Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:39 pm
Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:34 pm
snoopystorm wrote:RV Casual wrote:snoopystorm wrote:Heard the same argument when the stadium was being planned... do we need a bigger stadium when Ninnian Park is perfect for what we need.......the decision back then wasnt welcomed with open arms, heard a lot of people say they would boycott a new stadium, fast forward x amount of years and now do we need more seats?
Short answer yes, the bigger games sell out rapidly, season tickets sell out rapidly in the want to be areas (USW Stand)......
OP mention Man Utd and big 6 teams, they are the bread and butter of income for the smaller teams, in business terms it would be stupid not to take full advantage of that financial gain, so yes adding a new tier or more seats makes perfect sense... Man Utd benefited financially by opening new seating areas in the upper quadrants, Arsenal and Man City benefited from newer improved stadiums with more seating, Spurs have benefited from using Wembley and will further benefit from their new stadium, West Ham.... ok they haven’t benefited on the pitch and there’s ongoing issues but seating wise they have benefitted from the switch to a bigger stadium, our noises neighbours did too when they moved from the vetch to the Liberty.
Clubs survive from ‘bums in seats’ and shirt sales as their main income throughout the season so more seats means more financial stability, ultimately results in larger transfer kitties
Agree with a lot of what you say apart from the last bit.
What Clubs get from match day ticket sales through the season is a drop in the ocean.
You would be lucky to pay 7-8 of our squad one weeks wage of what we take in match day ticket sales.
It obviously helps but Clubs don't survive on it far from it.
What I meant by the last part is it’s gaurenteed income throughout the season, advertising is a lump sum at the start, sales of tickets and shirts are a weekly/fortnightly income, I can see what your saying about one weeks wages for several players but that’s for us, on the whole the sales of tickets and shirts go back into the club and part of that is funnelled into the transfer kitty, so more seats means more revenue for any club ultimately resulting in a larger transfer pot to play with
Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:48 pm
TAP_Sheep wrote:Nope. Selling out the ground doesn't mean you need to fully expand the stadium. I think I read somewhere we can take this ground to roughly 60,000. Yes, we sold out the Arsenal and City game but we didn't sell out the Newcastle game...so by looks of things we'll probably only sell out top 6,7,8 max. That doesn't warrant an expansion in our first season back in the prem at all. If we can stay up and kick on and we're always selling out, then we can talk.
Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:51 pm
RhiwEbbwBluebird wrote:More seats = more money, tan is a businessman he will expand it if we are looking like being in the premiership again next season because we will sell more than 33,000 for a lot of games and the fan base and club will continue to grow the longer we are in the premiership which i think is bloody great
Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:11 pm
Escott1927 wrote:RhiwEbbwBluebird wrote:More seats = more money, tan is a businessman he will expand it if we are looking like being in the premiership again next season because we will sell more than 33,000 for a lot of games and the fan base and club will continue to grow the longer we are in the premiership which i think is bloody great
More seats only equals more money if youre filling them. Yes we will sell out against the big clubs, not sure if we will against the smaller clubs though. Will be interesting to see the crowd against Burnley.
More of a reason not to expand though is that we only averaged around 20k in the championship last season and the atmosphere was shocking. Until we are an established premier league side there is no point expanding the stadium incase we are relegated.
Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:57 am
Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:20 am
Wayne S wrote:I look at it from a different angle. How much will it cost to build?
With the Welsh FA talking about throwing their lot in with a British World Cup bid we may get funding from elsewhere to get the ground to 40k so we have two stadia in the bid.
Free seats? Yes please.