Stadium Expansion Plan Meeting

[Filberts Treat]

8 minutes ago, foxinsocks said:

The matchday revenue not relevant anymore.  Would be a shame to expand the stadium and kill the atmosphere.  ..  only saying.

What atmosphere

[foxinsocks]

Just now, Filberts Treat said:

What atmosphere

I love a party with a happy atmosphere. ... russ abbot 1980

[Guest Markyblue]

11 minutes ago, foxinsocks said:

The matchday revenue not relevant anymore.  Would be a shame to expand the stadium and kill the atmosphere.  ..  only saying.

Spoken like someone with a season ticket not one of the extra thousands who would love to watch their local team.

[FoxyPalace.com]

38 minutes ago, josh_baskin said:

I imagine something similar to this being included in the development, only better

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/business/derby-county-reveals-exciting-plans-819597

Hope its alot better than the Sheep Shed!

Awful, would imagine our owners have more flair 

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, Ashley said:

Just imagine if we did move grounds. Could you imagine the cost of it? 

Our training ground is pushing 100m a new stadium would be 2,3 maybe up to 5 times more than that.

 

Saying that the extension wont be cheap

We'd be insane to move and build a new stadium somewhere else. We got very lucky that we built the KP at just the right time, around the same time as other similarly "sized" or status clubs and their stadiums in the mid-late 90s/early 2000s. You look at Boro £16m, Sunderland £24m, Derby £28m, Southampton £32m, Swansea £27m and ours £32m; we suffered the most financially do to that and ITV Digital, and yet we're in the best position out of all of them.

We're now able to expand, remodel and perfect what has served us better in 15 years than Filbert Street did in 111 (arguably). A brand new stadium would set us back what, £300m? The Emirates cost £400m 12 years ago, Man City got their £120m stadium for free off the taxpayer, West Ham got a £700m stadium for free, and Spurs are spending £800m on something that's way over budget, way overdue and is already having an effect on their transfer dealings.

How much would the extension cost? Up to £100m?

We're in a position now where we're financially stable, we can stand firm and not be bullied into selling our best players to the biggest teams, we can spend £100m in the transfer window AND we can build a world-class £100m training ground and extend the ground at the same time.

What a time to be alive.

[foxinsocks]

13 minutes ago, Markyblue said:

Spoken like someone with a season ticket not one of the extra thousands who would love to watch their local team.

I admit it 

[lebleu]

27 minutes ago, foxinsocks said:

The matchday revenue not relevant anymore.  Would be a shame to expand the stadium and kill the atmosphere.  ..  only saying.

Perfect opportunity to expand a singing section

[ithuriel]

Well, with obesity increasing were going to need a bigger ground eventually anyway 

[Vlad the Fox]

I love ambition.

[Deucalion]

Season 2017-18 is the first season since Craig Levein was manager that I haven't had a season ticket. 

I had a big project on last year and knew I would miss many games. It was a good call to not get one.

This year, I would like to ease my way back in with selected games. But...without paying £120 for membership, I have almost no chance of getting tickets.

I am far from a plastic. I have cheered Claridge's shin at Wembley, Tony James tap in against West Brom, Fryatt's scoring run in League One, and Ranieri's title.

But still I cannot get a ticket to see Leicester play.

Build the extension.

[chapero82]

2 hours ago, lebleu said:

Perfect opportunity to expand a singing section

I’m not even obese and I struggle to sit in the seats now  it’s like sitting like a load of sardines  

[ian_marshall]

16 minutes ago, Deucalion said:

Season 2017-18 is the first season since Craig Levein was manager that I haven't had a season ticket. 

I had a big project on last year and knew I would miss many games. It was a good call to not get one.

This year, I would like to ease my way back in with selected games. But...without paying £120 for membership, I have almost no chance of getting tickets.

I am far from a plastic. I have cheered Claridge's shin at Wembley, Tony James tap in against West Brom, Fryatt's scoring run in League One, and Ranieri's title.

But still I cannot get a ticket to see Leicester play.

Build the extension.

Sorry couldn't resist, but you've not enhanced your credibility with that one! 

[Nick]

Sod the stadium where’s my LCFC live tv match package?

[Guest MattP]

8 hours ago, Deucalion said:

Season 2017-18 is the first season since Craig Levein was manager that I haven't had a season ticket. 

I had a big project on last year and knew I would miss many games. It was a good call to not get one.

This year, I would like to ease my way back in with selected games. But...without paying £120 for membership, I have almost no chance of getting tickets.

I am far from a plastic. I have cheered Claridge's shin at Wembley, Tony James tap in against West Brom, Fryatt's scoring run in League One, and Ranieri's title.

But still I cannot get a ticket to see Leicester play.

Build the extension.

Oxford!

[Guest Markyblue]

33 minutes ago, MattP said:

Oxford!

It was Oxford I think we sent wba down

[joachim1965]

1 hour ago, Markyblue said:

It was Oxford I think we sent wba down

Indeed it was.

[Guest MattP]

4 minutes ago, Markyblue said:

It was Oxford I think we sent wba down

Yep. I think the other game was Bristol Rovers v West Brom, I was only about 8 though so struggle to remember. 

An incredibly different time looking back, Chinese whispers in the ground about what the other result was, heard everything from 2-0 to 0-3 during the first half.

[Vlad the Fox]

1 minute ago, MattP said:

Yep. I think the other game was Bristol Rovers v West Brom, I was only about 8 though so struggle to remember. 

An incredibly different time looking back, Chinese whispers in the ground about what the other result was, heard everything from 2-0 to 0-3 during the first half.

And then the agonising last 15 minutes of our match due to us kicking off late, where we knew west brom had lost and as it stood we were safe yet Oxford were doing their best to ruin it for us.

[Guest MattP]

A video of the game on YouTube.

 

[sylofox]

On ‎20‎/‎08‎/‎2018 at 23:41, Vardinio'sCat said:

 

Will there be any changes to access to the site, because it's not fantastic at the moment.

Ffs its not that hard username and password. But I'm sure Mark would take on constructive criticism.

 

Anyway back to the ground expansion  

[Strokes]

1 hour ago, MattP said:

Yep. I think the other game was Bristol Rovers v West Brom, I was only about 8 though so struggle to remember. 

An incredibly different time looking back, Chinese whispers in the ground about what the other result was, heard everything from 2-0 to 0-3 during the first half.

1991, I was 10.

I remember it quite well, the euphoria was a good springboard for the following season of Brian Little and 3 consecutive Playoff finals.

It was my first full season following, attendances had been abysmal all season (I thought they were normal at the time). Every time we lost a match my dad would say, ‘that’s it, I’m not bringing you down again. You need to find a better pair of lucky pants.’ 

 

[zealot]

There was a great pitch invasion after that Oxford game. That's one of my earliest and favourite City memories - being a kid in the Kop for that...

 

[Bunyip]

12 hours ago, Deucalion said:

Season 2017-18 is the first season since Craig Levein was manager that I haven't had a season ticket. 

I had a big project on last year and knew I would miss many games. It was a good call to not get one.

This year, I would like to ease my way back in with selected games. But...without paying £120 for membership, I have almost no chance of getting tickets.

I am far from a plastic. I have cheered Claridge's shin at Wembley, Tony James tap in against West Brom, Fryatt's scoring run in League One, and Ranieri's title.

But still I cannot get a ticket to see Leicester play.

Build the extension.

Surely you knew that when you gave up your season ticket? Even if I could not have made it to many games last season I would still have kept my season ticket and let others use it in order to maintain my seat.

[Guest Markyblue]

Understand what your saying bunyip but for many of family's a season ticket is a large outlay of your income if it's not going to be used,all incomes and needs are different. 

[purpleronnie]

25 minutes ago, zealot said:

There was a great pitch invasion after that Oxford game. That's one of my earliest and favourite City memories - being a kid in the Kop for that...

 

Yep I was one of them, who knew what would happen just a season later, all those play off heartbreaks and then play off joy, martin O'neill and European football, then the awful regression and then the ultimate achievement.

crazy.