Villa Park Redevelopment

[Dogtanian]

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[PeterWithesShin]

Only £200 each, no booking history needed.

[Sexual Ealing]

Only £25 extra to shout to a passing young woman asking her to give you a smile.

[eamonn]

NEW! Villans Hard Hat in Claret & Blue - £80.

Get the Pro version with actual head protection - £110.

Genuine lol

[SoccerHQ]

I do think Everton have chosen well with their location. If they ever improve (and let's remember a decade ago we were stinking the prem out like they currently are) then it's in a fantastic location for broadcasting shots and so will help with their marketing and maybe attracting some day trippers.

If we were thinking of sticking a stadium in central Brum then really the nearest equivalent would be if the NIA hadn't been built (not that the footprint would be anywhere close to supporting a 60k ground) and it would've been there surrounded by canals which would've looked cool at night and also good transport links within 5-15 minutes walk.

[LeeS]

All this talk of a new stadium is great. I’d love that. But if you build it anywhere other than the centre of town then you can simply forget the tourist cash. Day trippers do not want the hassle of getting the bus to a football stadium. It has to be walkable or served by a proper train line. Otherwise don’t bother.

All that is said on the knowledge that it is the tourist cash they would be after to pay for it all, not your rain-or-shine fan.

[paul_e]

All this talk of a new stadium is great. I’d love that. But if you build it anywhere other than the centre of town then you can simply forget the tourist cash. Day trippers do not want the hassle of getting the bus to a football stadium. It has to be walkable or served by a proper train line. Otherwise don’t bother.

All that is said on the knowledge that it is the tourist cash they would be after to pay for it all, not your rain-or-shine fan.

Yep, that's why i think the gas towers works. It's about a 10-15 walk from Curzon Street (when it opens) half that from Duddeston (which is potentially server by both the cross city and Walsall lines, and has space to open up an extra platform or 2. With the trams going to Curzon street as well I reckon there'd be a posibility of running a tram down Nechells Parkway from there as well (but that wouldn't be a quick fix given how long we take over tram extensions).

Even more central would be better but I don't think there's a site big enough. I'd love it to be somewhere like Martineau Galleries but the site isn't quite big enough unless you include going over the new tram line (which would give us a nice tram station directly into the ground) and add Martineau place at all the extra cost. I'd guess that's pretty much impossible though.

[LeeB]

All this talk of a new stadium is great. I’d love that. But if you build it anywhere other than the centre of town then you can simply forget the tourist cash. Day trippers do not want the hassle of getting the bus to a football stadium. It has to be walkable or served by a proper train line. Otherwise don’t bother.

All that is said on the knowledge that it is the tourist cash they would be after to pay for it all, not your rain-or-shine fan.

Yep, that's why i think the gas towers works. It's about a 10-15 walk from Curzon Street (when it opens) half that from Duddeston (which is potentially server by both the cross city and Walsall lines, and has space to open up an extra platform or 2. With the trams going to Curzon street as well I reckon there'd be a posibility of running a tram down Nechells Parkway from there as well (but that wouldn't be a quick fix given how long we take over tram extensions).

Even more central would be better but I don't think there's a site big enough. I'd love it to be somewhere like Martineau Galleries but the site isn't quite big enough unless you include going over the new tram line (which would give us a nice tram station directly into the ground) and add Martineau place at all the extra cost. I'd guess that's pretty much impossible though.

Grand Central has died on it's arse, build the stadium in place of that, would sort a lot of the transport issues out.

[cdbearsfan]

There is nowhere in Birmingham with better transport links than Aston. If we move, it should be to Aston Park.

[exigo]

All this talk of a new stadium is great. I’d love that. But if you build it anywhere other than the centre of town then you can simply forget the tourist cash. Day trippers do not want the hassle of getting the bus to a football stadium. It has to be walkable or served by a proper train line. Otherwise don’t bother.

All that is said on the knowledge that it is the tourist cash they would be after to pay for it all, not your rain-or-shine fan.

Thousands of Korean tourists struggling to work out which bus to get back along the Seven Sisters Road say hello.
And the thousands from all over who have to work out the shuttle bus to Anfield.

[Brazilian Villain]

New stadium anyone? https://x.com/SkySportsPL/status/1838971977035641174

[LeeB]

Looks like a throat lozenge.

[edgysatsuma89]

New stadium anyone? https://x.com/SkySportsPL/status/1838971977035641174

That isn't a plan, that's a sweet.

Edit: LeeB got there first!

[LeeS]

All this talk of a new stadium is great. I’d love that. But if you build it anywhere other than the centre of town then you can simply forget the tourist cash. Day trippers do not want the hassle of getting the bus to a football stadium. It has to be walkable or served by a proper train line. Otherwise don’t bother.

All that is said on the knowledge that it is the tourist cash they would be after to pay for it all, not your rain-or-shine fan.

Thousands of Korean tourists struggling to work out which bus to get back along the Seven Sisters Road say hello.
And the thousands from all over who have to work out the shuttle bus to Anfield.

That’s a fair challenge, exigo. However, I’d counter that London transport is like a different universe to Birmingham’s. Besides, the tourists are already there in the city. They need no encouragement. As for Liverpool, well I’ll leave others to work out why that comparison isn’t quite right.  Not yet anyway.

The other point is that I don’t think Liverpool need tourists in the way Heck seems to want them. For starters, they haven’t spunked a billion pound on their stadium.

[algy]

I'm no architect, and I'm certainly no builder, but it takes me around six hours to put an Ikea desk together on my own. I'm also no mathematician, but I reckon a team of 300 builders ought to be able to get a stand together over the course of a summer. Why don't they ever try anything new?

I think you're just not looking at this from a sensible point of view at all.

DIY SOS's Nick Knowles was on £349,000 a year at the BBC, but he could sort a single house out in near secrecy over the course of a week, whilst it's inhabitants were on holiday.  I reckon 20 Nick Knowleses would set us back about £6.9m, but they'd probably have the whole place sorted out over the course of next summer.  Probably even have time to get that park over the road looking nice too.

EDIT: thinking about it, on DIY SOS he usually gets charitable neighbours to chip in and do a bit of the labour for free.  I reckon that's a perfect job for the Albion right there, come and build us a ground for free then leave any decent youngsters they have at the inner city academy thing as a bit of a surprise.