[Albion] New proposed fan zone

[Questions]

Fair point. I’m now thinking they probably mean things like those “Dancing through the decades” Xmas events as opposed to Black MIDI and The Oh Sees

I’m thinking ‘Holiday on Ice revues’

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

As I said in an earlier post it’s more likely to be “Dancing Through The Decades” and “The Blues Brothers Experience” than Black Midi and Oh Sees.

That’s a shame as I wanted to tell Tony Bloom I loved him, in front of Black Midi

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That’s a shame as I wanted to tell Tony Bloom I loved him, in front of Black Midi

as he crowd surfs past?

 

[southstandandy]

That's why we held out for over £100M for Caicedo. The few extra million we got pays effectively for this!

Cheers Chelsea.

 

[Bozza]

I’m struggling to work out the size of this in my head.
From the pictures it looks small, but given the plans for Dicks to move into it and the potential as a venue for other events it must take a fair bit of space.

It looks great but, yes, agreed - how big is it (it looks big) and where does it fit?

 

[Horses Arse]

Assuming planning won’t be an issue, but I can’t recall why the hotel planning was rejected a couple of years back?

Different location wasn't it? Thought it was towards the south

 

[medwayseagull reborn]

Just waiting for dwayne to tell us his mate in Europe runs a similar venue and it is crap.

 

[WildWood]

But what about the Monorail?

 

[RandyWanger]

Like our own 'box park' at The Amex.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It looks great but, yes, agreed - how big is it (it looks big) and where does it fit?

Judging by a couple of the photos, it looks like it fits opposite the ticket office windows, in the position where the outside catering cabins and Harveys bar currently are

 

[Bozza]

But what about the Monorail?

You'd have to guess Phase 2 would be the construction of the monorail station on the roof.

 

[attila]

Looks great! The history represented by Dick’s Bar needs to be celebrated there, obviously, so that everyone knows where we’ve come from. I’d like to see the much underused museum incorporated there too.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Looks like plenty of capacity, loads of seating, presumably plenty of catering (no indication it’s just the existing ones), toilets……pretty significant imo. What were you expecting ?

 

[chickens]

Looks like a big improvement to me, though you can never be certain until you see how it works IRL. There’s nothing there that’s screaming out at me as wrong or misguided though.

 

[chaileyjem]

It looks great but, yes, agreed - how big is it (it looks big) and where does it fit?

Yep. It’s high (2 floors) but it’s presumably just replacing what’s there in terms of the space occupied by the DJ hut , 3 food outlets (coffee, burgers, fish/chips), 2 x mini drink vans, a lot of queues, and adding tables, toilets , a roof, and a second floor (for Dicks), and several screens and a stage . But it’s still squeezed between the meeting point, ticket office, NE entrance and (what is now) the food outlets - but still impressive and a material expansion

. PS amazed some of the comments on here are a bit what have the Romans done for us etc etc

 

[drew]

Regardless of the capacity or whether I'd be able to get a seat it will just be amazing to grab a beer, some food and be able to use a toilet pre match.

My preference is always to enter the stadium as late as possible, my first memories of Brighton games was the buzz of walking on to the stands when it was already packed out. Currently I arrive stupidly early, have a few pints until my middle aged bladder let's me down, then I end up sitting in the stands at 230 like a tourist.

There's a big difference between having a pint and a pie on the concourse at the Amex and trying to do the same at the Goldstone. That said, I understand your reference to the buzz, remember the first cup final and the first buzz I felt at wembley was walking around the concourse and then catching a glimpse for the first time of the pitch through the entrance to the terraces.

 

[drew]

I think it does look impressive but if they are closing Dick's bar then you are just moving that crowd to another area. It would be interesting to know what phase two is and whether this included extending covered areas around the outside concourse.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Looks brilliant and will be a very significant bonus to some peoples’ matchday experience.

I have only two little doubts…

1. Will it cause a really problematic bottleneck in the crowd flow around the ground pre / post match?

2. Nobody has raised this, so I presume you are all expecting access to this fanzone to be free of charge. In light of Barber’s specific mention of the Boxpark experience, I do not think free entry is a given…

 

[Hugo Rune]

So Dick’s bar will eventually close and move to the new development.

“Dick’s Bar will remain open as a pre-turnstile bar in the short term, before being incorporated within the new Fan Zone to help facilitate further future development of our facilities in the North Stand.”

More seats in the North?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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Erm, they have paid for the Amex stadium itself, 2.5 times over, apparently.