Q: what is the smallest stadium in the Premier League?

[7:18]

lets just get to the Championship and get cosy there before we plan to expand the stadium any further...or are you suggesting that our plans won't allow for such a further expansion? What about that green grassy bit (Hammond Hill?)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Frankly, as one of the four and a half thousand who made the effort on Tuesday night, I would be quite happy at this point to be sitting in a twenty two thousand seat stadium which is verging on sold out every week. If you offered me that tomorrow, I would bite your hand off, and so, I think, would a lot of fans, who are fed up with enduring some of the crappest facilities in the Football League.

I believe (for those impatient and/or unrealistic enough to believe it is immediately necessary) that the club do have plans in place to expand the stadium, should it be relevant, but I, like most fans, would be grateful just to get there first, and see if we can fill it, before deciding that another six thousand seats are vital.

 

[BensGrandad]

I thought that the plans were approved because it cannot be extended in the present design but I may be wrong but I echo TCB sentiments that by only building for 22,000 we are showing a lack of ambition to reach the Premiership. Having said that lets try and get 10,000 in there first, before we start cribbing about wanting more. We can see what has happened at Withdean by adding seats and making more seats available.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Interesting to see we could have played Tuesdays game at Crawleys Broadfield stadium and stil had some spare seats.

How about taking games out to the people of Sussex.

Perhaps take the JPT games to Eastbourne or Worthing.

 

[Buzzer]

I endorse this, which why I suggested Pende

I've lived in East and West Sussex and still don't know where Pende is.


Where is it and can us Brighton fans get their within a day of travel?

 

[7:18]

I've lived in East and West Sussex and still don't know where Pende is.


Where is it and can us Brighton fans get their within a day of travel?

more importantly, can we pay on the gate

 

[wehatepalace]

Interesting to see we could have played Tuesdays game at Crawleys Broadfield stadium and stil had some spare seats.

Except most of the stadium is terracing

 

[surrey jim]

Eclipsed by the mighty:

Darlington Arena: 25,294

who can have capacity increaced to 65,000!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darlington_Arena

*although capacity is capped at 10,000 for match days!!!!

 

[perseus]

I've lived in East and West Sussex and still don't know where Pende is.


Where is it and can us Brighton fans get their within a day of travel?

How to get to Pende:

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Pende.htm

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Pende-Modal.htm

 

[Yoda]

I've lived in East and West Sussex and still don't know where Pende is.


Where is it and can us Brighton fans get their within a day of travel?

I shouldn't worry Buzz. I live a stone's throw from where it is and I've never heard it called Pende.

 

[Spiros]

Oh yeah, I don't mean there is a problem for now. Everything I have posted on this thread has been looking very long-term. I will be just as happy if we spend our early years at Falmer getting into the championship, staying there, and establishing ourselves as a team that will be nearer the top than the bottom. It will take a lot of work just to do that, so the phrase "let's not run before we can walk," springs to mind. I have no idea if Falmer can be developed enough in the future, to a capacity of say, 35,000 which I believe is the benchmark for a solid premiership club. I have heard from a couple of places that it can be though, and I can't believe the board will have limited us to 22,000 for the rest of time, so I reckon we'll be ok

What does it matter if we are limited to 22,000 in the long term? If you look back over the whole history of the club, this would have been a problem in only a handful of seasons, and only a real problem in 1979 BEFORE we made it to the top division, where attendances actually fell. If we are going to get regular crowds of 15,000 to 20,000 then I'd rather it was in a stadium that holds 22,000 than one that holds 36,000

 

[Uncle Buck]

Why is he still banging on about Pende and its imaginary plans, even after Falmer has now been rubber stamped?

 

[Marshy]

Just shows how Falmer will never see us in the Premier League. Established Championship club? Yeah, probably. But anyone who thinks we can get into the Premiership with 22,374 is having a laugh.

Yeah but we will be charging double a lot of prem clubs !....as we are all ridiculousl rich ont he south coast.....
therefore we will be taking gate receipts equivelent to that of a 40 thousand crowd.....

 

[The Large One]

Why is he still banging on about Pende and its imaginary plans, even after Falmer has now been rubber stamped?

Cos he's mental, and he cost the club £60,000. Quite some achievement for a headcase window-licker, I thought.

 

[Silent Bob]

No, not a wind up at all bearing in mind that half of the stadium is going to be removed after the games.

West Ham will definately not be moving there and I read an interview with Barry Hearn where he was sceptical about Orient ever being able to increase their fan base to fill it.

But the plan is for "lower league" football to be played there afterwards.

They are quite literally taking the top tier off (when the games are over) and putting the roof back on.

http://in.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=INIndia-30384820071107&start=1

Has come into a bit of criticism up here, but I think its a good idea. Better than having a huge white elephant of a stadium that is hardly ever filled.

However, the stadium will have a permanent running track and a roof that currently only covers the far back seats.

Who in there right mind would ever play in a stadium like that.

I though London Wasps were looking more likely than Orient now...

All three of those clubs are only in the premier league because they have a wealthy chairman bankrolling them - not because they have generated the income themselves. As soon as Gaydamek, Al Fayed, and Madejski leave, all of those clubs will return to championship mediocrity at best.

Madejski didn't "bankroll" Reading.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Perseus cost the club 60 grand? What a penis.

 

[crasher]

Interesting to see we could have played Tuesdays game at Crawleys Broadfield stadium and stil had some spare seats.

How about taking games out to the people of Sussex.

Perhaps take the JPT games to Eastbourne or Worthing.

That's a brilliant idea. No doubt there's all sorts of "rules" about why it can't happen. But it's still a great idea.

 

[Hiney]

I endorse this, which why I suggested Pende

Shut up you f***ing IMBECILE