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Post by frediblak on Dec 16, 2009 15:24:08 GMT
this is great news and is going to be great fo rthe city  |
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Post by Higgy on Dec 16, 2009 17:34:28 GMT
Not so great for people living in West Bridgford though....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2009 18:37:51 GMT
Mixed feelings
If England is chosen, then its bye bye CG
So many memories there
But a new stadium would give nottingham some serious exposure and bring lots of money into the city i guess.
Seems Nottingham chosen ahead of Festa and Direby yet again too
Im not convinced England will win the bid anyway
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Post by howeaboutthat on Dec 16, 2009 18:51:30 GMT
To be honest, out of the three East Midlands choices Nottingham was the obvious choice, and that comes from someone not born or raised in the city nor anywhere near themEast Midlands.
Apart from Pride Park Derby has very little to offer the visiting fan, and to an extent the same can be said for Leicester. Yes both they both have nice football grounds but a host city has to have so much more than that because visiting fans won't just be appearing before the game and disappearing afterwards, they need things to do for more than 90 minutes.
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Post by Number 9.1 on Dec 16, 2009 21:31:33 GMT
Not so great for people living in West Bridgford though.... Fine by me. The wider Bridgford area has a great and varied concentration of sporting venues (it's basically the city's sport quarter, for want of a better phrase) and a well-designed modern stadium can be a thing of beauty. The bigger residential/commercial development would also be sufficiently removed from Bridgford proper to minimise impact on anything but the bigger match days anyway. The World Cup on my doorstep? Bring it on, I say. |
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Post by sunbeam on Dec 17, 2009 1:55:09 GMT
Fabulous news. Hopefully we'll get that new stadium at long last.
Whatever next? A new Broad Marsh??
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Post by Dan on Dec 17, 2009 2:37:03 GMT
There's no way moving stadium with very little cost to the club can be a bad thing. I'll be sad to leave the City Ground, but it's for the best.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 5:32:32 GMT
Should England win the bid , and Forest new stadium is used the capacity will be 50,000 for the WC games but will then be reduced to a realistic 38,000 for Forest`s use. A figure which could easily be filled if Forest are hosting premier matches then
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Post by Higgy on Dec 23, 2009 21:19:13 GMT
Not so great for people living in West Bridgford though.... Fine by me. The wider Bridgford area has a great and varied concentration of sporting venues (it's basically the city's sport quarter, for want of a better phrase) and a well-designed modern stadium can be a thing of beauty. The bigger residential/commercial development would also be sufficiently removed from Bridgford proper to minimise impact on anything but the bigger match days anyway. The World Cup on my doorstep? Bring it on, I say. To be honest my comment was more to do with the associated housing that was going to be built next to it and the extra traffic,WB is already a nightmare a lot of time for traffic and this will only make things worse! Im all for the world cup but im a NIMBY  |
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Post by Spooks on Dec 24, 2009 2:19:57 GMT
Wasnt the Tram meant to go to WB but everyone complained as it would be a white elephant and ruin there rose gardens ?
I think they should employ the NIC designers for the job, then when all the kafuffle has gone from the world cup we will be left with another huge soulless sporting arena.
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Post by Dan on Dec 24, 2009 6:52:40 GMT
A huge soulless sporting arena that will hopefully play host to a Premier League football side you mean?
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Post by Spooks on Dec 27, 2009 10:58:45 GMT
Maybe but what if its not, then you have a 3/4 empty stadium against scunthopre at 7pm on a Wednesday night in January ............. There is more small games than big. All i am saying while yes it should be a world cup venue but thats only for 4 weeks in its 40odd year life. More thought should be put into the stadium for its use after.
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Post by sunbeam on Dec 29, 2009 13:54:34 GMT
What are you talking about? It'll hold 40,000 for Forest games. Why is it going to be 3/4 empty. Remind me of all of the league games where Forest got 10,000 in.
Forest averaged over 20,000 in 3 seasons in L1. Even in the Champs the stadium would be around 2/3 full for most games. In the Prem it'd be 3/4 full for most games and full for a few.
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Post by Spooks on Dec 30, 2009 12:08:13 GMT
Again 40000 seater stadium, average as you say over 20k In other words just over half full. Ok maybe 3/4 full if they get into the premiership and that is if they can stay up there for for the next 8 years.
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Post by sunbeam on Dec 30, 2009 15:35:47 GMT
So it makes perfect sense for Forest to have a new, larger stadium.
How good the atmosphere is will depend on the fans inside it. Stoke show that a new stadium can have a cracking atmosphere.
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Post by Dan on Dec 30, 2009 18:49:47 GMT
Again 40000 seater stadium, average as you say over 20k In other words just over half full. Ok maybe 3/4 full if they get into the premiership and that is if they can stay up there for for the next 8 years. Name me one side who've moved stadium and haven't seen their average attendance rocket up. |
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