What's the latest blue yonder crack?

[feckwittery]

Darlington FC/Darlington (1883) - Darlo Arena 25k/10k to Heritage Park 2k

[HalpinsleftPeg]

Swansea Cardiff and Hull built bigger new stadiums...er ...exactly which has enabled their success.

MK Dons was a brand new stadium, in sustainable at their hockey ground so new stadium helped drive interest revenue and success that hockey ground could not do.

Brighton were building their new stadium whilst in league 1. The projected season ticket sales and off field revenue helped them to finance their way out of league 1 ready to move into in the championship.

Not sure what you mean about your final point. It's obvious one of the benefits of a new build is that you can size the stadium for future success rather than build it to match old ground capacities. If Swansea! Brighton, Hull Rotherham etc had built new stadiums to match their old gates, they would have been another scunny, Chester or Walsall. They had vision and thought the same way as you should when you want to grow a business, give the club the infrastructure and it will grow, don't then die.

[SPJ29]

Would love to stay at BP but we all know that isnt possible but an 8K stadium would be a huge mistake and way too small the original 14K idea was fine especially as a lot of fans come from outside Cumbria like me.

If it was an 8K ground and we started challenging for promotion then I would have get a season ticket that would be hardly used and therefore denying a more local fan.

Get rid of this backward thinking board and the nonsense trust.

[HalpinsleftPeg]

Agreed 8k stadium would be a disaster and a clear indication of the level of ambition of the club. 12 to 14k would give us scope to grow as a club and before anyone says we have only had more than 10k in x number times in x number of years - it's not that relevant as a new stadium brings fans that did not come before. Rotherham and Donny are great examples of that. 2-3k at their old stadiums but now getting 10 ish with room for more when the championship clubs bring large support.

[glassmaurice]

Come on "Halpin" you know that the great Piglet NEVER, NEVER bends statistics to prove his point.
You are bang on with your posts on this topic, but some of our supporters obviously value "history" over good ground conditions for the fans.
BP is well beyond it's sell by date and needs demolished.It's only good feature is the quality of the pitch and I am sure we could replicate that wherever we moved to.