03 Apr 2013 16:29:14
I heard rumblings of us using the ground expansion option if we stay up. Anyone heard the same? SFC have approached original building company to discuss feasibility, timescales, £ etc.
Apparently the St Mary's stadium model (and builders) are the same as at Derby's ground. Ie built with expansion (over kingsland) in mind.
Not sure what capacity would be after work but with last 5 (including West Ham) games sold out, sounds a sensible.

1.) 03 Apr 2013
I had heard this was an option NC always had in mind. However, there are issues about access to St. Marys even with existing crowds which NC is not happy about and I believe he would need the Council to step in and help to sort this out.

2.) 03 Apr 2013
It's a plan that the club are very serious about. If and when the plans come to fruition is anyones guess

3.) 03 Apr 2013
There are many rumours regarding expansion, and also alternative sites for a new ground. I get the feeling that a new site is preferable, but expansion is an option up to 54,000, since the stadium was designed with this in mind. If the team keeps performing the way that they are, they will attract more fans, but just because we have one good year in the Premier League doesn't mean we need to splash out and end up with a stadium we won't fill week in and week out. If expansion comes then I hope that it is in gradual stages of a few thousand, rather than 10-15,000, as we'd not fill a stadium that size right now.

4.) 03 Apr 2013
If we stay up and continue to play attractive football, I'd like to guess-timate we could regularly attract around 36,000 with a bigger stadium.
We have a good fanbase that has proved it's loyalty. Was it 50,000 we took to Wembley?
Tickets are certainly hard to come by
Any advance on this figure?!

5.) 03 Apr 2013
Right the plan from NC was if we stay up kingsland gets bigger ground upto 45,000 now its all gone quiet with saints that could mean its on dunno though

Trev saint

6.) 04 Apr 2013
I think we could fill 40,000 if the tickets were cheaper. I am a student and have only been able to afford to go to 2 prem games this season and one was a birthday present! When you see prices like £48 for A 38 for B and 28-35 C it really puts some people off I think. 40 for games against the big teams 30 for cat B and 20 for cat C is far more reasonable and a lot of fans will go to more games. My friend at Uni is a WBA fan and his season ticket is dirt cheap compared to ours also when we played them at the hawthorns it was only 15 quid a ticket. For Cortese to charge over double for the same calibre of game is extortionate. If this is true I hope there are more cheaper tickets freed up for fans like me otherwise I doubt we will get more than the 31-32000 we get now

7.) 04 Apr 2013
Away game at Villa cost me £20 notes. got to say we are expensive but it covers the costs of all the pay increases we have incurred as a result of going up & new contracts for Rickie & Morgan

8.) 04 Apr 2013
The point of an expansion is obviously to increase supports in the ground, which means more money per game, so if we do have a decrease in prices I think it will only be slight. You have to take into account of new signings with their extra wages and the cost of the expansion. let's see how we get on for the rest of this season and next season before even thinking about an expansion. Like someone said above, do not add to many seats at once, maybe make it a 40,000 seater, that will be easily filled against the bigger clubs and if we are doing well, it will be near enough filled against the smaller clubs. Do you think the RFU will paying anything for the expansion for the rugby World Cup?

9.) 04 Apr 2013
Supposedly Affluent south maybe a reason for higher ticket prices?

10.) 04 Apr 2013
The fact remains that any expansion on a big scale or new ground would result in increased ticket prices, which at a time when everyone is struggling may not be a great idea. I think that expansion by a further 10,000 seats could be viable, but we would need to encourage fans to the ground with free entry for under 11's etc, and other promotional events. Looking at the figures for the most successful teams from last year regarding matchday profits, I can see us pushing either expansion or a new stadium, since to compete financially under the 'fair-play' rules means we will need greater numbers of fans attending week in and week out.

11.) 05 Apr 2013
I no that FPS PISTONS in the industrial est next to the ground have 2 years lift no the rights to the building and have been told the all the building are getting emptied out

12.) 05 Apr 2013
To be honest 40,000 capacity would work considering we're getting 31, 500 or so every home game. If there was more space, you'd be getting 36,000 for Villa/QPR and full house for United/City/Chelsea etc

13.) 05 Apr 2013
Surely if we expanded the stadium they'd charge more initially to make their money back, all though there's a group of fans campaigning to bring ticket prices down anyway so hopefully they'll be cheaper anyway

14.) 07 Apr 2013
Next season the income through tv deals more than doubles so expect to see a minimal reduction in prices due to this. Saying that 40-50 quid for the big games and 25-35 for the lesser games isn't a huge amount and obviously people are prepared to pay this amount as seen on the attendances we've been getting and selling out most away ends as well. Can see them expanding to maybe 42,000 at first. Don't think people realise how big a club we our massive catchment area of fans (biggest club outside of london and south of birmingham)

15.) 07 Apr 2013
The ground was built with expansion in mind by, dare I say it, rupert Lowe. The idea was to expand it when we could guarantee more than 18,000 season tickets sold before the start of a season. Apparently they already have the go ahead from the council as it was a condition of the original plan to build the ground there in the first place

16.) 08 Apr 2013
A friend of mine manages an under 8s football team and tried to enter them into a yearly competition at st marys, they got back to him and said that there's work being done to the ground so the comps not on, capacity rumoured to go up to 50. 000

st stuie

17.) 08 Apr 2013
At least we aren't on Arsenals level in ticket pricing.

18.) 08 Apr 2013
^imagine filling a 50,000 seater stadium, that would be brilliant!

19.) 21 Apr 2013
We brought 50,000 to wembley for JPT