Villa Park Redevelopment

[Somniloquism]

Tell the North Stand people before the press release and the story is in the press already without any input and control of the story from the club. The same as telling the Fans Forum people last week. My brother had all the details for him and his daughter yesterday within a few hours of the announcment. Not sure what is amateur hour about any of that.

[ez]

The lower tier obviously sweeps around to the other stands as it is, will be interesting to how much or if any of it will remain open.
The Athletic piece yesterday said the capacity will be reduced by 5k, so that's not the entire stand capacity.

I assumed the lower north would be rebuilt and made into safe standing. The slope of it is not steep enough for seating as it is.

[Percy McCarthy]

The lower tier obviously sweeps around to the other stands as it is, will be interesting to how much or if any of it will remain open.
The Athletic piece yesterday said the capacity will be reduced by 5k, so that's not the entire stand capacity.

Could be. Don’t forget they will be “optimising the bowl” in other corners and stands. So capacity might be 6,500 down from the NS closure, but 1500 up elsewhere.

[Chris Harte]

The lower tier obviously sweeps around to the other stands as it is, will be interesting to how much or if any of it will remain open.
The Athletic piece yesterday said the capacity will be reduced by 5k, so that's not the entire stand capacity.

Could be. Don’t forget they will be “optimising the bowl” in other corners and stands. So capacity might be 6,500 down from the NS closure, but 1500 up elsewhere.

The club themselves said the capacity during the rebuild would be 37,000 and a bit (to paraphrase). That's 6,000 and a bit down on our highest gate this season.

[Brend'Watkins]

The lower tier obviously sweeps around to the other stands as it is, will be interesting to how much or if any of it will remain open.
The Athletic piece yesterday said the capacity will be reduced by 5k, so that's not the entire stand capacity.

Could be. Don’t forget they will be “optimising the bowl” in other corners and stands. So capacity might be 6,500 down from the NS closure, but 1500 up elsewhere.

The club themselves said the capacity during the rebuild would be 37,000 and a bit (to paraphrase). That's 6,000 and a bit down on our highest gate this season.

It isn’t the end of the world, I think we’ll cope with the short term financial loss especially as we’ll be hiking up the price of CL tickets.

[Hookeysmith]

Ozfest next year?

[cdbearsfan]

Hopefully his Nazi bellend widow doesn't attend.

[Dante Lavelli]

introducing safe standing to the lower tier of the north stand would be a massive win from this pause/go kerfuffle.