ThorpeCanary 71 Posted May 3, 2019 Wasn't the south stand built with the foundations in place to add 4000 in the future? If so we could have quite the ambitious plan here, house the city stand fans there before then moving onto phase 2 in which we rebuild that one. would take the capacity to 35-37k or so. Might have wiped out our premier-league millions already though. oops Phase 3 and 4 could be replacing the two end stands housing all the corporate stuff in the River end while having a single tiered Barclay for our own yellow wall. Wishful thinking perhaps Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill 1,788 Posted May 3, 2019 That would take a huge amount of subsidising and i doubt anyone would be willing to be tied to bailing out the club year in year out. there were plenty of empty seats even this season, so even with PL football the extra few pennies would not cover the interest let alone the capital Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThorpeCanary 71 Posted May 3, 2019 I don't disagree. Would love to see CR like that in my lifetime though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
splendidrush 700 Posted May 3, 2019 As someone mentioned, there's no decent football between us and London and there's not likely to be for some considerable time. We have the opportunity to sew up the East of England in terms of support. Invest now and let our marketing team loose, hoovering up all the young support in the area. We've already got football academies all over East Anglia, to not take advantage of this situation now would be an opportunity missed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Duncan Edwards 2,274 Posted May 3, 2019 4 hours ago, Bill said: fund the purchase of a sausage roll warming machine build more ladies loos, always long queues buy an industrial size aerator to use at half time so to save the cost of those blokes poking the pitch with forks tie up a deal with Morrisons so fans don't have to go there to get food for the game bring back the man selling 'sweets' on the touchline SWEEEEEEEEEEETTSSSSSS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JayNCFC 14 Posted May 4, 2019 Does the club need further capital expenditure projects right now? Building infrastructure is perfect, if it is going to get used, would this? In a promotion season, yes, first Prem season, yes... if we stay in the Premier League longer term, will the interest remain? I would hope so, but not 100% sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Disco Dales Jockstrap 1,899 Posted May 4, 2019 14 hours ago, ThorpeCanary said: Wasn't the south stand built with the foundations in place to add 4000 in the future? Yes, that's correct. The GW stand has a capacity of roughly 4300 so if you knocked that down and built a replica of the SS as it currently is that would add another 4000 as well. The SS option would appear to be the least disruptive as it's possible that some, if not all, of the existing SS could still be open for use as a further tier is added. OTBC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ramrod 258 Posted May 4, 2019 15 hours ago, wcorkcanary said: Now you're talking, the sweetest Toffos i ever bought. He just used to screech out 'sweets!' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
......and Smith must score. 1,365 Posted May 4, 2019 On 03/05/2019 at 14:50, Ramrod said: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now. Ipswich are the experts in that dept.......that's when they planted one on the roof of the Alf Ramsey stand 😀 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
