When will we next move stadiums?

[Commander]

I wonder.

Will it ever happen again? Surely it will, eventually. How far in the future will it be? 100 years? 200 years? 500 years?

Will there be some massive breakthrough in technology that means we could move to make it cheaper or carbon neutral or something? Will we need to move to expand to 100,000 because we get so big? Will the bubble burst in football and we end up playing in front of 2,000 crowds so need to move to a small stadium to keep the costs down?

I wonder.

My prediction is we will move to a floating / hover stadium off the coast in 2176.

 

[BensGrandad]

Not during the lifetime of any active supporters now. I doubt anybody supporting us now will be able to say at the opening of a new stadium I remember going to the first game at The Amex.

 

[skipper734]

Ah. But where will the coast be in 2176? Probably Falmer will be floating or what's left of it after the Acid Rain attacks the concrete and steel.

 

[Curious Orange]

I really hope that it is not in my lifetime, the Amex is already the fourth "home" ground where I've watched the Albion at and I'd be very happy for it to be my last.

 

[Seagull Steve]

I really hope that it is not in my lifetime, the Amex is already the fourth "home" ground where I've watched the Albion at and I'd be very happy for it to be my last.

Amen.

 

[clippedgull]

Not during the lifetime of any active supporters now. I doubt anybody supporting us now will be able to say at the opening of a new stadium I remember going to the first game at The Amex.

I wouldn't be too sure on that! 10yo's of today may well see medical advances that will see people expected to live to 120 years plus and still have reasonably active lifestyles. Obviously that's way ahead into the future. I remember reading that the Amex has been built with an expectant use of 125 years.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

2123 is apparently the mooted date for the new ground. By then the Amex will look as old and knackered as Selhurst does today. I'm guessing with the quality of our seats they won't get sun bleached like they already are at other relatively new grounds - Stoke, Sunderland and Wigan to name three.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The plural of stadium is stadia. That is all.

 

[Danny-Boy]

After watching David Attenborough last night, how far is the stadium off mean sea-level? Actually it might be where we all have to go and live...

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I wouldn't be too sure on that! 10yo's of today may well see medical advances that will see people expected to live to 120 years plus and still have reasonably active lifestyles. Obviously that's way ahead into the future. I remember reading that the Amex has been built with an expectant use of 125 years.

Having outlasted Alex Ferguson in the managerial stakes by many decades 120 year old Gus steps off the team coach for the first match at the new ground:

Reporter: So what do you make of the new stadium Sir Poyet?
Gus: Errrrr, eeeeeessss.....errrr.....eeeessss
Tarricco: 'Complicated' boss.
Gus: Oh yes, eeeeesss....what was eet again?
Tarricco (rolling eyes): 'Complicated' boss.

 

[Easy 10]

Better get the planning application in fairly soon if we want to be kicking off in our new stadium in 2123.

 

[rabbitmaddie]

I bought my 1901 seats for life. But after I had paid for them, I was told that life didn't mean my life, but the life of the stadium, i.e., 50 years.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

We're all going to die on December 21, 2012 so I declare this thread null and void!

 

[Bold Seagull]

My prediction is we will move to a floating / hover stadium off the coast in 2176.

By 2176, Falmer will be off the coast!

 

[The Large One]

After watching David Attenborough last night, how far is the stadium off mean sea-level? Actually it might be where we all have to go and live...

It's about 260 feet above sea level. The top of the highest point (west stand arch) is 390 feet above sea level. :dullard:

 

[MattBackHome]

We won't need stadia in 2176. The match will just be beamed direct into our brains from a 1st person perspective.

We'll actually be able to experience first hand what it's like for the Billy Paynter of the future as the ball ricochets off his shin at random angles and velocities.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I really hope that it is not in my lifetime, the Amex is already the fourth "home" ground where I've watched the Albion at and I'd be very happy for it to be my last.

End of discussion.

 

[Maverick]

I think global warming will mean that the Amex will be underwater by 2040 so we will need to relocate the ground and change songs to 'good old Surrey by the sea'

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I think global warming will mean that the Amex will be underwater by 2040 so we will need to relocate the ground and change songs to 'good old Surrey by the sea'

Ah, the Guildford riviera.

 

[Easy 10]

"Good old Sussex in the Sea" shirley.