I know you lot take the piss out of "Legoland" but it was built with expansion as part of the design, slag Ridsdale all you want, but in this way he was a visionary, we can expand the CCCS to 30,000 with little investment in the scheme of things, with a possibility of 35K...............will we need this, not without getting promoted, it's good to see you guys filling the ground every week, IF you stay up (and I hope you do) bite the bullet spend £10 - £15 million. 7500 extra seats at £25 a time is over £3.5 million a season, with the extra revenue call it £5 million a season, if you can survive this season and establish yourselves...........well it has to be money well spent, otherwise it will be a bit of a white elephant..........if you come down you will never fill it (not suggesting we would) and it will gobble up a lump of your parachute money...................HJ has always erred on the side of caution (not saying he is wrong) and I can't see him gambling on past performance.................although £200K going west every home game must be giving him nightmares.
it would be fantastic but only if we can stay up not one season but more than that. at the moment we are odds on favorites to go down so i cant see huw and the board ever going to gamble for 3 or 4 years yet, it would be the biggest white elephant of all time if the bookies get it right and we go down....The money would be better spent on players to try and stay up anyway, there are far more important things to do yet before jumping the gun and assume we are going to stay up that we need a bigger stadium......nothing will happen for a few years yet and should we not establish ourselves in the premiership then nothing will......
Dai you keep on repeating nothing for a few years, and being as established side in the premier league doesn't exist unless we are a top ten club, that ain't ever going to happen so it means we will struggle year after year should we stay up. We will know by the new year if it's likely we are going to stay up, if there is not at least 25-30 points on the board we won't take the calculated gamble of this. We won't gamble on new players IMO as the philosophy is if we can't stay up within the existing structure we will go down as a strong club to bounce back up.
if we stay up, it will be done next year, if only those in the east did'nt have a say in our buisness, it would be big enough already, and prophet talks about cardiff as being visionary....ha f-in ha
Read what you like into it, When I say visionary, forethought and planning went into the design of the CCS to enable the stadium to be expanded relatively cheaply and easily should it be required. This doesn't appear to be the case with the design of the Liberty. I was commenting on the OP's observations, but if you want to take it as me having a go at Swansea, well it shows how pathetic and one eyed you are, taking every comment as a dig is a sign of insecurity. If I decide to have a dig at Swansea it will be obvious "ha f-in ha"
it would be obviously prudent as i assume HJ is, he is getting quotes, starting dates etc and on the assumption of staying up considering the number of points gained by xmas and numerous other factors. i cannot see the man rushing into this, just preparing the groundwork but if we went down then straight back up how much money would that give the club (or lose ). interesting scenarios ahead.
Bottom but one with no goals to our name and you talk as if we are doing great and will stay up with no problem... nobody else thinks that if you care to listen to people who actually know about football.....the team is too light weight with even sinclair not shining through. when our goal keeper is our best player how can you possibly think we will stay up.....There needs to be a massive turn of fortune and it needs to sart now. we must change our system at home and play two strikers up front and bring in sinclair to play just behind the front two, Fail to score against WBA then it does not look good with chelsea up next......
Where have I said we will stay up with no problem ? Your opinion that we need to change things probably has some merit, I think we should play two up front at times but not all the time dai otherwise things will start falling down in the system we play. But this is about the stadium, providing we have the points come the new year and I can see this going forward very quickly, obviously the county planners have already agreed in principle, who would object seriously ?
Dai I think you're being overly pessimistic. We tend to start slowly and improve - that has been the pattern for several years now. We have actually been competitive in every game (even at man city, up to a point). We must keep the faith and wait for us to start getting the points our performances have deserved. I believe we'll settle in and do well. Blind panic will get us nowhere. Brendans vision will get us through.
What some of you are missing is this, the club has a sizable potential growth it can harness, and it can't do that with limited seating, the fact that we could well come down, is not necessarily a negative factor in our progress, as long as the board can assure the fans of continued progress, which should not be difficult for Jenkins and the board to do, and the fact that we would receive large capital sums over the next four years, would enable the club to continue it's forward progression, so while it would be perfect to stay in the Premiership for our increased supporter base, it is not entirely necessary!................... please log in to view this image
7,500 seats .... even at £500 a season ticket it would only bring in £3.75 mill a year. Not happening unless swansea stay up for 2 seasons, as it looks like we may go to the wire this year so they will not be doing anything this summer.
Using your 'only' analogy , Graham only cost £3.5m , Sinclair only cost about £1m, so we are only throwing money away! It would be grossly stupid to do nothing whilst we are in the premier league, and if like Blackpool last season we may not know if we stay up until the very last day of the season. If we have enough points come the new year we must be looking at the ground works in about then, if we wait until May it's already too late, Morgan and co will make a decision before the new year IMO , they are savvy businessmen they know when to make a calculated gamble on whether to proceed, Jenkins won't be making this decision the board as a whole will.
if no changes are made and we continue as we are we will be lucky to get 15-20 points all season, we need a big turn of fortune if we are going to do anything and i don't think we are strong enough, we will give anyone a game that is not the problem its just we are not physical and strong enough to win many games....our midfield is too light weight for a start and the defenders including ash makes too many mistakes, If it was not for vorm then we would have conceded a lot more goals....even vorm is prone to a few clangers as we all saw....changes need to be made to try and stop the rot...
What changes Dai ? We have who we have, we can't bring any players in until the new year, and all players make mistakes, even the £30m ones! They are human not machines, and vorm has been a good signing for us and saving potential goals is his job, if he weren't there are others to replace him. And your proclamations last season were not borne out, what was it ? We will never be promoted with tight wad Jenkins in charge! Nobody knows how things will pan out so its just speculation one way or the other.
Dai, I'm sorry but your credibility went out the window when you said we'd never get promoted under Jenkins. Oh, and the fact that Pratley had his medical at Forest "FACT" So forgive me if I think you're opinions are rather risible. We are new boys in the Prem and still finding our feet at a different pace and a higher standard of opponent. Yes, Graham needs to improve - and sharpish. Yes, we need more incisive play. But I watched 2 games on Sunday and none of the four teams I saw were anywhere near as good as us. We have the potential to do well but I accept that we need to start fulfilling it pretty soon. If I were you I'd cut out the Corporal Frazer act from Dad's Army. We're not doomed yet.
iv told you before kangaroo forest gump your an idiot. prattley did go to forest as have been written about i have fogotten more about the swans than you will ever know in your life time so go away son ffs...
Like I said. Risible. As you have 'forgotten more about the Swans' than I'll ever know I see you also seem to have forgotten about your anti-Jenkins rants that spectacularly backfired on you last season. No doubt poor old Jenks will be in your sights later this season if we're not mid-table. Come on now, be honest, you don't really expect to have any credibility on here do you? Really? I'll say one thing for you though, you've got thicker skin than a lizard on a hot rock. Or maybe you're just thick, full stop.
The east don't have a say in anything. If SCFC have the money they can build a 100,000 capacity stadium. Get that chip off your shoulder.
