Stadium expansion. Have we goofed up?

[16bha]

Getting ahead of myself a bit, but lets just fantasise about 5 years time from now. We are an established Premier League team, on the up with a growing support.

in he meantime fellow south coast club Southampton, have bolted on another tier onto the Ikea flat pack that is St Marys, increasing to 40k.

we on the other hand still have our wonderfully designed stadium, but suddenly find we cannot increase capacity further and meet the demand from our new JCLs. What do we do? How have we catered for this inevitable growth in support?

 

[Fef]

We drag Martin Perry out of his well-deserved retirement, point at the stadium and say "Want bigger".

 

[Change at Barnham]

Did we have any choice of a larger stadium?

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

I believe that the way that the Amex has been designed the roof can be raised and other tiers can be added.

 

[MrShaun15]

I believe that the way that the Amex has been designed the roof can be raised and other tiers can be added.

no it can't

 

[scooter1]

Lump it. 32,500 is as good as I gets at Falmer. If we fully establish ourselves in the Premier Lge, then in 5 years time we may have cause to look for something bigger, but as we are I think we're doing alright, right now and for the foreseeable

 

[Blackadder]

Getting ahead of myself a bit, but lets just fantasise about 5 years time from now. We are an established Premier League team, on the up with a growing support.

in he meantime fellow south coast club Southampton, have bolted on another tier onto the Ikea flat pack that is St Marys, increasing to 40k.

we on the other hand still have our wonderfully designed stadium, but suddenly find we cannot increase capacity further and meet the demand from our new JCLs. What do we do? How have we catered for this inevitable growth in support?

This is what gets me about JCLs. If you weren't you would know what you are talking about.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

We have 10,000 Premiership plastics to come yet,any clubs average will go up by 10K if they make the jump from Championship to Premier league,add the larger away support-

At the current time Brighton could get 40-45K for the big games in the top flight..

 

[nomoremithras4me]

TB could always move the seats closer together, just like some of dumps we visit. Some fantastic old grounds we've visited this season, if they had the same spacing as the Amex would only hold 20k!

 

[Brian Fantana]

A stadium of the Amex's capacity is easily viable for a successful tilt at the Premiership.

 

[Weststander]

Did we have any choice of a larger stadium?

No. 22,500 was the most we coud get, remembering the club had to fight many entities and various enemies of football.
It was just a foot in the door, but the architects and the board sneakily under the radar made it easily expandable to 30,750, getting that bit past Falmer PC et seq.

If the club did establish itself as a PL team and demand outstripped supply for tickets year after year, hopefully something could be done, but road and rail links would have to be vastly improved first.

 

[16bha]

This is what gets me about JCLs. If you weren't you would know what you are talking about.

Not that its relevant, 10 year STH at Withdean so stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

what precisely am I meant to know smart arse?

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

no it can't

Beg pardon. I was under the impression it could be. Oh well if we get to the promised land then we will have to compulsary purchase the Goldstone retail park.

 

[Brownstuff]

For a long term view, I always thought 30k would be on the small side

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Put money into Worthing football club, wait for them to get to a respectable level and then merge into BHWA, and build a new, giant, f**k off Stadium in the middle of the English Channel.

 

[SeagullSongs]

You could probably get another thousand or two if you move the seats closer together. If we had the same legroom (or lack of) as Anfield or Upton Park we could fit 50,000 in there!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

A stadium of the Amex's capacity is easily viable for a successful tilt at the Premiership.

Top 25? in England.........

Personally if we made the top flight we would have to make do with a large waiting list and stay at Falmer,increase the station to 12 platforms,build out of town car parks perhaps,maybe take out Dicks bar and offices and relocate them and build a steeper North stand,but for now Falmer is adequate.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

For a long term view, I always thought 30k would be on the small side

I thought that about the original 22k but thought 30K was more than enough,but these days 30k is minimum,40K is where it's at

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

We have 10,000 Premiership plastics to come yet,any clubs average will go up by 10K if they make the jump from Championship to Premier league,add the larger away support-

At the current time Brighton could get 40-45K for the big games in the top flight..

Yep.

 

[Hyperion]

Beg pardon. I was under the impression it could be. Oh well if we get to the promised land then we will have to compulsary purchase the Goldstone reatial park.

Brilliant. A quadruple 4 tier Goldstone v2.