Olympic Stadium Discussion and Questions
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Perhaps it was because I was in the old East Stand but for me the facilities, food, drink, w/c are all far superior in the new ground than the old. Quicker service, greater choice and far less waiting around. It could take 15 minutes just to get to the end of the queue for the w/c at half time.
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Upper East was indeed often a 15 minute toilet queue, or a straight choice between a drink or a widdleGsbgsb wrote:Perhaps it was because I was in the old East Stand but for me the facilities, food, drink, w/c are all far superior in the new ground than the old. Quicker service, greater choice and far less waiting around. It could take 15 minutes just to get to the end of the queue for the w/c at half time.
Alas it's the only part that is partially better really (the beer queues where we now sit are still ridiculous for a venue that was meant to be "next level")
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Cat A games at a min of 9000 seats at £50 a ticket, £450,000
Isn't that the extra they pay a year, so Quids in
More tourists and away fans, but being able to boast the biggest capacity multi purpose rented atdium in London
Isn't that the extra they pay a year, so Quids in
More tourists and away fans, but being able to boast the biggest capacity multi purpose rented atdium in London
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I don't think it's possible to cater for everyone in a 15 minute spell at any stadium. Queues are inevitable unless you literally had catering facilities at every nook and cranny. It must vary round the ground but outside the east stand the catering outlets cope reasonably well. About 5 minute wait to get served normally.
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My prediction is that the stadium will have secured naming rights within 18 months.IronworksDave wrote:
Pretty sure naming rights are not based on an extra 6,000 seats ... it's all about TV and Branding ... a better team gets higher sponsorship ....
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I think you are right on that. On a somewhat related note, the Betway sponsorship runs until May 2020:Red Kens Slave wrote:
My prediction is that the stadium will have secured naming rights within 18 months.
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so I can see the club putting the shirt sponsorship in with the idea of naming the stadium (like Arsenal have) in return for x amount of return on the deal.
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Couldn’t help myself but look on social media after seeing an BBC article that Spurs had done a “fan familiarisation day” for their new stadium.
Some of the pictures make me sick to my stomach.
That place is stunning. Stands, concourses, everything. It’s perfect.
Some of the pictures make me sick to my stomach.
That place is stunning. Stands, concourses, everything. It’s perfect.
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^^^^^
By way of contrast our club refused any access to the bowl of disappointment until the opening match.
By way of contrast our club refused any access to the bowl of disappointment until the opening match.
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I saw that, it's a phenomenal looking arena.HammerMan2004 wrote:Couldn’t help myself but look on social media after seeing an BBC article that Spurs had done a “fan familiarisation day” for their new stadium.
Some of the pictures make me sick to my stomach.
That place is stunning. Stands, concourses, everything. It’s perfect.
Bastards.
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As part of the percentage of people who voted that they could support the move if they had more information to make an informed choice, I was sent emails by the club promising potential visits to the stadium itself to have a look from inside.the pink palermo wrote:^^^^^
By way of contrast our club refused any access to the bowl of disappointment until the opening match.
Never happened.
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Don't beat yourself up ... Spuds spent 800m on a project that includes a purpose built 60,000 seating / standing football stadium ... we spend 3m a year to rent an athletics bowl ...
There is just no comparison .... what bit about knock the feckin' thing down and build a new one is so hard to understand ..... we've only got to look 30 miles up the road to see what we can be done ....
There is just no comparison .... what bit about knock the feckin' thing down and build a new one is so hard to understand ..... we've only got to look 30 miles up the road to see what we can be done ....
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I know the Spurs ground looks great and everything but it wouldn’t have been achieved without the poker faced double bluff subversive move for both the Olympic Stadium and the Boleyn. They were never ever going to move into either and both were used as bargaining tools to secure that new Stadium. Yes, they put more money than we did into the Olympic stadium but don’t think they haven’t played a very good, crafty, deceitful game to secure their new upgraded stadium.
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I mean, their place even has indoor concourses, with walls and windows. Can you believe it?IronworksDave wrote:Don't beat yourself up ... Spuds spent 800m on a project that includes a purpose built 60,000 seating / standing football stadium ... we spend 3m a year to rent an athletics bowl ...
There is just no comparison .... what bit about knock the feckin' thing down and build a new one is so hard to understand ..... we've only got to look 30 miles up the road to see what we can be done ....
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Georgee Paris wrote:I know the Spurs ground looks great and everything but it wouldn’t have been achieved without the poker faced double bluff subversive move for both the Olympic Stadium and the Boleyn. They were never ever going to move into either and both were used as bargaining tools to secure that new Stadium. Yes, they put more money than we did into the Olympic stadium but don’t think they haven’t played a very good, crafty, deceitful game to secure their new upgraded stadium.
Very true georgee, we're only renting it because the deal to buy it was stopped by the court action.How much better it would have been we can't say, but we'd have had control over running things from day one.
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Say we had dropped 200m at the ground and bought it. We would still be in the same position with a ground not fit for football now.
The bank balance is empty. A redesign of seating would have been a 20 or 30 year down the road planned project
The bank balance is empty. A redesign of seating would have been a 20 or 30 year down the road planned project
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Why would we do that?! :shock:Belchio wrote:Say we had dropped 200m at the ground and bought it.
The stadium is haemorrhaging cash. If we offered to take it off them for FREE we are saving them £22 million in losses every year. Times that by the 97 remaining years, we’ve just gifted them £2,134 MILLION.
I know it’s Christmas but to give them £200m on top of that is bonkers!
I'd kindly suggest they should be paying us to take it off their hands!
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The second that we owned that stadium we would be of huge interest to investors.
The current owners wouldn't carry out any renovation or spend any cash on the stadium at all but they would without doubt sell out to a multi billionaire who wanted a toy to play with in the Premier League that just happens to come with an expensive plot of real estate and is close to City airport.
The current owners wouldn't carry out any renovation or spend any cash on the stadium at all but they would without doubt sell out to a multi billionaire who wanted a toy to play with in the Premier League that just happens to come with an expensive plot of real estate and is close to City airport.
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If they sold the place to us, the covenants and percentage claw-back from a sell-on would be so restrictive specifically designed so that no-one made much of a profit from selling on.sutts07 wrote:The second that we owned that stadium we would be of huge interest to investors.
In a few years time the capital costs of maintaining the place are going to start to mount up. We have a very favourable rental agreement that requires the landlord to maintain it.
One of the problems that Ashley faces in trying sell Newcastle is that the cost of maintaining their ground is out of proportion to the income it gets from only being used every other week for most of the year.
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Especially since the entire upper deck was designed to be temporary, to be removed and sold on to (I think) Brazil. I can't see them having built it with longevity in mind.Wembley1966 wrote:..........................
In a few years time the capital costs of maintaining the place are going to start to mount up.
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The structure of just about any stadium has a life of between 15 and 30 years. That's why the 97 years remaining on the OS lease is a bit of a red herring. The stadium will need rebuilding, either bit by bit or totally, long before that. It's a question as to who's responsibility it will be