davieG Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 If they did extend it, I would hope that should we get relegated or play against a lower draw team, the just wouldn't use it. If it was only used on games where would sell out normally then it would still pay for itself, but not make the rest of the ground look half empty and increase staffing costs the rest of the time. It would mean no season tickets up there, but better that than having more sparsely populated areas in less attractive fixtures. They could keep it basic make it general sale only and if and only if it looks like they are going to sell out. I don't know if this feasible, or there are hidden costs or regulations I haven't thought of but that is what I would do. The other consideration is bigger ground more likely to get an England friendly or be considered for a Euros or world cup bid, and get more money if the egg chasers need a bigger ground. Or they could put the away fans in there and charge them £35/40 a game.
harpendenfox Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Being Leicester we'd expand tbe capacity to 38k, say, and be relegated immediately.
Captain... Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Or they could put the away fans in there and charge them £35/40 a game. But that would still mean more of a stadium for us to fill for a less attractive fixture. I guess this extends on from what I said in the established club thread everything we do in the prem should have a relegation contingency plan. The players we sign, the extension of the stadium, the improving of facilities. It doesn't even need to be relegation, but if we extend the stadium and the numbers don't materialise, we can't do anything about the initial cost, but if we can easily close it and segregate it from the rest of the stadium, then we will we not being saying extra maintenance and staffing costs unnecessarily. I would also ensure the extension was built in front of the tv cameras and when not in use the seats can be covered with a massive fvck off advert for air Asia (other airline operators are available) that pay us a fvck load of baht everytime we use it.
davieG Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 But that would still mean more of a stadium for us to fill for a less attractive fixture. I guess this extends on from what I said in the established club thread everything we do in the prem should have a relegation contingency plan. The players we sign, the extension of the stadium, the improving of facilities. It doesn't even need to be relegation, but if we extend the stadium and the numbers don't materialise, we can't do anything about the initial cost, but if we can easily close it and segregate it from the rest of the stadium, then we will we not being saying extra maintenance and staffing costs unnecessarily. I would also ensure the extension was built in front of the tv cameras and when not in use the seats can be covered with a massive fvck off advert for air Asia (other airline operators are available) that pay us a fvck load of baht everytime we use it. Mine wasn't a serious suggestion more in the mode of what some clubs might do. As for an extension it would need to include another bank of executive boxes and plush seats plus more, better and bigger business suites to justify it hopefully it wouldn't matter then if the increseed attendances didn't materialise.
fleckneymike Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Ooops, My post should have said it 'wouldn't' cost a lot more so yes i agree with you. probably some more 'Entertaining rooms and restaurant as well. this is how they would justify it not on larger gates. Agree. Conferencing and retail is what most clubs want. Seeing as boxes 'start from 17k' I would imagine those by the half way line go for a considerable sum. They also rent out boxes from 1k per match so any future 'extension' might see boxes run the whole perimeter of the ground. Personally I can see no financial incentive for increasing the capacity though.
Smudge Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Our record attendance was 47,000 was it not? We have the potential to get crowds of that number but it will take time and success to reach that point. That was in 1928 when price of admittance was about 5p even accounting for inflation, that's £11
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 I'd love for them to add a second tier to the Kop, we'd finally have a modern double decker and we could have the bottom tier as the new Kop!
fuchsntf Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 For arguments sake.... Lets say we have a great run in the premiership 9-12yrs.We have 4 finishes in the top 7.lets say tempters 2 x 5th. We still wouldnt get avg gate of more than 28k and thats me just being positive. If Forest n Derby, Coventry stay out the top flight for the next 3-4 years, we would still have a similar avg, but a couple more top games just might get 30k+. Even next season, no relegation top 14. because of price and games onTV it would suprise me if we avg more than 23k. Just maintaining and having a quality stadium with some improvements will be costly. Sponsorships, like mentioned in a previous post with more boxes, corporate and private is the only improvements, maybe 1 or 2 restaurants that are open 5-6 days that I see will pay, and have a future even with relegation. The one thing I would like to see city really take on are family tickets (3-6 members) season and day tickets, on Real special offers, including for away fans. Another idea, I dont know if it would work...2 pubs with food on site,1 for home fans, 1 for away fans. owned by LCFC. Suggesting both pubs hrs on Weekend games 12- 9:30pm. Week games 6-11:30pm.Sold out stadium then game live on tv. Repeated Highlights.on other days. Open in the summer months as normal pubs offering 2 different types of faire.Also for private partys.
sylofox Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 A foot spa and an animal sex shop in the away changing rooms . . . They already do that when we play dirby why do you think we beat then 4-1 everytime
LCFC1996 Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Half the people in here are having a sensible discussion about the in's/out's of expanding capacity and then there's the other half of you... I love you both equally!
Captain... Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Half the people in here are having a sensible discussion about the in's/out's of expanding capacity and then there's the other half of you... I love you both equally! Threesome?
LanguedocFox Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Last time we were in the Prem, our average attendance was nearly 31,000; at Filbert Street, where I believe the capacity was limited to about 22K, our average attendances during the O'Neill era were more than 20,000 - even in the relegation season, it was over 19,000. So you can see that if we stay in the Prem for three or four years, and do reasonably well, we should get sell-out crowds a lot of the time with our current capacity, which may warrant a bigger ground. There's a limit, of course, and I cannot see us being able to sustain a 40,000-capacity stadium, even if we become fixtures in the Prem. One other issue is ticket prices. I can see them going through the roof if we go up, and that is likely to limit crowd-sizes - especially with so many matches being available live over the interweb.
Loggy88 Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 I wouldn't extend the stadium unless we become a stable premier league side. Big enough for the time being for me. If we go up which is looking obviously incredibly likely, and then got relegated and had added another few thousand seats, it's just a load more empty seats which looks shite.
AndWhat? Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Probably already been said but I'll say it again..... Turn the whole kop into safe standing, increase total capacity to 38,000. More than enough!
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Probably already been said but I'll say it again..... Turn the whole kop into safe standing, increase total capacity to 38,000. More than enough! Surely safe standing wouldn't double the capacity of the kop?
AndWhat? Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Surely safe standing wouldn't double the capacity of the kop? 1.8 per space. So near enough!
Itsthejoeker Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Increase the number of seats and decrease the ticket price?
Istilllovefilbert Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Probably already been said but I'll say it again..... Turn the whole kop into safe standing, increase total capacity to 38,000. More than enough! Good call. Most sensible and cost effective. Also imagine the atmosphere generated with standing. Do fans want it back though? I for one used to love it.
dibbdroid Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 We should switch the family stand and the kop. No, I'm not sitting at that end with the sun in my face and the kop has been my home since the 70s, hell no we won't go. What you need to do is rehome the ex Double Decker dwellers, they're the ones who don't sing and possible whinge the loudest.
Babylon Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 We should switch the family stand and the kop. Just so people know... this was a sarcastic response to a thread topic we've had 20 times this year alone. I wasn't being serious. How about this... https://soundcloud.com/babylon333/song One f'ing rep point for 20 minutes effort in garage band... shocking.
Nick Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Just so people know... this was a sarcastic response to a thread topic we've had 20 times this year alone. I wasn't being serious. One f'ing rep point for 20 minutes effort in garage band... shocking. 20 minutes? Really?
Babylon Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 20 minutes? Really? Well more like 30 seconds in garage band and 29 and a half minutes trying to work out how to upload the f'ing thing to the internet. If it's not obvious... I don't use garage band much.
dibbdroid Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 That song has changed my mind, it's like being in Captain Scarlett.
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