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New Stadium Details And Discussions
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Hoopspur
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It's all water under the bridge but this would have been very solvable imo. There used to be a branch line from Highgate/Finsbury Park for example. Anyway it didn't happen so there's no point in getting into the details.
Lighty64
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I remember the racecourse that used to be there.
I then depressed myself when I looked up when it closed..............September 1970
I am 103 years old
i remember watching the racing from a gate, but thought i was a little older than 6
god all this ally pally talk is bringing back some memories
dovahkiin
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EN2_THFC on coys: Just done the SPVRS thing. As you would expect, it is seriously impressive; if you get the chance, go.
In summary, and again unsurprisingly, we are going to make incredible amounts of money from the stadium....just from football. Of the 55 boxes only 2 remain unsold, the big ones - they're £220k a season, 10 yr sign up. There are loads, and I mean loads of corporate seating (rather than boxes). 100 odd seats next to the tunnel with view inside the tunnel are £22k a season each. Sky lounges, about £5k-7k each and look incredible. Loads more. The top one - The H (Hostpur) Club, has a restaurant that they want to get a Michelin star for. Think they were about £17k, it all became a bit of a blur to be honest. It's so good. The cheap ones range from £2.5k (only about 20 of these available and are all gone), to £6k next to Levy (these gone too).
When you throw in the NFL (Jaguars were agreed but not any more, guy who showed us was confident we'd get a team over here once built), concerts (the promo video looks incredible) and boxing (a number of bouts agreed apparently) we are going to be very very rich.
Encouragingly, our guy said WHL station not being ready wouldn't be a problem - he said they've sold so much already he wouldn't know what they'd do if it didn't open on schedule!
Just to confirm, the stadium be as high as the crane cabs. In the NW corner, it's not that far off now.
Once you see it all together, it really is breath taking. Doesn't look at all like a bowl inside. If anything, the 3 small coroporate tiers look the Lane as is. It has character, the pitch is virtually the same as the moment *, and the south stand as good as you'd expect.
I defy anyone who goes to ever criticise Levy again. He might have got lucky with the Archway delay, and time to design it properly, but he is building us, quite comfortably, one of the best stadiums in the world.
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* EN2_THFC:Meant in terms of distance from the pitch to the stands. You're pretty blown away by the point you put the VR headsets on but I made a point of asking are the distances accurate and he said yes. As an example, and sitting in the middle of the new east stand, the south stand kop looks exactly the distance to the pitch as the current one.
EN2_THFC:
One thing I forgot to mention, which I think may be an issue: Away tickets.
He said they're currently allocated by ballot to corporates when over subscribed. This increase in coroporate numbers, and their demand for away tickets, will increase the numbers in this ballot. I think to keep the corporates happy they'll need a bigger allocation.... probably (and I'm speculating here) by reduced allocation for normal fans.
about north middle tier being converted to corporate: it looked like a ring of corporate seats to me when using the VR.
In summary, and again unsurprisingly, we are going to make incredible amounts of money from the stadium....just from football. Of the 55 boxes only 2 remain unsold, the big ones - they're £220k a season, 10 yr sign up. There are loads, and I mean loads of corporate seating (rather than boxes). 100 odd seats next to the tunnel with view inside the tunnel are £22k a season each. Sky lounges, about £5k-7k each and look incredible. Loads more. The top one - The H (Hostpur) Club, has a restaurant that they want to get a Michelin star for. Think they were about £17k, it all became a bit of a blur to be honest. It's so good. The cheap ones range from £2.5k (only about 20 of these available and are all gone), to £6k next to Levy (these gone too).
When you throw in the NFL (Jaguars were agreed but not any more, guy who showed us was confident we'd get a team over here once built), concerts (the promo video looks incredible) and boxing (a number of bouts agreed apparently) we are going to be very very rich.
Encouragingly, our guy said WHL station not being ready wouldn't be a problem - he said they've sold so much already he wouldn't know what they'd do if it didn't open on schedule!
Just to confirm, the stadium be as high as the crane cabs. In the NW corner, it's not that far off now.
Once you see it all together, it really is breath taking. Doesn't look at all like a bowl inside. If anything, the 3 small coroporate tiers look the Lane as is. It has character, the pitch is virtually the same as the moment *, and the south stand as good as you'd expect.
I defy anyone who goes to ever criticise Levy again. He might have got lucky with the Archway delay, and time to design it properly, but he is building us, quite comfortably, one of the best stadiums in the world.
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updates:
* EN2_THFC:Meant in terms of distance from the pitch to the stands. You're pretty blown away by the point you put the VR headsets on but I made a point of asking are the distances accurate and he said yes. As an example, and sitting in the middle of the new east stand, the south stand kop looks exactly the distance to the pitch as the current one.
EN2_THFC:
One thing I forgot to mention, which I think may be an issue: Away tickets.
He said they're currently allocated by ballot to corporates when over subscribed. This increase in coroporate numbers, and their demand for away tickets, will increase the numbers in this ballot. I think to keep the corporates happy they'll need a bigger allocation.... probably (and I'm speculating here) by reduced allocation for normal fans.
about north middle tier being converted to corporate: it looked like a ring of corporate seats to me when using the VR.
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Hoops
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Sounds great but wonder where us plebs will sit?
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Hoops
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WorcesterTHFC
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Just be happy that your seat won't be as many miles from the pitch as it would be at the
dovahkiin
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some updates from EN2_THFC added to the post above
Hoops
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Oh fuck off. Sorry for asking not to pay 5k for a ticket with a decent view.
They need to be carefull not to cleanse this stadium of the fans that paid for it to b built in the first place.
THFCSPURS19
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You seem to think the majority of the seats are in boxes.
WorcesterTHFC
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It's called humour. But, yes, paying £5K for a decent view is a bit strong.
Hoops
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I assume they will be expensive. Like the new west upper.
Im guessing regular folk will be on north and south lower and perhaps east and west upper.
Hoops
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I think its fair to say that normal fans will have worse views than we have now. Im not trying to be a doom monger, the stadium is great. But I don't think 10,000 johnny come lately paying 2k or 5k a ticket is anything to be proud about.
THFCSPURS19
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That's obviously going to be a result of a bigger stadium.
Hoops
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Like I said, Im not a doom monger and I appreciate the new stadium giving us a chance to grow.
But it will be an issue that the loyal supporters will get push to second class seats. Once the stadium is built.
Lilbaz
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Like they are not now in the second class seats?
Hoops
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True
