Loirston chosen for new stadium

Aberdeen FC set to move

EXCLUSIVE

By Charlie Allan

 

Published: 03/04/2009

 

THE Evening Express can today reveal the preferred location for Aberdeen’s new community stadium.

 

The £38 million community facility, which will become home to Aberdeen FC, will be at Loirston Loch in the south of the city.

 

It follows a year-long series of feasibility studies to decide if the site at Nigg would be the best location for the stadium.

 

The report on the recommendation of the Nigg site will now go out to consultation and will be referred to the council’s policy and strategy committee on April 28.

 

A number of other potential sites across the city, including one at King’s Links, were examined by Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen FC and it was decided all of them were unsuitable.

 

Aberdeen FC managing director Duncan Fraser, who is also a member of the Arena Project Advisory and Monitoring Board created to advise of the best site and stadium design, said: “These recommendations have still to be approved and at the appropriate time, there will be a full consultation process with fans.

 

“Their feedback will be important.â€

 

For more on this story, and an exclusive image of the new arena, pick up today’s Evening Express or check back later

When does the campaign start for an area of terracing to be provided so we can get all the nutters in one cauldron of hate and noise to welcome our visiting fans

 

Right here, right now 

  how would that work, then?

 

Serious question?

 

You would have to give me odds depending on what you felt were the chances that the person who first coined the phrase Todders likes hiding the sausage with other men, then I would decide how much heaps would be and place that bet with you.

Warm welcome for Dons £38 million stadium plan

Residents say plan will boost Loirston area

 

By Charlotte Jordan

 

Published: 23/05/2009

 

RESIDENTS and business people living near the proposed site for the Dons’ £38 million stadium today welcomed the proposed move.

 

Matthew Owen, a manager at The Gordon Hotel, in Altens, said he thought the Loirston Loch stadium would bring more business before matches.

 

He said: “It will be a good thing because fans will have to have food and drinks. It may increase hotel business at weekends if there was a match on.â€

 

The Arena Community Stadium – where the Dons would play – will also host Cove Rangers and four training pitches.

 

Grandad Ian Cooper, a retired oil worker, of Cove said: “It’s a great idea for the youngsters. My grandson Iain plays for Cove Juniors so he will be over the moon.â€

 

Conway Crayford, 46, owner of Crayford's Luxury Guest House, said the news that the new centre has been given the council’s blessing was “excellentâ€.

 

Mr Crayford, said: “I’m all for it. I think it’s good for the area. It will be good for business and it will create a lot of jobs on this side of the River Dee.â€

 

Dons fan Kevin Urqhart, 29, of Cove, said: “I have been a fan my whole life. It should be really good.â€

 

Stephen Gregory, 47, of Cove, said: “I think it’s a great idea.

 

“It will bring something else to the area – every little helps.â€

 

Cove resident Irene Docherty, a day centre officer, said: “It’s the best place for it. It will cope well with the traffic.â€

 

Cove cleaner Anne McKenzie said: “I think it will be good because it will keep the fans away from the city centre.â€

I thought the Gordon Hotel was already bouncing on matchdays? 

Cove cleaner Anne McKenzie said: “I think it will be good because it will keep the fans away from the city centre.â€

 

Now thats a job you dont just fall into.

 

I wonder if she will be so chipper when the hooded hordes of Govan and Parkhead are pissing in her back garden?

Aberdeen FC to move to Loirston in 2013

Time is up for Pittodrie stadium

 

By Charlie Allan

 

Published: 19/11/2009

 

ABERDEEN FC aim to move into a new stadium at Loirston Loch by 2013.

 

Managing director Duncan Fraser today confirmed efforts to build their “field of dreams†to the south of the city are gathering momentum.

 

The news finally spells the end for Pittodrie, where Aberdeen FC have been housed since 1899.

 

The Evening Express can confirm saving Aberdeen’s ancestral home, which would involve knocking down the stadium and rebuilding it with a reduced capacity of 12,000, is no longer an option.

 

For more on this story and coverage of Aberdeen FC, pick up a copy of today's Evening Express.

 

Eh? How would a re-build involve chopping the capacity by half?

Makes nae sense when they say rebuilding would take away half the capacity- would it not make sense to do one stand at a time of they were to do that...but i cant be done with it being out in Cove its just too much hassle to get out there

Personally I'd have thought that a new main stand -  probably with a reduced capacity and a fraction of the cost of a new stadium would suffice..

 

Makes nae sense when they say rebuilding would take away half the capacity- would it not make sense to do one stand at a time of they were to do that...but i cant be done with it being out in Cove its just too much hassle to get out there

 

There's not enough space, some new FIFA/UEFA rule gives a minimum distance between the pitch and the stand, and naturally we let all the land around our ground get sold and built on so we could never re-build the pit.

FFS Sake. Off to Cove for the fitba. 

Some tale being strung along here about 12,000 capacity. If the RDS holds,  6k what kind of spacious seating were they envisaging to only fit another 6k seats around the rest of the ground?

 

Moving out of town is not a good idea.

Some tale being strung along here about 12,000 capacity. If the RDS holds,  6k what kind of spacious seating were they envisaging to only fit another 6k seats around the rest of the ground?

 

Moving out of town is not a good idea.

 

Cove is weegie territory.

Modern football = large arenas in accessible, spacious, suburban zones.

 

Get past your small minded, myopic and parochial attitudes about rolling out of the pub and crawling down Merkland Road to the 'fitba'. Its a modern game with modern demands. Like it or not (and for the record I do not) this is going to be the future for Aberdeens stadium.

Some tale being strung along here about 12,000 capacity. If the RDS holds,  6k what kind of spacious seating were they envisaging to only fit another 6k seats around the rest of the ground?

 

Moving out of town is not a good idea.

 

6k RDS yes

 

But i cannot see how they could re-build a 9000 seat south stand, 3000 seat Merkland or main with the new flats, the existing graveyard and an increase in the pitch size. 

 

Try to make any of these 2 tiered and the residents will be up in arms plus they will all probably have to be like this.

 

 

 

 

Cove is weegie territory.

 

Can't believe they're moving aberdeen fc to the greater glasgow area...! 

i head up fae fife so doesn't make much difference to me...

sad to see pittodrie go though

Will be interesting to hear how this goes down at AGM on Monday.

Its a shame that it won't be in the city centre or at Pittodrie, but hell, if its for the greater good of the club, fuck it. I love Pittodrie as the next man, but we need something for the club to shout about. Hopefully the stadium will do it.

Its a shame that it won't be in the city centre or at Pittodrie, but hell, if its for the greater good of the club, fuck it. I love Pittodrie as the next man, but we need something for the club to shout about. Hopefully the stadium will do it.

 

damn right!

Modern football = large arenas in accessible, spacious, suburban zones.

 

Get past your small minded, myopic and parochial attitudes about rolling out of the pub and crawling down Merkland Road to the 'fitba'. Its a modern game with modern demands. Like it or not (and for the record I do not) this is going to be the future for Aberdeens stadium.

 

 

Well said!!

PS - Cove is NOT full of Weegies!

STAND FREE!!

I don't buy it that it's for the "greater good of the club". That's AFC plc board propaganda and spin.

 

And the new stadium isn't even in Cove - it's in a field near a flyover.

 

<...awaits fatshaft to stroll in on a one man mission proclaiming how great the new stadium will be  >

 

MarkyMark made him run away crying, so doubt he'll be posting (Probably too busy triple padlocking his wallet anyway). Dave will be along in while to tell us how it'll be easy to get there once he's built a monorail to Nig , if that's any consolation.

Fatshaft probably thinks it's a shit idea now anyway.

I don't buy it that it's for the "greater good of the club". That's AFC plc board propaganda and spin.

 

And the new stadium isn't even in Cove - it's in a field near a flyover.

 

<...awaits fatshaft to stroll in on a one man mission proclaiming how great the new stadium will be  >

 

Should we make it for the greater good of the lazy cunts whose main focus is to drink themselves bent and head to Pittodrie if they can be arsed and celebrate when they can't even muster up the energy or botheration to even do that ?

We survived losing Willie, Fregie, Buchan, Cooke, Yorston, Coleman,....we can survive "losing" Pittodrie.

 

Look to the future