Raj Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 I did vote to wait for a couple of seasons while we establish ourselves but after reading Bagworths post in thinking Why Not go for it? The stadium ain't going anywhere,an expansion is there forever..may as well do it while we have the owners to do it and are on a up...only thing is I remember when we moved to the KP when we tried to move up that level and it nearly killed us!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieakita Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 IMVHO, The revenue generated from ticket sales will be nothing compared to the income from the TV deals so the club has the opportunity to move on. The club can look at the price structure of tickets and has the chance to make watching live football available to more fans, would have thought most players would want as many home supporters watching them as possible. Also an increased capacity could open up options on music concerts and other events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 I did vote to wait for a couple of seasons while we establish ourselves but after reading Bagworths post in thinking Why Not go for it? The stadium ain't going anywhere,an expansion is there forever..may as well do it while we have the owners to do it and are on a up...only thing is I remember when we moved to the KP when we tried to move up that level and it nearly killed us!!! We had a complete tit of a manager then who would have spent every penny you gave him and some. Pearson at least recognises the value of a Pound. He won't spend £10 million when he can get someone to do a similar job on a free transfer. I'm not sure what 10,000 seats will cost us but even if it's £10,000,000 then that's the price of a Vardy, Ulloa or Kramaric, it won't break us at all. More important it's money spent on something that will last for decades and improves our perception as a bigger club and gives the fans who haven't got ST's more opportunity to get to matches. Who knows in a few years we might be saying 42,000 isn't enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep blue Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 Wait till we're more established. Another year or so.We waited until we were established before we moved to the Walkers, but then got quickly "dis-established" after Taylor was appointed, and all went tits up.My point is that it's impossible in football to pick any particular moment and say for certainty "now we are established". Football doesn't come with guarantees; there will always be an element of risk. So best to strike while the iron's hot - and that's now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freesolo Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 We waited until we were established before we moved to the Walkers, but then got quickly "dis-established" after Taylor was appointed, and all went tits up. My point is that it's impossible in football to pick any particular moment and say for certainty "now we are established". Football doesn't come with guarantees; there will always be an element of risk. So best to strike while the iron's hot - and that's now. I Agree what do you need 5 years of top half finishes then we are ready for a capacity increase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 People can't get in to watch us now. Demand is already outstripping supply. We need to cater for the highest denominator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 12 June 2015 Share Posted 12 June 2015 Yes. I may even go down more if I was sure of getting a ticket. I don't want to pay out -cannot afford one- I am willing to go for selective games. Another thing if there was a larger capacity prices could be held lower longer.I see more positives than negatives not only for the club and fans but also the City of Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Lets establish ourselves first for a couple of seasons before we decide to expand. I appreciate that its frustrating for some fans at the moment as they can not get tickets but if we get relegated it would be depressing being in a stadium that holds over 40,000 and we get crowds of 20,000 in the Championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieakita Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Pretty sure in some way shape or form the crowd from Wet Ham at home onwards really made a difference, if 32k can give so much of an atmosphere imagine increasing it by 30%. Think it already been mentioned by better than me on here that increased attendances helps attract better players, we should be looking to take maximum benefits from home advantage and if clappers, drums more noise and more people are an option why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 I did vote to wait for a couple of seasons while we establish ourselves but after reading Bagworths post in thinking Why Not go for it? The stadium ain't going anywhere,an expansion is there forever..may as well do it while we have the owners to do it and are on a up...only thing is I remember when we moved to the KP when we tried to move up that level and it nearly killed us!!! Image if we hadn't moved though we'd struggle competing in the Championship if we were still at Filbert St now I reckon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 make it 80,000 and sell the tickets at £4 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Image if we hadn't moved though we'd struggle competing in the Championship if we were still at Filbert St now I reckonValid point but immediately after the move to the KP it felt like it was the move that started our rot to administration. Like stated though we did have Taylor in charge at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
............... Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Why on earth would they make tickets cheaper if they expanded? No chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastwellfox Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Its as important as investing in the team to continue the clubs development. This needs to happen tomorrow.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xen Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Lets establish ourselves first for a couple of seasons before we decide to expand. I appreciate that its frustrating for some fans at the moment as they can not get tickets but if we get relegated it would be depressing being in a stadium that holds over 40,000 and we get crowds of 20,000 in the Championship It might be a little depressing in a half-empty stadium, sure, but so what? Right now, thousands of fans are missing out on pretty much every single game, and because its difficult to get tickets people who may not necessarily be fans yet (for example, kids) aren't able to come to games, so unless we expand there's a chance we lose out on a generation of fans. It's a LOT more depressing that we have fans who are CURRENTLY missing out, than the potential of not filling the stadium IF we go down. Oh, and the whole 'established PL club' thing is a load of bull anyway. Southampton had a fantastic 13/14, and a couple of transfers and a manager change later and they're strongly tipped for a relegation battle. West Ham is an even better example - they're one of those clubs that most would have no trouble saying they are an established club. They supposedly 'proved' it up until Boxing Day, where they were 5th, but the table from then onwards has them right down in the relegation spots in 18th. Things can change on a sixpence, so unless we become the next Man City/Chelsea etc, we'll never be secure enough to be (practcally) certain of survival before a ball is kicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Valid point but immediately after the move to the KP it felt like it was the move that started our rot to administration. Like stated though we did have Taylor in charge at the time. The club was already in trouble, imagine if we didn't expand. Thankfully we did however otherwise we'd have been stuck at Filbert Street and this thread could've been about how we will never succeed unless we move to a new stadium. Adding to that the land that the kp is built on would have been sold off and we could have been looking at an out of the City stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filbert_Ross Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 make it 80,000 and sell the tickets at £4 each. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 The club was already in trouble, imagine if we didn't expand. Thankfully we did however otherwise we'd have been stuck at Filbert Street and this thread could've been about how we will never succeed unless we move to a new stadium. Adding to that the land that the kp is built on would have been sold off and we could have been looking at an out of the City stadium.Dunno if we were already in trouble when plans for the KP got going? Weren't we riding high at the time??..Either way like folk have said its a good job we did move in the long run I'm just saying AT THE TIME it felt like the move to a bigger better stadium and all the money spent was a massive factor into our administration.With these owners there's no chance of stuff like that happening.....oh god why did I say that!!! ...Anyway...Let's expand!!!/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Yay No sorry, what I meant was that by the time we started building we were in trouble. In my opinion we missed a trick not expanding after O'Neill's first season. Had we done so maybe things would have gone better after he left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Yep your right.We were a force under O Neil's halcyon days...how we took things for granted. .actually doesn't it feel abit like that now under the circumstances???...Hence we should go for it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylofox Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 I agree with what you're saying but there's every possibility that we extend the ground to 40,000 and our attendance is 34,000 every week, so we've got the potential to grow but to entice the extra fans we're going to have to get top 10 finishes and Europe which is easier said than done. I'm not particular bothered but these extra fans are going to be bandwagon hopping plastics which will bother some. How can you say that. I can't get to most games now so an ST is pointless. Also I can not buy tickets. So if they increase it and I can get tickets am I plastic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Most people start off as plastics somewhere down the line...if only 20-30% of these start going regular it can only be good surely?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristianity77 Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 make it 80,000 and sell the tickets at £4 each. I wonder, if we did actually have a ground that big, and we did sell the tickets for £4 a time....would we fill it in the prem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 Most people start off as plastics somewhere down the line...if only 20-30% of these start going regular it can only be good surely?? Exactly. In a big stadium some people might turn up for Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea but if they enjoy the experience they'll start going more games and some will eventually be hardened ST holders who go Carlisle away in the second round of the League Cup. The stadium should be big enough so our children can go and fair weather fans can turn up on a whim and get in 90% of games. We should try and have a culture in our city that we all talk about our club and want to enjoy the social event of watching them. Some really small time thinking on this forum about worrying about 20,000 gates in the Championship. The same people who can't sleep at night worrying what might happen when they cross the road the next day no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4everfox Posted 13 June 2015 Share Posted 13 June 2015 I agree with what you're saying but there's every possibility that we extend the ground to 40,000 and our attendance is 34,000 every week, so we've got the potential to grow but to entice the extra fans we're going to have to get top 10 finishes and Europe which is easier said than done. I'm not particular bothered but these extra fans are going to be bandwagon hopping plastics which will bother some. That last sentence is stupidity at its finest. The plastics are already in, hence why me and many others could get tickets in the championship and league one but not the premier league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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