Villa Park Redevelopment

[Drummond]

What about Perry Bar dog track as a site?

Alexander Stadium would make better sense

It would.

[jcsutv]

Could the stadium redevelopment have an impact on FFP?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Separate company.

[Chris Smith]

Perhaps I need to crank up my sense of cynicism but to me it seemed that all he was saying was that the increase in capacity needs to be done in conjunction with improvements to the transport infrastructure and until that was properly addressed he saw little point in reducing capacity in the short term.

[pauliewalnuts]

Could the stadium redevelopment have an impact on FFP?

Infrastructure investment doesn't sit within FFP.

[chrisw1]

What about Perry Bar dog track as a site?

Alexander Stadium would make better sense

I'm not sure why people keep saying this.  There's no part of the current stadium that is reusable, access is still pretty poor and there's no car parking.  Even at less than half our target capacity, with coaches shipped in from all around the country and pretty staggered arrivals it was still a pain in the arse to get there.  On top of that it's an athletics track and I imagine UK Athletics intend to keep it that way.

[Risso]

Could the stadium redevelopment have an impact on FFP?

The extra revenue from 10,000 more seats and extra hospitality would, yes, for the better.

[chrisw1]

Too many seats too fast at a time when our demand has never been higher (well in the last 40 years anyway) sounds like a complete handbrake to me.

What does he want to do? Add less seats slower?  How's he going to do that then?

[eamonn]

Perhaps I need to crank up my sense of cynicism but to me it seemed that all he was saying was that the increase in capacity needs to be done in conjunction with improvements to the transport infrastructure and until that was properly addressed he saw little point in reducing capacity in the short term.

Chris, where is that firebrand within you?! Animate!

[Gareth]

I could stomach a rebuild on the current site as long as that red brick façade is left absolutely fucking pristine and untouched. Actually, build red brick façades round the whole god damn ground.

This.

Architecturally The Holte End is the single most beautiful section of any football ground in the whole world.

Keep that style as a façade all around the stadium...

It's just a relatively new red brick wall, not hard to do at all.

Yeah, I have seen it done in cladding sheets, as opposed to actual proper brick walls.

Its only the effect we are after, so the cladding would do well enough on a modern structure...

Like this?

I thought that was Wembley Arena at first

[UK Redsox]

Could it be possible  that ,in the back of Heck's mind, that the proposed 'delay' might get the Blues US owners interested in a groundshare of a new stadium ?
Fans would be up in arms but we have 2 sets of US owners whose main aim is revenue.

What the fuckety fuck have I just read?

Don't worry Ads, I plan to have words with Rob on Friday

[kippaxvilla2]

Plus, our stadium has very little history left already now. It's 70s - 00s, aside from the location.

It's surprising how many away fans don't realise this.

I was listening to a football podcast recently and they discussed Villa Park, and the one guy said he was going there in a few weeks and he was really excited as it's such a historic ground etc etc, and then specifically said he was looking forward to seeing Archibald Leitch's work.

Good luck with that.

I also think a lot of away fans think the rear of the Holte End is 100 years old and a remnant of a historic part of the ground which has survived the years.

'This ground has had 14 new pitches and 4 new stands in the last 40 years.'  'How the hell is it the same bleeding ground then?'

[London Villan]

Need to show them some snaps of the iconic brown and red cladding...

[VillaTim]

I could stomach a rebuild on the current site as long as that red brick façade is left absolutely fucking pristine and untouched. Actually, build red brick façades round the whole god damn ground.

This.

Architecturally The Holte End is the single most beautiful section of any football ground in the whole world.

Keep that style as a façade all around the stadium...

It's just a relatively new red brick wall, not hard to do at all.

Yeah, I have seen it done in cladding sheets, as opposed to actual proper brick walls.

Its only the effect we are after, so the cladding would do well enough on a modern structure...

Like this?

I thought that was Wembley Arena at first

does have that vibe to it minus the 70's brutalistic concrete

[Drummond]

The Factory of Madness.