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Topic Started: Mar 8 2007, 12:18 PM (613 Views)
k-bek
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Shame they didn't put as much effort into adding to the squad in January as they are putting into thie new stadium.

A sports village would be great for the city. would it have a swimming pool?

However, why 55,000? Will we ever really need that many seats lying empty? It'll end up £700 for a season ticket and £1 a game for every seat unsold an hour before KO and we'll still only get 24,000 people.

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The Concerned Potato Head
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k-bek
Mar 8 2007, 10:27 PM
Shame they didn't put as much effort into adding to the squad in January as they are putting into thie new stadium.

A sports village would be great for the city. would it have a swimming pool?

However, why 55,000? Will we ever really need that many seats lying empty? It'll end up £700 for a season ticket and £1 a game for every seat unsold an hour before KO and we'll still only get 24,000 people.

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Sullivan also believes a new stadium is the answer to the club's pricing policy which has caused so much friction among fans.


"We want a 55,000-capacity stadium - then we can do deals that would fill it," he said. "We could do so much to help the working-class core support.


"I hope we'll have lots of £5 games so people will come. It's all a possibility."


and yes the developments will include an Olympic-size swimming pool. i think the only other one of those in the UK is in Sheffield
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k-bek
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I really do hope the new stadium, if it happens, is a success for Blues. As a club we deserve something to shout about.

However, why are they so intent on a sports village? To attract the funding I suppose. Good idea but is it really best for BCFC?
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The reason the council want it is as has been said, a bid for the commonwealth games and also for World and European Outdoor Athlectic championships since we know how well we can do with the indoor version of these events.

Also at the moment the plans for an Olympic sized (50m) swimming pool are for one to be built at Arston Uni.

I suppose you may get a smaller 25m local pool, but it would be amazing if we had two 50m pools.
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The only thing that worries me is the councils members personal involvement in the NEC (ie the shares that they all own). I hope they are not soft soaping everyone just to push there own personal interests forward.

The comments about being to far away are a concern but we are having retractable stands so hopfully that will not be a issue.
I also can't imagine us staying at a crowd of 18,000 in a new stadium especially as we hopefully will be playing in the prem. The gates should be at least into the 30,000+ bracket. If we still have 20,000 seats to fill then surely they will have to reduce the cost of season ticket as there will be no suply and demand issue. The board will surely take that into consideration. There prime objective will be to fill the stadium on a regular basis. Then they can start charging the going prem rate for tickets.Other wise people will just pick and choose there games and we would have very low season ticket sales.

So we will at least get a few years at a discounted level.

If it is built it can only be good for us as a business as well as a football club.

Role on the new stadium i for one can't wait.

Well done to the board if they manage to pull this off. :applause:

:Blues:


PS. I am so surprised by the amount of people asking questions about a project that has been in the public demain for so long. Were have you been?
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Mar 8 2007, 10:15 PM
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Karren Brady said today that plans for a new 55,000 seat stadium for the club are very much alive and she hopes that a final decision on its viability can be made by the summer.

Blues submitted plans for a stunning new sports village in Saltley last year, which appeared to be dependent on Birmingham being given a licence to build a Super casino.

Despite the unavailability of casino funds now to support the project, the club has been looking at other ways of financing it.

"We're still talking to the council about building a new 55,000 capacity stadium for We're still talking to the council about building a new 55,000 capacity stadium for Birmingham and those talks are ongoing," said Managing Director Karren Brady.

"We hope to have some plans by the summer and at that point we'll know if it's likely to go ahead or not.

"But the council have shown a real commitment to doing this work.

"The site remains the same and it's about funding now.

"A major arm of the funding was due to be the casino and that's obviously gone now, so it's how we fill that hole."

"We really need to help ourselves by putting together a comprehensive plan for council about how a sports village could be done with investment from the football club, from outside investors and investment from the council themselves.

"We have a construction partner in place."

"They are the master planner and are effectively working out what needs to go on that site and what the right mix is to generate enough money from the outside development to build the stadium."

As well as the stadium, Blues and the council would still look to develop the area around the stadium as a sports village for the use of the general public.

"It's not just a football stadium plonked in the middle of a field it would be a community centre, a place where young people could work together, play together and be together, focused around the stadium," she added.

"We're the youngest city in Europe with nothing for young people to do and it would always be a dream to have a sports city."


looks like they REALLY want this to happen

yes yes yes, but as penguin says, what have the board or brady EVER done for the blues??? answer me that one, CPH....
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trev984
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It's the AGM this afternoon. Perhaps we will here more there. After all they are speaking to shareholders.
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Mar 9 2007, 08:10 AM
The Concerned Potato Head
Mar 8 2007, 10:15 PM
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Karren Brady said today that plans for a new 55,000 seat stadium for the club are very much alive and she hopes that a final decision on its viability can be made by the summer.

Blues submitted plans for a stunning new sports village in Saltley last year, which appeared to be dependent on Birmingham being given a licence to build a Super casino.

Despite the unavailability of casino funds now to support the project, the club has been looking at other ways of financing it.

"We're still talking to the council about building a new 55,000 capacity stadium for We're still talking to the council about building a new 55,000 capacity stadium for Birmingham and those talks are ongoing," said Managing Director Karren Brady.

"We hope to have some plans by the summer and at that point we'll know if it's likely to go ahead or not.

"But the council have shown a real commitment to doing this work.

"The site remains the same and it's about funding now.

"A major arm of the funding was due to be the casino and that's obviously gone now, so it's how we fill that hole."

"We really need to help ourselves by putting together a comprehensive plan for council about how a sports village could be done with investment from the football club, from outside investors and investment from the council themselves.

"We have a construction partner in place."

"They are the master planner and are effectively working out what needs to go on that site and what the right mix is to generate enough money from the outside development to build the stadium."

As well as the stadium, Blues and the council would still look to develop the area around the stadium as a sports village for the use of the general public.

"It's not just a football stadium plonked in the middle of a field it would be a community centre, a place where young people could work together, play together and be together, focused around the stadium," she added.

"We're the youngest city in Europe with nothing for young people to do and it would always be a dream to have a sports city."


looks like they REALLY want this to happen

yes yes yes, but as penguin says, what have the board or brady EVER done for the blues??? answer me that one, CPH....

You need to go and have a word with yourself. :LMAO:
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trev984
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We have the AGM this afternoon. We should here more then.
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