£4-5 million to be spent of the stadium...

[Dick Swiveller]

Perhaps we should do a deal with Boro and buy their floodlights and goal line technology. Not like they are going to need it for a while.

Sadly, they will.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39578985

 

[Moshe Gariani]

I used to love it when you rocked up to The Goldstone and saw the scaffolding up, knowing it would be on The Big Match next day.

Excellent shout The scaffolding being up always caused a little bit of excitement.

"Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace. Can you hear us on the box...?!"

 

[half time scores]

Also need to lose the bog hand dryers where you have to wave your hands in a certain position for them to click on.

Refit with Dyson Airblades all round please.

Also, I want chair handrests with cup holders.

Then I can splash some water from the sink all over the front of my trousers, then complain to a steward that 'those new Dyson urinals are rubbish.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

 

[Whoislloydy]

How much did Palace have to spend

probably more because they wanted the flashing ones for their god awful pre-match light show

 

[Weststander]

We just took this pic from the SE corner whilst visiting the Amex, taken just below the new Sky TV box.



A security guy said the infrastructure spend this summer has now risen to £8m. Which includes work on cameramen pits around the pitch, individual floodlight fittings are £2k a go, the main WSU camera gantry has been lowered (you can see that in the pic) and there's another new camera installation at the very back centre of WSU.

 

[LamieRobertson]

We just took this pic from the SE corner whilst visiting the Amex, taken just below the new Sky TV box.

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A security guy said the infrastructure spend this summer has now risen to £8m. Which includes work on cameramen pits around the pitch, individual floodlight fittings are £2k a go, the main WSU camera gantry has been lowered (you can see that in the pic) and there's another new camera installation at the very back centre of WSU.

Ouch!
(But I wonder how he would know)

 

[Eric Potts]

We just took this pic from the SE corner whilst visiting the Amex, taken just below the new Sky TV box.

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A security guy said the infrastructure spend this summer has now risen to £8m. Which includes work on cameramen pits around the pitch, individual floodlight fittings are £2k a go, the main WSU camera gantry has been lowered (you can see that in the pic) and there's another new camera installation at the very back centre of WSU.

Presumably most of that £8M was spent on rotating the stadium by 90 degrees.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Any pics on the new Sky studio ect in the south east corner?

 

[Weststander]

Presumably most of that £8M was spent on rotating the stadium by 90 degrees.

 

[El Presidente]

We just took this pic from the SE corner whilst visiting the Amex, taken just below the new Sky TV boX.
A security guy said the infrastructure spend this summer has now risen to £8m. Which includes work on cameramen pits around the pitch, individual floodlight fittings are £2k a go, the main WSU camera gantry has been lowered (you can see that in the pic) and there's another new camera installation at the very back centre of WSU.

I think you will find the club had agreed to pay the £8m, but as the lights were being driven to the Amex and were on the M25 Norwich came in with a more lucrative offer and they're now heading to Carrow Road.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

I think you will find the club had agreed to pay the £8m, but as the lights were being driven to the Amex and were on the M25 Norwich came in with a more lucrative offer and they're now heading to Carrow Road.

Excellent. We'll get to have a look and boo at them tomorrow.

 

[cardboard]

...

 

[Brok]

A new lounge going in next to the new studio too sponsored by a certain card company holding 100 people

So does this mean the capacity will increase by 100, or will we lose seats to make room for it?

 

[The Wookiee]

We just took this pic from the SE corner whilst visiting the Amex, taken just below the new Sky TV box.

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A security guy said the infrastructure spend this summer has now risen to £8m. Which includes work on cameramen pits around the pitch, individual floodlight fittings are £2k a go, the main WSU camera gantry has been lowered (you can see that in the pic) and there's another new camera installation at the very back centre of WSU.

Crazy to think just 20 years ago The Goldstone was sold for less than the cost of these improvements !

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Crazy to think just 20 years ago The Goldstone was sold for less than the cost of these improvements !

Sadly, that pretty much sums up football.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

We also had to buy the plinth that the match ball sits on before the ref picks it up as he leads the teams out. Nothing says 'Premier League' more than that.

 

[Ecosse Exile]

So does this mean the capacity will increase by 100, or will we lose seats to make room for it?

Looks like we've lost a couple of rows of seats for that tv gantry in front of the west upper.

 

[Weststander]

Presumably most of that £8M was spent on rotating the stadium by 90 degrees.

Strange:

On my Apple devices the pic shows correctly. But on a Windows desktop its rotated 90 degrees. Apologies.

 

[LlcoolJ]

It's got nothing to do with the aesthetics of the stadium or how new it is. One of the reasons clubs get paid so much money in this league is because the world's broadcasters and media turn up on match day, and not just the Argus and Channel 5.

We had to hard wire the whole stadium to the tune of £900,000 instead of the broadcasters having to lay cables every home game.

Then there's somewhere for the 3D cameras, hawk-eye for the referee, new lighting everywhere and other such fancy stuff you need in the Money League.

It's not about whether you have enough leg room, what material the seats are made out of, if you have bed sheet sized handkerchiefs in the changing rooms for Ibrahimovic or whether or not you sell blinis with sour cream and caviar.

He's correct to a certain extent though. I spoke to a Wednesday STH a few weeks ago and he said that the conservative estimate to make Hillsborough PL compliant was £25m+. So would probably end up being £40m+.

The place is almost as much of a dump as Selhurst (and God knows how that shitpile is allowed to host PL football).

Fortunately for Wednesday [emoji23] they don't have to worry about that for a while, if ever.