Spurs' possible new stadium

[ronk]

Of course the main difference is one teams Arsenal here and one team is Spurs. Spurs trying to emulate what they did I don't think is gonna work. Didn't work for us really did it?

Worked out fine for us. We have one of the best stadiums in Britain and only moderate debt associated with its construction.

It's (long) walking distance into the city centre and would be even better transport wise if the light rail had ever gone ahead (not that the bus is difficult). The area around the stadium is in need of some development because there's a lot of potential and the casino might have been good, but I get the feeling that something will happen.

[sky_blue_stew]

I'd really hate to see Spurs have the prettiest stadium in the league. They've always irritated me as a club (quite irrationally). But if the building of this gets beleaguered with difficulties, I won't be shedding many tears. Plus, it will be a learning experience for us to see how they pull it off.

[lets all have a disco]

We should have built our big tier when our stadium was like this,like a previous poster said and given the south stand to away support.





But

In future we could find ourselves needing to develop,four options really.



1.Develop the North Car park and build a new ground,Plenty of room up there to do that plus we wont need so many places with the met expansion and hopefully better buses.

2.Do a Spurs esq situation and build around the stadium bit by bit and eventually knock down Eastlands and it be replaced.
3.Develop Eastlands.
4.Try and buy land around the ground such as the Clayton site over the road and build a new ground/leisure/training ground etc.

Either way we have lots of options for the future stadium wise that is a big difference to lots of other clubs wanting to expand.

[ronk]

I'd favour option 3.

I know it's sorta the wrong thread but as I've never spent any serious amount of time in Manchester I'm not expert on the geography. It appears to me that there could be a train service direct to COMS with the simple construction of a train station at, say, Rowsley St (although I understand signalling etc. can be far easier said than done).

But I'm a bit confused by the light rail plans overall for Manchester given the amount of heavy gauge railway that could apparently be upgraded easily to more frequent services.

[lets all have a disco]

I think cost wise the best option would be to develop the North Car park and build a new ground there as we could tailor what we wanted to do and make it very large.


But my actual preference would be to Buy the Clayton site build leisure Venues City bars,cinemas,hotels apartments etc and training grounds over there and try to build round Eastlands into a bigger ground,kind of Spurs style but bigger build the higher tiers and one massive tier round the ground and then some how build Eastlands into it.

[Dazzacity]

The emirates is the best in the prem by far but that one may well top it. If they have padded seats of course.

Yeah, maybe in the family section. Personally, Id rip the seats out all together.

[marvin]

with the size and wealth of London, it should be at least 70k.

If NFL can sell out wembley, then Spus can get 70k. Fulham sell out craven Cottage and a lot of the fans that go there aren't even proper Fulham fans, they're just Londoners who like the idea of watching cheap premiership football.

[Vhero]

Of course the main difference is one teams Arsenal here and one team is Spurs. Spurs trying to emulate what they did I don't think is gonna work. Didn't work for us really did it?

Worked out fine for us. We have one of the best stadiums in Britain and only moderate debt associated with its construction.

It's (long) walking distance into the city centre and would be even better transport wise if the light rail had ever gone ahead (not that the bus is difficult). The area around the stadium is in need of some development because there's a lot of potential and the casino might have been good, but I get the feeling that something will happen.

I meant getting more fans into the stadium working out for us :P. When we moved from Maine road we got less people coming to matches until recently.

[irblinx]

Looks like the 400+ homes will be paying for most of it.

Isn't that the model that Chelsea fell foul of?

Looks very nice though