I will repeat and amend my comment: a new ground is a decade away (at least), we cannot expand SB without investing unsustainable amounts of cash that we don't currently have.
We're stuck with a perfectly functional 10k stadium.
I don't think we'd have sold many more STs though. Will sell out half a dozen games in League One if that, and mostly when there's >1,000 away fans.How many clubs outside the premier sell out of their season ticket allocation 2 years in a row. Turning season ticket money away... I ponder that in relation to adequate size and perfectly functional.
Good to see the club thinking outside the box again this year using the BM/Uni stand for small away followings - Accrington & Fleetwood could go in there in August. Expect Southend to have a couple of blocks of the SW.The away allocation rule is what does us. If we could put them in the South Park stand only we could create 1000 seats
That's the issue when you sell out of something, you just don't know how many more you might have sold. £££I don't think we'd have sold many more STs though. Will sell out half a dozen games in League One if that, and mostly when there's >1,000 away fans.
Appreciate it's Accrington Stanley with probably <200 away fans, but club said yesterday only 8,000 tickets had been sold for Saturday.
To give an idea of how much it costs to build a new stadium now (or to build new stands with the necessary facilities), AFC Wimbledon's new ground at Plough Lane is costing £25 million for a 10,000 capacity, and the final bill will probably be higher. The fact that they haven't got the money to pay for it could be a problem in twelve months' time. At least they will be 'back home' in Wimbledon by the time the club folds.
Great moving "back home" if there really are thousands of fans in Merton who have been patiently waiting over 20 years for them to return...To give an idea of how much it costs to build a new stadium now (or to build new stands with the necessary facilities), AFC Wimbledon's new ground at Plough Lane is costing £25 million for a 10,000 capacity, and the final bill will probably be higher. The fact that they haven't got the money to pay for it could be a problem in twelve months' time. At least they will be 'back home' in Wimbledon by the time the club folds.
Indeed SW London is not a cheap labour area but it would still expensive in Lincs.
The only real ways to finance it are
1) rich owner finances it personally
2) local authority consider a civic duty and build under their budget and give the club a long lease at pepper corn rent. They would probably want the proceeds of the disposal of land at Sincil bank back.
I feel our best bet is option 2
The linpave stand heavily subsidised was a bargain unfortunately football league level facilities are expensive.
It would probably be cheaper to knock it down and rebuild then attempt to engineer a modified stand.
Ok it would be relatively simple job as the ground conditions are known access is good and the site would be level and a decent size. When you cover all the professional fees, the labour and materials etc it would be in the millions. Anything with aesthetic qualities and facilities beyond a basic toilet block etc and it will be expensive.
I don’t have the norms but there will be a metrics online. Quick research (very old data so would need to be indexed) looks like anything from £1k to £3k per seat. I think that is a new stadium which would mean a new 20k stadium would be anything from £20m to £60m (needs to be adjusted for inflation)
I would assume that replacing a stand would be considering less as you would not have the same level of cost as new stadium but even at £500 per seat you would need to find £2m to build a 4K stand.
Food for thought
Spot on!
some believe that Challenge Anneka was real too.
Come on Imps, there must be a few DIY experts on here who can knock up a new tier on the Stacey West and extend the Selenity the length of the pitch - all over 48 hours.
If it was Lego scale perhaps!
Tender returns for large scale build projects have gone through the roof over the last 6-8 months. I’ll leave you to ponder why that might be but these projects are by no means straight forward, even ‘simply’ rebuilding the Stacey West.