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Post by Imposter on Jan 10, 2021 20:36:59 GMT
I think that the Club have pursuaded the Council to limit the Booth Street development and push the boundary a little away from the Railway End.
I don't see why we should make away from Edgeley Park. Mark Stott has already spent £1 million on the stadium, according to the article in the Mail. I'm sure we wouldn't do this
We won't exceed the capacity for a long time. Even in the Championship, we only averaged a maximum of around 8,000.
There is scope to increase the capacity of Edgeley Park. The Main Stand can be developed either side. The Pop Side could be knocked down and we could build a 5,000 seater stand easily.
It's not just all about the Railway End and we need to stay at Edgeley Park!
What about car parking? Why do we have to stay at Edgeley Park? I’m happy to stay if it can be made to work but if it can’t and there is an alternative in the right location and the design for a purpose built stadium is right then I’m happy with that. Part of making us profitable is maximising the match day revenue which is far more than 8,000 fans in EP. Corporate hospitality needs a view of the pitch, especially if we want to attract larger National companies. When we were in the Championship the facilities and infrastructure didn’t grow with us and the crowds therefore didn’t. This time we are starting from a better base crowd wise and an owner that is improving the “experience” off the pitch as well as on. We will get to the stage of regularly getting 10,000 in the ground this time around. Regarding spending a million pounds on EP he wants to improve the experience and attract more sponsorship, better players and more fans. Also if we did move this will take time so we need to look after the here and now. Whatever happens I don’t think anything should be ruled out and it’s going to be exciting! There are plenty of much bigger grounds with very limited car parking...Newcastle for instance. Why the hang-up about car parking? We're almost slap bang in the centre of town, 10 minutes from the bus, train station, and A6, and with a frequent bus service that takes no more than 10 minutes from said bus station that stops 30 seconds walk from the ground. Other clubs manage with much bigger crowds than we will ever get, without car parking.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jan 10, 2021 20:42:11 GMT
What about car parking? Why do we have to stay at Edgeley Park? I’m happy to stay if it can be made to work but if it can’t and there is an alternative in the right location and the design for a purpose built stadium is right then I’m happy with that. Part of making us profitable is maximising the match day revenue which is far more than 8,000 fans in EP. Corporate hospitality needs a view of the pitch, especially if we want to attract larger National companies. When we were in the Championship the facilities and infrastructure didn’t grow with us and the crowds therefore didn’t. This time we are starting from a better base crowd wise and an owner that is improving the “experience” off the pitch as well as on. We will get to the stage of regularly getting 10,000 in the ground this time around. Regarding spending a million pounds on EP he wants to improve the experience and attract more sponsorship, better players and more fans. Also if we did move this will take time so we need to look after the here and now. Whatever happens I don’t think anything should be ruled out and it’s going to be exciting! There are plenty of much bigger grounds with very limited car parking...Newcastle for instance. Why the hang-up about car parking? We're almost slap bang in the centre of town, 10 minutes from the bus, train station, and A6, and with a frequent bus service that takes no more than 10 minutes from said bus station that stops 30 seconds walk from the ground. Other clubs manage with much bigger crowds than we will ever get, without car parking. Agree with that. Worst case scenario I’m sure we could offer some kind of park and ride scheme from a car park by the motorway
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Post by Dids on Jan 10, 2021 21:12:38 GMT
Plenty of places to park in Edgeley anyway Never had an issue even in the Championship
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Post by Roman on Jan 10, 2021 21:19:22 GMT
You need to be able to cater for sponsors and the owners are hoping for an increased number. Our car park isn’t big enough. Plus two stands pour out through the car park and I’ve seen many fans squeezing between cars that are tightly parked. There are a million reasons why as much as we love Edgeley Park it pesky allow for where we or owners want us to be. Anyway time will tell won’t it. In the meantime I can’t wait to get back and see where this journey takes us. However it pans out it’ll be brilliant.
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Post by Durango95 on Jan 10, 2021 21:22:17 GMT
That corner is very tight. It's also a man made reservoir though so a slice could be taken off that easily enough especially when we've got the money and owners to do it now, they know what they are doing. Directly behind the stand is plenty of room. We can easily build a big stand there. 2 tiers/exec boxes. Definitely want to be looking at having the biggest stand there, 6000+ seats etc. Bigger better improved stand of 3-4,000 at the RE and eventually sort the Main Stand in a proper, careful way to stretch the pitch and add another 1000 seats in. In time a capacity of around 18-20,000 is more than possible. Why on earth someone is suggesting moving above I don't know. They wouldn't be spending big money on existing stands if we weren't staying put. There's no reason to move from EP at all.
The plans 100% changed in regards to Stockport Homes. I put it on here a while back, we had them change their plans based on us extending the ground. I'm sure we'd have had some interest in the Bungalow sale too. We aren't mugs anymore.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jan 10, 2021 21:23:14 GMT
Plenty of places to park in Edgeley anyway Never had an issue even in the Championship We did have Booth St then and also a lot less residents only parking near the ground and also on the other side of the resers.
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Post by Imposter on Jan 10, 2021 21:28:56 GMT
You need to be able to cater for sponsors and the owners are hoping for an increased number. Our car park isn’t big enough. Plus two stands pour out through the car park and I’ve seen many fans squeezing between cars that are tightly parked. There are a million reasons why as much as we love Edgeley Park it pesky allow for where we or owners want us to be. Anyway time will tell won’t it. In the meantime I can’t wait to get back and see where this journey takes us. However it pans out it’ll be brilliant. Much bigger clubs get past this insurmountable problem with many times more fans and sponsors than we will ever have. They manage it, so can we.
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Post by Imposter on Jan 10, 2021 21:30:33 GMT
Plenty of places to park in Edgeley anyway Never had an issue even in the Championship We did have Booth St then and also a lot less residents only parking near the ground and also on the other side of the resers. We didn't have Booth Street in the Championship years did we? Wasn't it still the Council works yard then?
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jan 10, 2021 21:33:21 GMT
We did have Booth St then and also a lot less residents only parking near the ground and also on the other side of the resers. We didn't have Booth Street in the Championship years did we? Wasn't it still the Council works yard then? Pretty sure we only stopped using Booth St about 2/3 years ago.
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Post by Imposter on Jan 10, 2021 21:37:38 GMT
We didn't have Booth Street in the Championship years did we? Wasn't it still the Council works yard then? Pretty sure we only stopped using Booth St about 2/3 years ago. I'm talking about BEFORE we started using it. In our Championship years 1997-2002 I'm almost certain it was still used as a Works Depot/Yard by SMBC (not the current similar usage by Stockport Homes as a building site/residential scheme development) So we couldn't have been using it for car parking back then.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jan 10, 2021 21:39:33 GMT
Pretty sure we only stopped using Booth St about 2/3 years ago. I'm talking about BEFORE we started using it. In our Championship years 1997-2002 I'm almost certain it was still used a Works Depot/Yard by SMBC. So we couldn't have been using it for car parking back then. My bad that... misread your post. Pretty sure you're right that we didn't use it in the Championship years.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jan 10, 2021 21:44:55 GMT
The resers doesn't really take up that much land behind the pop side..well, certainly less than I thought.
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Post by Durango95 on Jan 10, 2021 21:55:35 GMT
Pretty sure in time we'll see that opened up like this, more access with bigger new stands etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2021 22:03:41 GMT
We just need rid of roof off main stand and pop side and were on our way, keep brickwork front of main stand forever and work around it...IMO
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jan 10, 2021 22:18:42 GMT
Pretty sure in time we'll see that opened up like this, more access with bigger new stands etc. Plenty of room to develop pop side and RE... also the main stand, which only covers about 3/4 of the length of the pitch.
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