Breaking News - New Stadium and Training Facilities

[Barnared]

Interesting read on club website. DM admits that we are struggling to bring players in due to our poor training facilities
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[blinlemon]

Interesting read on club website. DM admits that we are struggling to bring players in due to our poor training facilities

And Craig Brown said at an AGM a few years ago that many of the injuries we sustain are due to our not having standard, predictable training facilities with good reliable surfaces - one day the Pittodrie car park, next day the Sports Village, the day after that the barracks etc.

[DohaDon]

Worth a look for inspiration. Emphasises we are not alone in moving home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlngl0Nx8-s

Wow, Tottenham's stadium is a thing of beauty, stunning.

Southend Utd at 22,000 capacity isn't too shabby either!

[ILikeJam]

Worth a look for inspiration. Emphasises we are not alone in moving home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlngl0Nx8-s

Can see where Chelsea got their inspiration from...

[Brian Grantland]

york city with an 8005 capacity stadium
ah jackie the big time

[Pacman1903]

york city with an 8005 capacity stadium
ah jackie the big time

Is it still Kit Kat Crescent?

[tarapoa]

I honestly cant understand anyone that actually attends home games, seriously wants to stay at pittodrie....it may be our beloved home, but memories are just that..and our stadium is a crumbling mess. Move on FFS.

I don’t think anyone disputes the need to move on.

Just that some of us hoped the solution would be something inner city such as Kings Links or even a redeveloped Pittodrie – is the square meterage any less than Tynecastle for example? Having the training ground adjacent is fine, but not essential – but then could it have been incorporated into a larger sports village complex for example?

Just have to trust that all feasibility studies were done by Dod Yule et al – but it’s disappointing we’ve got another greenfield out of town solution, after sacking the equally unsatisfactory Loirston option.

My main concern comes from attending matches down south when I worked there – the four worst venues I w

[Barnared]

There still seems to be people that believe it is possible to redevelop Pittodrie? I don't get it.

[weejoeharper]

Some very good suggestions re: fan areas, pubs etc. For me the only extra point is that the stadium maximises the sound inside so that even the rustle of the sweety papers sound enormous. Or the singing! No point in having a stadium that sounds like Pittodrie.

[EuroMeister]

Had to laugh about this. The delusion of the new stadium crops up again.

The board get the club debt free and then put out another design (whats this the 8th go at this) effort at a 'new stadium'. All the usual suspects come out of the woodwork falling for all the propaganda about how wonderful it is going to be and how it looks.

Yes, how it looks - a feckin mocked up idea/concept knocked up by a designer.

- Ignore the fact its going to cost what £40m to build (allegedly).
- Ignore the fact that fans will pay for it because of increased cost of getting into it.
- Ignore the fact that the club cannot afford it and will get into mortgage debt to some bank because of it.
- Ignore fact that Tory boy Milne will top up his pension pot by making money out of houses on Pittodrie.
- ignore fact that redeveloping parts/aspects of Pittodrie AND building a training ground could be done at fraction of a cost.
- Ignore fact that this is about 10th effort at this which have all fail