Well yes that is true to an extent, the home fans sold their allocation , but in the north stand where the away fans sat that never sold out ever, so there was always 1.5k-2k empty seats minimum, now that we have fans in that area as well we shall see if we are relegated.
liberty been sold out a few times before we got to the prem. you can count on one hand with 3 fingers missing how many times we have filled the stadium..
Perhaps you missed the post above yours ? It was impossible to sell out the stadium completely as there were no home fans in the north stand, so as that holds 3.5k think we have sold the remaining 17k quite a few times. But we need to sell 18.5k to home fans to sell out now, so we shall see.
I know you don't "own" the stadium, but if the Swans were to offer to foot the bill to enlarge/improve the Liberty, it would add value to the facility.............I can't see the council saying no, it will depend on the cost, it's a gamble admitted, do the Swans spend £5 - £10 million to add say 5000 seats, which is going to generate £150K a home game, with the extra revenue from sales of other stuff, call it £200K a game, so that's 19 games a season call it 23 or 24 games with cup ties, so £4 million a season, so two seasons in the PL should pay for it.........then the rest is additional revenue, an interesting dilemma for Huw and the board to sort out.
Prophet I think the figure is closer to £15m to add I think 7k seats to the stadium, so the return of investment would be closer to 4-5 years I think, and that is presuming sell out for every game. It is an interesting one that has split opinion on here.
Well it's a tough one to ponder, and as it is it will raise debate. We will know soon enough I guess , and I do get the double entendre
I still think its worth a punt £15m over 4-5 yrs in the buisiness world is a reasonable gamble and as i said before we have to look outside football for revenue generation oppertunities and once the work is completed the upkeep and maintainance cost would not be significantly larger so most of the outlay would be in the building stages which with good buisiness scumen could be for the most part recouped
