Who do you want first next season? CONFIRMED AS BOURNEMOUTH (A)

[dave.woodhall]

Yet the football league set minimum capacity criteria.
Your logic is flawed.

I'm not the one with the nu fan attitude that everything should be about the Premier League.

Well it isn't , league 2 sets minimum capacity criteria. What's the difference

The Premier League does set minimum capacity criteria.

I can't find anything in their rules about capacity, apart from requirements for media etc.

To get into the Premier League you have to have come from the Football League, which has a minimum capacity.

[PeterWithesShin]

There's this about Brentford in November last year, no mention of ground capacity.

The west London club's stadium does not currently satisfy top flight standards.

"Griffin Park falls short of meeting Premier League requirements in some areas," chief executive Mark Devlin told the club website.

"We are looking at creative and innovative solutions to meet those requirements."

Every Championship club has to submit plans to the Premier League board before 31 January, detailing how they will meet a series of requirements set by the Premier League.

They include the size of media working areas, levels of floodlighting, the provision of undersoil heating and dressing rooms meeting specific dimensions.

The Bees, who are currently fifth in the Championship table having been promoted last season, have played at the 12,763-capacity Griffin Park since 1904.

[PeterWithesShin]

To get into the Premier League you have to have come from the Football League, which has a minimum capacity.

Aha, sneaky bugger!

[Clampy]

At the end of the day, they got promoted on merit and seemingly there's no problem with their ground, so however much sillihvilla whinges about it, nothing will change.

[PeterWithesShin]

The more smaller clubs in the top flight the better. The thought of Sky/Scudamore etc trying to sell something like Bury v Yeovil on a Monday night as part of the bestest league the world has ever seen amuses me. You just know, that deep down, they hate having small clubs like Bournemouth, Watford and Albion soiling the fixture list.

[pauliewalnuts]

Well I disagree , they are guaranteed £100m alone in the first year minimum. They need to sort that little ground out if they aspire to be a PL club.

With respect, you're talking bollocks.

Also, what is this "if they aspire to be a Premier League club"?

They are a Premier League club. That's how come we're playing them in August.

[silhillvilla]

Looks like they're doing as I suggested anyway -

Bournemouth are considering a major renovation of their Goldsands Stadium this summer that would raise their capacity from 11,700 to 15,000 in preparation for Premier League football.
Monday’s 3-0 win against Bolton Wanderers all but clinched their place in English football’s top flight for the first time in their 125-year history but their stadium would be the smallest in the Premier League for more than two decades.
The lease on the temporary 2,400-capacity South Stand is up for renewal this year and one option under review is to add around 3,000 seats behind that goal and create a new, much larger stand.

[PeterWithesShin]

Looks like they're doing as I suggested anyway -

Bournemouth are considering a major renovation of their Goldsands Stadium this summer that would raise their capacity from 11,700 to 15,000 in preparation for Premier League football.
Monday’s 3-0 win against Bolton Wanderers all but clinched their place in English football’s top flight for the first time in their 125-year history but their stadium would be the smallest in the Premier League for more than two decades.
The lease on the temporary 2,400-capacity South Stand is up for renewal this year and one option under review is to add around 3,000 seats behind that goal and create a new, much larger stand.

Apart from as I already posted, they aren't doing that this summer.

[AVH87]

I think if they had been in the Prem for 2 or 3 years and were still saying 'we do not intend to increase our capacity', the FA, PL chiefs and even fans may have cause to start to moan. They only had their promotion confirmed last month so that gave them less than 3 months to get the work done if they intended to, so understandably it isn't number one priority.

[Dazvillain]

Looks like they're doing as I suggested anyway -

Bournemouth are considering a major renovation of their Goldsands Stadium this summer that would raise their capacity from 11,700 to 15,000 in preparation for Premier League football.
Monday’s 3-0 win against Bolton Wanderers all but clinched their place in English football’s top flight for the first time in their 125-year history but their stadium would be the smallest in the Premier League for more than two decades.
The lease on the temporary 2,400-capacity South Stand is up for renewal this year and one option under review is to add around 3,000 seats behind that goal and create a new, much larger stand.

Apart from as I already posted, they aren't doing that this summer.

Correct great logic though...rather than spend on ground etc they are spending on squad to do everything to stay up then with additional larger payments next year they'll invest in ground

[silhillvilla]

Well let's hope we set the tone for their season on aug 8/9/10th whenever the game is played.

[Villa in Denmark]

Is that suggesting that you hope they get relegated because they won't invest in a capacity extension they might not need come next June?

Apart from giving us 6 points I hope they spend the season being a royal pain in the arse for the established teams.

[Flamingo Lane]

Let's hope they are forced to plough some of their PL windfall money into the stadium. Coming up with a 12,000 capacity ground is a bit of a joke.

Don't be so miserable.  Just be happy that you have a chance to be among the first away fans to be able to go there next season and give a full throated Brummagem rendition of "Bournemouth's a shit hole, I wanna go home." Possibly live on TV, so millions can hear you. 

[Ads]

SilHill is going to do a one man Leeds on them by the sounds of it.

Their entire ground may be smaller than the Holte End, but then so what? They've been a lower league club for most of their existence and if they can establish themselves in the top flight and be satisfied that the demand exists, then they can consider increasing capacity.

There is only Scudamore that will be upset at Deans Court and how that looks for the "brand" in China etc where they're flogging the bestest league ever.

If you're part of the away scheme, then you'll get a ticket anyway and if you're not, you big part timer, then its £25 and a DD from your account for all your other aways.

[silhillvilla]

So if "you're part of the away scheme" you reckon you're guaranteed a ticket regardless of how many aways you did last season ??