Build a new stand, pay over a period of time. Extra revenue from corporate facilities and big games. Show the fan base we are building for the future - and be ready in case we do get back to the promised land. If we wait while that day comes, we are already too late.
seriously if it ever gets any work or gets condemned etc the upper tier will get knocked down and some sort of plastic roof will be built around the current lower tier seats. theres your lot follks
Not really as I'm not pushing for us to build a new stand I'm saying that when the time comes then you invest for the future. For example when having a home for you and your lass you can buy a 1 bed because it's all you need or you can buy a 3 bed because you want kids. Rotherham have a lovely stadium but I bet the cost of expanding their stand to a capacity it could have been built at originally will exceed the cost of simply doing it right first time. Stewart was talking last season of having to expand, that wasn't much forward planning g was it? Personally I would build a new corner stand to go between the east and north and in that there would be new media facilities as well as facilities for the family stand
Rotherhams stadium was built specifically to easily and inexpensively expand if needed . Tony Stewart gave his plans on radio Sheffield years ago while stadium was being built.
Can't compare a stadium with a family house . To start with a family doesn't fluctuate to the extent Of Barnsley FC not / doing well, you don't buy a house in case you have loads of guests that visit you when you are doing well then come nowhere near when your not.
I don't know whether now is the right time or not but if/when we do, we need to incorporate a properly dedicated family area and another area similar to the disabled stand as that it already oversubscribed. It needs thinking about properly, not just more rows and rows of seats.
He did. But I can pretty much guarantee that it will cost more to start taking parts down to do the preplanned expansion than it would have done to just do it right first time. Again it's like a house. You can build a single story extension on the back if you want and it will cost x amount. You can build that extension with foundations capable of holding a second floor but it will cost more to whip the roof off and start building on top of it than it would do to just build a two story one in the first place.
Agreed. It would be really good to build one the size of the east stand where the lower tier is all standard seating and the upper tier is slightly different with the exec boxes set back an extra 6 foot so that they all get a balcony, rows of disabled bays in the upper tier, dedicated family stand, new well designed media gallery in the middle and like the away end a proper camera stand or two at the back. The space under the stand could house retail units including a proper bar and because you would have space behind an upper tier with a bit of customising you could create a kind of creche or play area for kids. You could make some money from that
Okay, say we get to the Premiership, and say we have a new stand with an extra 5000 capacity, and say we up season ticket prices to £500 a year. That's £2.5million extra from this new stand. If we get to the Premiership that money is bugger all. An irrelevance.
A bar used 23 or so times a year is not feasible. Apart from a Costcutters, what other "retail" business would be interested?
Image of a tin sheeted stand does not do the football clubs image any positives A up to date media centre and reception for the club in a new stand. Exec boxes and. Better conferencing facitliies (bigger would give another revenue source)dugouts more expansive. Under the stand changing facilities.and tunnel in the centre of it.
Something like a costcutters or other shop, there are very few around the oakwell area and there are new home being built a few feet from the west stand. A doctor's surgery. A refreshment stand that would be able to be accessed from outside the stand as well. There are many things to be honest. And a bar wouldn't only be used 23 times a year, that is extremely short sighted and symptomatic of the club's commercial accumen
Minority viewpoint (it seems) I'd like to see it painted up, fixed up and polished. I once read an article that says that the major aspect of being a fan of a football team is the connection to the ground. Maybe its a generational thing. As I get older the more I want things to be unchanged. When I go up to Oakwell it feels good. The likes of the Ricohs, Emirates, New Yorks, Riversides ... they are good and it is nice to visit. ('The likes of' do yer like that?) What year was the West Stand built? I'd say a lot of visiting fans to Oakwell think that it is cute and epitomises 'the likes of Barnsley'. Well fookem, I'm comfortable with Oakwell.
