Agreed, bloke was a clown with his retractable pitch and National stadium ideas. HR held 23K, to think paid £113 million to increase our capacity potential by just 9000 people. With people like him running the club and he wasn’t on his own, one being a Cabinet Minister in his time,no wonder we ended up with crippling £60million debts.
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Joy Division
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The East stand was a poor design for a mid-nineties build, no new stands should be built with supporting pillars like that.
Liquid Gold
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Agree the pillars shouldn't have been there but apart from that it was a good modern design. I don't mind a pillar here and there either.
Bramall Lane is a a great example of what could have been. 32k squeezed in, a couple of supporting pillars but a great atmospheric ground right by the city centre.
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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chiefdave
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If you knocked down Ikea and the SkyDome (the whole complex not just the ice rink) along with the car park you'd probably have enough room but even if you believed SISU were building a stadium the cost for the site would make it a non starter.
torchomatic
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Agree, but my point was we could have improved HR quite easily. We didn't have to leave.
Grendel
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Southampton managed a 30,000 attendance in league 1 St Mary’s has always been a huge draw for some reason
Ring Of Steel
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I know Portsmouth fans were mystified as to where all the Southampton fans had suddenly appeared from. I think that was the year they went up and also won the checkatrade trophy or whatever it was called then, they had some momentum going.
Max wouldn't have far to travel .
Disclaimer I know he's unlikely to be around long enough and it's not happening anyway.
Ring Of Steel
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He lives in town does he?
Over the road
New apartments in the converted old Co-op.
Joy Division
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I agree it could have been improved but I'm not so sure we could have increased the capacity on it without buying more land and the surrounding houses.
Skybluemichael
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Ok money no object where would you like a new stadium, would be great next to the station
Skybluemichael
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Or
Ring Of Steel
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I see my old school on there
yes- in town. If there were no obstacles in the way then somewhere in the city centre all day long for me.
Skybluemichael
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How good would it be if it was inside the ring road the foot print of the ground wouldn’t take up the much space
Peter Billing Eyes
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With traffic congestion, it’s highly unlikely planning permission would be obtained for a new stadium around the city centre. A lot of the locations being suggested on here are on land that is owned or on long-term leases to existing landlords and any suggestion of building on Hearsall Common or the Memorial Park is folly. It’s easy to get carried away with wishful thinking without considering the practicalities or potential resistance a new development would encounter. That’s without taking into consideration the existing local development plan.
Skybluemichael
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Said money no object, just dreaming pay off who needs paying off, wouldn’t it be good at IKEA halfway between bus/train station
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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In reality I think the most likely candidates would be current retail/business parks near the centre to provide enough space.
Central Six would have been an OK shout given proximity to train station etc, but now they're building the bus hub on that side not going to happen.
Central Six would have been an OK shout given proximity to train station etc, but now they're building the bus hub on that side not going to happen.
