The Infrastructure Projects

[Uwantlee]

The club have announce record season ticket renewals plus a waiting list of 12000. This is the hear of the club not the ground. The city ground will always be special to us but we will always be limited whilst here. Even if we own the land we can’t do much with it… or not enough to satisfy the owners aspirations. We need the infrastructure to be competitive and this will include more than just the ground. We already have enough fans to fill a 40000+ ground and the current plans have us at 380000.
West ham got it wrong moving to the Olympic stadium it simply wasn’t built for football. Tottenhams ground could be immense with atmosphere but the spurs fans have never been much cop.
However hard it would be leaving the WFCG we have to do what is right if for the club to be competitive. If we are happy with relegation battles, swapping between the prem and the champ then stay where we are.
However, I’d like to see plans before a decision is made… get something drawn up and let us fans have a say as.
EM will make a decision on what’s best for us as a club and not because some of us remember the European cups and success under cloughie. If EM thinks a new ground, new training facilities in one site is best then I trust him to make that decision. However we are the heart of the club and we should have a say on what it’s going to look like.

Im interested to know how a new stadium is going to make us avoid relegation battles? We should have gotten relegated this year and it had nothing to do with our spending capabilities.

A valid point of course… we have spent a good sum of money to be distinctly average in the prem and had the teams below us been better we would have been relegated… FFP caught up with us too so if we hadn’t spent the money we had you could argue we would have been relegated. We need greater sources of income, bigger crowds, more use of stadium facilities outside of just match day. This will enable us to spend and not worry so much about ffp. We can only do this if we move. The CG will never be a suitable site to do all we need. We can increase our capacity a little but we will still be limited.
If we could find a way to do it all where we are then great that has to be the priority. However, I would assume EM has done his homework on this…. If he really thinks moving is best for the club then I’ll back him. If he thinks he can do what he wants to achieve where we are now then even better.
We need to be better next year and we can move up the table no doubt but to be competitive, to be like villa, we need to be more as a club and not just the 11 on the pitch.

Why be like Villa? 

Let's be like Man City and go for the title.

Villa have the same capacity as we would have with a new main stand.

That's the point... Villa park is not going to be much bigger if we expand the CG but the surrounding ar as of villa park and the stadium use offer a lot more in terms of income... Increasing the capacity is not going to be enough to get us where EM wants us. If he is genuine about competing then we will need to be more than the city ground .. .

I may be wrong however .. I'm sure EM will have done his homework and if the CG can be built in to something more then it will.