Good Morning. It's Wednesday 25th September, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Thousands of season ticket holders to miss out during expansion Thousands of Leeds Utd season ticket holders could miss out on live action during the proposed seating expansion at Elland Road, once building works start. Plans are afoot to expand the capacity from 37,645 to around 53,000 by "adding upper tiers on top of previous structures before updating lower tiers" to the West and North Stands at ER, similar to the works completed on Anfield's North stand. Research shows these works took almost two years (September 30, 2021 to 11th August 2023) with 11,000 season ticket holders missing out on live action during this time period! The construction of iconic sports stadiums involves a meticulous blend of global expertise and local insight. The 49ers are no strangers to this. In 2014, they successfully managed the $1.3bn construction of Levi’s Stadium. To ensure Elland Road's atmosphere remains intact, specialist consultants are on board, as well as local transport consultants to aid the management of construction traffic and matchday travel for supporters. The project boasts an impressive line-up of companies, including KSS, known for their work at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park, Buro Happold as structural engineers, and RISE, with a track record in high-profile projects like the London Olympics in 2012. According to Nancy Froston of the 'The Athletic': "The 49ers group oversaw the construction of Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, in 2014 at a cost of $1.3billlion. Leeds have put together a consultation group comprised of companies with global knowledge of stadia construction as well as those with local expertise to help produce the plans for the redevelopment." "Those include specialist acoustic consultants tasked with ensuring Elland Road will maintain its atmosphere during construction and after completion. A local transport consultant has also been brought on board to help with construction traffic and matchday travel for supporters as construction will run alongside Leeds fulfilling fixtures." "A local transport consultant has also been brought on board to help with construction traffic and matchday travel for supporters as construction will run alongside Leeds fulfilling fixtures. Named companies involved at this stage include KSS (the company entrusted with the North Stand at Anfield), an award-winning stadia architecture studio who have also worked on designs for work at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park. Buro Happold are the appointed structural engineers while RISE are the project management team and were previously involved in delivering projects for the London Olympics in 2012." "Plans are yet to be confirmed, but Leeds could look to complete the project in similar fashion to the way Liverpool renovated their Main Stand and Anfield Road Stand. That involved constructing new elements of the stands around existing seating by adding upper tiers on top of the previous structure before updating lower tiers." "This type of stand upgrade usually requires either a part or full closure. Each home game, construction teams hand control of the stadium back to the club for the day before resuming work. Again, as an example, 11,000 seats were unavailable to Liverpool while they improved the Anfield Road Stand. This affected match-going fans and also revenue for the club." please log in to view this image Coventry game labelled 'must win' Leeds Utd's home game against Coventry City has been labelled 'a must win' by large sections of the Elland Road faithful. The Sky Blues have had a miserable start to their 24/25 campaign, they sit 19th in the table with five points from a possible eighteen, and have already lost against Stoke, Norwich and Swansea. Their only win this season came at the Coventry Building Society Arena against newly promoted Oxford Utd during a narrow 3-2 win. Expectations are always high in West Yorkshire, and so far performances have been erratic. Eleven points from six games isn't disastrous, but the play-off's are not an option this season! Leeds are the only club in the entire football league to lose all six play-off attempts, and as such, a top two finish is a must! Leeds' victories thus far have come against the bottom three in the division, traditionally banana skins in the past. They are however making heavy work of breaking down better organised defences from teams content to get ten men behind the ball! please log in to view this image
Morning all. Only way to avoid reduced capacity during reconstruction is to move and build an all new stadium and few want that. All very fine doing the rebuild, that’s easy. The hard bit is to create a squad capable of competing at the level such a stadium would need to be viable
Morning all Liking the sound of the ground expansion, we need to start winning home games so Coventry is a must win for me personally
Ground extension long overdue. Saturday’s hardly a must win - in promotion terms, but from a squad confidence point of view, very necessary.
It's a must win for one trick pony Farke, the pressure will intensify and more fans will be on his back if he doesn't get a convincing performance from his players. I still believe he won't be here come the end of the season, I've seen enough from ten games in last season he just hasn't got what it takes.
In fairness most games are must wins. You have to assume 93 or thereabouts will be required for promotion. That’s 31 wins from 46 games an we’ve already dropped some so you’re basically looking at having to win three out of every four
I'm pleased some of you have a glimmer of hope, I don't, once into the opponents half, instead of attacking its tippy tappy till the balls lost, When Meslier boots it up field, it ends up with the opposition, or out of bounds either way possession is lost. all the supporters want to see their goal attacked, and a few long range shots taken like Leeds teams of old. These fekkers are like rabbits in the headlamps ****e scared to take a shot and the odd one that's does is usually a mile off target. If Farke can't instil some playing wisdom, and get the team firing and hitting the target then he can Fark off
every home game is a must win because we will be fav in everyone of them. our home form so far hasn't been good enough unlucky or not. Home games are the bread and butter of promotion.
Sounds like you're just not enjoying watching your team play football anymore Roger. Which club will you chose next?
when I want comments from you, ill get my dog whistle out, but until then I would ask you to keep your nasty Juvenile thick comments to yourself, as everyone can see what a crap poster you are, just look at your record I,966 posts in 14 years, and you try to shame me by writing drivel, try putting up a contribution to the thread, not showing what a hater you are ,call yourself a supporter, ****er
Fans getting all excited the gap in football really makes a complete nonsense of the “sport”as Chelsea beat barrow last night with a b team valued at 420m. How much longer will fans continue to be duped into trekking to stadia for this rubbish. FFP or whatever it’s called working well
if the teams at the top won't share more of the wealth and trickle it down, then stop them picking up the cream of young players for peanuts and make them pay the asking price
Because they dont want it they would actually prefer a closed Premier League. Every season teams going up its getting harder to compete as thy simply cant afford to strengthen due to all the spening rules. while the top teams get stronger and the established teams keep growing. Its fight for survival for all 3 promoted teams and will take years to get themselves established.the gap is just massive now from Prem to Championship and thats not just on the pitch.
We had the chance and blew it. Stayed up comfortably in our first season back. Board then didn’t take on Bielsa’s warning that the squad needed a serious refresh. Survived 2nd season syndrome by the skin of our teeth, but poor recruitment, too many signings proving not to be good enough saw us go down, actually did all three promoted teams stay up that year (I’m sure Aski can confirm if that was the case).
Fulham finished 10th, Bournemouth 15th and Forest 16th, so you are correct LoL, in that all 3 promoted clubs stayed up when we got relegated. Following season Bournemouth finished 12th, Fulham 13th, and Forest in 17th, although they were 6 points clear of relegation, with all 3 promoted clubs being relegated last season
