crookie
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Or let them into the concourse, then 1 in 1 out starting on 35mins, several thousand could watch 35-45, 45-50, then 80-90, loads of empty seats then, so 25mins in total, £15 a pop
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AMEX expansion - there must be a plan hidden away somewhere......
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Or let them into the concourse, then 1 in 1 out starting on 35mins, several thousand could watch 35-45, 45-50, then 80-90, loads of empty seats then, so 25mins in total, £15 a pop
Superphil
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Cardiff bolted into their stadium to increase capacity, didn't work out so well for them.
There is a huge catchment area for this club, as there isn't another big football team anywhere near.
The Amex has shown that if the facilities are here the crowds will come even in Hypia's disastrous season. In the premier league if we become as established as Palace, the sky is the limit.
I don't know the ins and outs of expanding the Amex, but if there is a 10,000 waiting list, the club must look forward and not stand still.
The Amex has shown that if the facilities are here the crowds will come even in Hypia's disastrous season. In the premier league if we become as established as Palace, the sky is the limit.
I don't know the ins and outs of expanding the Amex, but if there is a 10,000 waiting list, the club must look forward and not stand still.
Weststander
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True, like Southampton, but their catchment is just Southampton, Eastleigh, Winchester, Totton, and I expect they pinch fans from Portsmouths's Fareham patch during the latter club's wildnerness years.
We have the whole of Sussex, except say Crawley, East Grinstead, Bognor and Chichester. That's 1.4 million.
But it all depends whether we can stay up next season. So very hard to get there.
@chailyjem is using his words correctly. It means were not. It is perfectly understandable
SeagullinExile
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el punal
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Maybe you're right, but Southampton draws from a much bigger area than you suggest. Expand it well into Dorset, including Bournemouth, the New Forest, up to Salisbury and Basingstoke (from there you're into Reading/Chelsea territory!). Fareham and everything east is definitely Pompey, regardless of their position in relation to Saints.
By the way, there a lot of us Albion folk down in this neck of the woods. To sum up, I don't think football and its supporters are as parochial as they were in the past.
Weststander
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I found this online from a year ago, produced by a data loving Everton fan.
I wasn't even looking up stuff about the Albion.
When you factor in that he included minuscule Crawley Town FC including Albion loving areas such as Horsham and Haywards Heath, crikey, the population of our catchment is vast.
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They can sit in the pub with @PPF
studio150
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Why not hold this thought and ask it a the next supporters meeting, I'm sure the panel will smile and give you a nice response rather than groaning like everyone else who are muttering not again, how many more times
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est retiré.
If you put a huge flat glass roof over the top of the stadium, you could easily get another 10,000 laying face down watching from above...
*puts himself up for design award*
*puts himself up for design award*
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
The stadium is big enough.
desprateseagull
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Before the club even start thinking of upping number of seats, they probably need to get shares in / buy out Southern Rail, and increase number of trains serving Falmer, after a match ends.. can sometimes be a LONG wait, even with current attendance..
(and maybe get an awning jutting out from top of the multi storey steps, that lead to foot bridge over railway line- give some cover from rain etc, for folks who are queue-ing to get into station..
The shape of stadium itself rather limits options.. the North stand MIGHT be able to fit another small tier, if the police pod was (re)moved..
Ditto South stand, but then the vips won't like it.
(and maybe get an awning jutting out from top of the multi storey steps, that lead to foot bridge over railway line- give some cover from rain etc, for folks who are queue-ing to get into station..
The shape of stadium itself rather limits options.. the North stand MIGHT be able to fit another small tier, if the police pod was (re)moved..
Ditto South stand, but then the vips won't like it.
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
It's down to the access.
Peoples expectations more like. Can never understand why people who attend one of the largest events in the country, with over 30000 present expect to be able to be get away in no time. That doesn't happen anywhere else. I've stood waiting or been sat in my car for over an hour at many grounds and events up and down the country. Some just refuse to accept that we are well supported and not playing in front of a few thousand.
Not Andy Naylor
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Paul Barber said at the last forum that he and TB are always asking Martin Perry if there is a way of squeezing a few extra seats in but any large-scale expansion would require something radical to be done about transport.
Absolutely. 10,000 more seats at £50 a game would bring in less than £10m a season. I guess our annual revenue now is something like £130m+,so even if it was doable (we know it isn’t, as explained EVERY TIME there is a fan’s forum), the costs would be huge and it would take an age just to pa for itself.
DarrenFreemansPerm
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I could well imagine the NE corner having a corporate box, it’s the only corner that hasn’t been developed yet and would really finish off the inside of the stadium.
Maybe somebody will find the component parts of the Lego Stand mouldering away in a lock-up somewhere in deepest darkest Hove (along with the cup final money in bin bags underneath it!) Surely we could tuck it in a corner somewhere!