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Post by werrington on Mar 7, 2016 17:07:33 GMT
<<<Cough >>>
Around 100 tickets remaining for Saturday's game. Saints sold out. Should mean 11 out of 14 home sell outs this season! #scfc #iamstoke
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Post by warringtonstokie on Mar 7, 2016 17:14:52 GMT
Should we fill the corners in?
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Post by nott1 on Mar 7, 2016 17:18:26 GMT
<<<Cough >>> Around 100 tickets remaining for Saturday's game. Saints sold out. Should mean 11 out of 14 home sell outs this season! #scfc #iamstoke No, the tickets have to be season tickets not casual one offs (every week).  |
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Post by werrington on Mar 7, 2016 17:19:01 GMT
( smiley )... If enough pressure is put on perhaps they might
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Post by boskampsflaps on Mar 7, 2016 17:36:05 GMT
Wonder how many they gave away.
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Post by Do it for dobing on Mar 7, 2016 17:46:07 GMT
listening to Angela Smith last night on Knot FM ,I don't see any pressure being put on the club to upgrade the stadiums facilities and capacity in the near future
she kept referring to the non sell out for midweek games despite it being explained that young people have school and college so can't attend as easily in the middle of the week
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Post by that's our Ric on Mar 7, 2016 17:49:05 GMT
Premier league on the pitch
Vauxhall conference off it !
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Post by march4 on Mar 7, 2016 17:54:37 GMT
I wonder how many thousand have been given away to schools, etc.
I don't mind this policy, but I think the figure should be available while the debate for filling the corner continues.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 7, 2016 18:01:01 GMT
listening to Angela Smith last night on Knot FM ,I don't see any pressure being put on the club to upgrade the stadiums facilities and capacity in the near future she kept referring to the non sell out for midweek games despite it being explained that young people have school and college so can't attend as easily in the middle of the weekThat is true - but the majority of children in our crowd are probably season ticket holders and will get counted in the attendance whether they are there or not. |
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Post by pottersrule on Mar 7, 2016 18:02:40 GMT
listening to Angela Smith last night on Knot FM ,I don't see any pressure being put on the club to upgrade the stadiums facilities and capacity in the near future she kept referring to the non sell out for midweek games despite it being explained that young people have school and college so can't attend as easily in the middle of the week Work commitments to. |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 7, 2016 18:05:42 GMT
listening to Angela Smith last night on Knot FM ,I don't see any pressure being put on the club to upgrade the stadiums facilities and capacity in the near future she kept referring to the non sell out for midweek games despite it being explained that young people have school and college so can't attend as easily in the middle of the week Work commitments to. Yes, but as with children, adults who are season ticket holders get counted in the attendance whether they are there or not. |
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Post by Do it for dobing on Mar 7, 2016 18:08:24 GMT
I just think that is more difficult to get to midweek games due to personal circumstances.My point was Angela did not seem at all to be bothered about stadium expansion or the improvement of the concourses
She suggested that the ground would have to be closed for a while and we would have to play our games at Vale Park during any building work
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Post by wuzza on Mar 7, 2016 18:12:54 GMT
Keep coming back to the point of the stadium infrastructure - what is the point of creating even more chaos by facilitating thousands more bodies into a road system that simply cannot cope?
(Midweek games are almost a no go area for those of us who travel a bit of a distance - the motorways are a nightmare only to be followed by the disaster that is the local road network. You need to set off about 4 hours in advance and not bank on getting home till well after mid-night.)
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 7, 2016 18:17:20 GMT
I just think that is more difficult to get to midweek games due to personal circumstances.My point was Angela did not seem at all to be bothered about stadium expansion or the improvement of the concourses She suggested that the ground would have to be closed for a while and we would have to play our games at Vale Park during any building workShe's obviously not a builder or an engineer! If Man City and Liverpool can rebuild their stands during the season I'm sure we can. I'm not a civil engineer myself but I'd bet that each of our missing corners can be built largely during the summer - and any work during the season would cause minimal disruption to the stands at either side. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:27:24 GMT
<<<Cough >>> Around 100 tickets remaining for Saturday's game. Saints sold out. Should mean 11 out of 14 home sell outs this season! #scfc #iamstoke All individual seats as well. Plus Southampton have only taken (and sold) the smaller allocation so there will be just over 26,000 Stokies in the ground for this one.......Swansea was down to individual seats as well but a few Block 38 tickets have been released, Sunderland and West Ham are pretty much individual seats as well give or take the odd front row seat..... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:29:39 GMT
Keep coming back to the point of the stadium infrastructure - what is the point of creating even more chaos by facilitating thousands more bodies into a road system that simply cannot cope? (Midweek games are almost a no go area for those of us who travel a bit of a distance - the motorways are a nightmare only to be followed by the disaster that is the local road network. You need to set off about 4 hours in advance and not bank on getting home till well after mid-night.) The club have never once cited the traffic management issue for not filling a corner in and to be honest it's the only credible argument they could come up with. Finding some unused land around the A50/A500 and having a park and ride to the ground would be a doddle if the will was there.... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:32:14 GMT
listening to Angela Smith last night on Knot FM ,I don't see any pressure being put on the club to upgrade the stadiums facilities and capacity in the near future she kept referring to the non sell out for midweek games despite it being explained that young people have school and college so can't attend as easily in the middle of the week The Newcastle game was sold out bar a few hundred tickets and that was after Block 38 tickets were given back fairly late in the day. Are they seriously suggesting the odd empty seat on a night match is a deal breaker? |
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 7, 2016 18:35:24 GMT
Keep coming back to the point of the stadium infrastructure - what is the point of creating even more chaos by facilitating thousands more bodies into a road system that simply cannot cope? (Midweek games are almost a no go area for those of us who travel a bit of a distance - the motorways are a nightmare only to be followed by the disaster that is the local road network. You need to set off about 4 hours in advance and not bank on getting home till well after mid-night.) Complete red herring, plus they are putting an extra lane on the A50 to ease congestion. There is no argument against putting in 1800 extra seats, none whatsoever. It's all down to bone idleness. |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 7, 2016 18:37:41 GMT
Keep coming back to the point of the stadium infrastructure - what is the point of creating even more chaos by facilitating thousands more bodies into a road system that simply cannot cope? (Midweek games are almost a no go area for those of us who travel a bit of a distance - the motorways are a nightmare only to be followed by the disaster that is the local road network. You need to set off about 4 hours in advance and not bank on getting home till well after mid-night.) Complete red herring, plus they are putting an extra lane on the A50 to ease congestion. There is no argument against putting in 1800 extra seats, none whatsoever. It's all down to bone idleness. If the will was there it would be done. Look at the training ground. St Peter wanted it. It was done. Simple as. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:38:36 GMT
 For the record the "non sell outs" were Newacastle (night game few hundred left), Man City (Category A* on telly couple of hundred left) and Norwich City (night game less than a 100 tickets left) - in the grand scheme of things that means absolutely nothing when you think that an extra 1,800 seats would hopefully allow the extortionate Category A/A* prices to come down and enable people to get 2/3 seats together on a regular basis.... |
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Post by Do it for dobing on Mar 7, 2016 18:39:31 GMT
The other remark she made was Stoke will not expand until we sell an extra 1000 season tickets
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:41:06 GMT
The other remark she made was Stoke will not expand until we sell an extra 1000 season tickets If she or the Council haven't challenged this they should be forced to resign immediately, sell an extra 1,000 tickets even though it's physically impossible to get 2 seats together unless it's Block 19 front row by the corner flag if you're lucky..... |
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 7, 2016 18:42:33 GMT
The other remark she made was Stoke will not expand until we sell an extra 1000 season tickets The supporters council is an extended mouthpiece for the Chief Executive. It is a defunct organisation that should be disbanded immediately. |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 7, 2016 18:48:48 GMT
The other remark she made was Stoke will not expand until we sell an extra 1000 season tickets The club clearly don't want to expand the stadium, or upgrade it. As far as they're concerned why would they. It would cost a fortune and provide very little (in the scheme of things) revenue. We as customers fill it (almost) every week regardless of the shit state it's in. We have a flash training ground where St Peter and Scholes can show off to any potential signing or investor. The ground is now a bit of an after thought. Apart from match day I bet they're rarely there. So what motivation do they have to throw money away on expansion or renovation. None. So don't expect it any time soon. A couple of pots of red and white gloss is about all we'll get. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:56:39 GMT
The other remark she made was Stoke will not expand until we sell an extra 1000 season tickets The club clearly don't want to expand the stadium, or upgrade it. As far as they're concerned why would they.It would cost a fortune and provide very little (in the scheme of things) revenue. We as customers fill it (almost) every week regardless of the shit state it's in. We have a flash training ground where St Peter and Scholes can show off to any potential signing or investor. The ground is now a bit of an after thought. Apart from match day I bet they're rarely there. So what motivation do they have to throw money away on expansion or renovation.None. So don't expect it any time soon. A couple of pots of red and white gloss is about all we'll get. They pride themselves on 25% of our season ticket holders being under 21. In the next few years those youngsters in The Family Stand will have nowhere to relocate to and will becoming occasional attendees or drift away. Completely short sighted and all for the price of a Dean Whitehead. The owners have been great, and they have a real chance to leave a long lasting legacy..... |
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Post by Waggy on Mar 7, 2016 18:57:09 GMT
Should we fill the corners in? Not sure, would we sell out? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 18:57:11 GMT
Have the SC given their official stance on the stadium development ideas? Assuming that they have a stance?
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 7, 2016 18:58:43 GMT
The club clearly don't want to expand the stadium, or upgrade it. As far as they're concerned why would they.It would cost a fortune and provide very little (in the scheme of things) revenue. We as customers fill it (almost) every week regardless of the shit state it's in. We have a flash training ground where St Peter and Scholes can show off to any potential signing or investor. The ground is now a bit of an after thought. Apart from match day I bet they're rarely there. So what motivation do they have to throw money away on expansion or renovation.None. So don't expect it any time soon. A couple of pots of red and white gloss is about all we'll get. They pride themselves on 25% of our season ticket holders being under 21. In the next few years those youngsters in The Family Stand will have nowhere to relocate to and will becoming occasional attendees or drift away. Completely short sighted and all for the price of a Dean Whitehead. The owners have been great, and they have a real chance to leave a long lasting legacy..... I was told the other day the club have been quoted £14million for the scoreboard corner fill in and moving the big telly. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 19:01:48 GMT
Keep coming back to the point of the stadium infrastructure - what is the point of creating even more chaos by facilitating thousands more bodies into a road system that simply cannot cope? (Midweek games are almost a no go area for those of us who travel a bit of a distance - the motorways are a nightmare only to be followed by the disaster that is the local road network. You need to set off about 4 hours in advance and not bank on getting home till well after mid-night.) Complete red herring, plus they are putting an extra lane on the A50 to ease congestion. There is no argument against putting in 1800 extra seats, none whatsoever. It's all down to bone idleness. Forgetting the capacity/selling of seats/traffic issues for a moment....part of my argument for expansion is the fact that the ground looks half-arsed, unfinished, and not befitting of an established Premier League club. It looks shit, and the bits that don't aren't always maintained properly. |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 7, 2016 19:04:35 GMT
The club clearly don't want to expand the stadium, or upgrade it. As far as they're concerned why would they.It would cost a fortune and provide very little (in the scheme of things) revenue. We as customers fill it (almost) every week regardless of the shit state it's in. We have a flash training ground where St Peter and Scholes can show off to any potential signing or investor. The ground is now a bit of an after thought. Apart from match day I bet they're rarely there. So what motivation do they have to throw money away on expansion or renovation.None. So don't expect it any time soon. A couple of pots of red and white gloss is about all we'll get. They pride themselves on 25% of our season ticket holders being under 21. In the next few years those youngsters in The Family Stand will have nowhere to relocate to and will becoming occasional attendees or drift away. Completely short sighted and all for the price of a Dean Whitehead. The owners have been great, and they have a real chance to leave a long lasting legacy..... Mate if they'd have wanted to they'd have done it by now. The training ground and the Academy are their legacy and that's where any future structural investment will go. Spending money on the ground is throwing money down the drain as far as they're concerned. It's a crap stadium, in a crap spot. Why increase it's crapness? A new corner will simply highlight how shabby and rubbish the rest of the ground is. They'd then have to spend millions bringing the rest of the ground and the infrastructure up to spec. It's not happening. We'll have a new stadium before this one gets finished (and perhaps that's the plan). We can but hope. |
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