Has anyone been on a stadium tour lately? I am sure they would explain all about it!
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AMEX expansion - there must be a plan hidden away somewhere......
- Thread starter Giraffe
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Me: what plans are there for expansion?
Tour guide: we've been asked not to talk about them.
Me: not even to ST holders?
Tour guide: especially them. Apparently, the higher-ups don't want rumours on social media sites.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
In the land of deja vu, try 26 min 50 in. Uncle Tone will tell ya.
Sake
Sake
In the land of deja vu, try 26 min 50 in. Uncle Tone will tell ya.
Sake
He would say that though, wouldn't he?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
I still think they pitched it about right. We had many games whilst doing really well last year where we couldn't sell out. If many of the 5,000 or 10,000 after tickets are there to cheer on their 2nd team then tough .
- Jun 27, 2012
- 13,911
Its possible but not very likely. For that to happen we'd have to have a precipitous drop of 6 or 7K in season ticket renewals in March well before the outcome of the season is known, and for none of the current 5K waiting list happy to step up.
And 20K is possible i guess but no real evidence to suggest it will happen. Aside from Y1, then average crowds in the Champ have been in the 25-28K box not 20K so unless a Prem relegation is followed by a Wigan/Bolton/Blackburn drop further downwards into L1 and even then unlikely.
Megazone
On his last warning
In the land of deja vu, try 26 min 50 in. Uncle Tone will tell ya.
Sake
28 min 55 secs.
- Jun 27, 2012
- 13,911
We had 10 games out of 23 that sold out last season and near capacity for many of the rest. This season likely to be a sell out or near capacity throughout. Unlikely tickets will ever go on general sale.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
The majority of those 'sell outs' I would guess were towards the business end of the season. I still feel that our week in week out saturation point is about right, acid tests in games v 'Udders, Watford, Burnley et al.
Nixonator
Well-known member
Maybe it's about right, for now. The club has many plans in motion to increase our supporter base coupled with it growing organically.
el punal
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I bet he's got Vennegoor of Hesselink on the back of his shirt.
symyjym
Banned
They could probaly add 1 or 2 rows around the pitch which would mean lowering the pitch level so could add a 1000 or so, but it makes sense to have a packed out stadium and anyone who can't get a ticket has the luxury of watching from home or in a pub.
Other than that they would have had to have included hydrolic jacks around the structure of the Amex to raise the East Stand to the height of the West Stand.
Other than that they would have had to have included hydrolic jacks around the structure of the Amex to raise the East Stand to the height of the West Stand.
- Jun 27, 2012
- 13,911
They were sell outs. - they sold all the tickets. There weren't any more left. They weren't "sell outs" .
GT49er
Well-known member
Whether or not the ground can be expanded, the big stumbling block must be whether the transport links can be expanded. Can they? Even if they put in an extra platform at Falmer station, could the track capacity between Lewes and Brighton handle any more trains? - I doubt it.
Marshy
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Its the perfect size for us, I don't want it any bigger.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
They were or weren't? Sorry for being dumb but I have no idea what that means.
Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
This, as someone already pointed out is the big stumbling block. Doesn't matter if we could expand to 60k, if we have no infrastructure the whole project comes tumbling down.
- Aug 8, 2005
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- Jun 27, 2012
- 13,911
You've decided to write "sell outs" with quotes so i'm assuming you're the one doubting that a sell out means a sell out.