Uptherams Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Rumour on sausageter. Owt in it?We would be bonkers not to have plans drawn up. Doesn't mean they will expand tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashz09 Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I remember before they did this and it was to do with radio Derby nothing to do with DCFC.. Did they say the words Derby county this morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uptherams Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 We aren't selling every seat at the moment. Sure, if we get promoted we could sell 40k+ I imagine, but if we came straight back down we'd be back to 30k at best (if we continue to play well) and it would have been pointless.Pretty sure it's been talked about before and it was said it wouldn't happen until we were sustaining a place in the prem.We wouldn't expand the stadium the second we won promotion. I would hope the club would be wise enough if we got relegated to lower the cost for a ticket/season ticket to boost sales to take the same revenue. People seem bothered that there would be empty seats if we did get relegated after a stadium expansion. The reality is that the club would probably not sell tickets for the last dozen or so rows, cover them and also allow fans to put flags on top of a seat covering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 safe standing?????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North_Stand_Ram Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Not being funny, but why would the club announce something that big on Radio Derby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I've not had a stadium expansion since we won the play-off game against Brighton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uptherams Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 There's no way we'd consider expanding unless we were an established mid table prem side for a good few seasons. Even with that we'd struggle to fill upwards of 35/36k...If we went up and had a capacity of 40,000 we could expect our visitors to bring at least 4,000 fans. So for a sell out we would require about 7,500 more of our own fans to show up. Easily done for at least 1/3 of fixtures considering the opposition. We would also be playing 4 less home games. I know a few people who go to the odd game that are life long fans who would get a season ticket when we get promoted. safe standing??????????????That would be great. I would hope we don't just turn seats into standing areas, but also boost capacity like the Germans. If I remember correctly it's 1.8 safe standing to every 1 seat. Do it for the entire South stand and we can boost capacity by around 3,500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Happens Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 German CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mafiabob Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Mel Morris is giving a free woolly hat to all ST holders before Saturdays game. RRP £50. Could possibly be getting gloves for the QPR game.I've still got one of the shirts from the game we lost 4-2 on Saturday night TV. Most of the others got chucked down the front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie George Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Mate of mine does the soccer aid thing at the end of the season. Usually this takes place at the ground but this year it's moved to Moor Farm due to extensive ground improvements.......no idea what these are but just passing this on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 We don't fill the stadium as it is. Yeah we'll fill it in the PL. Like Watford and Swansea and Sunderland and Boro. With glory hunters. Then when there's no glory they leave and you've got a half empty ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CornwallRam Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Mel is throwing £millions at the academy and training ground - when finished it'll not be Premier League standard, it'll be as good as any of the big boys. That suggests that Mel is not intending to have much to do with the Championship in future years. As a Premier League club we would need a 40,000 seater stadium. In reality, what keeps you in the Premier League is money. If Mel is intending to bankroll us to that degree, it makes sense for him to put the infrastructure in place as soon as possible. In fact the current economic situation makes building cheaper as there's not much development around. Waiting a couple of years might actually prove really costly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Increasing capacity would be stupid. Unless ticket prices dropped substantially it'll be 33,000 full for majority of games with glory hunters popping in for the others. The captive audience isn't big enough to sustain anything more.But what doesn't add up is A) Radio Derby having an exclusive and B) Fans forum on Wednesday. I cannot imagine Radio Derby being given an exclusive for something which isn't radio Derby related. I know someone at Radio Derby and he wouldn't give me an inkling as to what it is except he knew about it last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Ince's injury? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 If we went up and had a capacity of 40,000 we could expect our visitors to bring at least 4,000 fans. So for a sell out we would require about 7,500 more of our own fans to show up. Easily done for at least 1/3 of fixtures considering the opposition. We would also be playing 4 less home games. I know a few people who go to the odd game that are life long fans who would get a season ticket when we get promoted. That would be great. I would hope we don't just turn seats into standing areas, but also boost capacity like the Germans. If I remember correctly it's 1.8 safe standing to every 1 seat. Do it for the entire South stand and we can boost capacity by around 3,500. I still think we'd struggle and I don't see Mel as being so cavalier to do it when we aren't there/only just got there (finger crossed). We don't want knee jerk ideas being put into motion whenever the chairman feels it like those cockwombles up the road... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam the Ram Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Can see why people are saying 'wait till we're an established mid table Prem club,' but this is Mel Morris in charge now, not the Americans. He probably doesn't have the mind set of "we might come back down," he expects that once we're up, we'll stay there. Get the stadium expanded ready for the Prem (he set a 2 year target I believe?) and then Derby are prepared for the bigger demand for tickets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uptherams Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Mel is throwing £millions at the academy and training ground - when finished it'll not be Premier League standard, it'll be as good as any of the big boys. That suggests that Mel is not intending to have much to do with the Championship in future years. As a Premier League club we would need a 40,000 seater stadium. In reality, what keeps you in the Premier League is money. If Mel is intending to bankroll us to that degree, it makes sense for him to put the infrastructure in place as soon as possible. In fact the current economic situation makes building cheaper as there's not much development around. Waiting a couple of years might actually prove really costly.PL status will be bank rolling PL clubs. The difference is how much a club want to put into their back pockets and how much they want to invest back into the club. Mel has splashed £20m on transfers alone this summer. Us having 10,000 more fans going to games in the PL is peanuts for a club that charges as little as we do compared to TV money. He can still make a significant return on investment even if he invests more of the clubs revenue back into the club when in the PL. However I do agree that it would be wise to invest sooner than later on infrastructure. A £15m signing can be a short term hit or miss. But infrastructure investments last decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papahet Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Could be wrong here, but surely if it's an expansion then they'd be planning documents already on the council website? There isn't...total guess, Moor Farm had the go ahead for further pitches or Martin new contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 It'll be a Sportscene talk in with either Mel or PC as a guest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Radio Derby said that there was to be a big announcement on the Talk In tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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