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.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.
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.
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.The East stand was a poor design for a mid-nineties build, no new stands should be built with supporting pillars like that.
Firstly: fuck off you aren’t building on Hearsall Common FFS. Over my dead body.
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.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?
The East stand was a poor design for a mid-nineties build, no new stands should be built with supporting pillars like that.
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.
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.Southampton managed a 30,000 attendance in league 1 St Mary’s has always been a huge draw for some reason
Max wouldn't have far to travel .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.
He lives in town does he?Max wouldn't have far to travel .
Disclaimer I know he's unlikely to be around long enough and it's not happening anyway.
Over the roadHe lives in town does he?
Agree, but my point was we could have improved HR quite easily. We didn't have to leave.
Ok money no object where would you like a new stadium, would be great next to the station View attachment 14639
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