Proposed new stadium, by Aberdeen beach

[Tommy]

16 minutes ago, Kincardine_Mearns_Red said:

So why were we averaging 18000/19000 a season back in 83/84?

When they were on a 29 games undefeated run it would attract decent crowds.

[NEM]

57 minutes ago, Millertime said:

No, I took a stab at looking learned about that period

Haha

I'm not far off though am I?

Only 10k or so short

[NEM]

1 hour ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Just get it built at Kingsford. The whole council / beach plan is nothing but pie in the sky!!

Confirmation (not that it was needed) that you are a complete plum

[zeroisgod76]

Just now, NEM said:

Stay at Pittodrie then.  Fuck Kingsford

Fuck that... Pittodrie is a dump. Kingsford is the best option for the club. Ground has already been prepared for the stadium.

If 'fans' don't want to travel 5 miles from the city centre to see their team then fuck them, they can go watch Cove instead.

[zeroisgod76]

8 minutes ago, NEM said:

Confirmation (not that it was needed) that you are a complete plum

Why? Fot not trusting a word that comes from Aberdeen City Council? The stadium will NEVER be built at the beach and the sooner people realise this and move on the better.

[Millertime]

17 minutes ago, NEM said:

Only 10k or so short

What are you saying,  we had 24k average home attendance under SAF? No way 

I always thought it was 14k max and I'm still sure it was

[Yorston Vasey]

We're not thinking this through properly. 

How much would it cost Cormack to take over St Johnstone, let's say £10m to buy the club.

Let's say £15m to move their whole stadium brick by brick up the A90. They've already got some red seats so we can keep them and sell the blue & yellow on eBay (Mansfield Town might buy the job lot, Everton also for their new ground).

Let's say £10m to fill in all four corners (remember we've got all the leftover unbroken red seats from Pittodrie plus the additional McDairmid ones) to take the capacity up a bit.

Let's say £1m for a big fancy scoreboard and a statue of David Rowson as well.

Job done at half the price that Cormack is quoting.

[NEM]

2 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Why? Fot not trusting a word that comes from Aberdeen City Council? The stadium will NEVER be built at the beach and the sooner people realise this and move on the better.

Stay at Pittodrie then.  Fuck Kingsford

[NEM]

6 minutes ago, Millertime said:

What are you saying,  we had 24k average home attendance under SAF? No way 

I always thought it was 14k max and I'm still sure it was

You never mentioned averages

[NEM]

8 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Fuck that... Pittodrie is a dump. Kingsford is the best option for the club. Ground has already been prepared for the stadium.

If 'fans' don't want to travel 5 miles from the city centre to see their team then fuck them, they can go watch Cove instead.

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[Millertime]

1 minute ago, NEM said:

You never mentioned averages

I said (or at least meant if it wasn't clear) that 14k was about the average fans we had during SAF reign

And the point of that was that even at our most successful, we didn't need some big, 20k plus stadium

Am I havering?

[Millertime]

9 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Why? Fot not trusting a word that comes from Aberdeen City Council? The stadium will NEVER be built at the beach and the sooner people realise this and move on the better.

I like that you're a Zerouali fan

But dislike everything else

It saddens me

[zeroisgod76]

1 minute ago, Millertime said:

I like that you're a Zerouali fan

But dislike everything else

It saddens me

So do you have faith that ACC will push ahead with getting a stadium built at the beach?

[zeroisgod76]

3 minutes ago, NEM said:

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Thanks for highlighting the facts in my comment, much appreciated ?

[aberdeen1970]

We should stay at Pittodrie and develop stand by stand when we can afford it. 

The plans for reduced capacity should enable us to have sufficient footprint at the current site? 

[Guest milne_afc]

Rip out the seats and get on with it.

35k all standing.

Tenners on the door.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

2 hours ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Fuck that... Pittodrie is a dump. Kingsford is the best option for the club. Ground has already been prepared for the stadium.

If 'fans' don't want to travel 5 miles from the city centre to see their team then fuck them, they can go watch Cove instead.

Hiya Paul 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

3 hours ago, Kincardine_Mearns_Red said:

So why were we averaging 18000/19000 a season back in 83/84?

Many more Im sure but the two home games that stick in my mind as hoachin' were the hibs game just after Gothenburg that I mentioned above and the home leg of Torino.  Just seemed to be crammed in all ways.

[zeroisgod76]

26 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Hiya Paul 

We just picking random names? Ok erm hi Geoff?? ?

[Tommy]

Six days before we played Real Madrid, we had a home game v Killie. The attendance was 12,000. Several of the home games that season had poor attendances. 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

43 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

We just picking random names? Ok erm hi Geoff?? ?

And Geoff is never ever random!

[Millertime]

1 hour ago, Tommy said:

Six days before we played Real Madrid, we had a home game v Killie. The attendance was 12,000. Several of the home games that season had poor attendances. 

@NEM

[NEM]

54 minutes ago, Millertime said:

@NEM

Several crowds that season were over 20k rendering your point redundant

[Tommy]

The league average home games in 82/83 was 15,200. 

[aberdeen1970]

Leave the south stand and Richard Donald as they are just now and build new main and merkland stands which join together. 

Eventually extend this to the south stand filling in the corner between merkland and south. 

I'm not hung up about a symmetrical stadium all the way around. That's just vanity. 

 

[aberdeen1970]

6 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

RDS upper is a horrendous place to watch football. Probably the worst experience Ive had in the world to view a game and Ive been to a shit load of stadiums.

I don't mind it.  Though I generally get a season ticket in the south. 

You get an entire view of the pitch so it's good from a tactical perspective.  But I agree it feels disconnected from the atmosphere 

 

[Millertime]

48 minutes ago, Tommy said:

The league average home games in 82/83 was 15,200. 

@NEM

[aberdeen1970]

11 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

The atmosphere? When did they start that at Pittodrie?

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You ken fit I mean. Connected to the moans and groans around pitch side then!

[RUL]

In terms of the cost, the club is really going to push the eco side of a new stadium, they think they can get millions in grants by doing this.

[Guest milne_afc]

8 minutes ago, RUL said:

In terms of the cost, the club is really going to push the eco side of a new stadium, they think they can get millions in grants by doing this.

It’s entirely made of wind.