The Aberdeen Mega-Hyper New Stadium Thread

[Jacksgranda]

3 hours ago, pozbaird said:

I once drank an entire cup of the coffee served at Hamilton’s New Douglas Park - frankly, I think a trip to Aberdeen’s proposed new gaff’ would be less dangerous.

No cake?

[Jacksgranda]

2 hours ago, kingjoey said:

Other news you might have missed. Rangers are a new club.

[betting competition]

No surprises.

Hopefully can still get the land for it although now it will be owned by Aberdeen FC than the council

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5131300/new-aberdeen-fc-stadium/

[lubo_blaha]

If the beach is no longer an option then we should be looking at redeveloping Pittodrie one stand at a time over several years.

I don’t buy any of the “European games in Dundee” “12k max capacity” crap that Milne was feeding us.

[Frank Grimes]

Unless Davey C pays for the lot it’s never going to happen 

And Dave is pretty generous when it comes to the dandies but I canna see him forking up £80 million 

I’d rather we reconciled the fact we are staying at Pittodrie and focus our efforts on modernising the stadium 

They’ve been speaking about a new Aberdeen stadium since Scotland’s Euro 2008 hosting bid ffs

Sick of hearing sound bytes about this pipedream tbh 

[BrendanGalloway]

16 minutes ago, lubo_blaha said:

If the beach is no longer an option then we should be looking at redeveloping Pittodrie one stand at a time over several years.

I don’t buy any of the “European games in Dundee” “12k max capacity” crap that Milne was feeding us.

Then we end up with a shiny but still shit stadium like Hibs. Cant imagine it will increase turnover much because the seats are shiny. 

 

17 minutes ago, Frank Grimes said:

Unless Davey C pays for the lot it’s never going to happen 

And Dave is pretty generous when it comes to the dandies but I canna see him forking up £80 million 

I’d rather we reconciled the fact we are staying at Pittodrie and focus our efforts on modernising the stadium 

They’ve been speaking about a new Aberdeen stadium since Scotland’s Euro 2008 hosting bid ffs

Sick of hearing sound bytes about this pipedream tbh 

Thin we would manage to get alot funded through grants and investors. the biggest problem I see is that it wont cost 80m by time its built it will probably double that. Makes it even less likely.

[invergowrie arab]

11 minutes ago, BrendanGalloway said:

Then we end up with a shiny but still shit stadium like Hibs. Cant imagine it will increase turnover much because the seats are shiny. 

 

Thin we would manage to get alot funded through grants and investors. the biggest problem I see is that it wont cost 80m by time its built it will probably double that. Makes it even less likely.

What grants would you get that would pay for even a fraction of it?

Never understood why there is a fantastic brand new conference facility miles out of town only accessible by corporation bus and why nobody thought to look at these things together.

[VincentGuerin]

I like going to Aberdeen. Regardless of the result, the trips up there are usually among the highlights of a season and me and my mates normally make a weekend of it.

An out-of-town stadium would probably not knock the Aberdeen weekends on the head, but it's very likely we'd just not bother our arses going to the actual game. f**k that.

[DA Baracus]

3 hours ago, BrendanGalloway said:

Then we end up with a shiny but still shit stadium like Hibs. Cant imagine it will increase turnover much because the seats are shiny. 

But the model for the new stadium was just a dull all seater load of shite, so shiny seats. How would that increase revenue? Why do folk in charge of things in football continually ignore what fans want?

[Florentine_Pogen]

5 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:

But the model for the new stadium was just a dull all seater load of shite, so shiny seats. How would that increase revenue? Why do folk in charge of things in football continually ignore what fans want?

Hubris, smoke & mirrors, wampum.

[starryfish]

3 hours ago, VincentGuerin said:

I like going to Aberdeen. Regardless of the result, the trips up there are usually among the highlights of a season and me and my mates normally make a weekend of it.

An out-of-town stadium would probably not knock the Aberdeen weekends on the head, but it's very likely we'd just not bother our arses going to the actual game. f**k that.

Interested to know why an ‘out-of-town’ stadium would bother you so much you wouldn’t want to go and watch your team?

[VincentGuerin]

5 minutes ago, starryfish said:

Interested to know why an ‘out-of-town’ stadium would bother you so much you wouldn’t want to go and watch your team?

It'll be maybe a one-hour round trip from the centre to an area with nothing really there to pay thirty-odd quid to watch the Scottish Premiership?

Not interrupting a good weekend away for that. I think there'll be Aberdeen fans who come to a similar conclusion.

[kingjoey]

5 hours ago, betting competition said:

No surprises.

Hopefully can still get the land for it although now it will be owned by Aberdeen FC than the council

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5131300/new-aberdeen-fc-stadium/

Unless anyone is a subscriber to the P&J, that article can’t be read.

[lubo_blaha]

But the model for the new stadium was just a dull all seater load of shite, so shiny seats. How would that increase revenue? Why do folk in charge of things in football continually ignore what fans want?

The club have planned to include a standing area for years, which would be more suitable than the standing area with seats that they implemented at Pittodrie. Cormack has consistently said that they’re looking to spend a bit more to have better facilities which would generate more income.

[Merkland Red]

7 hours ago, betting competition said:

No surprises.

Hopefully can still get the land for it although now it will be owned by Aberdeen FC than the council

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5131300/new-aberdeen-fc-stadium/

Typical ACC.

[Frank Grimes]

6 hours ago, Merkland Red said:

Typical ACC.

It really is 

Who knows what goes on behind closed doors but you’d think the council would say something like “we’ll put, say, £15 million towards it and we would like x, y, z”

The short sightedness consistently shown by c***s like Ian Yuill really do sum us up as a city in the last 30 years 

Aberdeen still has so much potential but we drag our feet on absolutely everything 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Frank Grimes

[starryfish]

9 hours ago, VincentGuerin said:

It'll be maybe a one-hour round trip from the centre to an area with nothing really there to pay thirty-odd quid to watch the Scottish Premiership?

Not interrupting a good weekend away for that. I think there'll be Aberdeen fans who come to a similar conclusion.

I regularly travel a three hour round trip so to me location doesn’t hugely matter 

[topcat(The most tip top)]

11 hours ago, kingjoey said:

Unless anyone is a subscriber to the P&J, that article can’t be read.

For the rest of us

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/council-confirm-aberdeen-stadium-plans-7905101

[craigkillie]

I regularly travel a three hour round trip so to me location doesn’t hugely matter 

It's not really the distance so much as the inconvenience and mode of travel. At the moment for Pittodrie you jump on a train and walk to the ground. The idea of adding some sort of shuttle bus or similar shite is more than enough to put people off.

[Jacksgranda]

11 hours ago, kingjoey said:

Unless anyone is a subscriber to the P&J, that article can’t be read.

Probably just as well..."NE Man doesn't want stadium built"