The Falmer parish minutes did mention student accommodation would have 200 parking spaces underneath. Could easily imagine a scenario where they would be for club use and students would have to be car free as some of the other uni student accommodation is car free.
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The Falmer parish minutes did mention student accommodation would have 200 parking spaces underneath. Could easily imagine a scenario where they would be for club use and students would have to be car free as some of the other uni student accommodation is car free.
Thank for posting that. Looks like they'll be cramming them in! Would have been a good site for a pub. Matchdays and students would keep them in business.
Can you find anything for that empty house on the corner by the entrance to the bridge carpark? Been empty for a few years now. Again another site that would be good for a pub.
Some might enjoy it more! Imagine going to every home league match knowing you’re in with a great chance of scoring and winning.
Our Championship attendances would be fine. If a few thousand JCL’s who got the Albion bug with the PL in sight, ditch us, others may take their seats one way or another.
Exactly, and we’ll still have good crowds if we go down and add another 2,000 seats or not. Saying that, I don’t think the club will want to add to the capacity if we do go down and therefor won’t mention anymore expansion plans until we’ve guaranteed safety this season.
Sometimes I imagine us in League 1 just to see how big our crowds would be so we could destroy the ‘plastic’ argument
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Sometimes I imagine us in League 1 just to see how big our crowds would be so we could destroy the ‘plastic’ argument
Oooh no no no don't say that.........imagine the meltdown on here with 2 relegations in a row.
Oooh no no no don't say that.........imagine the meltdown on here with 2 relegations in a row.
With the smaller crowds, we might be able to get the North Stand singers together!
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Exactly, and we’ll still have good crowds if we go down and add another 2,000 seats or not. Saying that, I don’t think the club will want to add to the capacity if we do go down and therefor won’t mention anymore expansion plans until we’ve guaranteed safety this season.
Sometimes I imagine us in League 1 just to see how big our crowds would be so we could destroy the ‘plastic’ argument
I completely disregard the plastic argument. Who’s it come from ... a couple of hypocritical palace trolls, and perhaps some doom-mongers who talk the Albion down.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Stadium size seems about right to me. Even for pre-season friendlies or early round cup matches it looks respectably populated. Big worry is if they don't expand capacity, then it's a simple tap-in to increase ticket prices
Weststander
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Barber’s said they going to increase it by a few hundred, or by 2,000 going by planning stuff quoted in this thread.
The obvious places - NE and SE corners, and potentially the back of the NS?
32,750 and a more complete look, will do nicely.
True, but I think a lot of fans of other teams probably think similar, I’ve seen it on a lot of other boards. Would be nice to put it to bed, although I hope it never comes to that really.
We are still considered as quite small by most fans in this country. Getting 20,000+ in League 1 would go a long way to changing that. Winning the FA Cup would do that too, and I’d much rather we did that! That’s why I think the FA Cup is so important, but that’s another discussion.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Has to be said that the vast tarmac apron outside the North Stand is, from an accountant's point of view, pretty much wasted space. Obvious target area to vastly increase capacity. Cost a fair bit of money tho, alongside all the usual planning bolleux hoops to jump through at vast expense
Weststander
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I’m happy with us staying in the PL/Championship, we have nothing to prove to doubting Thomas’s at other clubs.
Football evolves. I remember Stains getting 15,000 crowds for many years boxed in at The Dell, conversely Burnley and Preston used to win titles.
With the influx of money into the game, many clubs are now getting the stadia to match their catchment area and interest in the game. It hasn’t stopped. Huge increases planned at Molyneux and Anfield for example.
Barham's tash
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It’s a Naylor ‘exclusive’ on The Athletic.
NSC. Scoop central
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Bob!
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Does he quote a number, either for the increase in seats, or potential capacity?
Or is he using the 32,750 from Falmer Parish Council?
Barham's tash
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Any links?
Approx 2,000
Consultants engaged and ratified at Thursday’s board meeting - not clear if today or last week.
https://twitter.com/andynaylorbhafc/status/1230868676955471873?s=21
Exclusive: Brighton planning Amex expansion https://theathletic.com/1624772/2020/02/21/brighton-amex-stadium-expansion/?source=shared-article
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Peter Grummit
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So, Brighton average 30k odd with a city population of 280k. Leeds are averaging 35k odd this season in the largest one-club City in England - 820k people. But if you listen to many Leeds fans it's a matter of moral superiority that they have so many fans. Ppffff.
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el punal
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Sounds good but it doesn’t tell the whole story, Manchester has a population of 510,746 (2011 census) of which 43 are United fans. The rest are from Torquay, Dublin, Phuket, Brisbane, Milton Keynes, Great Snoring, Little Snoring . . . . .
redoubtable seagull
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Population of E and W Sussex is 1.3m. Take Crawley out of the equation (non-league attendances at best) then we have a large catchment area to draw from. One club county.