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Post by StaffordPotter on Jun 11, 2015 20:04:33 GMT
By the looks of things common sense has prevailed and the plans for ground expansion have bin put on hold. How can people honestly complain if we are not selling out week in week out? Get over it people.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Jun 11, 2015 20:06:02 GMT
Grand keep the wind blowing in and the money on the pitch not round it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 20:06:58 GMT
Wow. Worst wind up ever.
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Post by ruts66 on Jun 11, 2015 20:08:17 GMT
You can't sell out hundreds of single seats when the demand is for pairs, threes, etc.
I'd rather sell 99% of 30,000+ than 99% of 27,500.
Wouldn't you...
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Post by StaffordPotter on Jun 11, 2015 20:08:14 GMT
Wind up? It's my opinion. |
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Post by werrington on Jun 11, 2015 20:08:34 GMT
By the looks of things common sense has prevailed and the plans for ground expansion have bin put on hold. How can people honestly complain if we are not selling out week in week out? Get over it people. Using that logic ....Why did we build a 28k seater stadium when we were only getting 12k ? I mean ...what was the point |
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Post by mrcoke on Jun 11, 2015 20:30:16 GMT
Maybe the plan is to wait and see if the club can win something next season or get into Europe and when there is a substantial demand go for a major expansion?
Just a thought.
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Post by FullerMagic on Jun 11, 2015 20:31:40 GMT
This should've been the summer we did it.
Total no-brainer
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Post by unknown182 on Jun 11, 2015 21:00:13 GMT
We can't sell single tickets because hardly anyone will buy a ticket on their own. Plus people wont buy tickets for a group when you have to pay £30+ for a home game.
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Post by upthefud on Jun 11, 2015 21:02:25 GMT
I back the board whatever their decision is.
As it is, no corner, fine. Move on.
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Post by stokiejoe on Jun 11, 2015 21:04:04 GMT
Wind up? It's my opinion. No not wind up; wind up; wind blowing Four candles Handles for forks  |
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Post by stokiejoe on Jun 11, 2015 21:05:16 GMT
By the looks of things common sense has prevailed and the plans for ground expansion have bin put on hold. How can people honestly complain if we are not selling out week in week out? Get over it people. Using that logic ....Why did we build a 28k seater stadium when we were only getting 12k ? I mean ...what was the point Council corruption and Moxey actually. |
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Post by mightyone on Jun 11, 2015 21:09:20 GMT
Come on people one thing at a time, the new dug outs are top priority on stadium improvements this close season so that when our new very expensive signings are dropped to the bench they are nice and warm.
These corners do cause a fuss on here I have to say but I'm sure the club will do it when THEY are good and ready.
For me it's what's on the pitch counts.
As always just my opinion.
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Post by werrington on Jun 11, 2015 21:12:44 GMT
The planning permission only has about 2 years left ? so a decision will probably have to made next pre season
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Post by desman2 on Jun 11, 2015 21:15:01 GMT
Our average gate last season was 27,050 which is almost capacity
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Jun 11, 2015 21:18:09 GMT
When you hear that teams like Leicester are going to extend the ground by another 10,000 you do have to wonder why we are not doing it.Having said that for me the only way it would work is to give away fans more tickets as a starter.
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Post by Pugsley on Jun 11, 2015 21:18:27 GMT
Pathetic, narrow minded, small time thinking, typical of this City in general.
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Post by owdestokie on Jun 11, 2015 21:38:34 GMT
It should have been a 28000 all seater, fully enclosed in the first place
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Post by slpmarc on Jun 11, 2015 21:41:22 GMT
Our average gate last season was 27,050 which is almost capacity Only the high profile games we sell out on, the other the club give away 1000's of tickets to community projects and the city 7's if they didn't there would be only 25000 at the games. Untill the club can fill the ground without resorting to giving away tickets I cannot see them expanding |
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Post by prem4stoke on Jun 11, 2015 21:55:54 GMT
I love it how we have a ground smaller than MK dons and Brighton.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 22:02:25 GMT
Our average gate last season was 27,050 which is almost capacity Only the high profile games we sell out on, the other the club give away 1000's of tickets to community projects and the city 7's if they didn't there would be only 25000 at the games. Untill the club can fill the ground without resorting to giving away tickets I cannot see them expanding 1,000's of tickets is completely over egging it. And if that was the case how can they fill the ground when two weeks before a game you can't get even two seats together? They can still continue to give tickets to community projects and kids as they are the future of the club, but those extra couple of thousand seats will help exiles, people who are self employed, students, shift workers and generally people who might not know they can make the game until fairly late in the day get a ticket. On several occasions this season I've tried to get tickets for my wife and two boys (I have a season ticket) and apart from the QPR game I couldn't get seats together. For the Spurs and Sunderland games the club were announcing on the website "Still tickets available" a week before the game when there wasn't two seats together in the whole fucking ground! Such a small time attitude the club has on this one I'm afraid...... |
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Post by mrcoke on Jun 11, 2015 22:04:30 GMT
If the club is giving loads of tickets away for none prime matches I think it would be stupid to expand and have rows of empty seats for most matches.
The club has never been strongly supported by the local population in it's history.
Planning permission lapsing in not an issue. Planning can not be open ended. It can be readily reapplied for and would be granted again as there is precedent unless there was a significant reason to refuse. If there was a significant reason such as extra investment in the area causing a traffic issue then it is the wrong thing to do anyway.
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Post by sportsman on Jun 11, 2015 22:13:11 GMT
The builders are busy building bet365 New hq's this summer. We should have written to DIY SOS big build to get it done. Then again it is the BBC. We'd be last on to get it done.
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Post by prem4stoke on Jun 11, 2015 22:19:33 GMT
I love it how we have a ground smaller than MK dons and Brighton. I don't normally talk to myself but just looked at MK Dons last game, att 16,995 capacity 30,500 Brighton last game against Watford, att 28,841 capacity 30,278 previous home game against Huddersfield 23,270 |
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Post by march4 on Jun 11, 2015 22:25:13 GMT
I love the wind howling round the pitch, especially when the likes of Spurs and Arsenal come to play.
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Post by retired1 on Jun 11, 2015 23:26:45 GMT
So the Brit to continue to be a championship (at best) stadium. Well done SCFC.
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Post by surreystokie on Jun 11, 2015 23:28:53 GMT
And a reminder that the few hundred average below capacity is often due to the non sale of all away tickets.
What's more, we must still be the only club which, when promoted to the P.L. actually reduced its capacity. It was originally a 28,000 seater!
And why when club photo's of the stadium are used, is it always taken from the South Stand?
Just coincidence, I suppose. Oh dear....
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Post by Gods on Jun 11, 2015 23:44:28 GMT
Our average gate last season was 27,050 which is almost capacity Only the high profile games we sell out on, the other the club give away 1000's of tickets to community projects and the city 7's if they didn't there would be only 25000 at the games. Untill the club can fill the ground without resorting to giving away tickets I cannot see them expanding You make a good point with regard to the number of tickets simply given away for many matches. |
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 12, 2015 1:07:08 GMT
Rotational Season tickets.
Mop up some of the empty seats by offering them on a rotational basis.
Buy a discounted season ticket {shared with three others} which gives a match in the South Stand, then one in the Novus, one in the Boothen, and then a match over in the posh end. Move around the ground and take in the differing atmospheres.
Get a priority option to buy one of the seats you're sampling if you particularly like it.
Rail standing in the scoreboard corner too.
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Post by djduncanjames on Jun 12, 2015 1:34:35 GMT
Rotational Season tickets. Mop up some of the empty seats by offering them on a rotational basis. Buy a discounted season ticket {shared with three others} which gives a match in the South Stand, then one in the Novus, one in the Boothen, and then a match over in the posh end. Move around the ground and take in the differing atmospheres. Get a priority option to buy one of the seats you're sampling if you particularly like it. Rail standing in the scoreboard corner too. Clever idea mate  |
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