Birmingham’s New Stadium

[baggieal]

Looks fantastic and will hold 62,000.

Good luck to Blues. In life if you have a vision and think big it helps to be successful.

Pity we didn’t get a mega rich owner who splashed the cash as don’t think Patel ever will even when our financial problems are completely behind us. Sell your best players and replace them with inferior ones does show on the playing field.

[Omegstrat6]

I think that Patel and Brady share some commonalities in terms of their visions (eg to forge greater links with the local community and promote their respective clubs more widely in order to tap into broader business opportunities alongside purely wanting success on the pitch) but Blues undoubtedly have far greater financial support than we enjoy. We can be envious of them but it was not that long ago that administration seemed a distinct possibility and we have Patel to thank for saving us from that. It is what it is and the trick is to manage on the money we do have as best we can-and, yes, that does include better recruitment Al!

[Leicesterbaggie]

Regarding the look of the proposed stadium - awful! Those towers look absolutely ridiculous.

[baggieal]

Regarding the look of the proposed stadium - awful! Those towers look absolutely ridiculous.

Yes but it?s the vision and ambition. Good luck to them and think they will be close to filling it.

[kettering_baggie]

Can you imagine the outcry from Albion supporters should our owner, or future owner, decide to build a new stadium and turn The Hawthorns into yet another housing estate?

[baggieal]

Can you imagine the outcry from Albion supporters should our owner, or future owner, decide to build a new stadium and turn The Hawthorns into yet another housing estate?

I would take a brand new spanking stadium which is progress and ambition over the current stadium. You can?t say our stadium is any better than St Andrews!

Progress also means more supporters and would bet with the new stadium Blues will easily get 40,000 plus!

Same with Highbury which was a lovely ground and now luxury flats and kept the existing facade. The Emirates though is another world to the old Highbury.

Progress😂

[kettering_baggie]

I would take a brand new spanking stadium which is progress and ambition over the current stadium. You can?t say our stadium is any better than St Andrews!

Progress also means more supporters and would bet with the new stadium Blues will easily get 40,000 plus!

Same with Highbury which was a lovely ground and now luxury flats and kept the existing facade. The Emirates though is another world to the old Highbury.

Progress��

The Hawthorns is a far nicer stadium than St.Andrews, which is, and always has been, a rusting dump of a ground.

[Grand Wazoo]

would much rather be in a stadium full with 27,000 than in a crowd of 40,000 with 20,000 empty seats.

[Omegstrat6]

One of Brady's aims is to exploit the potential of Birmingham being the country's second city. Making the existing St.Andrews ground more attractive and producing successes on the pitch is part of the first step in attracting more fans and part of the second is creating a far better stadium (and one more in the mould of those in the US) which has the capacity to cater for their hopefully growing fan base as well as the ability to host other events. Forging greater links between the club and the local area (as has happened at Wrexham) will also help.

Ourselves, Blues and Villa may be in pretty close proximity with Wolves and Coventry not being far away either, but the population in the area is certainly large enough to draw from and if Brady can both find enough success on the pitch and create a venue that is attractive enough, then he can build the fan base and begin to fill his new stadium. Their home game against Norwich today is sold out and attendances have been steadily growing so the plans are already starting to work.

All the above takes money though, and a lot of it but Brady has both the dosh and business acumen. Today is a prime example of that. Their home game against Norwich will also celebrate their 150 years and, as a normal 3pm Saturday kick off, would not ordinarily be televised nor allowed to be streamed by the club itself but Brady has enabled all Blues supporters -including new ones-to watch the game live and for free on Blues+ on the BCFC website.