Grandstand Update

[Verte]

I think 5m wont deliver a full refurbishment. The Fees will take a big tranche. Architects, surveyors and engineers etc.
Raising the terrace to an angle conducive to seated viewing. All new seats throughout. New facilities for non matchday income and some bars and food outlets for matchday.
Plus once they start work something will be found that was not budgeted for it always happens on old structures.

 

[Stuart House]

Again people want investment in the team, but don't want to cater for those who are prepared to pay more to watch football?

If individuals or companies want to pay considerably more to watch a game then cater for them and take their money.

No where in the article does it say that their won't be suitable additional 'hospitality' at a lower price. In this instance a supporters bar or bars. Hospitalility takes many forms (just look at the liverpool game)

If there is a free to enter supporters bar, which I'm sure there will be, then everyone will be happy.

 

[warney]

Again people want investment in the team, but don't want to cater for those who are prepared to pay more to watch football?

If individuals or companies want to pay considerably more to watch a game then cater for them and take their money.

No where in the article does it say that their won't be suitable additional 'hospitality' at a lower price. In this instance a supporters bar or bars. Hospitalility takes many forms (just look at the liverpool game)

If there is a free to enter supporters bar, which I'm sure there will be, then everyone will be happy.

Exactly! Without the corporate hospitality and associated revenue generators there's no way the project would get the required funding - the numbers simply wouldn't add up. Like it or not, if we're to compete on and off the field we need this.

 

[Andy S]

Again people want investment in the team, but don't want to cater for those who are prepared to pay more to watch football?

If individuals or companies want to pay considerably more to watch a game then cater for them and take their money.

No where in the article does it say that their won't be suitable additional 'hospitality' at a lower price. In this instance a supporters bar or bars. Hospitalility takes many forms (just look at the liverpool game)

If there is a free to enter supporters bar, which I'm sure there will be, then everyone will be happy.

Spot on Stuart.

Some people really need to get a grip and grow up.

 

[dunlop]

Im not saying it is not good business to attract big companies or sponsors no club would survive without their help, but all we hear about is corporate and hospitality nothing for the ordinary supporter and now fans who have had a ST in the grandstand for years decades could be priced out of sitting where they normally sit.

 

[happydays69]

Well said Dunlop ,please don't forget the true supporters who put a fiver or more in the bucket when they needed it to help pay the wages, and have also seen our Far Post club fade away.

 

[Verte]

Grab thee pitchforks...light the torches... we gonna have a lynching

 

[Biggs]

Corporate and hospitality will get a boost and if I am reading it correctly a two tiered pricing structure for the grandstand, you tell me the clubs has not lost it's soul.

I don't get it.

You knew one of the main drivers for the development is to get more money in through corporate and hospitality facilities. Seems odd to criticise that now.

 

[Biggs]

all we hear about is corporate and hospitality nothing for the ordinary supporter

Apart from... you know... the completely refurbished stand and seats to watch football in. Never mind the new bars, shop, toilets and generally miles better facilities all round :lol:

fans who have had a ST in the grandstand for years decades could be priced out of sitting where they normally sit.

And that's just a wild assumption, we know next to nothing so far.

 

[Monster Green]

One thing I really want to see is the structure extended to cover the whole length of the pitch. It is lop sided as it is - just extend the thing, stick seats in and away we go!

 

[area51]

I feel a bit sorry for the board, they deliver promotion, re develop/re new the grandstand and people still moan, unbelievable.
How do you know people sitting in the new grandstand will be priced out? No prices have been agreed, I for one would be prepared to pay more for better facilities, not a wooden seat that my knees hit the person in front, and fifty year old toilets.
When you sit in Lyndhurst whilst the stand is being refurbished, you never know you may like that location, it will be cheaper than the new grandstand. :crazy:

 

[Guiri Green]

Corporate and hospitality will get a boost and if I am reading it correctly a two tiered pricing structure for the grandstand, you tell me the clubs has not lost it's soul.

Agreed

The Club never lost its soul, what it did lose was its money and lots of it - you know that most evil of modern day football club necessities. Without it the Club almost lost its existence, not its soul.

If people want success, be part of it and cough up that buit extra. Chuck another £100 on the ticket prices.

Or let some prawn sandwhich muncher with money to spare pay for the success we all crave / demand.

 

[Monkey Nuts]

One thing I really want to see is the structure extended to cover the whole length of the pitch. It is lop sided as it is - just extend the thing, stick seats in and away we go!

Agree with this, although i doubt it'll happen. Those extra 15 meters or so, would make it far easier on the eye and add a good few hundred extra seats. Surely a small extension to the basic structure, wouldn't cost that much?

On the corporate hospitality front, i'm a 'normal fan' who sits in a normal seat, but on the few occasions I've done the corporate lounge thing, I've really enjoyed it as a change. Don't really see the problem with people wanting to have a different match experience if they can afford it....which plenty can.

 

[X Isle]

I really don't get the snidey 'prawn sandwich' comment :roll:

It's as irrelevant and anachronistic class war anthem as everything that comes out of Corbyn's mouth. Sure in an ideal world it would be nice to have the ground full of 'salt of the earth' working class men with dirt on their faces and pride in their hearts. But the world has moved on, they don't exist any more.

...and they've never really existed in sufficient numbers and for a sufficient amount of time in Plymouth to fund growth anyway. If the middle classes will spend more and turn up more frequently and reliably then damn right Argyle should target them.

The notion of some sort of greater virtue in those wearing flat caps and carrying a copy of Socialist Worker is soooo out of date now. If Argyle are getting with the times then so should the class war warriors who view corporate hospitality as some sort of malevolent witchcraft.

...and no, I never have and never will use those facilities myself.

 

[David Fisher]

So am I right in assuming that the existing support columns will finally go and we'll get a new build roof etc or does an 'extended grandstand' just mean the new corporate/hospitality stuff? Have to say that I had the dubious 'pleasure' of being wedged into a packed grandstand seat-cum-rack on Monday and couldn't wait for half-time just to be able to stand up and stretch my back and legs. It definitely took the edge of an otherwise super afternoon, unfortunately. The sooner those seats are gone the better.

Don't think the columns will go - a cantilever roof would require some serious steelwork at the back & top of the stand.

I reckon new seats upstairs & downstairs and reallignment of the lower Mayflower & a coat of paint with most of the money going on the corporate / offices / dressing rooms etc behind the stand.