Ground Improvements - Well done GTFC

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Could you realistically take BP above 12k anyway?

I don't think the council would give permission to increase the capacity of BP to more than 10k.

Extending the Main Stand would improve match atmosphere a little bit, but still be inadequate for the Championship.

Quoted from White_shorts

I don't think the council would give permission to increase the capacity of BP to more than 10k.

Extending the Main Stand would improve match atmosphere a little bit, but still be inadequate for the Championship.

I can’t see why not ?
It’s held a lot more in the not so distant past .
Other than some traffic 45 mins either side of kick off what difference will it make ?

There’s not enough street parking near the ground when we have crowds of 5000 so bigger crowds will only encourage fans to park in Cleethorpes or towards Freeman street which would help businesses in both

Quoted from Mappers

Realistically would we ever need that much more than that ?

Attendance wise i see us as a club who could probably get 10-12k regularly if doing well but not sure if much more than that.

Let's be optimistic: imagine it's the final day of the 2027-28 Championship season.  Grimsby Town have a home game against Sunderland.  The winners are guaranteed a place in the play-offs.  Do you think 12k would be adequate for the number of supporters wishing to attend?

What’s the alternative, build a new ground with magic beans?

Quoted from White_shorts

Let's be optimistic: imagine it's the final day of the 2027-28 Championship season.  Grimsby Town have a home game against Sunderland.  The winners are guaranteed a place in the play-offs.  Do you think 12k would be adequate for the number of supporters wishing to attend?

What? So we build a ground with magic beans simply to accommodate a few fair weather types who fancy getting involved because there’s a sniff of the big time.

Quoted from White_shorts

Let's be optimistic: imagine it's the final day of the 2027-28 Championship season.  Grimsby Town have a home game against Sunderland.  The winners are guaranteed a place in the play-offs.  Do you think 12k would be adequate for the number of supporters wishing to attend?

Alternatively…..it’s a Tuesday night in January, Town have a home game against  fellow mid table opponents Preston North End. Do you think 12-13k would be adequate?

Quoted from ska face

What’s the alternative, build a new ground with magic beans?

We could tap up the Qatari's after tonight's game.

Would you like to cough up for a new stadium in a beautiful beachside location?

Quoted from aldi_01

What? So we build a ground with magic beans simply to accommodate a few fair weather types who fancy getting involved because there’s a sniff of the big time.

No we build it with the intention of filling it one day and not being held back.
If Lincoln , Donny and Rotherham can get crowds of 10000 we can get more as historically we’ve always got better support than all of them.
This isn’t the 80s 90s or even the early 2000s anymore .
People up and down the Country are flocking back to support their local league clubs.
Right now we’re not in a position to capitalise on that

Quoted from ska face

What’s the alternative, build a new ground with magic beans?

We're talking about something that countless Football and Rugby clubs have successfully delivered over the past 30 years. The difficulties of delivering it might be more significant now than in the past, but if we want the club to compete with the clubs we used to walk all over and outperform we need to maximise our turnover by having a stadium that is open and generating income 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. BP can never do that.

Quoted from grimps

No we build it with the intention of filling it one day and not being held back.
If Lincoln , Donny and Rotherham can get crowds of 10000 we can get more as historically we’ve always got better support than all of them.
This isn’t the 80s 90s or even the early 2000s anymore .
People up and down the Country are flocking back to support their local league clubs.
Right now we’re not in a position to capitalise on that

I think Donny are the wrong example (the other 2 good one's)  ,crowds inflated by a large away end (which is another argument for more capacity actually , so a contradiction ) but their home attendances are probably 4 or 5k most weeks , would be interesting to see if they go up a lot if they do well.