Helmet Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 The whole stadium situation is fucked. Costs are rocketing. Beach won't happen because it involves the council and just won't go anywhere. Kingsford isn't a good location and the fans arent really up for it. But.. we really need a new or rebuilt stadium. Pittodrie is a dump. Link to comment
Guest milne_afc Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 The Dons will end up with a build as you go, limited capacity off the shelf box. The end is beginning, I feel. There’s not much love for the Dons. Link to comment
Zeus Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/9073995/aberdeen-football-stadium-pittodrie-plague-victims/ ? 1 Link to comment
Ramandu Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, Zeus said: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/9073995/aberdeen-football-stadium-pittodrie-plague-victims/ ? The bubonic plague will come good. Link to comment
Poodler Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 I don’t know why I’m the only one concerned about this sounds like @Reekie_d Link to comment
Tord31 Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 A plague on all your houses. If the club dies we can just start again in the third division and pretend it never happened 1 Link to comment
reekie_dock Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 4 hours ago, Poodler said: I don’t know why I’m the only one concerned about this sounds like @Reekie_d Ha ha ha ha Strap yourselves in its conspiracy time 1 1 Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 6 hours ago, Zeus said: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/9073995/aberdeen-football-stadium-pittodrie-plague-victims/ ? Muriel, 82, said. "After all we've been through with COVID, this is the last thing we need" 1 Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 1 hour ago, maryhilldon said: Muriel, 82, said. "After all we've been through with COVID, this is the last thing we need" Just bury Muriel, 82, alive. 1 Link to comment
Helmet Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 9 hours ago, Zeus said: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/9073995/aberdeen-football-stadium-pittodrie-plague-victims/ ? "Muriel has been told" is the key phrase in that article for me. She has no expertise at all but the Sun are happy to publish an article based on the thoughts of someone who basically knows nothing. 1 Link to comment
jamiesd Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 9 hours ago, Zeus said: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/9073995/aberdeen-football-stadium-pittodrie-plague-victims/ ? If this is true can we maybe add Mclennan and Kennedy in with them? Link to comment
redone Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 First bodies to be found when the digging starts...... Mikey Devlin. Tommie Hoban. Jamie Smith. Paul Bernard Link to comment
The Gee Man Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Ex Nat Councillor, typical showing the current regimes distain for football. If she was still a councillor she would be asking for a wee brown envelope first Link to comment
redcryptoknight Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 41 minutes ago, The Gee Man said: Ex Nat Councillor, typical showing the current regimes distain for football. If she was still a councillor she would be asking for a wee brown envelope first Its not surprising. The very middle class women who run the SNP (the sort you might typically expect to trip over in a fancy west end cafe enjoying their coffee and fancy pieces) have never made any great effort to hide their utter contempt for ordinary working class men. 1 Link to comment
Guest findlay_1903 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 I don’t think we should leave Pittodrie, would be a complete waste of money and likely see us massively in debt until the day I die. Whoever was on the board when the surrounding areas to Pittodrie were ALL up for sale should hand their heads in shame. Utterly shocking management and extremely short sighted, I’ve never wanted to move away from our spiritual home, and I’m sure EVERYONE agrees with me, if we’d bought the land around Pittodrie we could of redeveloped our ground quite easily. Drives me potty. Fuming about it. Our club is a joke and I DONT like it. We will never recover from building a ikea stadium. Ugh. Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 8 minutes ago, redcryptoknight said: Its not surprising. The very middle class women who run the SNP (the sort you might typically expect to trip over in a fancy west end cafe enjoying their coffee and fancy pieces) have never made any great effort to hide their utter contempt for ordinary working class men. Aye, cos the Tories do such a good job of that, eh? ? 1 Link to comment
redstrummer Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 6 minutes ago, findlay_1903 said: I don’t think we should leave Pittodrie, would be a complete waste of money and likely see us massively in debt until the day I die. Whoever was on the board when the surrounding areas to Pittodrie were ALL up for sale should hand their heads in shame. Utterly shocking management and extremely short sighted, I’ve never wanted to move away from our spiritual home, and I’m sure EVERYONE agrees with me, if we’d bought the land around Pittodrie we could of redeveloped our ground quite easily. Drives me potty. Fuming about it. Our club is a joke and I DONT like it. We will never recover from building a ikea stadium. Ugh. The thing is I reckon there is plenty space to redevelop the South Stand and the Merkland , then tart up then Main stand . Especially now there are talking about 16K fucking capacity Link to comment
zeroisgod76 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 39 minutes ago, findlay_1903 said: I don’t think we should leave Pittodrie, would be a complete waste of money and likely see us massively in debt until the day I die. Whoever was on the board when the surrounding areas to Pittodrie were ALL up for sale should hand their heads in shame. Utterly shocking management and extremely short sighted, I’ve never wanted to move away from our spiritual home, and I’m sure EVERYONE agrees with me, if we’d bought the land around Pittodrie we could of redeveloped our ground quite easily. Drives me potty. Fuming about it. Our club is a joke and I DONT like it. We will never recover from building a ikea stadium. Ugh. Pittodrie is a dump and always will be a dump. Any attempts to try and get it up to scratch as a modern football stadium would just be like putting lipstick on a pig. We have to move. Link to comment
Guest findlay_1903 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 23 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said: Pittodrie is a dump and always will be a dump. Any attempts to try and get it up to scratch as a modern football stadium would just be like putting lipstick on a pig. We have to move. At what cost? Would take decades to pay off 70-100 million stadium, and still getting an average of 10k a game, fans now refusing to buy the replica kits too. Think of the finances, the club will be on a direct flight to the abyss! What will change in a new stadium? We can at best come 3rd and get to a couple of cup finals every decade. We can still do that without spending the guts if 100m on a stadium that more often than not will be half empty. GROAN Link to comment
redone Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 1 hour ago, redstrummer said: The thing is I reckon there is plenty space to redevelop the South Stand and the Merkland , then tart up then Main stand . Especially now there are talking about 16K fucking capacity. What about those of us that just want watch the fitba ? 1 Link to comment
Joe pike Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 15 minutes ago, findlay_1903 said: At what cost? Would take decades to pay off 70-100 million stadium, and still getting an average of 10k a game, fans now refusing to buy the replica kits too. Think of the finances, the club will be on a direct flight to the abyss! What will change in a new stadium? We can at best come 3rd and get to a couple of cup finals every decade. We can still do that without spending the guts if 100m on a stadium that more often than not will be half empty. GROAN You are trying too hard.??? Link to comment
zeroisgod76 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 47 minutes ago, findlay_1903 said: At what cost? Would take decades to pay off 70-100 million stadium, and still getting an average of 10k a game, fans now refusing to buy the replica kits too. Think of the finances, the club will be on a direct flight to the abyss! What will change in a new stadium? We can at best come 3rd and get to a couple of cup finals every decade. We can still do that without spending the guts if 100m on a stadium that more often than not will be half empty. GROAN We won't have the embarrassment of playing in a dilapidated shithole for starters. If the club wants to grow, wants to maximise income, wants to start regularly playing in group stages of Europeanthen we need to move to a new stadium ASAP. We are stuck in the dark ages playing at Pittodrie. Link to comment
Andy_123 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 1 hour ago, findlay_1903 said: At what cost? Would take decades to pay off 70-100 million stadium, and still getting an average of 10k a game, fans now refusing to buy the replica kits too. Think of the finances, the club will be on a direct flight to the abyss! What will change in a new stadium? We can at best come 3rd and get to a couple of cup finals every decade. We can still do that without spending the guts if 100m on a stadium that more often than not will be half empty. GROAN It would take decades to pay off redeveloping Pittodrie. Longer probably, seeing as we wouldn't be pocketing the £10-15m for selling the land. Link to comment
Guest findlay_1903 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 If we build a new stadium, I can’t see us drastically becoming any better. Probs not. We won’t get any more fans with the old firm dominating Scottish football until the end of time. You are absolutely dreaming if you think a new stadium can change that. Be realistic boys, spending 70 million or so won’t make us THAT more competitive. Link to comment
redcryptoknight Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 6/28/2022 at 10:50 AM, WesthillWanderersFC said: Aye, cos the Tories do such a good job of that, eh? ? Just cos the rest of them are shite doesn't make the SNP good. Link to comment
Bamber Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Not sure but pretty certain we WONT have a £70m bill for this. Wouldn’t surprise is 75 % at least came from grants etc Government local etc etc. a green stadium as is mooted for £70m will attract loads of grants and financial awards. so let’s redevelop 12000 seats Average is 1500 to 2000 per seat I think I read for a basic(no green credentials and grants) we are £20m plus with no onward sales …. a green grant heavy stadium will be cheaper overall than any redevelopment have more money making opportunities and close to my house and wife already hears the crowds mind you race is on to see which is finished first new stadium or UTG Link to comment
Andy_123 Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Not a hope 75% will be funded externally through grants etc. We’ll raise £10-15m through selling the land at Pittodrie Wicks said we would be selling naming rights. No idea how much that would be worth? There will be millions in grant funding available if we go down the route of building a net zero stadium. I reckon we’ll ‘only’ need to find about 50% of the funding ourselves. Still a big ask though. Link to comment
redstrummer Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 we'd have all that spare land at Kingsford , sure we could sell that for a few bob Link to comment
slippers Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 6/28/2022 at 11:50 AM, findlay_1903 said: At what cost? Would take decades to pay off 70-100 million stadium, and still getting an average of 10k a game, fans now refusing to buy the replica kits too. Think of the finances, the club will be on a direct flight to the abyss! What will change in a new stadium? We can at best come 3rd and get to a couple of cup finals every decade. We can still do that without spending the guts if 100m on a stadium that more often than not will be half empty. GROAN You do realise if we pay a mortgage of say 2m a season but increase turnover by 4m on match days we are better off. We are doing it to put the club in a stronger position. Nothing wrong with paying a mortgage if it means that we will generate a lot more money long term. My biggest concern is that if it’s 70m now it will probably well over 100m by time it’s built. Link to comment
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