Villa Park Redevelopment

[PeterWithe]

I'm hoping the 'new broom' isn't thinking of sweeping away VP.

[PeterWithesShin]

Shit badge no stand, shit badge no stand.

[AV82EC]

He seems to be a fan of getting the bad news out en masse. What next "North Stand Bank" a premium seat experience with limited legroom for only an additional £60 per game.

[curiousorange]

That new investment for infrastructure screams new ground to me. Huge problems getting decent transportation to and from VP, and maybe they've just decided to go for it.

[Sexual Ealing]

That new investment for infrastructure screams new ground to me. Huge problems getting decent transportation to and from VP, and maybe they've just decided to go for it.

You make a good point.

[Dogtanian]

Please god not the Birmingham Wheels site...

[PeterWithesShin]

While we may end up with a bigger sparkly ground with better transport, leaving Villa Park will kill a Villa part of me that will never come back no matter how successful we are.

[PeterWithe]

That new investment for infrastructure screams new ground to me. Huge problems getting decent transportation to and from VP, and maybe they've just decided to go for it.

That's my fear as well.

[Ads]

New ground incoming.

[Risso]

Leaves three options imo:

- No redevelopment at all, despite the need for it. Could see the club doing this if CL revenues are imminent.

- They can redevelop the stand without demolishing it. No idea how, but Liverpool have just done similar.

- They've costed a new ground and it's cheaper in the long run. Any HS2 land going begging?

In order:

- But Champions League revenues with an extra 10,000 people paying them in a couple of years?

- They've already said that it's too dangerous and logisitically impossible with all the cables and pipes etc

- I wouldn't be opposed to that, but you're then looking at a time line of at least 8-12 years to find a site, get plans drawn up, do the consultation etc then get it built etc. I wonder if that's what this new investement partner is lined up for?

[Monty]

I think most people would be overwhelmingly opposed to a new ground.

[DB]

A part of Villa will die if we move from VP.

[curiousorange]

I honestly don't know where they would move to. All I can think is a HS2 site that they already know they can purchase. But then again, if Birmingham Council is on the skids they might have somewhere they would be happy to sell. And there is the redeveloped Alexander Stadium too - if the infrastructure there was modernised for last year, how difficult would it be to expand?

[LeeB]

Please god not the Birmingham Wheels site...

I know, but it would be funny and it is in the original boundary of Aston.

I'm not down with moving by the way.

[UK Redsox]

Somewhere just off the M5 please. I don't mind it being north of Worcester, I don't want to be too greedy