Proposed new stadium, by Aberdeen beach

[GeorgeStreetReds]

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/4005315/bid-to-remove-dons-stadium-from-beach-plans-booted-out/

 

Update

[Betty Swallicks]

6 hours ago, GeorgeStreetReds said:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/4005315/bid-to-remove-dons-stadium-from-beach-plans-booted-out/

 

Update

Liberal Democrat and hun councillor Ian Yuill has previously argued that there shouldn’t be any public money put towards a new home for The Reds.

 

[Dandyesque]

The new Stadium should have a 20,000 capacity.

It's a good round number.

Some matches, you have to give 10% of tickets to away fans. That would cause a lot of complaints if we had 15000+ season ticket holders in a much smaller stadium.

A brand new stadium , great facilities and a good team will see it 3/4 full most weeks and sold out half a dozen - more if we're doing something passable in Europe. 

And it would be shite having a smaller stadium than Killie and Hibs.

[NEM]

4 minutes ago, Dandyesque said:

The new Stadium should have a 20,000 capacity.

It's a good round number.

Some matches, you have to give 10% of tickets to away fans. That would cause a lot of complaints if we had 15000+ season ticket holders in a much smaller stadium.

A brand new stadium , great facilities and a good team will see it 3/4 full most weeks and sold out half a dozen - more if we're doing something passable in Europe. 

And it would be shite having a smaller stadium than Killie and Hibs.

Which matches are these? 

[RED_JOHN]

The way we are run at the moment, the smaller stadium the better. It’s the Aberdeen way

[aberdeen1970]

I think most of us would probably prefer a 20,000 seat stadium at the beach. 

But if you had the choice between a 16000 stadium at the beach or a 20,000 stadium at Kingsford what would you choose? 

Because that's what we're probably faced with, realistically. 

 

 

[RED_JOHN]

16k beach stadium. The Kingsford one will be handy for parking though as we can just use the driveways in the area. No one will bother…win win.

[starryfish]

2 hours ago, Dandyesque said:

The new Stadium should have a 20,000 capacity.

It's a good round number.

Some matches, you have to give 10% of tickets to away fans. That would cause a lot of complaints if we had 15000+ season ticket holders in a much smaller stadium.

A brand new stadium , great facilities and a good team will see it 3/4 full most weeks and sold out half a dozen - more if we're doing something passable in Europe. 

And it would be shite having a smaller stadium than Killie and Hibs.

Scottish Cup is up to 20% of the capacity for away fans 

[NEM]

15 minutes ago, starryfish said:

Scottish Cup is up to 20% of the capacity for away fans 

Yet we got the usual 900 tickets for snake mountain when we played sevco in the replay a few years back 

[Ke1t]

Can AFC not just run a gofundme, and pretend it's for a kid with cancer like everyone else does?

[thurso]

1 hour ago, aberdeen1970 said:

I think most of us would probably prefer a 20,000 seat stadium at the beach. 

But if you had the choice between a 16000 stadium at the beach or a 20,000 stadium at Kingsford what would you choose? 

Because that's what we're probably faced with, realistically. 

 

 

20,000 seat stadium in kingsford would be better 

[RED_JOHN]

8 hours ago, Ke1t said:

Can AFC not just run a gofundme, and pretend it's for a kid with cancer like everyone else does?

They already have a scam in place with the DNA debacle. Having two…could mean a jail sentence. 

[Crashnyploshnit]

The way we are heading the club will end up ground sharing with Cove R.

[RED_JOHN]

10 minutes ago, Crashnyploshnit said:

The way we are heading the club will end up ground sharing with Cove R.

We were threatened with this under Stewart Milne. He still has a major influence at Aberdeen FC. 

[NEM]

10 hours ago, thurso said:

20,000 seat stadium in kingsford would be better 

Would it fuck

[redone]

16k at the beach would be fine.  Club should be catering first and foremost for the 10k or so fans that turn up regularly. Not the fair weather part-timers.  

 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

What is restricting the club by 4k seats in a new build at the beach that isnt at Kingsford? 

[aberdeen1970]

Just now, strachanmcgheegoal said:

What is restricting the club by 4k seats in a new build at the beach that isnt at Kingsford? 

Space and finance I assume 

[sooth_stander]

Can’t help thinking the best option is the old AECC site at BoD. Not sure if there are alternative plans for that site but with the AWPR access just up the road, Park n ride already there, no brainer but alas, brains are in short supply

[Tommy]

8 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

Can’t help thinking the best option is the old AECC site at BoD. Not sure if there are alternative plans for that site but with the AWPR access just up the road, Park n ride already there, no brainer but alas, brains are in short supply

Earmarked for housing for some time.

[sooth_stander]

42 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Earmarked for housing for some time.

Oil company buildings being demolished by the day, in the northern part of the site. I recently took my loon for driving lessons round there and couldn’t believe the amount of spare land. 

Alas, not to be.

[thurso]

2 hours ago, NEM said:

Would it fuck

Of course it would. 

[zeroisgod76]

14 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said:

I think most of us would probably prefer a 20,000 seat stadium at the beach. 

But if you had the choice between a 16000 stadium at the beach or a 20,000 stadium at Kingsford what would you choose? 

Because that's what we're probably faced with, realistically. 

 

 

Kingsford 100%. The beach would just be a disaster.

[Andy_123]

1 hour ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

What is restricting the club by 4k seats in a new build at the beach that isnt at Kingsford? 

Money

[Ten Caat]

16k with no ability to increase capacity at a later date would probably tilt me towards Kingsford.......which as it stands would be easier for me to get to driving up. But I concede that many (probably most) living in the city would disagree

[slippers]

Definitely Kingsford. I like the idea of beach but I can see it dragging on for 10 years before it even gets granted never mind built. We need to say to council if plans aren't in place by end of this year we need to focus our intensions on Kingsford. 

[StandFree1982]

16k is short sighted.

As we seen against United, we can comfortably fill 19-20k on occasions.  Limiting the capacity just means we're reducing the amount of potential tickets sold, the potential for decent sized Scotland games and/or Euros/World cup games if UK hosts.  

What would be better is 20k, but designed in a way that we can section it so we're not having the full thing open even when there's only 12-14k in it. 

[sooth_stander]

When would the planning permission permit run out at Kingsford? Is it 3 years? If so, must be getting close to that. No sure how you get round that, if no spade has been stuck in the ground by then but the Westhill lesbians will be getting moist at the thought of another battle with us.

Have to say, surprised that Cormack is even entertaining the beach white elephant. Pie in the sky Cooncil nonsense, even moreso when it looks like we are paying for the fucker as well. 

Land already secured at Kingsford, site cleared and decontaminated, just get it built 

[muttonhumper]

2 hours ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

What is restricting the club by 4k seats in a new build at the beach that isnt at Kingsford? 

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing at all.

[The Boofon]

3 hours ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

What is restricting the club by 4k seats in a new build at the beach that isnt at Kingsford? 

Height restrictions on buildings. That's why Codonas had to remove the big wheel.