Proposed new stadium, by Aberdeen beach

[Andy_123]

That’s all well and good but have they said they are going to chip in towards it? 

[sooth_stander]

21 minutes ago, Tommy said:

The clowncil say they want stadium to remain as part of their beach area plan.

That’s them back from their lunchtime recess in the Blackfriars, is it? 

Bunch of numbnutts

Anyway, that’s the new stadium talk back in the box, see you in 12 months for the next exciting installment.

[Zeus]

The new stadium will come good.

 

 

One day 

[NEM]

1 hour ago, Andy_123 said:

That’s all well and good but have they said they are going to chip in towards it? 

They’re not chipping in towards Kingsford either so what does it matter. Just get it bloody built 

[Andy_123]

50 minutes ago, NEM said:

They’re not chipping in towards Kingsford either so what does it matter. Just get it bloody built 

Well it’s going to be a community facility rather than purely football stadium and will cost more money. Why would AFC foot the bill for something the council want? 

[Helmet]

1 hour ago, NEM said:

They’re not chipping in towards Kingsford either so what does it matter. Just get it bloody built 

They should be investing in the regeneration of the city and projects that bring/keep money into the city long term.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

16,000 capacity. 
1,500 for away fans.

Leaves 14,500 for home fans. 
Apparently of that 14,500, 1,500 are corporate hospitality. 

That leaves just 13,000 for ordinary Joes.

That’s too little.

We need 18,000 as a minimum. 

 

[maryhilldon]

18k is about right.

[redstrummer]

17 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

18k is about right.

tinpot , needs to be 20k

[WesthillWanderersFC]

9 minutes ago, Dorich Bisconti said:

100% 16.5k is stupid and if that happens you'd have to wonder why. 

One reason.

££££’s. 

[Guest milne_afc]

Make it 25k and let the scum have 10k. An extra £1,000,000(one million pounds) per season

[The Gee Man]

Hopefully a stadium we can grow into and spread the finances. Start off with  16-18k with the easy ability to add out of season so no revenue lost. 

[NEM]

2 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

16,000 capacity. 
1,500 for away fans.

Leaves 14,500 for home fans. 
Apparently of that 14,500, 1,500 are corporate hospitality. 

That leaves just 13,000 for ordinary Joes.

That’s too little.

We need 18,000 as a minimum. 

 

16k sounds good to me, means we can start locking tcheuchters out for the big games……

[WesthillWanderersFC]

9 minutes ago, NEM said:

16k sounds good to me, means we can start locking tcheuchters out for the big games……

Locking out most of the home fans is a strange move 

[zeroisgod76]

4 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

16,000 capacity. 
1,500 for away fans.

Leaves 14,500 for home fans. 
Apparently of that 14,500, 1,500 are corporate hospitality. 

That leaves just 13,000 for ordinary Joes.

That’s too little.

We need 18,000 as a minimum. 

 

We’re averaging almost 15k this season when we’ve not been at our best. 16k stadium would make us a laughing stock and show we have absolutely ZERO ambition as a club.

[super_al]

5 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

16,000 capacity. 
1,500 for away fans.

Leaves 14,500 for home fans. 
Apparently of that 14,500, 1,500 are corporate hospitality. 

That leaves just 13,000 for ordinary Joes.

That’s too little.

We need 18,000 as a minimum. 

 

Where did you see these figures? I thought it was 500 as an away end and 500 for walk up's.

[King Street Loon]

15 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

16,000 capacity. 
1,500 for away fans.

Leaves 14,500 for home fans. 
Apparently of that 14,500, 1,500 are corporate hospitality. 

That leaves just 13,000 for ordinary Joes.

That’s too little.

We need 18,000 as a minimum. 

 

States in the report that consideration should be given to increase the capacity to 18k and 20k if needed.

15 hours ago, redstrummer said:

tinpot , needs to be 20k

Why, we barely fill the stadium as it is. Most of the folk who post on here hardly go, as evidenced in the match day threads. Are they likely to attend regularly if we've a shiny new stadium? If they do it wouldn't be sustained attendance. 

What's the point in building a 20k stadium as you suggest if its only 3/4 full at best the majority of the time.

[Gooby1983]

25 minutes ago, King Street Loon said:

States in the report that consideration should be given to increase the capacity to 18k and 20k if needed.

Why, we barely fill the stadium as it is. Most of the folk who post on here hardly go, as evidenced in the match day threads. Are they likely to attend regularly if we've a shiny new stadium? If they do it wouldn't be sustained attendance. 

What's the point in building a 20k stadium as you suggest if its only 3/4 full at best the majority of the time.

Correct, our attendances this season are given attendances going by tickets sold for a match, not actual clicks through the turnstiles and this has been the case for years.

A season ticket buy back scheme for matches is probably the way ahead to maximise income, lower capacity is obviously  going to price out many fans going forward but that is already happening. Have my doubt the footprint of the beach area would fit much more than 16,000 hence why this figure. If we want a large stadium and cheap tickets then kingsford is the option, If the beach then its lower capacity and higher prices. 

[Dave Bus]

I think 18,000 would be a good compromise

[shooftahmooftah]

20 hours ago, Andy_123 said:

That’s all well and good but have they said they are going to chip in towards it? 

Yep free fish and CHIP suppers.  For Dave and directors only. 

[King Street Loon]

23 minutes ago, Dave Bus said:

I think 18,000 would be a good compromise

Nah, 16k fine with the option to increase if the long term demand is there.

[zeroisgod76]

4 minutes ago, King Street Loon said:

Nah, 16k fine with the option to increase if the long term demand is there.

16k would be embarrassing and tinpot. Would basically be us admitting we're a smaller club with less ambition than Hearts and Hibs.

 

[ericblack4boss]

All yesterdays decision has done is created more indecision, now we have to sites where we can build but with no contribution 

[The Gee Man]

2 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

16k would be embarrassing and tinpot. Would basically be us admitting we're a smaller club with less ambition than Hearts and Hibs.

 

I’d imagine as Brentford line up in there next 2 home games against spurs and Liverpool with only about 17k around them they might think as we do. F*ck hearts and hibs 

[zeroisgod76]

6 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

I’d imagine as Brentford line up in there next 2 home games against spurs and Liverpool with only about 17k around them they might think as we do. F*ck hearts and hibs 

Brentford moved from a 12k stadium to a 17k stadium. Had they downsized (as we are planning to do) then it'd also have been tinpot as fuck. Brentford had ambition, they built a bigger stadium than the one they were previously in and it paid off for them as within a year of it opening they'd been promoted to the Premier League.

By showing ambition they increased their average attendance from under 10 k to almost 17k.

[The Gee Man]

2 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Brentford moved from a 12k stadium to a 17k stadium. Had they downsized (as we are planning to do) then it'd also have been tinpot as fuck. Brentford had ambition, they built a bigger stadium than the one they were previously in and it paid off for them as within a year of it opening they'd been promoted to the Premier League.

By showing ambition they increased their average attendance from under 10 k to almost 17k.

So what will we realistically achieve with a new stadium? Average over last 3/4 seasons what 13k, to what then!

[sooth_stander]

How financially and technically viable is it to build a 16k seater stadium with the option to increase to 20/22k? Not very, I’d have thought.

If Scotland is part hosting Euro 2028, is there a chance of getting funding from that central pot, to add to the mix?

[The Gee Man]

It’s the biggest issue of affordability, what’s the point in spending £10-20 million more if we can’t fill it. Some central funding would be ideal to spread the costs and for friendliness for Scotland etc, even the odd other game when some countries play in Europe to save their players slepping home etc

[ericblack4boss]

9 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

How financially and technically viable is it to build a 16k seater stadium with the option to increase to 20/22k? Not very, I’d have thought.

If Scotland is part hosting Euro 2028, is there a chance of getting funding from that central pot, to add to the mix?

No because pittodrie won't be used

[zeroisgod76]

19 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

So what will we realistically achieve with a new stadium? Average over last 3/4 seasons what 13k, to what then!

Build it around the same size as the current stadium, even 18k wouldn't be quite so bad. And then get a good, winning team on the pitch which would see it filled every week.

Our home form this season has been good and we're averaging around 15k with 3 crowds out of 7 home league gamesalready above the intended capacity of the new stadium (likely to be 5 from 9 by this time next week).