8000 increase in for £1,000,000,000 is a cost of £125k per additional seat. In ticket price alone of £1k (I know that’s high) it would take 125 years to break even.
If the other option is new stadium at the cost of 2 to 3 billions that means the best stadium in Europe and possibly the world.... get it done and don't worry about a few Neanderthals that are emotionally attached to some scaffolding and concrete.
I would say that it’s probably a better option and build an 85k modern stadium while leaving SJP there while it’s being built.
Be interesting if they do another survey - I was very adamant last time I'd prefer to keep SJP and redo it but if its £1B for the extra 8k seats or £2-3B for and extra 30k seats think you have to run with the new stadium.
Not much point in doing the surveys if they ignore them - last one was a bit "pie in the sky" but if there was another survey with a bit more substance and information rather than the "what do you think would be lovely" questions of the last one, think the results would be very different and interesting to see.
Makes it look like they care though.... the fans advisory board seem to be involved so I can literally guarantee there's some Neanderthal kicking and screaming loudly to not build a new stadium. I'm not sure which way this goes, but have a feeling in the end it'll just be a modest increase in capacity.
As much as I would rather stay at the SJP site think people have to recognise there's a limit there due to Leaze Terrace and unless we can move that site, we will need to move to expand sufficiently. 52k is already not enough and once we start winning things even the long standing ST holders will lose out to the tourists, the atmosphere will be subdued at SJP at it'll go to **** - even if they got to 60k seats. If we went 80/85k seats we can shove the tourists up on to the L7 equivalent with the away fans (I know we won't get away with that again) and have a bowl of supporters around the pitch who actually know the chants and the players names. But again it's all down to cost/profit ratio isn't it if we can do 60k seats for a few £m then lets do that but otherwise if it's costing £B's to expand by a few 000's of seats we need to look at a new stadium. TBH we are all scrambling around pulling ideas and opinions out of our arses on what Edwards is touting which could be entirely wrong.
If that man told me it was pissing down rain, I'd go get changed into shorts and t-shirt and have my ray ban's on before I even opened the curtain to check for myself. Club have called him out for his bullshit previously with regards this exact same topic.
