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Future deepdale developments

Future deepdale developments

Dirty Harry said:
Our current 24000 capacity would suit us fine for the premier league. We'd only sell that out against certain teams. Looking at the current premier league, this is how I reckon our attendances would roughly go....
24000 sell outs....
Man U
Liverpool
Man City
Arsenal
Chelsea
Spurs
Everton.

around 20000
Newcastle, Burnley

around 18000
Huddersfield, West Brom, leicester, Stoke, West Ham, Southampton

below 17000
Watford, Swansea, Bournemouth, Brighton, Palace.

I do think if we played someone like Watford at home at night, televised, we'd pull about 15000
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Good assessment. And of course we already have more capacity than the likes of Watford, Burnley, Swansea and Bournemouth, and not a lot less than Huddersfield.
 
northender0602 said:
I got told a few years back, that the design of the ground allows it to be two tier all the way round, don't know if that's true, It is based on the design of another ground, but can't remember where.
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Think it was wolves who built there design so it could be added to and taken higher if needed ?
 
Dirty Harry said:
Our current 24000 capacity would suit us fine for the premier league. We'd only sell that out against certain teams. Looking at the current premier league, this is how I reckon our attendances would roughly go....
24000 sell outs....
Man U
Liverpool
Man City
Arsenal
Chelsea
Spurs
Everton.

around 20000
Newcastle, Burnley

around 18000
Huddersfield, West Brom, leicester, Stoke, West Ham, Southampton

below 17000
Watford, Swansea, Bournemouth, Brighton, Palace.

I do think if we played someone like Watford at home at night, televised, we'd pull about 15000
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Good summary, but I think the relative supply and demand of tickets for our home support is a key factor. If we 'just' manage to sell out against the bigger clubs casual supporters would continue to pick and chose their games safe in the knowledge that they would be able to get tickets for these matches. However, as the number of season ticket holders grows as a percentage of the tickets available, we will reach a tipping point were people realise that they may struggle to get tickets for the biggest matches, and decide to buy season tickets to guarantee access to these games.
 
Town_ender said:
Good summary, but I think the relative supply and demand of tickets for our home support is a key factor. If we 'just' manage to sell out against the bigger clubs casual supporters would continue to pick and chose their games safe in the knowledge that they would be able to get tickets for these matches. However, as the number of season ticket holders grows as a percentage of the tickets available, we will reach a tipping point were people realise that they may struggle to get tickets for the biggest matches, and decide to buy season tickets to guarantee access to these games.
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I'm a 'shit' fan that picks and chooses his games due to living further afield now.

I can tell you for certain that I wouldn't buy a season ticket just so I can make sure I get to see the mighty Man Utd or Chelsea at Deepdale.

Fans that pick and choose games will continue to do so regardless of whether they can be confident of getting a ticket for a few games a season.
 
You could easily add a large second tier to the STFS, loads of space behind it and would just require a new structure behind it and a new roof obviously.

Will we ever need it? Extremely unlikely!
 
The Ground was designed for expansion, but this failed with the Invincibles as Building the Heath Centre would prevent the Ground looking uniform like it does now. Not sure if we still own the old club Shop across the road on Lowthorpe. The Car Park on Lowthorpe can be made into a Multi story. Which PNE should do and offer a Park and Ride service. Would Deepdale need expanding, I would say yes if we got to the Prem, but 30-34k would be enough and I suppose that could be achieved the expansion of the 3 sides and leaving the Invincibles as it is. But we need to establish ourselves first, if we come back down, it would become a problem.
 
FootballcrazyP_ said:
The Ground was designed for expansion, but this failed with the Invincibles as Building the Heath Centre would prevent the Ground looking uniform like it does now. Not sure if we still own the old club Shop across the road on Lowthorpe. The Car Park on Lowthorpe can be made into a Multi story. Which PNE should do and offer a Park and Ride service. Would Deepdale need expanding, I would say yes if we got to the Prem, but 30-34k would be enough and I suppose that could be achieved the expansion of the 3 sides and leaving the Invincibles as it is. But we need to establish ourselves first, if we come back down, it would become a problem.
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I think the offices have been recently acquired by the football club from Mr Shaw.
 
FootballcrazyP_ said:
The Ground was designed for expansion, but this failed with the Invincibles as Building the Heath Centre would prevent the Ground looking uniform like it does now. Not sure if we still own the old club Shop across the road on Lowthorpe. The Car Park on Lowthorpe can be made into a Multi story. Which PNE should do and offer a Park and Ride service. Would Deepdale need expanding, I would say yes if we got to the Prem, but 30-34k would be enough and I suppose that could be achieved the expansion of the 3 sides and leaving the Invincibles as it is. But we need to establish ourselves first, if we come back down, it would become a problem.
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I think for a club like ours, 24000 or so is plenty.
Increasing capacity brings all sorts of problems such as ensuring there is enough parking space to accommodate a potential 34000 sell out, policing costs, road networks systems and God knows what else. I remember when I lived near West Hams ground and they built the Bobby Moore stand, the club had to shell out a fortune for tv aerial filters because the high steel structure played havoc with local residents TV receptions.
 
tcinders said:
I think the offices have been recently acquired by the football club from Mr Shaw.
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They have, but I meant the old old club shop/offices on Lowthorpe Road, across from the old Pavilion Exit.

Ok the club don't own it, its now a Maths, English, Science Centre.
 
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Just build something - anything - to house the away fans so we can have our Spion Kop back.... please!

And if it takes getting to the Prem to justify the cost, then at least move the away fans into a reduced capacity area of the STFS for now. There's a good chance the net increase in Nobbers over a full season will at least match the lost away-fan revenue. We could even up the away-fan ticket price a little to help 😉

Or maybe I'm the only one who finds away fans on my beloved Kop offensive enough to stop attending as many home games as I used to?
 
I think if we got to the premier league we would only have to give away fans 2000 tickets.
If this were to happen I would like to see them put in the corner of the STFS and the kop once again becoming the "home end"
 
pne4ever said:
I think if we got to the premier league we would only have to give away fans 2000 tickets.
If this were to happen I would like to see them put in the corner of the STFS and the kop once again becoming the "home end"
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I doubt they'd risk that because of segregation/stewarding/policing costs. The club would also not want to risk losing gate money from away support that might sell 4/5000 tickets on the Kop, though having said that, a couple of thousand tickets would be a drop in the ocean compared to what we'd make from all the other sources of income if we got to the premier league. I think the best evidence of this is found in the way the club offered about 6000 or so of free season tickets to those who bought one last year should we get to the top table within 5 years. They'll have done their maths and will know they could take the hit financially should we get there. Talking of which, I'm not actually that fussed that we've never been in the premier league since it started because I don't really like it, but I suppose just a season there would be nice if only to get that bleedin' monkey off our back.
 
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For those referencing the stadium ours in based on and as per a few of you on here, it is indeed the Stadio Luigi Ferraris, in Genoa, Italy.

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