| Brentford's new ground 16:02 - Jan 25 with 4691 views | bosh67 |
I have to begrudgingly say that everything a few miles down the road, despite them losing to Leicester in the cup today is so well organised. I get the new homes, 910 of them and other facilities but wondering how they decided on a capacity of 17,250 (ours is 18,439).
I know people are going to say it's because they are a sh*tty little club with not enough fans but given their ambitions and a possible trip into the Prem this season or whenever, it seems to be very underwhelming as a plan. Brighton designed their ground to be expandable to 30,000+ but started at about 24,000. Given that our mad idea was to build a 40,000 stadium, revised back to a fictional 30,000 I am wondering why Brentford didn't design at least a 25,000 seater stadium having spent 80 million to create it? I am guessing they either don't think there will be more than 17,000 fans or that fans at grounds are not really the future? |  |
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| Brentford's new ground on 20:52 - Jan 27 with 650 views | Benny_the_Ball |
Whatever your opinion on Brentford's new stadium the simple fact is that the owner just got on with it. QPR take heed! |  | | |
| Brentford's new ground on 21:21 - Jan 27 with 615 views | Juzzie |
| Brentford's new ground on 20:20 - Jan 27 by BrianMcCarthy |
Capacity and hospitality do positively affect FFP, though. As does non-matchday earning potential. I was never a fan of the 40,000 OOC idea but 30,000 is where we should be aiming for - large enough for us and also for concerts. |
Capacity affects FFP but only if you can fill it. Wont be a problem in the PL but outside of that you’ll have a half empty ground if it’s built too big.
Not just concerts but England U18/19/20/21/23 games, maybe Women’s International’s and so on.
Could even have the odd boxing match or evangelicalist events..... |  | | |
| Brentford's new ground on 22:30 - Jan 27 with 586 views | anyone |
Well the extra events are rugby which should give an equivalent of income per annum of an extra 5,000 fans per game, also 2,900 premium seats which gives a good uplift on normal Match day revenue. The ground has already been chosen for European cup women’s games. [Post edited 27 Jan 2020 23:00]
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| Brentford's new ground on 22:55 - Jan 27 with 568 views | CamberleyR |
| Brentford's new ground on 19:28 - Jan 25 by loftboy |
Very true, used to work with an Aldershit fan and he hated Brentford with a passion. |
They hate Reading far more and always have done. |  |
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