moving into the leazes conservation plot or even castle leazes......

[Ben]

Tbf if they extend the Gallogate and put that see through screen above the East Stand it would still look great

[JonBez comesock]

Demolish the metro station and smash leazes terrace to bits.

 

Extend the east stand back to the Rvi - Adding an extra 40,000 seats 

 

Dig the pitch down 30 metres.

 

Add level 8 and 9 to the Leazes end and Milburn.

 

Blow up Beamish 

 

Add 70 corporate boxes to the gallowgate to boost that sweet commercial income 

 

Improve the WiFi , so we can cheat during the pre match quiz 

 

Bring back zorbs at half time 

 

Have Harry palmer read out the quiz questions on the pitch before the game (no cheating - despite WiFi)

 

Cheaters will be forced to spend a day at flamingo land selling large candy dummies.

 

Sell Longstaff 

 

Make Bruno a director.

 

Move manors metro station brick by brick to the arena site 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 27, 2024 by JonBez comesock

[Pancrate1892]

26 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

Demolish the metro station and smash leazes terrace to bits.

 

Extend the east stand back to the Rvi - Adding an extra 40,000 seats 

 

Dig the pitch down 30 metres.

 

Add level 8 and 9 to the Leazes end and Milburn.

 

Blow up Beamish 

 

Add 70 corporate boxes to the gallowgate to boost that sweet commercial income 

 

Improve the WiFi , so we can cheat during the pre match quiz 

 

Bring back zorbs at half time 

 

Have Harry palmer read out the quiz questions on the pitch before the game (no cheating - despite WiFi)

 

Cheaters will be forced to spend a day at flamingo land selling large candy dummies.

 

Sell Longstaff 

 

Make Bruno a director.

 

Move manors metro station brick by brick to the arena site 

 

 

 

 

 

All excellent points. The WIF still won't work which is a good thing, we don't want cunts looking at their phones during the game like that wife watching the only way is Chelsea during the PSG game 

[RS]

Move the stadium and training facilities to London. Attracting better players and a more passionate fanbase. 

[Ben]

56 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

Demolish the metro station and smash leazes terrace to bits.

 

Extend the east stand back to the Rvi - Adding an extra 40,000 seats 

 

Dig the pitch down 30 metres.

 

Add level 8 and 9 to the Leazes end and Milburn.

 

Blow up Beamish 

 

Add 70 corporate boxes to the gallowgate to boost that sweet commercial income 

 

Improve the WiFi , so we can cheat during the pre match quiz 

 

Bring back zorbs at half time 

 

Have Harry palmer read out the quiz questions on the pitch before the game (no cheating - despite WiFi)

 

Cheaters will be forced to spend a day at flamingo land selling large candy dummies.

 

Sell Longstaff 

 

Make Bruno a director.

 

Move manors metro station brick by brick to the arena site 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nee way, if you blow up Beamish I'll have now where to walk my dog and its got some cracking bars/restaurants. 

[RS]

6 minutes ago, Ben said:

 

Nee way, if you blow up Beamish I'll have now where to walk my dog and its got some cracking bars/restaurants. 

Durham mags have no say in stadium decisions. This is only for those that are born within the sound of the bow bells

[Nepharite]

4 hours ago, RS said:

Move the stadium and training facilities to London. Attracting better players and a more passionate fanbase. 

 

Intelligent © Alan Pardew 28/03/2014

 

Fixed

[Arknor]

Do a simple stadium swap with Sunderland, they have loads of space for expansion

[OpenC]

I reckon we could do without Shieldfield

 

With apologies to anyone who lives in Shieldfield but you'd end up in a lovely little two up two down looking onto beautiful and iconic Leazes Terrace 

[LFEE]

Arena site makes even more sense now…

 

 

[Nucasol]

A council helping a club to expand / get better. What a novel idea:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czvz9141wpzo

[TBG]

Would that be the same council that has effectively declared themselves bankrupt? 

[Elliottman]

3 minutes ago, TBG said:

Would that be the same council that has effectively declared themselves bankrupt? 

Yup 

[Pancrate1892]

17 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

A council helping a club to expand / get better. What a novel idea:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czvz9141wpzo

I get it, so we jump in and buy the land in Birmingham? 

[Ben]

From my experience Sunderland Council is better than Newcastle for been helpful and supportive 

[Chris_R]

7 hours ago, RS said:

Move the stadium and training facilities to London. Attracting better players and a more passionate fanbase. 

 

Move London brick by brick to Newcastle.

 

[manorpark]

I quite like this new aerial photo of the SELA Fanzone after the first of the containers had arrived . . . 

[LFEE]

Speaking of Sela… hadn’t heard of this before:

 

 

[TBG]

19 minutes ago, manorpark said:

I quite like this new aerial photo of the SELA Fanzone after the first of the containers had arrived . . . 

 

Even though obvious, I demand the club comes out and says this isn't the final look. 

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, TBG said:

 

Even though obvious, I demand the club comes out and says this isn't the final look. 

Tinpot! Just like everything else with this club! 

[maybe_next_year]

4 hours ago, LFEE said:

Arena site makes even more sense now…

 

 

 

 

Need a piss at half time but there's a massive queue for the gents? Nee worries, just pop in the pitch-side pool  

 

I mean who has ever wanted to go swimming in a football stadium. 

[Arknor]

1 hour ago, manorpark said:

I quite like this new aerial photo of the SELA Fanzone after the first of the containers had arrived . . . 

 

Its just the same stack thats been kicked out of other areas of the city centre