Villa Park Redevelopment

[PaulTheVillan]

With the breaking news that England & Ireland will get the 2028 Euro finals as Turkey have now pulled out the upgrade on the Witton Station should be a mere formality.

The Government will cancel it this afternoon.

[Drummond]

With the breaking news that England & Ireland will get the 2028 Euro finals as Turkey have now pulled out the upgrade on the Witton Station should be a mere formality.

The Government will cancel it this afternoon.

More likely they'll deny it's even a thing.

[aj2k77]

The Rags will be the midlands hosts at Euro 2028. The imaginary stadium they are imagining in their heads will only take 2/3 years to imagine.

[Gareth]

Listening to Sunak binning HS2 he talks of things they will do instead but didn’t mention refurbing Witton Station LoL.  He didn’t mention extending the tram lines though

[The Edge]

That's a huge undertaking in that corner, seeing as there's already a load of seats there in the Holte that you can't see the pitch from.

We've got HDE to thank for the dogs dinner that is the Witton/ Holte corner.

[Ads]

Wondering a few things; wouldn't it be easier to redevelop the Holte than the Witton? There's probably schemes you could undertake to fully re-build the Witton, but are you adding that much capacity? You could improve facilities and offerings, but if you wanted to increase B6 to 60,000, then a giant 23,500 single tier monster Holte would work best. Loads of space to do it. Sort the corner of the Witton out too.

Other musing is when they do the North, the FA Cup allocation will be 7500. You'd think that the North will have a lot of corporate and enhanced packages, even if the lower tier is a rail seated noisey affair. I wonder if we'll get our away fans in the lower Witton like that Man United Cup game?

[KevinGage]

Wondering a few things; wouldn't it be easier to redevelop the Holte than the Witton? There's probably schemes you could undertake to fully re-build the Witton, but are you adding that much capacity? You could improve facilities and offerings, but if you wanted to increase B6 to 60,000, then a giant 23,500 single tier monster Holte would work best. Loads of space to do it. Sort the corner of the Witton out too.

Approved.

The North Stand is almost iconic, in its own weird way. Leave it alone.

[pauliewalnuts]

The North Stand is an embarassment.

Ridiculously narrow and stinks of late 70s lack of ambition.

[ChicagoLion]

The North Stand is an embarassment.

Ridiculously narrow and stinks of late 70s lack of ambition.

The Witton is also crap. The view is great but everything else is awful.

[Brazilian Villain]

The North Stand is an embarassment.

Ridiculously narrow and stinks of late 70s lack of ambition.

Agreed, the sooner it's knocked down the better.

[Ads]

Oh yeah I can't wait to stare at something new after this season. I meant DE when referring to the Witton, rather than the Witton end. Just thinking, if we're dropping £100m on another rebuild for phase 2, then a mega Holte would be just amazing.

[Brazilian Villain]

Just thinking, if we're dropping £100m on another rebuild for phase 2, then a mega Holte would be just amazing.

Only if they keep the mosaics, steps and Terrace View.

[Percy McCarthy]

No. The DE next. Fuck all the corporate off out of the Holte and move it over there.

Anyway, I think they’ve already said the DE is next.

[rob_bridge]

The North Stand is an embarassment.

Ridiculously narrow and stinks of late 70s lack of ambition.

The Witton is also crap. The view is great but everything else is awful.

The view is important if all you want to do is go the match a few mins before kick off, do little else during the match and leave immediately after. It does need replacing but not in the same league as the North Stand which really is woeful

[TonyD]

Wondering a few things; wouldn't it be easier to redevelop the Holte than the Witton? There's probably schemes you could undertake to fully re-build the Witton, but are you adding that much capacity? You could improve facilities and offerings, but if you wanted to increase B6 to 60,000, then a giant 23,500 single tier monster Holte would work best. Loads of space to do it. Sort the corner of the Witton out too.

Other musing is when they do the North, the FA Cup allocation will be 7500. You'd think that the North will have a lot of corporate and enhanced packages, even if the lower tier is a rail seated noisey affair. I wonder if we'll get our away fans in the lower Witton like that Man United Cup game?

A new single tier Holte would be a massive draw.