Villa Park Redevelopment

[Percy McCarthy]

Answering my own question, it seems to have been 50,084 for a 2-1 loss to Small Heath on 18th September 1976. Unless there is some friendly or other match I'm unaware of. How many were at the Rangers "friendly"?

Edit: you got the number, impressive stuff Percy. We got 48,439 for the QPR League Cup SF the same season and 49,619 for Barcelona a year later.

Cheers cd. There were only 17k at the Rangers friendly.

[cdbearsfan]

That surprises me, I'd assumed they had brought at least that many on their own.

[Ads]

50,065 the new capacity.

Bet we end up annoyingly short of 50,000 for every official attendance.

Block Q1 is going to be part of the redevelopment so I'd hope there would some proper segregation factored in that would avoid seats lost to mesh to keep the attendance at 50k.

Imagine how noisy Saturday night would have been with that monster?

[four fornicholl]

It’s going give the Holte a run for it’s money in the “Who’s loudest?”. Can’t wait.

[London Villan]

Looks like my seats in the Lower Trinity have evolved to General Admission Plus - and are part of the hospitality offer...

Overall it looks good, but it's not unique - as was the original Trinity (or even the copy at the Holte End). It would be great to have a stand that has something that sets us apart from other grounds and can only be Villa Park. To me it looks like the new main stand at Anfield - not a bad stand, but certainly not something that can only be Villa Park.

[Brazilian Villain]

Cheers cd. There were only 17k at the Rangers friendly.

Was that dead or wounded?

[kippaxvilla2]

Answering my own question, it seems to have been 50,084 for a 2-1 loss to Small Heath on 18th September 1976. Unless there is some friendly or other match I'm unaware of. How many were at the Rangers "friendly"?

Edit: you got the number, impressive stuff Percy. We got 48,439 for the QPR League Cup SF the same season and 49,619 for Barcelona a year later.

53,782 again home to Blues - 2-1 win 1975.  Little with the winner after we went 1 down to Trev.  Oh I see you asked when the last one was.  Sorry it is early.  But the atmosphere that day was incredible.  You can see brief highlights on youtube.

https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/game/3391

[Percy McCarthy]

Answering my own question, it seems to have been 50,084 for a 2-1 loss to Small Heath on 18th September 1976. Unless there is some friendly or other match I'm unaware of. How many were at the Rangers "friendly"?

Edit: you got the number, impressive stuff Percy. We got 48,439 for the QPR League Cup SF the same season and 49,619 for Barcelona a year later.

53,975 again home to Blues - 2-1 win 1975.  Little with the winner after we went 1 down to Trev.

I think we had three over 50k that season.

[chrisw1]

It’s going give the Holte a run for it’s money in the “Who’s loudest?”. Can’t wait.

I doubt it.  I think these will be premium seats, I suspect the Holte will always attract the noisiest fans.

[Drummond]

One thing I will say, it is fucking massive.

It's clearly not being done on the cheap - there are various bits in the design statement where they show the various options for things like cladding, brick work, other materials and the relative cost, and there's not even the slightest whiff of cheap-arseing, it's all top dollar stuff.

The brickwork and the floating roof look great.

I stood outside the shop on Saturday and looked at the North. Like you say when I pictured the idea for this new stand it dawned on me just how big it will be.

[nigel]

That surprises me, I'd assumed they had brought at least that many on their own.

Not doubting Percy, but that 17000 surprised me, too.
Rangers filled the Holte, so at a guess I’d say 15000

I’m sure it was said that thousands of Rangers jumped the entrances, so although it was down as 17k it was probably a lot more

[Risso]

It looked on the  pictures that the witton lane would be pedestrianised , is that viable ?

It looked from the initial plans that it was going to be closed off at the North Stand end, but it's going to be a 'shared space', closed on match days:

"A section of shared surface will be introduced to Witton Lane at the junction
with Station Road responding to the glazing line of the new Villa Live building.
The introduction of a raised table will help to reduce vehicle speeds and a
signalled pelican crossing point will ensure safe pedestrian crossing on non
match day (the road is closed on match day). In addition, planting, landscaping,
street furniture and well lit spaces are designed to enhance the public safety and
security of the site. "

[VILLA MOLE]

It looked on the  pictures that the witton lane would be pedestrianised , is that viable ?

It looked from the initial plans that it was going to be closed off at the North Stand end, but it's going to be a 'shared space', closed on match days:

"A section of shared surface will be introduced to Witton Lane at the junction
with Station Road responding to the glazing line of the new Villa Live building.
The introduction of a raised table will help to reduce vehicle speeds and a
signalled pelican crossing point will ensure safe pedestrian crossing on non
match day (the road is closed on match day). In addition, planting, landscaping,
street furniture and well lit spaces are designed to enhance the public safety and
security of the site. "

ahh cheers for info

[Risso]

Nice from an information security point of view to see server rooms so clearly marked up on plans.

It's a football ground, not MI6!

[frank black]

Looks like my seats in the Lower Trinity have evolved to General Admission Plus - and are part of the hospitality offer...

Overall it looks good, but it's not unique - as was the original Trinity (or even the copy at the Holte End). It would be great to have a stand that has something that sets us apart from other grounds and can only be Villa Park. To me it looks like the new main stand at Anfield - not a bad stand, but certainly not something that can only be Villa Park.

Certainly looks like we are about to be evicted, it would have been nice to be notified before these plans were circulated. It’ll be sanitised corporate folks only within earshot of the dugout.