Re: Stadium Site pictures : Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:16 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

its not as hard as selling wigan's season tickets, at least at saints you'll win most of the games. whereever they are played

Unless we go to Old Trafford...

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:43 pm  

Ski wrote:

Unless we go to Old Trafford...

i doubt they'll schedule a game there though

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:54 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

As far as capacity is concerned I would have preferred 20K as we should have built in growth there.

For the sake of an addition 2k on the max capacity, I honestly don't see the problem.

There are probably only a few games a season that we could fill the ground to 20k, and it makes the ground a little less full for the rest - with potential decrease in atmosphere. If we get to the point where we're regularly selling the place out at 18k, then we should be in a pretty good financial state and future expansion becomes easier.

Better to worry about the extra few thousand places when we can demonstrate we're in a position to actually need them. When that time comes, our finances will be so much better (via lower maintenance on our ground, enhanced corporate facilities and higher average crowds) that we can seriously think about expanding the ground.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:21 pm  

J. Willard Gibbs wrote:

For the sake of an addition 2k on the max capacity, I honestly don't see the problem.

There are probably only a few games a season that we could fill the ground to 20k, and it makes the ground a little less full for the rest - with potential decrease in atmosphere. If we get to the point where we're regularly selling the place out at 18k, then we should be in a pretty good financial state and future expansion becomes easier.

Better to worry about the extra few thousand places when we can demonstrate we're in a position to actually need them. When that time comes, our finances will be so much better (via lower maintenance on our ground, enhanced corporate facilities and higher average crowds) that we can seriously think about expanding the ground.

Yes, thats what the dire thought as well.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:33 pm  

saint at wire wrote: Yes, thats what the dire thought as well. Why would Wire want to increase the size of their stadium when their attendances are at their lowest since 2003? http://www.slstats.org/t6/Warrington%20Wolves/

saint at wire wrote: Yes, thats what the dire thought as well. Why would Wire want to increase the size of their stadium when their attendances are at their lowest since 2003? http://www.slstats.org/t6/Warrington%20Wolves/

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:34 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

Yes, thats what the dire thought as well.

How many sell-outs did the Wire achieve last year?

Why, then, would they need to spend any extra money expanding the ground?

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:03 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

Unless that council happens to be Warrington who saved the club from adminstration by buying Wilderspool for £1.5M and leasing it back for a peppercorn rental and then letting them out of the lease without any penalties and is now stuck with a decrepit ground on their hands having written off the £1.5M.

In addition they then threw their FULL weight behind the HW stadium project to the extent of even getting Lord Hoyle to put pressure of the minister involved (John Prescott).

As far as capacity is concerned I would have preferred 20K as we should have built in growth there. Dire are finding out to their cost that they cannot afford to fill in their corners of the ground now as the cost post the original stadium build is a lot higher than if they had been built into the original build.

Why lie?

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:02 am  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Why lie?

Because the Guardian has stopped printing his weekly rant complaining about the same thing.

Risky business what Saints are doing in this economic climate. Could end up like Oldham and Watersheddings.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:46 am  

Paul Youane wrote:

Risky business what Saints are doing in this economic climate.

Well, we didn't start it in this economic climate. The economic climate was all sunshine and warmth when this project got underway. In fact, the earth might have been a whole degree cooler too, it was that long ago.

We've got no choice but to keep on at it because if we don't leave KR soon, the place will fall down all by itself.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:59 pm  

Paul Youane wrote:

Because the Guardian has stopped printing his weekly rant complaining about the same thing.

Risky business what Saints are doing in this economic climate. Could end up like Oldham and Watersheddings.

Surely if the Saints can achieve our dream of a new stadium in the depth of the worst recession in years, when all about are going to the wall, show's how strong the Saints brand is.
The only risk to our future, was not trying to get a new stadium in the first place, that was made quiet plain by the RFL.