New Stadium Details And Discussions

[Chris Flynn]

If the extra revinue generated means we can start competing for the big trophies, do you really care that much?

 

[E17yid]

agree with everything you've said mate... I understand its 'needs must' but I really dislike the fact we are building the ground with someone else in mind. also i've seen nothing that says the cockerels will be prominent. it might sound silly but not having a cockerel over looking the new lane will be a massive disappointment. we lost Audere est Facere. next we have no cockerel standing tall??

Yep, for me no matter what people say I feel we're losing a bit of our identity and that saddens me. I hope this new stadium isn't going to be a soulless one like the Emerites but if this NFL thing takes off (which I doubt to be fair as most uk based NFL fans are complete mongs) then I really worry about atmosphere and spurs fans in general becoming a bit disalusioned with it all.

 

[Qwayvy]

The value in having an NFL London franchise would primarily be in the stadium naming rights. We could get up to £20 mill a year if the stadium has both a major Premier League team and an NFL franchise. And it's something no-one else would be able to do.

NFL franchise is all about making money (unless DL owns it) expect that they will extract value from contracts, like naming rights, that they inflate.

 

[GMI]

Our beautiful new stadium will only look the way it does due to nfl and the deal made.

Is your Avatar the skeletal face of E17yids Avatar. When you see them next to each other...

 

[Chris Flynn]

Yep, for me no matter what people say I feel we're losing a bit of our identity and that saddens me. I hope this new stadium isn't going to be a soulless one like the Emerites but if this NFL thing takes off (which I doubt to be fair as most uk based NFL fans are complete mongs) then I really worry about atmosphere and spurs fans in general becoming a bit disalusioned with it all.

How? I dont really get this, it'll played on different days and dosnt affect our matchday experience at all. Unless you live in the stadium i dont know how you would even know tbh.

 

[E17yid]

How? I dont really get this, it'll played on different days and dosnt affect our matchday experience at all. Unless you live in the stadium i dont know how you would even know tbh.

I just feel like we're selling off a bit of our home and that it's not solely ours. We'll rent it out to whoever ponies up the most dosh. Like I said in my original post, I understand this is just how it is now but I, personally, find it a bit sad.

If this whole thing is a success there will be people all over the globe who will think, when you say the name of our new stadium, oh yeah, that's where the Green Bay fudge packers play. They won't think, oh yeah, that's Spurs's new ground. To some it will be but not for all like it is with WHL or any other sporting team on the face of the planet.

 

[Chris Flynn]

I just feel like we're selling off a bit of our home and that it's not solely ours. We'll rent it out to whoever ponies up the most dosh. Like I said in my original post, I understand this is just how it is now but I, personally, find it a bit sad.

If this whole thing is a success there will be people all over the globe who will think, when you say the name of our new stadium, oh yeah, that's where the Green Bay fudge packers play. They won't think, oh yeah, that's Spurs's new ground. To some it will be but not for all like it is with WHL or any other sporting team on the face of the planet.

If could go that way or it could be that the nfl games there have an amazing atmosphere and itd be "the kansas chimps vs the ohio lobsters at new white heart lane in london, home of tottenham hotspurs, in one of the hottest atmospheres in nfl". Id be supprised if they wernt contractually obliged to mention us x number of times during a broadcast. Then people watching would think "gee whizz buddy, the atomsphere at tauttinghaym hautspoys is amazing, might try and catch me one of dem dare games, ya hear"

 

[longtimespur]

New picture just found on SSC

https://twitter.com/ume_ben

Really shows the rakers going in.

 

[Chris Flynn]

Plus youll be able to buy half and half whatever nfl team/spurs tops like with the half and half scalfs the tourists love. Brilliant
Wont have to keep making my own

 

[E17yid]

If could go that way or it could be that the nfl games there have an amazing atmosphere and itd be "the kansas chimps vs the ohio lobsters at new white heart lane in london, home of tottenham hotspurs, in one of the hottest atmospheres in nfl". Id be supprised if they wernt contractually obliged to mention us x number of times during a broadcast. Then people watching would think "gee whizz buddy, the atomsphere at tauttinghaym hautspoys is amazing, might try and catch me one of dem dare games, ya hear"

If they are forced to salute the chicken badge before they play I might forget the whole thing.

 

[thebenjamin]

Wow amazing pic. Could play in that already I reckon

 

[Chris Flynn]

If they are forced to salute the chicken badge before they play I might forget the whole thing.

Ha ha, like playing in kyzakztan or something "well Bill, the tiny bald president of this stadium insists all who use it salute a statue of a chicken and sing a local song call Gurcha" "Ive never seen anything like it Chip" "Me neither Bill, me neither"

End of NFL at WHL

 

[Lilbaz]

@E17yid i take it youare concerned of a possible future london franchise being based at nwl rather that the two games proposed?

 

[E17yid]

@E17yid i take it youare concerned of a possible future london franchise being based at nwl rather that the two games proposed?

Yes but I don't really like any part of it. But yeah, the idea of a future London franchise sharing our ground sends a shiver down my spine.

 

[worcestersauce]

I think we need to come to terms with the fact that over the next two decades we will become the biggest football club in the world and so everybody will know us and our ground.
Like it or not my lovelies, you lot are just going to have to come to terms with that.

 

[UpTownSpur]

Yep, for me no matter what people say I feel we're losing a bit of our identity and that saddens me. I hope this new stadium isn't going to be a soulless one like the Emerites but if this NFL thing takes off (which I doubt to be fair as most uk based NFL fans are complete mongs) then I really worry about atmosphere and spurs fans in general becoming a bit disalusioned with it all.

A typical football stadium makes money on average once every two weeks or so when games are played there. The rest of the time it costs money to maintain, and if we can find other uses for it to bring money in rather than it up just sitting there empty 90% of the time, that would be a good thing, would it not? An NFL franchise will be a massive success, the catchment area is not London or even the UK, but the whole of Europe. This could only benefit Spurs.

 

[E17yid]

A typical football stadium makes money on average once every two weeks or so when games are played there. The rest of the time it costs money to maintain, and if we can find other uses for it to bring money in rather than it up just sitting there empty 90% of the time, that would be a good thing, would it not? An NFL franchise will be a massive success, the catchment area is not London or even the UK, but the whole of Europe. This could only benefit Spurs.

All you're doing is talking about the numbers. I couldn't give 2 fucks about the stadium being expensive to maintain, every other club in the world gets by just fine.

But yeah, for the hundredth time, I appreciate I'm looking at it from a fans point of view (funny that) and that these days, for a club like us, we have to explore other options but that doesn't mean to say I have to like it, especially when it's a sport I hate. Id rather we fill the ground up with water and hosted synchronised swimming comps

 

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Personally love the fact the nfl are going to play here. It's a fantastic sport when you actually get into it. If it wasn't for Spurs I'd enjoy it more than football

 

[spud]

I think we need to come to terms with the fact that over the next two decades we will become the biggest football club in the world.....

I may be in a minority of one, but as far as I'm concerned if the Wanderers had never moved from Woolwich we would've become the biggest club in the world a long time ago.

(Sorry this is horrendously off topic.)

 

[danielneeds]

I quite enjoy watching the NFL, but I think the idea of a London franchise is stupid. If they're going to do it though, and it helps us pay off out stadium quicker, great. I don't really care what happens at the stadium at times when it's not our match days, just like I couldn't give two hoots what did or didn't happen at the the old stadium when we weren't playing.