Forget expanding the stadium..

[Great Boos Up]

It's all about attracting the kids, they are becoming our new fans. The emirates is top to bottom in silver haired old men who don't even live in London. We are a great family club. They held England matches here because of our support, even for B team matches. A year ago walking through your local park and you would see Chelsea, Man U kits on kids. Now they all have Vardy or Mahrez. Think back to our first games; nothing spectacular for me anyway. Next season we are playing the giants of Europe and the playground talk of who do you support will stretch much wider than the 1 million people of Leicestershire.

10 years from now they will all want tickets as they remembered the great escape and the impossible season. Legacies are being created.

32,000 may not cut it.

This will happen if we keep Prem status, but even if we don't these kids are already smitten and will have suck it up like we did.

[fox93]

No way tigers would buy/rent the KP when they've just ploughed loads of money into re-developing Welford Road with further improvements to come. That, and also the fact that Tigers fans openly rejected the idea of a ground share with City only a few years ago.

 

A new stadium for city is something that should only be considered in 10 years time if we stay in the upper reaches of the PL between now and then. 

[GingerrrFox]

Those people bemoaning the lack of available seating are the same ones who will disappear if it goes tits up and we end up back in the Championship.

Now is not the time to expand or build a new stadium, if the club consolidates it's position and we are in a similar place in 2-3 years that will be the time for growth. The focus now should be on bettering the playing staff, bettering the coaching, bettering the training facilities and bettering the academy.

Sorry you can't get a ticket but there were 12,000 plus available week in week out in the Championship and the £50 million plus would be better spent elsewhere in the near future.

[fox93]

It's all about attracting the kids, they are becoming our new fans. The emirates is top to bottom in silver haired old men who don't even live in London. We are a great family club. They held England matches here because of our support, even for B team matches. A year ago walking through your local park and you would see Chelsea, Man U kits on kids. Now they all have Vardy or Mahrez. Think back to our first games; nothing spectacular for me anyway. Next season we are playing the giants of Europe and the playground talk of who do you support will stretch much wider than the 1 million people of Leicestershire.

10 years from now they will all want tickets as they remembered the great escape and the impossible season. Legacies are being created.

32,000 may not cut it.

This will happen if we keep Prem status, but even if we don't these kids are already smitten and will have suck it up like we did.

 

Great, but I think most of us will admit we are unlikely to be in the CL in 2017/18. A stadium will take at least 5 years to build, from the initial design fase to final construction, so you have to think about what the club might be achieving in 2020 and beyond. 

 

Last season, we were only 9th in the PL for attendance in relation to stadium capacity.

 

Way too early to even be considering this. It's the sort of short term reaction that nearly ruined the club before

[Sol thewall Bamba]

What is the reasoning behind uprooting and moving away from our current stadium? I don't see the logic in that at all. And would the Tigers really want to move away from their current ground when you consider it has only recently been "modernised".

Unless there are serious civil engineering problems in increasing the King Power Stadium then we should remain where we are. To my mind the Club missed a trick by not acquiring the 6.5 acre scrub land next to the KP in Raw Dykes Road, a site of great potential for a multistory car park which would assist greatly on match days.

On site parking does not work.

Terrible idea making hundreds of cars plow all the way into the centre of town and then wait for Raw Dykes road to clear of pedestrians and the away coaches before they can even start to queue on the Narborough or Aylestone roads? Would be an hour after kick off before that car park clears and then you've got to get out of town. Reducing the number of cars around the ground should be the priority not increasing them. A proper park and ride or light railway to the back of the Kop is the only way it would actually get any better and that's never going to happen!