Villa Park Redevelopment

[Brazilian Villain]

Let’s be honest here, the last time we did this the stands were thrown up as Doug wanted as minimum as time as possible with reduced capacities without thought for the functionality of each stand, decisions we’re living with today with poor facilities in a number of those stands.

The fact we have owners who would rather do it properly and with due regard to how the stand works and functions strikes me as a much more sensible way to go about things. If that means we’re on reduced capacity for longer than we want, so be it.

Same here.

[Villan82]

Let’s be honest here, the last time we did this the stands were thrown up as Doug wanted as minimum as time as possible with reduced capacities without thought for the functionality of each stand, decisions we’re living with today with poor facilities in a number of those stands.

The fact we have owners who would rather do it properly and with due regard to how the stand works and functions strikes me as a much more sensible way to go about things. If that means we’re on reduced capacity for longer than we want, so be it.

Same here.

All true, and very well said.

I was coming at it from the angle of, should this be the year we make the top four, it would be a  shame to have reduced capacity for the CL games.

[AV82EC]

Let’s be honest here, the last time we did this the stands were thrown up as Doug wanted as minimum as time as possible with reduced capacities without thought for the functionality of each stand, decisions we’re living with today with poor facilities in a number of those stands.

The fact we have owners who would rather do it properly and with due regard to how the stand works and functions strikes me as a much more sensible way to go about things. If that means we’re on reduced capacity for longer than we want, so be it.

Same here.

All true, and very well said.

I was coming at it from the angle of, should this be the year we make the top four, it would be a  shame to have reduced capacity for the CL games.

It would be but as ever it’s balancing the short term pain with the longer term benefit of sorting the stadium out. However that’s easy for me to say as a STH who’d be guaranteed my seat as long as I could afford it.

[tomd2103]

Let’s be honest here, the last time we did this the stands were thrown up as Doug wanted as minimum as time as possible with reduced capacities without thought for the functionality of each stand, decisions we’re living with today with poor facilities in a number of those stands.

The fact we have owners who would rather do it properly and with due regard to how the stand works and functions strikes me as a much more sensible way to go about things. If that means we’re on reduced capacity for longer than we want, so be it.

It's just that if we do.finish in the top.5 this season, it couldn't have come at a worse time to have a much reduced capacity really...

[AV82EC]

Let’s be honest here, the last time we did this the stands were thrown up as Doug wanted as minimum as time as possible with reduced capacities without thought for the functionality of each stand, decisions we’re living with today with poor facilities in a number of those stands.

The fact we have owners who would rather do it properly and with due regard to how the stand works and functions strikes me as a much more sensible way to go about things. If that means we’re on reduced capacity for longer than we want, so be it.

It's just that if we do.finish in the top.5 this season, it couldn't have come at a worse time to have a much reduced capacity really...

I agree but shit happens.

[purpletrousers]

It’s the sort of problem we’ve been yearning for!

[coreyfeldman]

"My diamond shoes are too tight"

[claret+blue ed]

I don't think it will make too much difference if we qualify for the CL, tickets will be hard to come by for non ST's anyway, hopefully the club are able to reduce the away allocation slightly during this time to alleviate the issue a bit

[eamonn]

I wonder what the reduced capacity will be for those two seasons....just over 30k?

[VILLA MOLE]

I wonder what the reduced capacity will be for those two seasons....just over 30k?

35K including away fans ?

[KevinGage]

The North Stand is 6k capacity, isn't it?

So more like 36000.  Not ideal, but not the end of the world either. That's about the same as we had for Inter Milan at home in 1990, and atmosphere wasn't an issue in that game.

The new mob won't be skimping to the same extent Ellis did, but there might be 38 - 40,000 ready in that lower tier in the first year of construction. Not sure what the capacity of the lower tier on the new build is set to be, but it's bigger than the upper and wraps around to the Trinity and Witton Lane.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Just checking the Simon Inglis books and the “money no object” Trinity Road took just over a year to build, between April 1922-August 1923 and all the groundwork was done by hand (and hosses’ hooves). Also, interesting to nerd like me, it wasn’t actually called the Trinity Road stand.

[London Villan]

It almost bankrupted the club and cost Rinder his job too!

[Villan For Life]

Just checking the Simon Inglis books and the “money no object” Trinity Road took just over a year to build, between April 1922-August 1923 and all the groundwork was done by hand (and hosses’ hooves). Also, interesting to nerd like me, it wasn’t actually called the Trinity Road stand.

What was it originally called?

[Chico Hamilton III]

The Pavilion