Huw reckons it would cost £15m to add an extra 10,000 seats. They need everything signed off by January for it to go ahead the next summer, so doesn't look like they will be adding seats next summer unless we're near top of the Premier League come January. I wonder who will pay for this if it goes ahead. I suppose the Swans would have to stump up most of the money. If they add the extra seating, what do you think the stadium will end up looking like? Will it still look good or will it look a mess? http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footba...-cost-15-milllion-huw-jenkins-91466-28979415/
Hmm... given the quotes make no mention of how much it would cost I'll continue to be sceptical. Basically all Huw is saying is "It will be expensive!"
Whatever happened about the rumours of subsidence/legal battles. They surely wouldn't even consider extending if they were true. As I see it, there's only one way to find out.......win our first 13 games and then draw our fourteenth, we shall then see as we would have the magical 40 points before the quoted January (Easy!).
Sorry but at no point has HJ suggested any amount in the article. It smells of lazy journalism with artistic license on that one me thinks. Just another article from a cardiff newspaper highlighting us as a supposed small club with issues!! However, as I said earlier - get 40 points in our first 14 games and we shall see.
The article says 15 million, which is why I don't believe it. If Huw said 15 million, different story!
Last time we were in the top flight (Division 1) we averaged 18,165 in their first season, though we had 23,489 for the famous Leeds game, this plummeted to 11,000 in their second year when the novelty of top class football wore off, now allowing for the bigger attraction that is the Premiership, if we don't stay up then the same thing will happen to a lesser degree, the glory hunters (plastic) will again disappear into thin air, so I'm not in favour of splashing out Millions of pounds for this type of supporter, unless we can sustain Premiership football. That said it is reasonable to conclude that we should be able to recruit a sizable increase to our fan base even if we do come straight back down, hopefully filling the 20,000 current capacity of the Liberty, which will be a big improvement over our modest 15,000 average these last few seasons................. please log in to view this image Huw should remember to the historical perspective here, we blew money on the “Toshack Stand”............... please log in to view this image
Building on dreams is one thing , within reality is another . Spending the 15,000,000 on the squad & the academy is the way to expansion IMO .
Well we shall see I guess, I would think that if we have about 30 points in January it will be something that we will be doing, if we get relegated come may I can see it being cancelled and we pay any costs involved, but honestly if we stay up and we do this expansion we should look at the options of buying the stadium, it will a tangible asset together with the academy that will bring us in alternative income streams.
I thought that before, Jager, but I doubt the council would ever sell. It'll turn into a cash cow if we cement a place in the PL, so unless we offered them a daft amount of money I can't see it happening.
The new East Stand of the Toshack era was the very least that was needed to bring the Vetch some sliver of respectability as a venue for top flight football. It replaced a dirt bank terraced with rotting rail sleepers.
The council is skint, the same as every other council, they are not getting in any income from the staium due to the way they did business, if the club offered to buy the stadium from them for say £15m-£20m then I believe they would go for it, remember they have invested no money into the scheme as it was fully funded from the retail park, they would have no legal battles and no need to worry about spending additional money on infrastructure stadium upgrades or maintenance . Still its a pipe dream unless we stay up next season
Agreed, to even think about that we'd need to stay up first. I just don't see the council going for it tbh. I agree the council need the money desperately, and whoever holds the purse strings would be well up for it, but I don't see them surrendering (as they would no doubt see it) one of the newest and flashiest landmarks in Swansea. You know what they're like!
But it may not be up to them to refuse, as I would think such an eventuality would be placed into the contracts, and I am sure it was reported at the time it was a possibility , with the council owning the freehold and we could own the stadium , so we pay them ground rent like a leasehold property.
Stop moaning Yankee, there was nowt wrong with those sleepers!.............. please log in to view this image
You probably laid them down new when they were testing the rocket you old git phil then you and dai placed them at the vetch
Think they are already working on adding some extra seats around the stadium for next season, there seems to be loads of space between the upper and lower tiers with just a few seats there for the disabled. Even if they were able to put in an extra few hundred for next season it would give us more income and also of course some more fans would get the chance to watch us.
The first paragraph is written very well: EXPANDING the Liberty Stadium to meet the clamber for Premier League tickets could cost Swansea City around £15m. Clamber is to climb awkwardly, scrambling or scrabbling. I know he meant clamour, but proof reading or spell checking would`nt go amiss.
