Glumford Park - Rebuild Plans

Casperimp

Casperimp

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I see Scunny have submitted plans to turn Glumford Park into a state of the art 12,000 seat stadium. I know you have to have ambition but surely 12,000 is way too much! Near the top of League 1 their highest League gate last season was 6,591 so on that basis it wouldn't have been much more than half full. The lowest was 3,120 yikes that would be a bit soulless.

I know we could go back to low crowds if and when we are rubbish again but if we built a 12,000 to 15,000 seat stadium at least when we are doing well on occasion we would get to fill it up!

If they are flying at the top of League 1 and can't get decent crowds apart from being in The Championship with large away followings when are they going to need 12,000 seats?

Does look nice though!

Details are here

https://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co....rpe-united-reveal-plans-redevelopment-1590341
 
‘100 residential apartments’. I’m sure a Wilkos-standard new build on a retail park on the edge of Scunthorpe will be highly sought after.
 
Scunthorpe doesn't have the population to support its club beyond what it gets now - around 65,000 compared to 130,000 in the urban area of Lincoln. The old rule-of-thumb suggested your maximum support was around 10% of your population, although I don't know how true that would be today. Therefore, they are actually doing well to pull in 6,591 - roughly the equivalent of 13,000 at Lincoln.

Similar to Forest Green, who somehow pulled in an average of 2,771 last season in an area of low population. They will not increase that much further whatever they do. FGR's catchment area is actually much larger than the oft-quoted 5,800 population of Nailsworth - Stroud is 4 miles away, with a population of 32,000.

It all seems a bit pointless making big plans and throwing large sums of money at it when you have a severely limited catchment area. But it is Peter Swann's hobby, more than any logical attempt to attract fans who don't exist and grow the club into anything more than it ever can be.
 
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Suppose they will have to play there home games at North Ferriby Utd when the ground is being worked on then.





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An artist's impression of how the redevelopment of Glanford Park will look at 2:45pm on a Saturday.
 

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