New Stadium Survey

Hopefully Trev can put in a good word.

 

They’re not going to buy your land from you. Just accept it.

 

What did he do?

 

I have
Can't you remember
I said I had some very interesting news ages ago

 

I must have been too busy being a ****

 

Some hippy bloke with kind of really long Rasta hair stood in front of us and he was face first into the back of it sniffing it and then talking about natural oils (bloke had no clue)

 

They will get a canny size 5 a side pitch on it

 

Scruffy bastard

 

Aye, he even went drinking in the Beehive before meeting us too (assuming its Schlem your talking about )

 

Is that still not revealed?!

 

That is correct

 

But we've narrowed it down to being about the stadium, at least.

 

That is correct

 

I know, I know

 

Do you actually though?!

Is it about the stadium, or sponsorship of?

Strongly suspect it's the latter.....

 

I actually do, was sworn to secrecy........ Nowt to do with sponsorship

 

Fair enough. Any idea on timescales for when this news will be public? Is it actually big news, or middling?

 

Nothing concrete, club still awaiting feasibility study which is due in the next few weeks before progressing things further. As for time scales if it's upgrade at SJP then nothing will start before EURO 2028.

If it was something along the lines of what that youtube video was showing (which for the record needs taken with an industrial warehouse amount of salt) then I suppose something could start beforehand but by the time the tree huggers are sorted and then the ecology studies get done (assuming permission from council was granted).

FWIW that video had flaws galore in it. Strawberry Place is a massive concern - that road is the main artery road for the hospital for the entire west end of the city. I get people say build a tunnel but they clearly forget there's a metro station already under there.

The Fan Zone has an initial 3 year permit so nowt happening on that during that time period.

Leazes Terrace can't be knocked down, can't be rebuilt and can't be moved and has a "rite to light" so other than getting very arty with the East Stand those videos showing it being built up to the size of the Milburn have to be wrong.

The Option C version looked to be the best option of the bunch but would require permissions galore. Also the final stages of the video showed them making out we could play at SJP for a couple of years whilst they built 3/4 of the new ground then showed them demolishing SJP before completing the last stand at the new ground - Must be hellishly quick to build that entire stand in 3 months of pre season.

 

We will all be dead before it's completed

 

Especially Hamish, he'll be underneath the new elevated pitch.