Amex Expansion - Is this possible?

Alba Badger · Apr 30, 2016

After the Boro game last night one of the five live pundits Steve Claridge mentioned (while being extremely positive about BHA) that Tony Bloom could add another tier onto one of the Amex stands to expand the stadium. Is this True? I can’t see how unless the east stand had another one added on top, there is a bit of land behind it so might be possible. Has anyone ever heard about this or is it the usual waffle from ill-informed pundits? He’s actually one of the few pundits I don’t hate.

Captain Sensible · Apr 30, 2016

Who wants to tell him?

StonehamPark · Apr 30, 2016

Alba Badger · Apr 30, 2016

I did think it might be. I think it's quite nice the way it is.

Prince Monolulu · Apr 30, 2016

Prince Monolulu · Apr 30, 2016

Alba Badger said:
After the Boro game last night one of the five live pundits Steve Claridge mentioned (while being extremely positive about BHA) that Tony Bloom could add another tier onto one of the Amex stands to expand the stadium. Is this True? I can’t see how unless the east stand had another one added on top, there is a bit of land behind it so might be possible. Has anyone ever heard about this or is it the usual waffle from ill-informed pundits? He’s actually one of the few pundits I don’t hate.

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?337279-Will-the-AMEX-be-EXTENDED-if-we-go-UP

pottert · Apr 30, 2016

We Have been near the top of the league all season & yet out of 23 home games we have only sold out twice.
Why do we need to expand the capacity?

Alba Badger · Apr 30, 2016

Not saying there is a need to, just that Steve Claridge said it was possible on the Radio so I just wanted to know if it was possible.

StonehamPark · Apr 30, 2016

pottert said:
We Have been near the top of the league all season & yet out of 23 home games we have only sold out twice.
Why do we need to expand the capacity?

There'd obviously be a much higher demand for tickets for most Premier League games at the Amex.
If we go up, I imagine we'd fill 30k seats for half our home games and rarely drop below 28k.
There might be 4 or 5 games which leave 3-5k without a ticket (potential for a 35k crowd).

So expanding by 5k for an extra 5 games per season = 25k Max tickets sold in 1 season (£875k based on a £35 ticket).
High chance we'll only be up there for 1-2 seasons, so the investment (likely into the £millions) wouldn't be worth the return.

Thunder Bolt · Apr 30, 2016

StonehamPark said:
There'd obviously be a much higher demand for tickets for most Premier League games at the Amex.

High chance we'll only be up there for 1-2 seasons, so the investment (likely into the £millions) wouldn't be worth the return.

High demand for the first season. After that the casual fan will drop away because we're losing more than winning. When we get relegated again, the numbers will drop again.

Stat Brother · Apr 30, 2016

It would be good if the extra tier was already built and stored elsewhere, perhaps under the Southwick tunnel.

Then hauled out and chinocked into place for the big games, before returning to storage when not needed.

StonehamPark · Apr 30, 2016

Thunder Bolt said:
High demand for the first season. After that the casual fan will drop away because we're losing more than winning. When we get relegated again, the numbers will drop again.

That's only if you're a miserable git and believe we're already doomed to fail. :thumbsup:

Thunder Bolt · Apr 30, 2016

StonehamPark said:
That's only if you're a miserable git and believe we're already doomed to fail.

Going by experience from 79-83.

Boy Blue · Apr 30, 2016

Manchester City couldn't because of how the roof was supported but the owners are adding another 14k behind the goals. Nothing is impossible.

Mackenzie · Apr 30, 2016

We'll lower the pitch.

Perkino · Apr 30, 2016

I seem to remember a figure of £7m to remove the roof and support the current structure which would enable any further developments. Limiting any future expansions to a few extra seats. Maybe a few could be added into the North East corner and the South East corner plus maybe a few more at the back of the west upper but beyond that I cannot imagine any other expansions will be worth the initial outlay.

sir albion · Apr 30, 2016

Thunder Bolt said:
High demand for the first season. After that the casual fan will drop away because we're losing more than winning. When we get relegated again, the numbers will drop again.

Since when do fans disappear from premiership matches?

When promoted you will get 10/15k extra fans appear and I agreed about if you get relegated as you'll lose a lot of the casual support.
Most championship clubs lose about 10k supporters when relegated

Stat Brother · Apr 30, 2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36160621

Ash Patel switched from his beloved Liverpool FC to support his home team, Leicester City

Nicola Butler took her dad Mike, who usually supports Liverpool and Coventry City, to the game against Swansea and says she has become hooked

Nixonator · Apr 30, 2016

sir albion said:
Since when do fans disappear from premiership matches?

They're basing it off football as it was 35 years ago.

Can't think of anything more stupid than to suggest support will significantly tail off if we manage to stay up for a few seasons, absolute madness.

Thunder Bolt · Apr 30, 2016

sir albion said:
Since when do fans disappear from premiership matches?

When promoted you will get 10/15k extra fans appear and I agreed about if you get relegated as you'll lose a lot of the casual support.
Most championship clubs lose about 10k supporters when relegated

Mike Bailey kept us up with 1-0 wins, and draws. After the first season, fans started moaning about it. In the Premier League, the target is 40 points.
Casual fans enjoy watching winning teams, not defensive teams. Attendances drop off.

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