Villa Park Redevelopment

[chrisw1]

It's a shame we'll be losing most of the view of the trees between the Holte and Trinity.

Which is why it was odd we didn't go with a bigger North Stand of 13000 so that we could avoid having to do lose that unique view for the sake of a few hundred seats.

No, it isn't.

Well some think it is Drummond.  But we get that others are very happy with the planned refurb.  I think it's odd we didn't go for a 15-16k North when we have the land available, but this discussion has been done to death now.

I see Arsenal are planning a further upsize which may involve them playing at Wembley again.  But yeah, shutting a 6,000 seat stand for 12-18 months is unthinkable for Villa.

[Duncan Shaw]

It's a shame we'll be losing most of the view of the trees between the Holte and Trinity.

Which is why it was odd we didn't go with a bigger North Stand of 13000 so that we could avoid having to do lose that unique view for the sake of a few hundred seats.

No, it isn't.

Well some think it is Drummond.  But we get that others are very happy with the planned refurb.  I think it's odd we didn't go for a 15-16k North when we have the land available, but this discussion has been done to death now.

I see Arsenal are planning a further upsize which may involve them playing at Wembley again.  But yeah, shutting a 6,000 seat stand for 12-18 months is unthinkable for Villa.

BUT, their upsize isn't going to be building - it's reconfiguring the seating - or "optimizing the bowl"

[Sexual Ealing]

If there was an another 40k+ stadium within 10 miles of VP it might have made sense to close it, but the closest is, what, Wembley? Old Trafford?

[PeterWithesShin]

Maybe if we had an 88k ground down the road we could use our plans would be different.

[Drummond]

It's a shame we'll be losing most of the view of the trees between the Holte and Trinity.

Which is why it was odd we didn't go with a bigger North Stand of 13000 so that we could avoid having to do lose that unique view for the sake of a few hundred seats.

No, it isn't.

Well some think it is Drummond.  But we get that others are very happy with the planned refurb.  I think it's odd we didn't go for a 15-16k North when we have the land available, but this discussion has been done to death now.

I see Arsenal are planning a further upsize which may involve them playing at Wembley again.  But yeah, shutting a 6,000 seat stand for 12-18 months is unthinkable for Villa.

I don't believe, for one single second, that anyone thought we should go for a bigger North Stand to protect the view of a couple of trees in the gap between the Trinity and Holte. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority hadn't even considered it may go at all, until this change was announced.

[chrisw1]

You don't think we'd lose more than the income from 6,000 of the cheapest seats in the ground by moving grounds for a season?  The rent costs alone would dwarf it.

We'd still have a 36-38k stadium for the majority of the build.

[PeterWithe]

You've seen one tree, you've seen them all.

[Drummond]

There's nothing within any sort of reasonable distance that could house us. There's no identified land, in a location that anyone would be happy with, that we could build on.

Arsenal and Spurs can call on Wembley because it's quite close by, and has great transport.

Maybe we should wait until the BillyBluecoatBullshitDome is built and we could actually fill it for them whilst we rebuild Villa Park.

[PeterWithesShin]

Spurs matchday income went up by far more than they paid to use Wembley.

[LeeB]

We could try Wulvz but the cost of ponchos for those uncovered corners could mean we have to sell Rogers.

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We could try Wulvz but the cost of ponchos for those uncovered corners could mean we have to sell Rogers.

Shame their quest to compete with Barcelona didn't work out. We could have used their 60,000 stadium.

[rob_bridge]

We could try Wulvz but the cost of ponchos for those uncovered corners could mean we have to sell Rogers.

Shame their quest to compete with Barcelona didn't work out. We could have used their 60,000 stadium.

They're just getting started

[LeeB]

We could try Wulvz but the cost of ponchos for those uncovered corners could mean we have to sell Rogers.

Shame their quest to compete with Barcelona didn't work out. We could have used their 60,000 stadium.

In a parallel universe it came to pass, and there's articles in Vogue about which colour Hi-Tec Silver Shadow are the must haves this autumn.

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We could try Wulvz but the cost of ponchos for those uncovered corners could mean we have to sell Rogers.

Shame their quest to compete with Barcelona didn't work out. We could have used their 60,000 stadium.

In a parallel universe it came to pass, and there's articles in Vogue about which colour Hi-Tec Silver Shadow are the must haves this autumn.

The just go so well with boot cut Lee jeans.

[PeterWithesShin]

While you get the usual comments from some fans from local clubs, lot of praise for VP and The Holte from fans of other clubs as usual

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