Villa Park Redevelopment

[wince]

There looked to be a load of seats in a skip earlier today when I walked past

[purpletrousers]

There looked to be a load of seats in a skip earlier today when I walked past

Did you not help yourself?! EBay beckons

[The Man With A Stick]

Has any more been said about when the Warehouse (or Stumps as it's more commonly known) will be ready?  Start of next season perhaps?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

There looked to be a load of seats in a skip earlier today when I walked past

Anybody let Tom Wagner know ?

[The Edge]

There looked to be a load of seats in a skip earlier today when I walked past

Did you not help yourself?! EBay beckons

A friend of mine already has. He's made a garden bench using one claret and one blue seat.

[wince]

There looked to be a load of seats in a skip earlier today when I walked past

Did you not help yourself?! EBay beckons

I wish I had tbh! Loads of cement bags outside VP today as well and plenty of activity around the ground.
Does anyone know if the spray paint art on the building opposite the tram sheds is permanent as they sprayed over the nice photo boards

[Chris Harte]

Whatever the club does with the ground, I really hope that they are considering how to expand the family areas.

It looks like they're going for enticing the hardcore fans and supplementing them with corporates and tourists. Natural wastage of season tickets, if not addressed, could result in the ground being full of corporates and tourists in the longer term, with a dwindling number of season ticket holders and less youngsters attending because they never had the habit in the first place.

[Dante Lavelli]

Whatever the club does with the ground, I really hope that they are considering how to expand the family areas.

It looks like they're going for enticing the hardcore fans and supplementing them with corporates and tourists. Natural wastage of season tickets, if not addressed, could result in the ground being full of corporates and tourists in the longer term, with a dwindling number of season ticket holders and less youngsters attending because they never had the habit in the first place.

Sorry to risk starting the debate again, but it’s one of the reasons I favour a new ground.  A ‘surplus’ 5k of tickets could be allocated with the sole purpose of growing the fan-base.  Impossible to do when the only viable objective is to sell each seat for the optimum amount.

[Villan82]

Or if they stuck with Plan A we'd be 52,000 by 2026. And showcasing it to a big audience for the Euros in 2028.

In the past decade we have seen that clubs like Liverpool have redeveloped, Spurs opened their new stadium, West Ham got gifted a new stadium and Newcastle seriously looking at expansion while Everton have opted for a new stadium. These clubs (with the exception maybe of Everton at the moment) are ahead of us in terms of revenue, match day etc.

I cannot see any argument for us delaying. It's such a head scratcher. Yes we'd have a small hit for a season or a season and a half losing our smallest stand but we'd have a big gain medium to long-term.

Tarting it up with new seats and boxes doesn't suggest they have ambitions to do anything major for some time.

[mrfuse]

Or if they stuck with Plan A we'd be 52,000 by 2026. And showcasing it to a big audience for the Euros in 2028.

In the past decade we have seen that clubs like Liverpool have redeveloped, Spurs opened their new stadium, West Ham got gifted a new stadium and Newcastle seriously looking at expansion while Everton have opted for a new stadium. These clubs (with the exception maybe of Everton at the moment) are ahead of us in terms of revenue, match day etc.

I cannot see any argument for us delaying. It's such a head scratcher. Yes we'd have a small hit for a season or a season and a half losing our smallest stand but we'd have a big gain medium to long-term.

Tarting it up with new seats and boxes doesn't suggest they have ambitions to do anything major for some time.

But then we would be playing our first time in the champions league with a huge loss in money and Support. Something needs to be done moving forward but it would have been terribly timed.

[Dante Lavelli]

My guess is that there’s a more ambitious plan in action.

Wearing my work hat, there’s not much point announcing anything publicly until the design is at the end of RIBA Stage 2 and that could easily take 12-months.  I suspect they’re using this pause period to test the various ‘products’ and see which sticks with the fans base.

[dave.woodhall]

I could be wrong but I got the impression that Unai didn't want to change anything about the stadium while we were doing so well.

[Risso]

I could be wrong but I got the impression that Unai didn't want to change anything about the stadium while we were doing so well.

Is he planning on not doing well in the next two or three seasons then? Or are we stuck with the North Stand until he hangs up his powerpoint slides?

[pauliewalnuts]

I could be wrong but I got the impression that Unai didn't want to change anything about the stadium while we were doing so well.

Is he planning on not doing well in the next two or three seasons then? Or are we stuck with the North Stand until he hangs up his powerpoint slides?

If it means continuing to do as well as we have since he came here, the North Stand can stay as far as I'm concerned.

[Monty]

I could be wrong but I got the impression that Unai didn't want to change anything about the stadium while we were doing so well.

Is he planning on not doing well in the next two or three seasons then? Or are we stuck with the North Stand until he hangs up his powerpoint slides?

If it means continuing to do as well as we have since he came here, the North Stand can stay as far as I'm concerned.

Wonder if Champions League money can make up the shortfall.