New stadium thread

[RicoS321]

Pittodrie is the best ground in the world, and anybody who says otherwise can go and fuck themselves. 

Is what Cormack should say next time he's interviewed on sportsound.

[tom_widdows]

46 minutes ago, Slim said:

Since Cormack took over construction costs have probably increased by at least £20m (IIRC expectation for Westhill was ~£40m) and likely value of Pittodrie land has decreased a fair bit too. Can’t see any real progress happening any time soon.

Price of materials and labour etc has gone through the roof in last 5 years (something happened about the start of February 2020 but no one seems to know. Lots of politicians and journalist wont even talk about it so it must be really bad)

A £10million development in 2017 could be closer to £25million now.

There are certain brands ill try to avoid specifying as their price per m2 went from £12 to £45 and sometimes you can no longer get it shipped to the UK.

My gut is starting to say if anything happens stadium wise it will be pittodrie redevelopment likely after (or 'if) 'safe standing' becomes widely accepted in Scotland (not just small sections).

New Main, Merkland and South stand with the latter two having only rail seating. Capacity for European games cut to circa 13000 but for domestic games 20000 assuming the 1 rail seat = 2.5 standing ratio is correct.

Funding for this will come from selling the land earmarked for the new stadium as housing.

 

[RicoS321]

7 hours ago, tom_widdows said:

There are certain brands ill try to avoid specifying as their price per m2 went from £12 to £45 and sometimes you can no longer get it shipped to the UK.

Based on the price of children's football strips, I'm guessing that the brand is Adidas?

[Panda]

Meanwhile, Oxford United have got planning permission for their stadium (also a 16,000 capacity).

Estimated to be somewhere between £130m and £150m.

[wee toon red]

If that’s what £130m gets you then I’ll keep pittodrie thanks.

Edited Thursday at 20:59 by wee toon red

[tom_widdows]

1 hour ago, Panda said:

Meanwhile, Oxford United have got planning permission for their stadium (also a 16,000 capacity).

Estimated to be somewhere between £130m and £150m.

Stadium, 180 bed hotel, conference centre, health spa and retail (lot of non football things to go wrong there).

4.5miles away from oxford centre in neigbouring town of Kidlington but doea have the bonus of a railway station 

This is similar to Bolton shifting to the Reebok except unlike Oxford they werent getting evicted from their old ground and had parachute payments from the premier league to help finance it

Great they got planning approval but that just means the council will let them build it.

Actually getting the builders on site on the other hand.....