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well at least it moving forward once tom hicks removes his spade

I said NEW stadium, not all games are played in NEW stadiums as far as I know.

Of course not there are good and bad stadiums large and small most of the top clubs have quality modern stadiums not for us it seems just because other clubs have poor stadiums does not mean it's ok for us to emulate them

It's very ok to have 58k seats, it wil be the 3rd biggest stadium of the EPL, very close to Emirates. We have been lagging much more behind for decades. You cannot catch up United over a couple of years, they've built that lead over 25 years.

It might have 58k seats but it will be crammed into a small footprint did you see anfield when you went to goodison ? If so did you not think it was a small footprint ? How many premiership grounds have you seen if you don't mind me asking ?

Game day over! Back to business as usual. God knows how you two have the stamina to keep goi g over the same thing week in week out.

Such a key point, along with your post on modern stadiums. When people hear stadium they think how many seats? Okay it's a lot, brilliant job done. But this is only half the issue. We are cramming an outdated (all be it much beloved) stadium full of more seats. Modern stadiums have proven themselves over and over again that they a worth the investment. The infrastructure, comercial opportunities, and most importantly future proofing a new stadium provides is imperitive. Redeveloping 2 stands is a 90's patch job solution that will have us talking about the 'stadium problem' all over again in 10 years, but with the devastating realisation that we had our chance to solve it and we (fsg) elected for a cheaper (ish) solution. Again I must reiterate I can't blame them, it makes sense for their investment group and in their position id likely suggest the same because you rarely consider an asset to be 'for life', these aren't passionate sugar daddies, but business men. But that doesn't stop my heart bleeding as a fan, seeing that it is not the decision that is best for the club.

Hotdogs and hotels are massively important! If we can't compete on that front what chance do we have on the field? Things must change ASAP! No one I their right mind will choose to support Liverpool in the future if we don't have a TGI Fridays outside the ground.

We need to all pray for Santa or the tooth fairy to build us a new stadium and buy us the bestest players in the world. If this doesn't happen I fear bristol rovers will overtake us because they are building the dream and the are a non league team.
Let's just put things in context, rovers can build a brand new ground for £30m but we can't manage to build a 90k stadium?

Point taken. I promise to try to keep away from the stadium moaning as much as I can.

I don't know where I said any of that, and you can be flippant and exaggerate valid concerns to try and make them seem silly but it does you (nor the club) no favours. The comercial side of football is one of the most important things to a club as money makes the world go round. If you think that's about TGI Fridays being the difference between us and bristol rovers, More fool you.