Expanding the Riverside Stadium..

Humpty said:
How many times in our history have averaged over 35,000 over the course of a season? I'd guess 5 MAX. We don't have the fan base for it, it makes no sense.
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Not far off,four.All of them in the boom years immediately after the 2nd World War.
 
Humpty said:
How many times in our history have averaged over 35,000 over the course of a season? I'd guess 5 MAX. We don't have the fan base for it, it makes no sense.
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43,754 v Manchester City, 27th December 1926
44,523 v Arsenal, 27th March 1937
45,854 v Sunderland, 1st January 1938
46,747 v Arsenal, 12th March 1938
51,080 v Sunderland, 21st January 1939
45,556 v Blackpool, 30th January 1946
51,612 v Bolton Wanderers, 13th February 1946
53,025 v Burnley, 1st March 1947
53,802 v Newcastle United, 27th December 1949
52,764 v Sunderland, 14th October 1950
48,051 v Manchester United, 23rd September 1950
47,870 v Blackpool, 31st August 1949
49,850 v Aston Villa, 11th January 1950

then you have to take into consideration the surrounding population, transport links, what division we've been in and restrictions placed on capacity.

We could defo sort out a 53,800 rail seater stadium
 
buffaloboro said:
Wasn't new ayresome one of them?
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Davey C is right. It ended up being out of four:

Erimus Stadium - we shall be? not positive enough and not really connected with the club.
Middlehaven Stadium - nobody liked Middlehaven
Teesside Stadium - like Teesside Park? no thanks
Riverside Stadium - best of a bad bunch - does exactly what is says on the tin.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Why the obsession with how full the stadium is?

Two seasons that were amongst the best in terms of football and atmosphere were 73/74 (average gate 22,000 in a 40k ground) and 86/87 where a large chunk of the ground was closed.

Is the current generation more concerned with image than the actual football on display?
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Yes and you do need spare capacity for the really big matches, this fill every seat all the time mentality is a modern marketing obsession.

Barcelona, one of the biggest in the world, regularly have 30,000 empty seats.

They obviously need a much smaller stadium according to the logic on here.
 
El Guapo said:
Now NW is staying and we will be getting promoted next season (if somehow we don’t manage it this season) I think it’s the time to get behind Newy’s suggestion and put an extra tier on and take it to 45k 😉
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if we end up getting promoted this year.. we're gonna look like a right bunch of dafties!
 
HolgateCorner said:
Yes and you do need spare capacity for the really big matches, this fill every seat all the time mentality is a modern marketing obsession.

Barcelona, one of the biggest in the world, regularly have 30,000 empty seats.

They obviously need a much smaller stadium according to the logic on here.
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Barcelona would be best off getting relegated and sticking in the lower division for a few years.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
The Riverside is about the least inspiring name that it is possible to come up with. Some stadiums have nicknames and I think that ours would benefit from that. I have almost convinced myself that when Anish Kapoor designed and named his giant sculpture, he had this in mind. Temenos means an area surrounding a holy site, or a place where people gather to worship Gods. Perfect. The sculpture even looks like a Loony Toons version of a bulging net and "are you going down the Temenos on Saturday?" sounds ok to me.
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Always liked ‘The Cellnet‘ myself.
 
newyddion said:
Davey C is right. It ended up being out of four:

Erimus Stadium - we shall be? not positive enough and not really connected with the club.
Middlehaven Stadium - nobody liked Middlehaven
Teesside Stadium - like Teesside Park? no thanks
Riverside Stadium - best of a bad bunch - does exactly what is says on the tin.
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We Shall Be - does not have a question mark on it. Difficult to be more positive statement than that.
 
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