Amex Community Stadium to be completed this season... earlier than expected

[Drumstick]

Until it's expanded again....

I thought the club said this is not possable?

 

[The Large One]

Would they be in place for the 17th, then?

Single days could count for a lot.

Then the last ones would be in by 20th, to replace the ones they wrecked on 17th.

 

[Hove Seagull]

My second-ever Albion match was a Tuesday night game against Palace in Feb 1976. Both sides were on the fringes of the 3rd Division promotion race at the time (so we're talking a League One level clash between teams who were 4th and 7th, or something like that). The attendance was a mere 33,300! Unbelievable.

(We won 2-0, btw!)

My first ever game!

 

[SeagullSongs]

ESU Seats as of today :
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Oh my...

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Great news that it will be finished early - but with 22,000 STH, pretty much everyone who wants to see the Albion on a regular basis has a ST. IMO the club will have to look very carefully at the pricing of these seats, to attract the casual fan, otherwise there will be a lot of empty spaces around the ground.

 

[SeagullSongs]

Reduced prices for students at Brighton and Sussex Universities could be a good thing, but I'm sure Paul Barber would be hesitant if he thought we could sell those to people who would pay the full price.

I think once the Stadium is fully expanded, we'd be able to have up to 26,000 STHs

 

[B.W.]

30k min for Prem... the sooner the better, so really pleased with this news...

 

[Hugo Rune]

30,000....nowhere near enough!

We're going to need a bigger boat!

 

[wehatepalace]

North Stand looks incredibly isolated.

Obviously once these works are carried out it won't look so isolated !

 

[Weststander]

The WS 1901 middle tier WS extensions, curving away at each end - aren't they being done in Summer 2013, to give the 30,750?

 

[leigull]

Posted on another thread but think it's worth a place on here too.

Care of BHASnappy at thee weekend

 

[Diego Napier]

30k min for Prem... the sooner the better, so really pleased with this news...

?

What, like Swansea, Norwich, Wigan, Stoke, West Brom, Fulham & Reading?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

but with 22,000 STH, pretty much everyone who wants to see the Albion on a regular basis has a ST.

Complete crud of a sweeping statement if you don't mind me saying so. I 'would like to see the Albion on a regular basis,' but due to working some weekends have to pick up tickets as and when I can, and there are certainly countless other Albion fanatics in the same boat as me.

 

[Frutos]

Complete crud of a sweeping statement if you don't mind me saying so. I 'would like to see the Albion on a regular basis,' but due to working some weekends have to pick up tickets as and when I can, and there are certainly countless other Albion fanatics in the same boat as me.

Yup, same here.

 

[Gary Leeds]

I thought the club said this is not possable?

I believe they said any further expansion would need the roof jacking up so very expensive. But the cheaper option is to lobby for safe standing areas and instantly an area that holds 2000 seats can have 3000 standees

 

[B.W.]

?

What, like Swansea, Norwich, Wigan, Stoke, West Brom, Fulham & Reading?

Sustainable capacity to maintain Prem status...

 

[Drumstick]

I believe they said any further expansion would need the roof jacking up so very expensive. But the cheaper option is to lobby for safe standing areas and instantly an area that holds 2000 seats can have 3000 standees

I meant prohibitavly expensive, As I don't expect it'd be worth doing it for anyless than 10,000 seats and not sure we need 40,000 seats anytime soon.

I'm hoping safe standing comes in the north stand and its corners all standing could make the capacity circa 35k surely?

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

I meant prohibitavly expensive, As I don't expect it'd be worth doing it for anyless than 10,000 seats and not sure we need 40,000 seats anytime soon.

I'm hoping safe standing comes in the north stand and its corners all standing could make the capacity circa 35k surely?

And let's face it, the modest cost of converting the North Stand to safe standing would be more than met by the increased capacity and a consequent reduction in the number of stewards needed to try and get people to sit down! Result all round

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

One of my first but remains one of the best. Totally chocca in the North an hour before kick off ... although we all knew Spurs and Stains would stitch us up many of us were still hanging on to the possibility that we could beat an already relegated Blackpool team by the 9 or whatever it was and go up on GD.

Blackpool were definitely not "already relegated." In fact, they were in lower-mid table after the game, but in those days the league was not so rigorous about making sure all clubs played their final games simultaneously, and allowed postponed games to be played after the "end" of the season. By the time all these games had been played, Blackpool were overtaken and went down.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

cant remember it that well. It was 2-1. Bob Hatton scored for Blackpool.

I remember it as an own goal by Mark Lawrenson in front of the North Stand.