Villa Park Redevelopment

[Chip Butty 111]

Fully expecting their next 3 signings to be Sooty & Sweep and Fred Dibnah. With those chimneys they'll be blowing smoke up their own backsides for years.

[Sexual Ealing]

I think it's pretty cool. It suits them - and I mean this affectionately - in that it's a bit ugly and doesn't make a lot of sense. But, if it ends up looking like that, they'll have done well.

[SaddVillan]

Will they play with a chimney sweeper?

[Border villan]

With all the hot air coming from the Chim,chimneys landing aircraft at Elmdon Airdrome could be tricky.

[Brazilian Villain]

How can we compete, when we have no chimneys.

It'll certainly help them attract Dutch star striker Dyck van Dyke

They're changing their nickname to the 'Flues'.

[DB]

I've just deen the pictures......wtf, hahaha hahaha.

[Chip Butty 111]

I've just deen the pictures......wtf, hahaha hahaha.

a poor mans Battersea Power Station...

[eamonn]

I haven't seen or heard 'owt about this, do you have to scroll down for more than 30 secs on the BBC football page to find the news?

[DB]

I've just deen the pictures......wtf, hahaha hahaha.

a poor mans Battersea Power Station...

Fred Dibnah's wet dream.

[Dante Lavelli]

Birmingham is big enough for such a venue. I’m not wowed by the design but the I am by the ambition.  Someone spending £3bn in the area has to be a good thing.

[Chip Butty 111]

I haven't seen or heard 'owt about this, do you have to scroll down for more than 30 secs on the BBC football page to find the news?

It made the BBC NEWS at 6pm, said they had regularly played in front of crowds of 60,000...showed some black and white footage of a game where everyone wore flat caps and smoked Woodbines, nearly pmsl...

[PeterWithesShin]

They had 60k+ for a few cup matches, never for a league match so that's bollocks if they said "regularly".

[cdbearsfan]

If you're including cup games at neutral venues and away matches it's probably accurate.

[SaddVillan]

Input in the design has come from Heatherwick Studios.

They and their head Thomas Heatherwick have been responsible for: these design successes:

London's Boris Buses -  poor ventilation, overheating in summer and failure of the hop on hop off  open platform feature. Withdrawn from service.

The  B of the Bang Commonwealth Games sculpture in Manchester. Spikes kept falling off and it ended up being dismantled

London's Garden Bridge across the Thames that was never built, but cost £53m.

The Vessel (New York City): A 16-story, honeycomb-like structure at Hudson Yards. After four people died by suicide at the structure, it was closed indefinitely.

A marriage made in heaven?

[TonyD]

A lot of our supporters are entranced by the thought of something new and shiny, plus the belief that you 'have' to move to compete. It falls at the first bit of logical thinking behind the first question - where to?

I've never been overly keen on a move.  But if Blues stopped at the first hurdle of 'where to?' they wouldn't be announcing their mega-dome right now.  Which, as much as we will take the piss, will bring in income streams that will transform their club.

It's not our job to come up with the answer to 'where to?' but opportunities have come and gone.  The ideal solution would have been to secure land near the HS2 terminal, which would have made the club a viable destination for London tourists and the hospitality income that seems to be the only way to compete in the current football landscape, but that was too early in our recovery to be viable.  But the likes of the gas holder site etc could have worked.

I don't think 'where to?' was a hurdle that should have stopped us.

But perhaps 'should we?' was the more relevant question.     

I agree.  As much as it pains me you have to admire their ambition.
We should find a plot close enough to the city centre that’s walkable and build a 4 stand red brick ground with a massive single tier Holte.