Unfortunately more corporate boxes are the answer; When Liverpool were looking at building a new ground and increasing their capacity to 55,000 the sums of money an extra 10,000 or so per game would generate was minimal in comparison to corporate boxes; it's why arsenal generate a lot of cash from their home games,
On the topic of the temporary stand, I too remember it being discussed, I was surprised when it wasn't there for the first game of the season as I can't remember it ever being announced as shelved. Our large, strong and passionate fan base is probably one of the main things our club have compared to others of a similar size, so (perhaps wrongly) it needs exploiting to the max to make gains on the pitch. The problem with our stadium at the moment is that beyond the small corner infill, there's no cheap place to expand. I think any future work has to be to the City stand first, which creates issues with changing/corporate facilities (so it would likely need doing over a summer at increased cost), and the road behind the stand is another complication. The £2500 a seat stat is an interesting one, but I'd be curious to know how that's calculated. If that'd be the actual cost to the club after a sponsorship deal for example, or simply the raw cost of the expansion. Another option to throw into the pot, what would people think of selling the naming rights to Carrow Road, or Colney (if anyone would pay)?
Spot on. Also unfortunate is that I don't think there will be quite the demand for corporate style entertainment in Norwich as there would in London so we probably won't be able to tap into that so well.
It's been mooted before and peresonally, I hope that we don't go down that route. I see most fans and commentators still call Newcsaatle's ground St James' Park!!!
From wikipedia, Wonga.com, their current sponsor, owns the naming rights and changed it back as part of the deal. Probably a nice way to try and get on the right side of the fans, who would never have called it another name anyway. Personally, I'm not sure if it would bother me tooo much, as we'd all continue to call it Carrow Road, although it'd be irritating when anything official announced it. Maybe "Carrow Road by Aviva" or something wouldn't wind me up too much.
I DH, the 2.5k came from mcnasty, pretty sure it was the construction cost only, not a net figure after sponsorship
That I like a lot more. Then calling it "The Carrow Road Stadium" in conversation doesn't come across as begrudging the sponsors. And Dave, if Delia wants to put the money in, I'd love to see that name return in some capacity!
IIRC when the Jarrold was built it was designed with the option of being able to add a second tier as well.
It might be an option, but can you imagine how ridiculously lopsided the ground would look! Another 7000 seater stand on top of there and we'd have probably the largest stadium we can realistically fill, but we'd be stuck with a really odd looking ground, because I can't see us ever getting to the stage where we could develop the City stand too to a similar height, without an unnecessarily huge capacity.
I would love to see an expansion to Carrow road as it would be a more long term investment. I would be very against moving to a new stadium outside of the city as I feel it give a disconnection between the club and the city. However if there was space in the city to develop say by pulling down Anglia Square I wouldn't be against that.
Fully agree, I'd much rather have a ground that has grown naturally with the club, than a purpose-built, perfectly designed stadium. But having a Jarrold stand 3 times the size of the City Stand, which is probably what it would nearly be, would look ridiculous.
