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Its the council Snakeye. Its a municipal park and a very nice one too with a little lake and restored victorian glasshouse thingy. One side of the park touches goodison the other anfield.
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Ridiculous decision, but there you go. Ridiculous post, but there you go.
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Ridiculous decision, but there you go. Ridiculous post, but there you go. my points exactly...
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I would be happy to stay at Anfield but will be dissapointed if they can only get 60,000 seats there. if we want to compete with the best clubs in Europe at reasonable seat prices we need at least 70,000 seats. I don't agree with those who say the area cant handle a larger stadium. The GAA in Ireland have an 82,000 + seat Stadium right in the centre of Dublin city and the majority of the crowd come from outside the city most of the time and there's no real problems. I would like FSG to negotiate with the City Council for enough space to achieve a 70,000 seat redevelopment at a minimum If they don't then imo it indicates a lack of real top level ambition for our club.
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I would be happy to stay at Anfield but will be dissapointed if they can only get 60,000 seats there. if we want to compete with the best clubs in Europe at reasonable seat prices we need at least 70,000 seats. I don't agree with those who say the area cant handle a larger stadium. The GAA in Ireland have an 82,000 + seat Stadium right in the centre of Dublin city and the majority of the crowd come from outside the city most of the time and there's no real problems. I would like FSG to negotiate with the City Council for enough space to achieve a 70,000 seat redevelopment at a minimum If they don't then imo it indicates a lack of real top level ambition for our club. I dont know if you know the Anfield area but it's pretty well land locked, the roads are terrible and even with a 45k attendence it's horrendous to try and get away from the area so I could'nt imagine how bad it would be if it was any bigger. There are no train stations within about 2 mile and we are a good 3 to 4 mile away from the City centre, people have to wait until the traffic and congestion calm down before trying to make a journey, nearest motorway is about 3 mile away. When the stadium was built all those years ago, it needed to be built close to where people lived because there was no transport like there is today so people walked or got the bus, now that people come from outside the City they will drive, fly or get the train this means the stadium is in an area which is no longer feasible. If you cant get away from the stadium in a car for over and hour or so as it is then imagine you are stuck in a car park outside a stadium that holds about 60k you would'nt get away until after 7 o'clock at the minimum, try sitting in your car stuck in traffic for that long after every game.
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Ian is absolutely right. Anfield would never cope with 70k.
There were plans to redevelop L1 with a new train link and so forth. But with the economic crisis not sure whether that is still on the cards. Why they chose to stay at Anfield and not move to speke, burtonwood or aintree I will never know.
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Ian is absolutely right. Anfield would never cope with 70k.
There were plans to redevelop L1 with a new train link and so forth. But with the economic crisis not sure whether that is still on the cards. Why they chose to stay at Anfield and not move to speke, burtonwood or aintree I will never know.
to be honest stanley I dont think it's as important for the Club to remain in the City as it was years ago, with it being more of a global fan base I think the Club should be looking at making getting the stadium more easily accessible to fans traveling in which as you say means a stadium on the motorway or airport link, Burtonwood would of been ideal.
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Reading the article it sounds like the residents will be shafted. Threat of compulsory purchase and we'll give you a little bit to see you on your way.
They should be offered at least double market value as any supermarket would do. It will still turn out hugely cheaper than the £300 million stated for Stanley Park.
There communication with fans has been non existent from day 1 and there is a detached cold arrogance about their whole group in my book.
hang on a minute, the stadium is been there over 100 years so unless there is a resident who was there before then tough. Its like moving next to the m62 and complaining about road noise. Anfield has been on its backside since the 70s and house prices have always been low and those residents who bought houses got them on the cheap. Now they want their cake and eat it.
There business men nothing more. Done with the feckers end of. Nothing about them in my mind to say they are an owner you can talk of in a good light.
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I would be happy to stay at Anfield but will be dissapointed if they can only get 60,000 seats there. if we want to compete with the best clubs in Europe at reasonable seat prices we need at least 70,000 seats. I don't agree with those who say the area cant handle a larger stadium. The GAA in Ireland have an 82,000 + seat Stadium right in the centre of Dublin city and the majority of the crowd come from outside the city most of the time and there's no real problems. I would like FSG to negotiate with the City Council for enough space to achieve a 70,000 seat redevelopment at a minimum If they don't then imo it indicates a lack of real top level ambition for our club. come on guys lets get real. The costs of a 70k stadia and all that goes with it is well out of our reach, its nearer 500+mil. How would they get the return on investment with out charging silly prices? 60k is more than enough as proven many times in midweek games. Manu are struggling to fill 78k this last year or so and their prices reflect ours. Its the additional corperate wich we require, 2000 more corperate seats are worth more than 10000 'standard' seats. All at the cost of 300mil
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I would be happy to stay at Anfield but will be dissapointed if they can only get 60,000 seats there. if we want to compete with the best clubs in Europe at reasonable seat prices we need at least 70,000 seats. I don't agree with those who say the area cant handle a larger stadium. The GAA in Ireland have an 82,000 + seat Stadium right in the centre of Dublin city and the majority of the crowd come from outside the city most of the time and there's no real problems. I would like FSG to negotiate with the City Council for enough space to achieve a 70,000 seat redevelopment at a minimum If they don't then imo it indicates a lack of real top level ambition for our club. I dont know if you know the Anfield area but it's pretty well land locked, the roads are terrible and even with a 45k attendence it's horrendous to try and get away from the area so I could'nt imagine how bad it would be if it was any bigger. There are no train stations within about 2 mile and we are a good 3 to 4 mile away from the City centre, people have to wait until the traffic and congestion calm down before trying to make a journey, nearest motorway is about 3 mile away. When the stadium was built all those years ago, it needed to be built close to where people lived because there was no transport like there is today so people walked or got the bus, now that people come from outside the City they will drive, fly or get the train this means the stadium is in an area which is no longer feasible. If you cant get away from the stadium in a car for over and hour or so as it is then imagine you are stuck in a car park outside a stadium that holds about 60k you would'nt get away until after 7 o'clock at the minimum, try sitting in your car stuck in traffic for that long after every game. Yes been in Liverpool many times though not as much in recent years. The only real difference between the Liverpool setting and the Dublin setting is the availability of a rail-link and that is something I've said before should be negotiated by FSG with the City Council. In addition there is a plan for considerable renewal in Liverpool which will have to take account of two stadium's in the city so I don't see traffic as an insurmountable problem.
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