WonderingSoton
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- Dec 3, 2014
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Makes you wonder - if the Amex needs all that dosh spending on it to reach the standards, how do Bournemouth or Palace meet the standard with their respective grounds?
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£4-5 million to be spent of the stadium...
- Thread starter Titanic
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That's simply because they keep upping the standards.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
They pencil in our home games for Friday evenings, so they can stay on, and enjoy the whole weekend by the seaside.
gazingdown
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- Feb 26, 2011
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Space for studio at south end in wall? Failing that there's space above SE corner seating but I would rather they fill that with seating, it's the only part of the stadium that looks "unfinished".
BensGrandad
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Next year it will be a 3 course meal and wine for all the TV staff involved before and after the game plus accommodation in our hotel if TB gets permission to build it.
Gullflyinghigh
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- Apr 23, 2012
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Is there a chance that the required standards have changed since the stadium was built?
TheBigUnit
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Plus a couple hundred more seats at least, #AMEXExpansion 
Barber listed other items this morning on BBC Sussex - that are also included in the £5m - £1m on HD floodlights; extending the facilities for the written press (and their seating?) and completion of the digital advertising boards. I believe someone else mentioned before (Barber at a forum) that there was a requirement for additional facilities outside the ground under premier rules (toilets?)
8th battalion East Lancs
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el punal
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You've forgotten the complimentary smoking jackets and cucumber sandwich triangles, with the crusts cut off.
Surely that's just good business planning. A few years ago the stadium was built to PL spec, since then they may have introduced some additional requirements and PB, as a good CEO, has said OK, we'll do that when we need to rather than increasing the risk to FFP when they weren't required.
Megazone
On his last warning
I've been saying it for years, our floodlights just aren't good enough!
Now looks what's happened! If only the club had listened to me, they wouldn't be in such a major crisis right now!
Now looks what's happened! If only the club had listened to me, they wouldn't be in such a major crisis right now!
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
4K UHD wasn't invented when the stadium was built
seagull_special
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Darn it, we will have to sell Dunk and Knockeart!
LowKarate
New member
£4m needs to be spent fixing the pitch before the Bristol game.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Maybe the 2nd TV studio will be utilised by 'foreign speaking' pundits 
The_Viper
Well-known member
This was all covered maybe last summer? I definitely have read about this some time ago from PB, probably even on here. Still, imagine how much other clubs had to pay if we still have to do that much. Bournemouth, Burnley must have had to spend double that and I can't imagine how much work would have to go into Sheff Wed, Hudders and some of the other playoff contenders.
Dolph Ins
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I used to love it when you rocked up to The Goldstone and saw the scaffolding up, knowing it would be on The Big Match next day.
It won't be. But it's hardly unreasonable for the TV companies to be able to specify studios etc anyway - seeing as that's where the money comes from.