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  1. Planning permission had been fully granted - the decision would have been ours and ours alone, the council had absolutely nothing to do with it.
  2. It would be some turnaround by the club to go from not doing it to re-starting in eight or nine weeks time - they'd have to start this summer to get it finished in time. I think given the money that's getting spent on the warehouse and the existing facilities we can safely rule out a new North Stand starting before the summer of 2029.
  3. Because they're looking at any and all means that will help - that'll mean better provision for trains, for walking, for cycles, for busses, for taxis and for drivers - this isn't a problem that can be solved by making only one of the methods better. The station development is going ahead regardless, it's not linked to the club.
  4. Absolutely, I'm still sad that the new North Stand isn't going ahead this summer.
  5. Building a larger stadium, in the scheme of things, doesn't actually make a club an enormous amount more income - for the bigger clubs in the league, commercial revenue and sponsorship partnerships make three times the amount that stadiums do. Even Spurs, with their state of the art billion pound investment make twice as much through sponsorship as they do through matchday income. We're maximising what we have while concentrating our growth in the areas where we're furthest behind.
  6. In the short term (the next 6-8 years), I don't think the club does intend to satisfy the demand for extra tickets. Additional general access seating isn't a big driver on revenue - in the immediate (the next six months) the club intends to add a large amount of new hospitality places, adding a thousand people paying £200+ a game is simpler and more cost effective than adding four thousand seats - the club will also look at its hospitality offers and experiences to find out where it can find the opportunity to charge people £2,000 a game. That's the model - that's how Chelsea do it - you create a stadium with 44,000 places, where 6,000 of them are Hospitality.
  7. Given the cost of building a new stadium and creating the infrastructure to support it - I think the option of buying up houses around Villa Park for a third of the price and expanding where we are probably makes better sense. Although we're not, as we're not currently looking at major expansion, we're looking at increased yield.
  8. I'd agree - I'm not sure who they're planning to sell it all, but it is what we're doing.
  9. The triangle between the M42, Coventry Road and A452 is HS2 and some surrounding building and infrastructure work - there won't be enough left in that triangle for a stadium - I guess you could look at the land to the East of Melbicks - but that's a huge landfill site with a hundred foot high hill of garbage under it, it'd cost millions to make it useable. So I think the best bet would be the patch where the A445 gets to the M6, with Packington Lane down it's left hand side - the problem then is that the pitch would be almost 2 miles from Birmingham International and you'd have to find a way to cross HS2 to get there - the HS2 station itself would be well over a mile away. It's not as easy as it once was - the NEC group has some quite ambitions plans to fill the whole thing with housing.
  10. The clubs current business case or focus is on increasing the number of hospitality places and the quality of experience within those, not increasing general admission seating. I think our current 'model' to follow is Stamford Bridge.
  11. I love that after they've got rid of one of their mentals, they always seem to think that the problem was "not mental enough".
  12. Also cons - the perfect site (the one that was once earmarked for a new national stadium) is gone to HS2, the sites on the city side of the site are already in plan for a huge housing development as the NEC site is owned by the worlds biggest landlord, Blackstone - so any site at the NEC wouldn't be within easy walking distance of the train station and would require new roads, new car parking and potentially a new motorway junction - we often talk about the NEC as if it's an easy site with a perfect pocket of connected land; it's not.
  13. The Doug Ellis stand was initially rejected for planning permission because of light complaints from the houses on the other side of that green strip of land, the compromise the club made at the time resulted in the really cramped conditions in the upper concourses. I suspect we'd have to buy all the way back to Yew Tree Lane to properly expand - especially since if you wanted to expand the Doug Ellis properly, you'd also move the whole stand back about thirty feet so it wasn't in front of the Holte End.
  14. Only that it seems there will be a lot of work - if I were guessing, I'd be looking at boxes being removed for lounges and current office space making way for hospitality.
  15. With the amount of work that's going to be going on around the stadium on the hospitality areas this summer, I can't see us demolishing any stand at Villa Park for some time. If we do, I guess the next natural time to review that is after the Euros.
  16. Used to be, we swapped it with them for half of Chelmsley Wood.
  17. I'm pretty convinced that Red Bull only run two cars because they have to. All the effort goes into the one that wins all the races and Max wouldn't put up with a competitor in his team.
  18. I hate the privatisation of space. I like Kaboom.
  19. A win keeps us looking upwards and maintains a healthy gap on Utd, a draw would leave us with work to do but we're capable and a defeat might make it difficult. A defeat here could leave us going into our game against Brentford just three points ahead of a Manchester United side who would have a game in hand on us. It's a big one against a very good side - a Wolves win could leave them in a European place on Saturday night.
  20. This meeting is an extra one that the club agreed at the last formal FAB meeting - there was a lot to talk about and the club felt it would be better to have a separate meeting just on the ticketing to give us all the space and time to go over things. The meeting has been delayed unfortunately and we're awaiting a new date.
  21. It's the kit for the Euros. It's just been gobbled up by the shitshow of a government and press we have that want to drag everything into a culture war that they hope will win them an election even though they're utterly incompetent. For me, the bigger problem of the kit is that the blue is too dark - we looked like Germany tonight in black and white.
  22. Endrick is a mile offside from the initial pass, but is considered inactive as he's not part of the break that leads to the shot - when the shot happens he's onside and that's when he becomes active - it's the correct application of a really stupid rule.
  23. I kind of agree, but Spurs have done a great job of not letting this stadium acquire a name up until now, it's just generally referred to as Tottenham's new stadium.
  24. Yep, Everton and Forest both immediately said "Yes, we're guilty, but we'd like you to consider these reasons", City and now Leicester have both said "f*** you, see you in court". I think we'll learn more about what will happen to City from what happens to Leicester than we have from what's happened to Everton and Forest.
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