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[Toronto Villa]

I reckon this summer the club will announce plans to build a new stadium ready for the 2028/2029 season. Something like that. All these changes behind the scenes are about a much bigger picture than renovating the current stadium and area.

[pauliewalnuts]

Yeah, the appointments are a bit of a give away really.

[tomd2103]

I reckon this summer the club will announce plans to build a new stadium ready for the 2028/2029 season. Something like that. All these changes behind the scenes are about a much bigger picture than renovating the current stadium and area.

Can see that happening and it being wrapped up in the 150th anniversary and looking to the future.  With that in mind, it may well be announced in early 2025 once the anniversary is over.

[Demitri_C]

I reckon this summer the club will announce plans to build a new stadium ready for the 2028/2029 season. Something like that. All these changes behind the scenes are about a much bigger picture than renovating the current stadium and area.

That would be interesting

I just hope that if thats announced it isnt greeted with negativity from our fans. After everything our owners have done for us we got to back them if thats their vision for the future

[Toronto Villa]

People will naturally be a little upset. But given where we are and where we ultimately want to go, this is absolutely the direction we need to go. We need what is happening not be a one or two season wonder. It needs to be sustained over decades. Emery with the right support can give us immediate gratification, but critically a platform for success that can stretch well into the future.

[kippaxvilla2]

Moving the franchise to wales! That’s crap for trains.

[PeterWithe]

I also think we are on the move and have been ever since the inward investment from Atarios (sp?) but, I think those, and there are very many, who have a strong desire to stay put will be right to ask why one of the major obstacles to staying, the rail infrastructure, cant be solved. Seems to be a real lack of 'can do' from everyone involved.

[LeeB]

Football stadium construction is a minefield and very rarely goes to programme and budget.

Trying to build a football stadium in a minefield could blow up in your face.

[Paul.S]

I hope we never leave Villa Park. There’s an option to build a new North Stand which we should still do in my opinion.
It doesn’t really matter what I think but id definitely struggle in a new soulless stadium, leaving behind the fantastic memories I have every time I walk along Witton Lane towards the Holte.

[kippaxvilla2]

Football stadium construction is a minefield and very rarely goes to programme and budget.

Trying to build a football stadium in a minefield could blow up in your face.

It could totally bomb.

[Demitri_C]

People will naturally be a little upset. But given where we are and where we ultimately want to go, this is absolutely the direction we need to go. We need what is happening not be a one or two season wonder. It needs to be sustained over decades. Emery with the right support can give us immediate gratification, but critically a platform for success that can stretch well into the future.

Completely agree mate. It is needed to sustain where we want to be. Villa park is sadly holding us back. Im sure our owners would love to stay at villa park if there was a way and they probably spent money exploring those options. For them to look at a new stadium shows it was probably impossible to financially compete with other clubs.

Naturally we will all be disappointed to leave our home but if it means we will compete at the highest level we have to accept it.

Just hope it would be called something like villa park stadium but i think it will be  sponsorship stadium name. Wouldnt suprise me if it was called the ataoris stadium for example

[itbrvilla]

I also think we are on the move and have been ever since the inward investment from Atarios (sp?) but, I think those, and there are very many, who have a strong desire to stay put will be right to ask why one of the major obstacles to staying, the rail infrastructure, cant be solved. Seems to be a real lack of 'can do' from everyone involved.

Probably because it isn't the real reason? The reality is it's poorly located to generate significant income on non match days.

[Smithy]

I reckon this summer the club will announce plans to build a new stadium ready for the 2028/2029 season. Something like that. All these changes behind the scenes are about a much bigger picture than renovating the current stadium and area.

That would be interesting

I just hope that if thats announced it isnt greeted with negativity from our fans. After everything our owners have done for us we got to back them if thats their vision for the future

If it is announced, then some fans will be unhappy. There are fans who've spent the best part of their lives going to games at Villa Park, and any move away from there, regardless of the wider benefits to the club, will feel "wrong".  I'm not one of them, but I will completely understand their feelings on the matter.

The reality is with a fan base of our size, there will be almost no change the owners can make, to anything, that will produce a 100% universal approval rate from the fan base.  Just because some fans don't like it, doesn't make it a bad thing.  And just because a number of fans do like something doesn't make it a good thing.

Moving stadium would be one hell of a significant step for us to take.  It's something that will affect the club for a hundred years, so if it's going to happen, I hope it's done right. 

Another way to look at it is that a stadium move is an inevitability.  As the game moves one, so do the expectations of the fans, so does the need to compete financially.  So whether it's now.  In a decade, or in twenty years, the chances are we're going to have to move at some point, or buy a LOT of houses around VP to expand properly - and if something like that is going to have to happen, then I trust our current owners to do it the right way ahead of any of the others we've had in charge in the last forty years.

[Toronto Villa]

Why must a new stadium always be considered soulless? Why can’t it be designed to create the best atmosphere possible. Or have a design that is both modern and in some way commemorates our past. There are times Villa Park is very quiet so it’s on us in large part to create that atmosphere wherever we play. I just don’t want to get left behind the sides we are not wanting to compete with because we need to sell our best players. That formula never ends well.

[Risso]

Like most all seater grounds these days, the atmosphere is great when we're playing well, and non-existent when we're not. I don't think that would be any different anywhere we play. At the 0-0 with Sheffield United, you could have a heard pin drop for 95% of the match. When we were stuffing Man City, it was an absolute wall of noise. You find the same just about everywhere.