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13 minutes ago, dyanmark said:

I am recalling correctly .I'm sure I went to Filbert street way back probably around 1964 with 40,000 in there.It was a proper crush though not pleasant.

Most of them would have turned up on bikes or walked certainly very few cars.

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Home advantage should be seen as a positive to build on. Would have thought the players would rather play in front of 45k rather than 32k. Home backing can be just like the mythical 12th man. Plenty of other posts about increasing fan base etc and the clubs marketing should be more than able to fill the ground. Getting behind the players can make it a positive for us and a volatile noisy atmosphere may unsettle the opposition. Making the ground into a fortress and a ground where teams really don't fancy coming to  could be worth a few extra points a season and just maybe the difference between finishing 1 or 2 places higher and that can bring massive financial rewards. We are an established premiership team now and it is right to look to increase capacity to keep moving forward is there any team in the top 6 with a lower capacity than us 

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On 18/05/2019 at 10:18, Markyblue said:

Got to say as much as i love our owners it seems that we are very much kept in the dark about the general plans for the future of the club. Even these meetings with the selected fans seem to have everyone sworn to secrecy,  quite bizarre really.

Yes but if you mention you think it may be on the backburner you get roasted on here.:D

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13 minutes ago, Out Foxed said:

Apologies if discussed but what do we see as the optimum attendance, at the moment we do really well to fill the stadium every week. Would 42k be too much and leave too many empty seats or do you think we could hit that?

Yeah definitely. The move from Filbert Street to Filbert Way was questioned and we went from 21k to 32k attendances. Over 1,000,000 people live in Leicestershire and there’s not many clubs challenging our catchment to the immediate east and south.

 

The title win would have engaged potential fans that might not have been interested otherwise and they’ve got little chance of seeing us with our current capacity.

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We're basically where we were with Filbert Street at the end- as long as we're in the top flight, it's going to be full.

 

More and more people are going to the football these days as well, so to not act now for fear of having a few empty seats sometimes would be incredibly shortsighted. 

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Empty seats means you can spend more on players because you can demonstrate you can potentially earn more by selling those seats in the future. If the stadium is full, you can't earn more next year than you can this without hiking prices which then leads onto potentially earning less. Man City do this, that's why they're not bothered about empty seats at their ground.

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1 hour ago, Out Foxed said:

 Sorry I’ve just reread. I meant we do well in terms of always basically hitting capacity. That read like I was saying we were only just making it. 

We average 99% attendance, which is as high as it's ever going to be for any club. Demand is exceeding capacity by some margin.

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9 hours ago, dyanmark said:

Davie-my  uncle lived on the corner of filbert street so it was very handy to leave the bikes 2 bob to get in

he was a roofer but his eyesite went so he only did bungalows !

I’d have thought he’d gone for the high rise flats danger money if he couldn’t see the ground

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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/update-leicester-city-king-power-2897627

 

Leicester City are still committed to the expansion of King Power Stadium, LeicestershireLive understands.

 

City announced at the start of last season that they were looking at how to increase the capacity at King Power Stadium but have revealed no details since on how they might develop the stadium, leading to speculation the club had shelved the plans over the financial viability of the project.

The current economic climate, Brexit and the sudden death of chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha last October were also seen as possible factors in City cooling their plans, however LeicestershireLive understands the project is still very much alive.

 

City have purchased six-and-a-half acres of land behind the East Stand, which is understood to be the stand that will be developed along similar lines to the Anfield expansion in Liverpool.

However, City are still at the very early stages of planning what they will do to increase the capacity, which could see King Power host crowds of around 40,000, and what form the expansion will take, including which facilities and which type of seating will be included.

Anfield’s main stand development cost them £110 million but boosted their revenue on matchdays by £12 million per season, due mainly to an increase in hospitality income.

 

Regardless, the City project means another big investment in facilities on the back of the state-of-the-art training ground currently under construction at Charnwood, which cost cost as much as £100 million, but City are still committed to the King Power Stadium project.

The training ground facility, which will be amongst the best in Europe, has become City’s priority and focus as they look to get it complete by the start of the 2020-21 season.

When that is open, energies will be redirected to the stadium expansion, which could also include a permanent memorial to Khun Vichai, who stated his commitment to the stadium plans in his annual pre-season address last August.

His son Khun Aiyawatt recently said at the end of season dinner that he wanted to fulfil his father’s vision for the club.

“It is something we have thought about a lot over the last eight years, but we had to be sure that the club was ready to take that step and that it was consistent with the sustainable growth of the club,” Khun Vichai wrote in the matchday magazine for the visit of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

 

“The King Power Stadium atmosphere has been such a big asset to Leicester City during that time that we had to make sure any possible expansion would be good for the matchday experience and the advantage it gives to the team on the pitch.

“Having studied the evidence and current trends we felt now, following the growth and success of the last two years, was the time to move forward.

“It’s a really exciting project that we are determined to deliver for our fans and the Leicester community.

“King Power Stadium is already a major asset to Leicester that has not only been the stage for some of the greatest sporting stories ever seen, but it has brought some of the finest international sport to the city too.

 

“The Premier League, the Champions League, the Rugby World Cup, senior England internationals – all major sporting events and competitions this stadium has hosted, proudly bringing attention, prestige and economic revenue to this great sporting city.

“Imagine what will be possible with an increased capacity, improved facilities and purposeful investment in the surrounding site.

“We see it not only as an opportunity for the club, but as our duty to give the city of Leicester a venue and a destination worthy of its strong standing in world sport.

“There are still parties to be consulted and processes to be observed before we can commit to a timeline or detailed plans, (including capacity), but I’m confident that, with the support of our fans and our community, we will be able to report some progress in the near future.”

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1 hour ago, Beechey said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/update-leicester-city-king-power-2897627

 

Leicester City are still committed to the expansion of King Power Stadium, LeicestershireLive understands.

 

City announced at the start of last season that they were looking at how to increase the capacity at King Power Stadium but have revealed no details since on how they might develop the stadium, leading to speculation the club had shelved the plans over the financial viability of the project.

The current economic climate, Brexit and the sudden death of chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha last October were also seen as possible factors in City cooling their plans, however LeicestershireLive understands the project is still very much alive.

 

City have purchased six-and-a-half acres of land behind the East Stand, which is understood to be the stand that will be developed along similar lines to the Anfield expansion in Liverpool.

However, City are still at the very early stages of planning what they will do to increase the capacity, which could see King Power host crowds of around 40,000, and what form the expansion will take, including which facilities and which type of seating will be included.

Anfield’s main stand development cost them £110 million but boosted their revenue on matchdays by £12 million per season, due mainly to an increase in hospitality income.

 

Regardless, the City project means another big investment in facilities on the back of the state-of-the-art training ground currently under construction at Charnwood, which cost cost as much as £100 million, but City are still committed to the King Power Stadium project.

The training ground facility, which will be amongst the best in Europe, has become City’s priority and focus as they look to get it complete by the start of the 2020-21 season.

When that is open, energies will be redirected to the stadium expansion, which could also include a permanent memorial to Khun Vichai, who stated his commitment to the stadium plans in his annual pre-season address last August.

His son Khun Aiyawatt recently said at the end of season dinner that he wanted to fulfil his father’s vision for the club.

“It is something we have thought about a lot over the last eight years, but we had to be sure that the club was ready to take that step and that it was consistent with the sustainable growth of the club,” Khun Vichai wrote in the matchday magazine for the visit of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

 

“The King Power Stadium atmosphere has been such a big asset to Leicester City during that time that we had to make sure any possible expansion would be good for the matchday experience and the advantage it gives to the team on the pitch.

“Having studied the evidence and current trends we felt now, following the growth and success of the last two years, was the time to move forward.

“It’s a really exciting project that we are determined to deliver for our fans and the Leicester community.

“King Power Stadium is already a major asset to Leicester that has not only been the stage for some of the greatest sporting stories ever seen, but it has brought some of the finest international sport to the city too.

 

“The Premier League, the Champions League, the Rugby World Cup, senior England internationals – all major sporting events and competitions this stadium has hosted, proudly bringing attention, prestige and economic revenue to this great sporting city.

“Imagine what will be possible with an increased capacity, improved facilities and purposeful investment in the surrounding site.

“We see it not only as an opportunity for the club, but as our duty to give the city of Leicester a venue and a destination worthy of its strong standing in world sport.

“There are still parties to be consulted and processes to be observed before we can commit to a timeline or detailed plans, (including capacity), but I’m confident that, with the support of our fans and our community, we will be able to report some progress in the near future.”

They’ve been reading FoxesTalk, then. 

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1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Anyone think this could signify them coming round to the idea of rail seating?

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Well yeah. The club will clearly want to cram as many fans into as efficient use of space as possible, maximising revenues whilst future proofing for any change in the law regarding safe standing. No brainer really.

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2 hours ago, FoxinNotts said:

Well yeah. The club will clearly want to cram as many fans into as efficient use of space as possible, maximising revenues whilst future proofing for any change in the law regarding safe standing. No brainer really.

They make the money from hospitality expect lots of boxes in the expansion not just loads of seats that can be flogged for 30/40 quid

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