Villa Park Redevelopment

[Percy McCarthy]

(Feyenoord and Benfica do both have the name of the city...)

Oops!

[cdbearsfan]

Confusingly, a few teams where we routinely add a city name don't actually use one. There is no "Sporting Lisbon", "PSV Eindhoven" or "Red Star Belgrade", for instance. Pleasingly, usage of "Glasgow Celtic/Rangers" seems to have died out a bit in the last few years.

Aaaand... sorry for ruining the thread as usual 😀

[geolex]

i thought Benfica was in the outskirts of Lisbon

[rob_bridge]

i thought Benfica was in the outskirts of Lisbon

Stadium similar to Villa distance from city centre. It is a district like Aston

[amfy]

The thing with all these other teams mentioned is that I don’t even think too much about where they are from. They are big enough to stand alone & not need a massive geographical reference to prop them up. That’s the point.

[Olneythelonely]

You wouldn't need to extend other platforms. If you can get a couple of double trains cross city style running round and round via New Street at the end of the game, you could move about 4000 crush loaded. Then you have the normal trains too. They take another couple of thousand across 4 trains in the hour after the game.

I don’t think much of that is logistically sound.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Whereas Sporting don't have Lisbon in their name.

[Sexual Ealing]

Inter seem to do alright too.

[nigel]

Who was it on here that had a bet with their mate that there wouldn’t be a spade in the ground within 3 years of their announcement? We must be 12-18 months in and it’s probably as safe bet.

I think it was Hooky, £100 rings a bell

I’ve had a couple of non financial bets, but didn’t post on here, but now I have 😂

[AV82EC]

You wouldn't need to extend other platforms. If you can get a couple of double trains cross city style running round and round via New Street at the end of the game, you could move about 4000 crush loaded. Then you have the normal trains too. They take another couple of thousand across 4 trains in the hour after the game.

I don’t think much of that is logistically sound.

The difficulty with extra Trains for the Football is WMT don't have any extra trains and WMCA don't have any money to procure or lease trains for that purpose. Of course if we had anything like a sensible public transport culture or strategy in this country then this wouldn't be an issue but we don't so we can all sit in our cars for 30-45 mins and moan about the traffic.

[Brend'Watkins]

Who was it on here that had a bet with their mate that there wouldn’t be a spade in the ground within 3 years of their announcement? We must be 12-18 months in and it’s probably as safe bet.

I think it was Hooky, £100 rings a bell

I’ve had a couple of non financial bets, but didn’t post on here, but now I have 😂

Me too. All with Noses. They’re like a cult. They are so desperate for it to happen that it means it will happen, in their eyes. Other than a few CG images there’s nothing of substance. For it to be designed, approved, costed and contractors selected from now, you’re looking at another 2 years at the least before there’s a start.

[Olneythelonely]

You wouldn't need to extend other platforms. If you can get a couple of double trains cross city style running round and round via New Street at the end of the game, you could move about 4000 crush loaded. Then you have the normal trains too. They take another couple of thousand across 4 trains in the hour after the game.

I don’t think much of that is logistically sound.

The difficulty with extra Trains for the Football is WMT don't have any extra trains and WMCA don't have any money to procure or lease trains for that purpose. Of course if we had anything like a sensible public transport culture or strategy in this country then this wouldn't be an issue but we don't so we can all sit in our cars for 30-45 mins and moan about the traffic.

And even if there were more trains, you’d struggle for “paths”. And you can’t just turn trains at Witton.

[London Villan]

Add to this the lack of drivers and the relatively short notice of games being moved, with train movements, unsurprisingly, having to be planned months in advance.

[Olneythelonely]

And WMT already do provide additional trains where they can after games. So doubling capacity seems optimistic, to say the least.

[cdbearsfan]

We've seen this month how little consideration train companies have for us.