Surely it must be due some sort of development? People still refer to it as the 'new' stadium but the north stand is pushing 30 years old I visited the Emirates stadium recently and the corporate sections looked unreal but it is a fairly significant areas and I did wonder how they would consistently fill those sections. None of those things are really true for us, or UK football in general. Some teams are now realising the real money is in the exclusive, intimate nature of top dollar seats near the action and there's little reason to even have nosebleed seats in new-build venues. Who wants to pay $150+ to sit in the top tier of an open roof NFL stadium, paying $15 for a beer for nearly 4 hours when they get a better view at home? To get people to do it you've got to provide them top notch facilities like Dallas, LA or Real Madrid or just not bother. A rickety old stand half the size of the others must do more to quell atmosphere than boxes in a rebuilt version.Ī lot of the downsizing talk comes from the US for reasons that mostly don't exist here.Ī combination of eye-wattering ticket prices that make ours look modest, the 1980s-2000s trend of building stadiums miles from anything and games that are traditionally much longer than football all reduce the appeal of going vs. Boxes restricted to a new main stand.Ī stand of matching height would improve the acoustics by retaining sound regardless of boxes being there. I'm not suggesting we reconfigure the whole stadium. Also the new grounds were crap because the guy in charge of Italian athletics took a massive bribe to construct them all with running tracks. The big problems from Italia 90 were that the clubs didn't own the stadiums, so had to fund the replacements from nothing. It's a bit of a myth that Italy was left with large stadiums after their World Cup and they all downsized. We've just had about the best attended season of football since Celtic Park went all seated though, so I don't see why we would do the same. Scottish clubs who don't have to worry about the number of fans who do are downsizing. Level 2 at The Emirates is known as the Doughnut of Death because it kills the atmosphere.Īt least one side of every new stadium is free of hospitality boxes for this reason. The only ones building smaller stadiums are the Italian clubs who were left with oversized relics after the 1990 WC.The ring of hospitality seats approach has been abandoned for most new stadiums. Nicholson's chat at the AGM about there being a current trend of downsizing was utter BS. The only ones building smaller stadiums are the Italian clubs who were left with oversized relics after the 1990 WC. We would be head and shoulders above any other Scottish stadium in terms of hospitality capacity. See some of the new NFL stadiums as examples. They should look at the modern style of 2 or even 3 decks of corporate boxes with seating tiers above and below. The excuses not to rebuild are getting thinner and thinner. Even allowing for 20% inflation on the recent(ish) cost estimate taking it to 120 million, we should have close to 2/3rds of the required cash sitting by the turn of next year. There must be around 50 million in the bank, not counting player sales fees and incoming CL cash. The club needs a bold vision for the next 15-20 years - we should have no fears about paying off a loan assuming there is continued European participation for the next decade or so. 3:14 PM - 17 days agoThe main stand needs upgraded.
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