Stadium (3 Viewers)

[Magwitch]

Highfield Road didn't need expanding. Just modernising. The new East Stand was excellent. They could have done that to the other three sides eventually and we could have had a great stadium. Richardson's ego had other ideas unfortunately.

Agreed, bloke was a clown with his retractable pitch and National stadium ideas. HR held 23K, to think paid £113 million to increase our capacity potential by just 9000 people. With people like him running the club and he wasn’t on his own, one being a Cabinet Minister in his time,no wonder we ended up with crippling £60million debts.

 

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[Joy Division]

Highfield Road didn't need expanding. Just modernising. The new East Stand was excellent. They could have done that to the other three sides eventually and we could have had a great stadium. Richardson's ego had other ideas unfortunately.

The East stand was a poor design for a mid-nineties build, no new stands should be built with supporting pillars like that.

 

[Liquid Gold]

The East stand was a poor design for a mid-nineties build, no new stands should be built with supporting pillars like that.

Agree the pillars shouldn't have been there but apart from that it was a good modern design. I don't mind a pillar here and there either.

Bramall Lane is a a great example of what could have been. 32k squeezed in, a couple of supporting pillars but a great atmospheric ground right by the city centre.

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Firstly: fuck off you aren’t building on Hearsall Common FFS. Over my dead body.

 

[chiefdave]

So is this a joke or would thwir be scope for a groubd there? Would have to knock skydome down too for there to be enough space?

If you knocked down Ikea and the SkyDome (the whole complex not just the ice rink) along with the car park you'd probably have enough room but even if you believed SISU were building a stadium the cost for the site would make it a non starter.

 

[torchomatic]

The East stand was a poor design for a mid-nineties build, no new stands should be built with supporting pillars like that.

Agree, but my point was we could have improved HR quite easily. We didn't have to leave.

 

[Grendel]

You just said yourself crowds were down everywhere, what does that have to do with it.
Different time, different era. Put us back in the premier league now and we’d be getting 30,000 regularly, there is absolutely no doubt about it. Or are you saying clubs like Stoke and Southampton etc are giants compared to us? When you never have anything to get behind apart from relegation battles and then go through the worst few years almost in living memory, and still are able to produce the kind of support we can- that tells you that there is enormous potential waiting to be unleashed, not that we are some kind of minnow.

Southampton managed a 30,000 attendance in league 1 St Mary’s has always been a huge draw for some reason

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Southampton managed a 30,000 attendance in league 1 St Mary’s has always been a huge draw for some reason

I know Portsmouth fans were mystified as to where all the Southampton fans had suddenly appeared from. I think that was the year they went up and also won the checkatrade trophy or whatever it was called then, they had some momentum going.

 

[wingy]

If you knocked down Ikea and the SkyDome (the whole complex not just the ice rink) along with the car park you'd probably have enough room but even if you believed SISU were building a stadium the cost for the site would make it a non starter.

Max wouldn't have far to travel .
Disclaimer I know he's unlikely to be around long enough and it's not happening anyway.

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Max wouldn't have far to travel .
Disclaimer I know he's unlikely to be around long enough and it's not happening anyway.

He lives in town does he?

 

[wingy]

He lives in town does he?

Over the road
New apartments in the converted old Co-op.

 

[Joy Division]

Agree, but my point was we could have improved HR quite easily. We didn't have to leave.

I agree it could have been improved but I'm not so sure we could have increased the capacity on it without buying more land and the surrounding houses.

 

[Skybluemichael]

Ok money no object where would you like a new stadium, would be great next to the station

 

[Skybluemichael]

Or

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Ok money no object where would you like a new stadium, would be great next to the station View attachment 14639

I see my old school on there

yes- in town. If there were no obstacles in the way then somewhere in the city centre all day long for me.

 

[Skybluemichael]

How good would it be if it was inside the ring road the foot print of the ground wouldn’t take up the much space

 

[Peter Billing Eyes]

With traffic congestion, it’s highly unlikely planning permission would be obtained for a new stadium around the city centre. A lot of the locations being suggested on here are on land that is owned or on long-term leases to existing landlords and any suggestion of building on Hearsall Common or the Memorial Park is folly. It’s easy to get carried away with wishful thinking without considering the practicalities or potential resistance a new development would encounter. That’s without taking into consideration the existing local development plan.

 

[Magwitch]

This stadium situation needs sorting and quick who knows where we stand with this crisis and lockdowns.

 

[Skybluemichael]

Said money no object, just dreaming pay off who needs paying off, wouldn’t it be good at IKEA halfway between bus/train station

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

In reality I think the most likely candidates would be current retail/business parks near the centre to provide enough space.

Central Six would have been an OK shout given proximity to train station etc, but now they're building the bus hub on that side not going to happen.