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New stadium thread

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by humanbeingincroydon, Apr 16, 2015.

  1. KingHotspur

    KingHotspur Well-Known Member

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    Any update on the naming rights?

    I really don’t get why it’s not been done yet
     
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  2. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Probably something to do with that global pandemic going around, after would Super Big MegaCorp really want the first match to be played in a stadium bearing their name to be attended by 0 people with the atmosphere of Saturn's sixth moon?
     
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  3. bigsmithy9

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    Compairing our stadium with our team,it's like compairing the Savoy with a bed and breakfast!.....at the moment.
     
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  4. Diego

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    And which part would you class as more important in the PL/football?
     
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  5. bigsmithy9

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    Team first everytime. Bugger the stadium.
     
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  6. Diego

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    I had to ask because, (as i am sure you are aware :grin:) there are differing views on here.
    I a with you all the way on this.
     
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  7. PowerSpurs

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    What differing views? The only point of the stadium is to fund the team.
     
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  8. Diego

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    Yet you had a team that was capable of winning things with a little funding but chose to throw the money into a stadium and massive loan which the stadium will fund the repayments of for the next few years.
    Hey if you are happy i am ecstatic <ok> :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  9. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    And this is the point people miss

    For a long time there was a clear ceiling to the wages we could offer due to the combination of WHL having an average capacity coupled with not having a lake of CL cash sloshing around (case in point, we have five seasons of CL cash, while Man Utd, Arsenal and Saltypool have 15-20 each) nor did we have a Sugar Daddy to close the gap financially like Chelsea and The Sheikh Mansour Team, so there were always teams who could dangle significantly higher wages in a bid tempt our players away, which happened as recently as three years ago with Kyle Walker

    That's why the stadium, in theory, is important: the increased revenue closes the gap by allowing us to keep the team together by offering competitive wages while also meaning we can compete on the wage front when looking to sign players
     
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  10. PowerSpurs

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    The stadium diverts no money from the team. Exactly the opposite. It generates 50 to 100m extra from day 1 net of interest and loan. At least it will when crowds are allowed back.
     
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  11. "Thanks for that Brian"

    "Thanks for that Brian" Well-Known Member

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    Isn't it very simple?

    It appears that people who have a problem with the stadium build, don't go to games.

    Those who go to games, see exactly why it was built.
     
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  12. BobbyD

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    yup, the stadium is to future proof the club.

    On the other hand though this is rather contradictory. Even though @remembercolinlee has liked your post, all he and my buddy @Dier Hard do is moan about how soulless it is (even though state of the art), theres no atmosphere and it costs 1 billion times the price that it used to :bandit:
     
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  13. humanbeingincroydon

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    A large part of why the atmosphere's muted is because the crowd are lacking reason to be noisy for the majority of it's lifetime

    For the opening game against Palace it was a cauldron, but when our season started petering out the noise dropped and hasn't really returned, but the thing is this is hardly a unique situation because for all the times WHL was a cauldron when we were flying high under Poch, for a hell of a long time - especially in the later Sugar years and in the first 3-4 of Enic's time at the club - where the atmosphere was so dead you could pinpoint the moaners in your block because they were the only things you'd hear for long stretches
     
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  14. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Yeah I’m lucky in that I sit in the future proofed safe standing area so my particular section is full of the “hardcore” fans if you like who love a cheer and chant. But in general the prices of tickets and the form of the team has resulted in a poor atmosphere for the most part. Add in the stewards too who are even bigger jobsworths than some of those at Old WHL.

    ****ing beautiful thing to look at though, and the facilities are incredible. It has so much potential to be amazing.

    My advice to ol’ Danny Boy would be to stop milking fans and lower prices to encourage the working class back and see the place rock.
     
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  15. bigsmithy9

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    It seemed strange that our new stadium was built at the same time as our team was falling apart.
     
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  16. KingHotspur

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    What about the year it was open before that?
     
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  17. humanbeingincroydon

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    Stadiums don't always open with naming rights in place, case in point Juventus' stadium opened in 2011 but didn't have Allianz slap their name all over it until 2017

    ...hopefully it takes us significantly shorter than that
     
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  18. bigsmithy9

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    When they built Buckingham Palace they expected royalty to live in it.....!
     
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  19. humanbeingincroydon

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    Technically we're the first North London club who can say that, although there's a bunch of interlopers in Finsbury Park who say they were first...
     
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  20. KingHotspur

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    Obivously they have their reasons but to me it seems like missed money by not having it named straight away
     
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