EdTheDuck Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 3 minutes ago, TrebleTwenty said: Impossible, judging by the amount of folk that will apparently be boycotting the place, the place will be dead.. Has anyone said they're boycotting? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 (edited) 52 minutes ago, strichener said: The less flippant answer is: 42 according to the bus strategy. Even then the numbers are just plucked from the air especially if you look at numbers of trips against buses. Thanks. I see these shuttlebuses are envisaged as making 68 journeys and carrying 5,715 people... that's 84 people per journey so they must be double-deckers with people standing? They separately enumerate 280 people to travel by local service buses and 1,375 by "home support buses". Where are these 42 buses & drivers coming from every other weekend and some weekday evenings? Also all the above figures are for crowds of 14,250 i.e. only 2/3 of capacity. How will capacity crowds be transported? More shuttlebuses? (Btw, their estimate of 18 home games per season is, I'd suggest, rather optimistic in a 38-game league with 2 cup competitions and possible EL commitments ). Edited January 17, 2018 by HibeeJibee 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverWolfe Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 This thread and the entire situation pretty much sums up Scottish football. Spend 25 years moaning and bitching that your club have a shite budget only to reject the plan that gives you the budget because you can only have 2 pints instead of 5 before the game. This stadium is a no brainer, genuinely mind boggling that any Aberdeen fan can be against it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 This thread and the entire situation pretty much sums up Scottish football. Spend 25 years moaning and bitching that your club have a shite budget only to reject the plan that gives you the budget because you can only have 2 pints instead of 5 before the game. This stadium is a no brainer, genuinely mind boggling that any Aberdeen fan can be against it. http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Celtic+Park+-+Cambuslang+site+plans 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 9 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Celtic+Park+-+Cambuslang+site+plans Meh, no floating pitch and supercasino, not even a monorail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdTheDuck Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Tartantony said: This thread and the entire situation pretty much sums up Scottish football. Spend 25 years moaning and bitching that your club have a shite budget only to reject the plan that gives you the budget because you can only have 2 pints instead of 5 before the game. This stadium is a no brainer, genuinely mind boggling that any Aberdeen fan can be against it. You think that building a 20,000 capacity in the back of beyond is going to give AFC the budget for... what? And why doesn't the current 20,000 capacity Pittodrie give AFC the budget for...whatever? Do you think that a re-built Pittodrie with a capacity of 18,000 rather than 20,000 in Kingsford would mean the difference between success and failure? Edited January 17, 2018 by EdTheDuck 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Meh, no floating pitch and supercasino, not even a monorail. Cambuslang, Straiton, Hermiston Gait, Aurora.... I think Dundee May be the only real City in Scotland not to have seen one of these scams 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 1 minute ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: Cambuslang, Straiton, Hermiston Gait, Aurora.... I think Dundee May be the only real City in Scotland not to have seen one of these scams Aren't Dundee talking about moving out to Camperdown? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 14 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Aren't Dundee talking about moving out to Camperdown? Yes. Their American owners have bought land there already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Yes. Their American owners have bought land there already. But Brechin and Elgin are still OK, right 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Aren't Dundee talking about moving out to Camperdown? I don’t think that’s similar at all. I live just off the City Road which is basically the city centre and I’d be about 5 minutes in the car to both. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: But Brechin and Elgin are still OK, right Got some bad news about the Glebe old chap.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COYR Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Tartantony said: This thread and the entire situation pretty much sums up Scottish football. Spend 25 years moaning and bitching that your club have a shite budget only to reject the plan that gives you the budget because you can only have 2 pints instead of 5 before the game. This stadium is a no brainer, genuinely mind boggling that any Aberdeen fan can be against it. Celtic should move 7 miles away to a place with no public transport and 4 hotel/restaurant pubs. Your own 430 capacity stadium bar. Increase your crowds. Give Brendan the budget he needs to compete in Europe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunty Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 4 hours ago, strichener said: ACC don't need to contribute as AFC are already in the City. The issue here is the insistence of AFC that everything needs to be co-located. Drop that and I am guessing that Kingsford would have a greater than 75% chance of being approved as the training ground. But if building in the city centre is going to cost Aberdeen more money then they are entitled to seek a cheaper alternative elsewhere. Therefore if that effects city centre trade, the onus is on the council to persuade them to stay. Rejecting Kingsford isnt going to do that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milnzo Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Lolwut? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 7 hours ago, TrebleTwenty said: The AWPR is a bypass, it does not head towards the city, which can take you to the North or South, this road will quickly deal with fans that head in those directions. The A994 is the road that heads toward the city, which then Splits at the Kingswells roundabout, to the B9119, one towards the Langstracht, the other towards Hazlehead. Both these roads then join Anderson Drive at different points. Will there be some congestion? of course. will it be hours that the doomsayers are predicting, no. You can also head West, and some other backroads that lead into the sticks. As far as who is going where, how many is going where, how many stick around to drink in the club bar. who knows? It's guess work at best. I'm going to hazard a guess at 430 as that is all it will have capacity for. The entire home crowd minus 430 will be fighting their way to a bus or car at the same time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 If ACC turn down planning permission for Kingsford, what makes anyone campaigning for the redevelopment of Pittodrie think they’d suddenly bend over backwards to accommodate the club staying where they are. Have they not already said that they are against any development of the kings links because it’s land for the common good or something like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milnzo Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 7 hours ago, Dunty said: But if building in the city centre is going to cost Aberdeen more money then they are entitled to seek a cheaper alternative elsewhere. Therefore if that effects city centre trade, the onus is on the council to persuade them to stay. Rejecting Kingsford isnt going to do that. Can't stop looking at this ^^^ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherchance Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 If ACC turn down planning permission for Kingsford, what makes anyone campaigning for the redevelopment of Pittodrie think they’d suddenly bend over backwards to accommodate the club staying where they are. Have they not already said that they are against any development of the kings links because it’s land for the common good or something like that. Not sure but Kings Links is a complete non starter - tenants have it on a decades long lease and aren’t for cancelling it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 What was wrong with the south city proposal that was going about a few years back? Maybe I've just made it up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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