Birmingham Sports Quarter (1 Viewer)

[pusbccfc]

Will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

62,000 seater stadium.
A government funded tram link.
20,000 seater Arena.

Fresh Sports Quarter timeline emerges after ground-breaking £2.4bn announcement

Birmingham City's hopes of a new stadium have taken a major step-forward today with confirmation of vital funding

www.birminghammail.co.uk

I've said on here before, Birmingham fans are lapping this up but I can just imagine them selling their soul for success.

In some ways, it's a more extreme version of our plans in the 90s which eventually turned out the way it did.

Looking at West Ham, growing from a 35,000 fan base to near 65,000 is something that causes problems.

 

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[chiefdave]

That timeline comes on the day it was announced the Government are to provide £2.4billion worth of funding to the West Midlands, including £300m to £400m for transport links between the city centre and Blues’ proposed 62,000 seater ground on the old Wheels site.

wtf, we had the council put about £10m of their own money in and ended up owning everything. And a tramline that runs past the ground that we still can't use but they're getting handed £400m for a tram. Its not even that far to walk from New Street!

Not sure Birmingham really needs 3 arenas either. Is this stuff likely to happen or is there a lot of wishful thinking happening here?

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

It's seems well over the top, this is Birmingham City we're talking about ffs not AC Milan or Barcelona

 

[TomRad85]

Another little snippet from Blues X. They are going to be unbearable.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

This could end up another Darlington scenario who moved to a stadium far to over the top for them and have never recovered and playing in other town's nearby.

 

[David O'Day]

Long way to go yet and these clowns were running the show when they got relegated, they seem to forget that.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Long way to go yet and these clowns were running the show when they got relegated, they seem to forget that.

And sacked John Eustace to bring in Wayne Rooney

 

[TomRad85]

Long way to go yet and these clowns were running the show when they got relegated, they seem to forget that.

I still find the whole thing weird. The owners are charging Blues interest, I'm sure they can afford not to like our boy Doug. They also still only own half the club I think, with that other geezer they couldn't stand owning the other half. I'm sure they could afford to buy him out too.
Not to mention a 62,000 seater for them would be ridiculous.
It certainly looks like everything is going their way atm but it all just feels a bit weird.

 

[pusbccfc]

Another little snippet from Blues X. They are going to be unbearable.

They genuinely think Villa fans are scared of it happening

 

[pusbccfc]

wtf, we had the council put about £10m of their own money in and ended up owning everything. And a tramline that runs past the ground that we still can't use but they're getting handed £400m for a tram. Its not even that far to walk from New Street!

Not sure Birmingham really needs 3 arenas either. Is this stuff likely to happen or is there a lot of wishful thinking happening here?

It will happen but there's a lot that could go wrong

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Villa do not even need a 60k seater stadium and all due respect to Birmingham, they have a pretty average fan base for home crowds. Like us, only recently sell out St Andrews with a reduced away support capacity.

This project has got ‘boom and bust’ written all over it.

 

[pusbccfc]

Villa do not even need a 60k seater stadium and all due respect to Birmingham, they have a pretty average fan base for home crowds. Like us, only recently sell out St Andrews with a reduced away support capacity.

This project has got ‘boom and bust’ written all over it.

They'd come close to filling it, but mostly with tourists.

Similar to West Ham. Ask their fans what they think of their tourist bowl. They hate it. I'm sure most traditional West Ham fans and they would trade their European trophy and Top Half finishes to return to their traditions.