Villa Park Redevelopment

[FatSam]

The Emirates is a perfectly good stadium. It's the occupants that are the problem. Highbury was just as quiet.

Exactly. They didn’t call it Highbury the Library for nothing.

[The Edge]

So we're in 2024 now and ground redevelopment that will only be enough to keep us in the top 10 has been cancelled. It's just so unbelievably short sighted not to mention disappointing. It's our best season in yonks and I keep hearing things like "the giant has awoken". Well the giant is going to be made to look very small time when FIFA announces that they're pulling the plug on us hosting the Euros in 2028.

[VillaTim]

Nah, the Emirates is shit.

Soulless corporate bowl hopefully we never end up with anything like it

[IFWaters]

Aston Villa has to stay by Aston Hall. To me it has to be a predominantly redbrick stadium, with mosaics and a proper football ground not a stadium. Stands with some separation, perhaps a bit of joint up bits lower down but not a bowl. If they said we are completely rebuilding with perhaps a slight reorientation to fit it in I could stomach it but if we go elsewhere we might as well get renamed as Birmingham United and then Heck can get his MS Paint out and design a completely new badge.

[Stu]

Talking of costs, the Newcastle ticket prices are mental. £48 cheapest adult, £80 in the Trinity posh seats.

£96 for an adult and child on the Holte. Fucking outrageous.

I've spent a lot of money on match tickets when I couldn't afford it and now that I can afford it I really can't get past thinking that any more than £25 for 90 mins of football is extortionate.

[Stu]

Nah, the Emirates is shit.

Best away in the Prem as a fan though.

[Gareth]

So we're in 2024 now and ground redevelopment that will only be enough to keep us in the top 10 has been cancelled. It's just so unbelievably short sighted not to mention disappointing. It's our best season in yonks and I keep hearing things like "the giant has awoken". Well the giant is going to be made to look very small time when FIFA announces that they're pulling the plug on us hosting the Euros in 2028.

Couldn’t care less about the Euros…whether the decision is right or wrong is something we’ll judge as Villa in time but UEFA / England are irrelevant to it.

[The Edge]

So we're in 2024 now and ground redevelopment that will only be enough to keep us in the top 10 has been cancelled. It's just so unbelievably short sighted not to mention disappointing. It's our best season in yonks and I keep hearing things like "the giant has awoken". Well the giant is going to be made to look very small time when FIFA announces that they're pulling the plug on us hosting the Euros in 2028.

Couldn’t care less about the Euros…whether the decision is right or wrong is something we’ll judge as Villa in time but UEFA / England are irrelevant to it.

I'm talking about prestige. Villa Park has always been considered one of the top stadiums in the country capable of hosting the very highest standard of football there is  and its something we can rightly be proud of. So to have ourselves taken off the list to host the Euros is a sad indictment of where our beloved stadium now sits in the hierarchy of venues if that's what happens. We'll have to wait and see won't we.

[Dante Lavelli]

It does come down to cost. Don't spend £100m to be left in a situation where the reault is unlikely to bring you any closer to bridging a gap between your rivals.

So spend £100m for 10,000 extra seats, or spend £1 billion for 20,000?

The main logic for a complete rebuild, as I see it, would be to make the ground useable for other events, so +20k on match days but also +60k for NFL/gigs etc.  Not saying that justifies the £1bn cost but it must be the thinking surely.

[Dante Lavelli]

Fulham are arguably in a similar position to us.  A ground that every away fan loves, historic stands and full of memories but craven cottage is also holding them back as they cannot expand. 

Down the road, Brentford have made the move from griffin park (another cracking ground) and now seem go be in a good position to grow as a club.

[Toronto Villa]

We all love Villa Park, but we might just have outgrown it. Or at least will. Not just where we are hoping to go with our performances but simply to keep up with what other sides and what a modern football stadium needs to look like. There really is only so much that can be done. Yes the North could be improved and 10k seats added. But it doesn’t fix much of the rest of the stadium and the challenges that persist there. And this all before we discuss infrastructure of the surrounding area, transportation and respect for the existing residents. So I would like to think the current stalling of the plans is because something all encompassing is being considered. There is no doubt to stay competitive financially, there are many changes we desperately need.

[VillaTim]

Fulham are arguably in a similar position to us.  A ground that every away fan loves, historic stands and full of memories but craven cottage is also holding them back as they cannot expand. 

Down the road, Brentford have made the move from griffin park (another cracking ground) and now seem go be in a good position to grow as a club.

Fulham just built a new stand and did expand though.

[LeeB]

Yeah, and it's took 3 years and it's still not open.

They could have built 2 new ones in that time.

[Ads]

When we went 4 years ago in the FA Cup they were building it then. They're building in the Thames, not the North Sea.

[LeeB]

When we went 4 years ago in the FA Cup they were building it then. They're building in the Thames, not the North Sea.

It is funny, "it's hard because it by a river".

Yeah, so is Canary Wharf up the road but that manages to stand up.