Expand the stadium? The poll

[Voll Blau]

Where would we play in the meantime? They're having a laugh if they think we'll ground share with Cov for 2 seasons at least! 

 

Peterborough! Bag ourselves a nice home terrace for a season.     

[Countryfox]

Can't see much past an extension of existing ground to take capacity up to c42,000 .....     then reassessed after another season if we fill it for every home game.

 

Remember the owners have a long term plan and although we've jumped forward a bit this season ( ) ....    can't see them deviating too much from that. 

[Guest CityFan 06]

Where would we play in the meantime? They're having a laugh if they think we'll ground share with Cov for 2 seasons at least!

Didn't think of that. Not sure where we'd play in the meantime if it ever happened. Of course, if the club moved to Syston then we'd continue to play at the KP until the new ground would be completed.

[melrose]

Build it in Ashby I say

 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Peterborough! Bag ourselves a nice home terrace for a season.     

Haha decent, great potential for three sided tifos a la Union Berlin 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Build it in Ashby I say

Blimey the only good thing about ashby is the road out of it

[Great Boos Up]

Imagine if something was built at East Midlands Airport and the arguments about what county it was in.

 

(Lots of access to Tops chopper though)

[Jimbo]

Blimey the only good thing about ashby is the road out of it

 

Not even that, one way takes you to Coalville and the other way takes you to Derbyshire!

[Guest CityFan 06]

Just had a look on a ground developments page for clubs across England, and it does say that for us, expansion is likely for the East and Kop stands. I know we already knew this but would we welcome both the East and Kop as two tiers?

It did occur to me that we could expand the Family and Kop and have two proper ends for our ground. I'd love that. As Sol (I think) said, if the Family Stand was called the Filbert Street End and we keep the name of the Kop, it'd be great in my opinion. We'd have two proper 'behind the goal' stands.

Unlikely I know, as the East Stand seems the most likely for expansion, and of course this is assuming we actually stay in the current stadium.

[lfu]

Stupid if they are even contemplating this idea

Might aswell move to Loughborough in that case NOT

Stay in the City please Leicester

Where would we play in the meantime? They're having a laugh if they think we'll ground share with Cov for 2 seasons at least!

Groundshare with Forest? 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Groundshare with Forest?

Wash your mouth out

[Len Finsbury]

Groundshare with Forest? 

 

This is too weird. It felt dirty when we used it for the home leg of the First Division play off semi when the Carling Stand was being built!

 

Although Joachim didn't seem to mind.

[melrose]

Blimey the only good thing about ashby is the road out of it

I don't want to live there I just want to get to the footy without catching 3 buses just cos I fancy a drink!

 

You are obviously not a fan of a good Saturday night on the steam!   

 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

I don't want to live there I just want to get to the footy without catching 3 buses just cos I fancy a drink!

You are obviously not a fan of a good Saturday night on the steam!

Is Ashby a good night out then?

[purpleronnie]

Ashby's lovely.

[Wymsey]

Bull's Head is great.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Bull's Head is great.

One of the better ones to be fair

[Bayfox]

This is too weird. It felt dirty when we used it for the home leg of the First Division play off semi when the Carling Stand was being built!

Although Joachim didn't seem to mind.

Pompey. I was in the states at the time.

[melrose]

Is Ashby a good night out then?

 

It's a good night out at the weekend

 

I live just over the border in Swadlincote & most nights you'd think there was a curfew when it gets dark!

[Bob Weasel Fox]

It's a good night out at the weekend

I live just over the border in Swadlincote & most nights you'd think there was a curfew when it gets dark!

Good old Swad

You from Leicester originally?

[melrose]

Good old Swad

You from Leicester originally?

 

From Shepshed & Coalville originally

 

then Burton & Swad for the last 30 years

 

I think my dad must of had restless feet!

[Bob Weasel Fox]

From Shepshed & Coalville originally

then Burton & Swad for the last 30 years

I think my dad must of had restless feet!

Ah tell me about it, my family are as mixed up as you get #modernfamilylife

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Anyway back to the stadium

We need to get a shift on with this expansion malarkey IMO

[IrememberBobHazell]

Anyway back to the stadium

We need to get a shift on with this expansion malarkey IMO

Agreed. Players come and go, the teams fortunes rise and fall but infrastructure lasts generations. 10 years ago we couldn't afford a tin of beans, 10 years from now it might be the same again. Now we have money and sponsorship opportunities we could not have dreamt of before. Let's cash in!

 FYI Ashby is lovely but the public transport links to Northwest Leicestershire are totally shabby. The nearest Railway station is in Loughborough..... 

[Guest CityFan 06]

I think as a club, an expansion to the stadium will take us to that next level of stature. I know ultimately you've got to win trophies, but to me expanding the stadium to 40k+ is setting ourselves on a high level, allowing for our wanted destiny of winning trophies, big european nights, and success. With an even bigger fanbase to allow for this too. We would be setting our ambitions high for the future to become a bigger club. We're not small by any means, but I do feel we can take ourselves to the next level, and establish ourselves as a bigger club.

 

Like I mentioned above, for the actual expansion, I've come to the idea that I'd like us to expand the Family and Kop stands, and have two proper home ends. Would look superb IMO and the ground would create itself some own uniqueness.