If we had a bigger stadium.

To be fair, if the demand was there they could just wack up temporary seats like we used to have.

Quoted from dicko995

With a too bigger ground, you wouldnt get the atmosphere. Lets get back in the EFL first, get a settled team, mainly with contracts, and take it from there once we are established. The Town isnt really big enough for full houses of 12,000, and i dont want us to end up like Darlington, I liked the idea and plans of Tom Shutes for the Docks, its a matter of whether we need to draw in extra income for use of the ground, which i am against, but it needs to be paid for, and things arent cheap nowadays. I would be sorry to see the end of Blundell Park, 60 years of fond memories, and hopefully i may get to see the new ground before the ground takes me.

Back in the day, we consistently had gates of 11,000 plus and the town’s population was less in those days. So certainly possible. You only have to look at Lincoln, with a bit of success and gates of 9,000, and Lincoln’s a similar size.

I said in another thread something of a similiar note, but I think the attendances of the late 90s early 2000s are irrelevant now, I think factors such as going to all seating, the general drop in all of football attendances in that era, the rise of the premier league and football league status and the level we were at being taken for granted, meant a steady decline in our attendances to the low of our first season down in none league.

However, once we hit that low, attendances have been slowly rising up. Even though in our short return to league two we were pretty crap overall and fenty did very little to improve the matchday experience, that level maintained. Now with new owners and an improved matchday experience that number has climbed again, and I think with them doing more in every area as they are to improve all things town, and hopefully more success on the pitch, we could break a 6k average attendance within the next 5 years and that would be the first time since 01-02. Maintain that growth and if we then built a smart modern stadium with a great match experience that holds say 12,000, make it expandable just incase anything crazy happens, but I dont think an average attendance in the 8k's even 9s, you dont have to fill it every week youre still getting double the average attendances we have been previously, and then if we get big cup games which would be more frequent at a higher level, then you get the full house amazing atmosphere games.

But I think theyre doing it the right way, and I think if we do ever have the kinds of success that will require a new stadium these guys would get the deal over the line, so im glad we didnt get the fentydome and blundell park is perfect for now

i now of 3 guys who wanted to be there and couldn’t get tickets.
I’m sure Stockport could of sold at least another 1000.
Your soon getting well north of 10000.

Quoted from Yoda

i now of 3 guys who wanted to be there and couldn’t get tickets.
I’m sure Stockport could of sold at least another 1000.
Your soon getting well north of 10000.

Did they sisal to the club about the resale tickets? And to be honest, they’ve had two weeks to get a ticket…if people wanted to be there they would’ve been…

One is local two are from Barnsley so it was. a last minute decision.
There must of been loads of others.

I'm local but didn't make the game cos I'd have wanted to get 3 seats together (for me, my son and my grandad) so not sure if the resold season tickets would've been much help to me.

on a side note how many of our capacity is restricted seats? because I know a lot of people won't want to buy them unless absolutely desperate

I think we need a new ground but there are other pressing priorities at the moment that need to be done in order of importance like getting back into the EFL and having a training ground that is fit for purpose.

I think that a new stadium is going to be 5+ years away, but lets face it, the current state of
parts of BP are embarrassing, we have to do something in the short term. If anyone watches the big match revisited on Saturday morning, its basically from 1981, which I believe is the year the findus stand was built, some of the stadiums like Barnsleys were as embarrassing then as BP is now, yet look at them now. Our stadium hasn't changed since the findus was built, gass barrier apart and removal  of the corners to make us look even more tin pot.
Of course i'm not a structural engineer, but surely there must be a way for  the removal of Victorian pillars in our stands and maybe a new facia for the laughable back of the main stand.
As a proud Grimbarian  born and bred, I am so tired of us being called a dump, I now a lot of parts of the town are, but even if a tart up of BP is only for 5 - 10 years It would make a few of us older ones, who might never see a new stadium, happy
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