Expand the stadium? The poll

[StanSP]

Just now, jonthefox said:

Just out of interest. How many members do we have ?.

21,426

[jonthefox]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

21,426

Very good. 

[Vlad the Fox]

12 minutes ago, StanSP said:

21,426

We should hire the stadium out over the summer for a sing song.

[Trav Le Bleu]

4 hours ago, Countryfox said:

 

Well actually I was sarcastically quoting ...    oh never mind.

 But if you were being sarcastic then how can we be expanding the East Stand in June?

 

[sylofox]

33 minutes ago, jonthefox said:

Just out of interest. How many members do we have ?.

Average attendance - away support - females = Total members

[yorkie1999]

6 hours ago, steflcfc said:

For me we need to increase another 10,000 seats.

 

Many people are missing out on season tickets...myself included.

Its not that I/we won't go week in week out at home the difference is because I/we can't!

 

I would happily pay the £40 odd pounds a month DD for a season ticket.

I do begrudge in some cases £40/50 for one match.

 

The demand has been there for a few seasons now and doesn't look like decreasing any time soon, even a poor Premier League Campaign sells out at pretty much 95+ percent capacity.

 

I think the owners are just happy with how things are, and won't increase as it doesn't make business sense for them to maybe on a £££ perspective.

 

There surely needs to be some movement on this over the course of next season else there never will be a right time to extend, Then when will be a right time???

It always makes good business sense to expand, whatever the business. You always have to have  more capacity than your current needs. In this case what would happen if we got cl again and demand for tickets were to further increase. All it would do is compound the problems we have now with a lack of spare capacity. Eventually we would stagnate and not grow as a club, the money it would cost to the increase the size of the ground is immaterial as it would eventually pay for itself. The owners can only lose out if we lost the revenue from sky.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

8 hours ago, steflcfc said:

For me we need to increase another 10,000 seats.

 

Many people are missing out on season tickets...myself included.

Its not that I/we won't go week in week out at home the difference is because I/we can't!

 

I would happily pay the £40 odd pounds a month DD for a season ticket.

I do begrudge in some cases £40/50 for one match.

 

The demand has been there for a few seasons now and doesn't look like decreasing any time soon, even a poor Premier League Campaign sells out at pretty much 95+ percent capacity.

 

I think the owners are just happy with how things are, and won't increase as it doesn't make business sense for them to maybe on a £££ perspective.

 

There surely needs to be some movement on this over the course of next season else there never will be a right time to extend, Then when will be a right time???

Now is the right time

 

come On City get this done

 

please 

[Guest Lako42]

We also must have the oldest fan base in the world, I imagine we will have shit loads of season tickets available over the next few years.

 

 

 

[AmarteyAndChill]

7 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

We also must have the oldest fan base in the world, I imagine we will have shit loads of season tickets available over the next few years.

 

 

 

[OllieLodge96]

We would definitely fill 40,000

[melrose]

I wish they would get on with it

It's a ball ache trying to get tickets every other week

In the words of Kevin Costner "If you build it they will come"

[Bob Weasel Fox]

6 hours ago, melrose said:

I wish they would get on with it

It's a ball ache trying to get tickets every other week

In the words of Kevin Costner "If you build it they will come"

Yep. 

[AmarteyAndChill]

42,000. Bigger than Leeds and Wednesday's grounds & the same size as villa park make it happen!!  #biggestclubinthemidlands 

[FoxinNotts]

42k is the number. Perfect ?? 

[sylofox]

1 hour ago, AmarteyAndChill said:

42,000. Bigger than Leeds and Wednesday's grounds & the same size as villa park make it happen!!  #biggestclubinthemidlands 

nahhhhh got to be 44k so it's bigger than championship villa.

[davieG]

There's a "Expand the Stadium" poll in the Barnes article in the Merc.

 

Currently 79% say yes.

 

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/harvey-has-desire-and-real-hunger/story-30352565-detail/story.html

[norwichfox]

17 minutes ago, davieG said:

There's a "Expand the Stadium" poll in the Barnes article in the Merc.

 

Currently 79% say yes.

 

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/harvey-has-desire-and-real-hunger/story-30352565-detail/story.html

Possibly been reset, it showed 100% in favour of expansion after I voted....but

I'm not telling you which way I voted

[Bob Weasel Fox]

8 hours ago, davieG said:

There's a "Expand the Stadium" poll in the Barnes article in the Merc.

 

Currently 79% say yes.

 

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/harvey-has-desire-and-real-hunger/story-30352565-detail/story.html

Cheers davieG I've just voted 

 

up the City

[st albans fox]

21 hours ago, FoxinNotts said:

42k is the number. Perfect ?? 

that was the early seventies filbo capacity pre east stand and filbert st end seating conversion

[Stadt]

Vote leave

[Bristol fox ....]

I was hearing at the last game of the season that work to increase the stadium will start this winter building up the outside of the east stand just like liverpool did, then at the end of 2017/18 season the roof is to be lifted off, also the gas site that the club purchased opposite the east stand is to be made into a multi storey carpark. 

[stripeyfox]

53 minutes ago, Bristol fox .... said:

I was hearing at the last game of the season that work to increase the stadium will start this winter building up the outside of the east stand just like liverpool did, then at the end of 2017/18 season the roof is to be lifted off, also the gas site that the club purchased opposite the east stand is to be made into a multi storey carpark. 

As as been mentioned many times, as far as we know:

 

- no application for planning permission has been sought yet

- if and when an application is made, it will take several months to be considered

- there is no guarantee that it would be approved given that the club failed to comply with planning restrictions last time round

 

 

[Ted Maul]

Just get it done, the construction costs will be peanuts in today's game- there's zero risk of financial ruin like last time.

 

What's the worst that can happen? We go down and have the top tier closed? That's no issue, the capacity will be there for the next time we get promoted- look at the demand for season tickets before the 2014/15 season.

 

Having a 40,000 seater would put us in the same category as the next group down  from the 'elite', and can only be a good thing. We would fill it regularly in this division.

[AmarteyAndChill]

37 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

Just get it done, the construction costs will be peanuts in today's game- there's zero risk of financial ruin like last time.

 

What's the worst that can happen? We go down and have the top tier closed? That's no issue, the capacity will be there for the next time we get promoted- look at the demand for season tickets before the 2014/15 season.

 

Having a 40,000 seater would put us in the same category as the next group down  from the 'elite', and can only be a good thing. We would fill it regularly in this division.

I think the fact it will separate us from the stokes& west broms etc is important in our campaign to staying in the premier league for as long as possible.

[Ashley]

1 hour ago, AmarteyAndChill said:

I think the fact it will separate us from the stokes& west broms etc is important in our campaign to staying in the premier league for as long as possible.

This.

 

I've said it before on here. But if people honestly want to us move forward as a club we need to expand we could easily fill the ground plus you've got a catchment area of what MK to Stoke, the other side of bormignham to the other side of Petberborough that's a massive area for a potential future fan base if we do well in the League, cups and Europe(potentially) again...