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Charlton takeover with ground at Peninsular or no takeover?
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..and someone's nicked the Bartram statuechurch-lane said:2 -
'Oversensitive' because we love The Valley. We've already left twice and came back each time. Anyone who suggests doing so again is being offensive from my point of view.The_President said:Wow, you lot are all so oversensitive.
I was just asking a question ffs.
See you at The Peninsular in 2030 then.
I personally would rather stay at The Valley than move to any other stadium: I don't care how big or wonderful that stadium may be.
For me The Valley is Charlton. This assertion actually links to the debate on another thread about MKDons v AFC Wimbledon. Who are the original? Who should have the honour of the FA Cup win? Move stadiums even without the name change, and for me it is no longer the same club.
Anyway, we shouldn't assume that we now even have the money to do this if we wanted to. And no-one even considers the environmental implications.
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It's in the future so everyone was dropped off by self driving cars and there is no car ownership. The next plan is to turn this space into an allotment for stadium food self sufficiency with a woodland to pay back for the carbon created in stadium construction.church-lane said:
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There's a load that can still be done with the Valley, and when that is exhausted, you look for a new ground, it won't be on the Penisula, you can try and find a site riverside in Charlton, or you end up moving to Plumstead/Thamesmead as there is still a lot of space there within Greenwich.
Simple things like moving the office from the West Stand, and either building a separate office block or take that stuff to an office in the area, and you've got more space for commercial in the West Stand.3 -
It's because Michael Gliksten has taken back the car pack hence we will be moving again to Selhurst!!!!jimmymelrose said:
It's in the future so everyone was dropped off by self driving cars and there is no car ownership. The next plan is to turn this space into an allotment for stadium food self sufficiency with a woodland to pay back for the carbon created in stadium construction.church-lane said:0 -
Another hypothetical question. If they did redevelop the Jimmy Seed stand / open end and it was going to be larger than the covered end, single tier to improve the atmosphere, with safe standing, more room, better facilities, access to Valley Grove and Charlton Lane (so just as close to the station, closer to the village) – would you be happy to swap ends and have away fans in the NW quadrant / half the covered end?
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would love to see the SE and SW corners filled in with the JS stand expanded slightly, capacity of around 35-40k would be totally sufficient for some time. Stick away fans in the SW corner and have home fans behind the goal at that end as well and the place would be amazing4
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I would, but would probably be in a minority.milo said:Another hypothetical question. If they did redevelop the Jimmy Seed stand / open end and it was going to be larger than the covered end, single tier to improve the atmosphere, with safe standing, more room, better facilities, access to Valley Grove and Charlton Lane (so just as close to the station, closer to the village) – would you be happy to swap ends and have away fans in the NW quadrant / half the covered end?
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With a c40k capacity, we would only be obliged to give away fans 10%, or around 4k tickets. That would probably be an expanded lower tier of the Jimmy Seed stand. In reality, while the CAFC fan base expanded, we may give some of the "bigger" clubs both tiers, or up to 10k seats per game. The problem is that currently, getting 10k people into that end of the ground is pretty much impossible using Harvey Gardens turnstiles, and so the old Sam Bartram entrance would be required, but this means a long walk for away fans, and also with limited access rights now (that we sold the house on the corner), is a major problem.milo said:Another hypothetical question. If they did redevelop the Jimmy Seed stand / open end and it was going to be larger than the covered end, single tier to improve the atmosphere, with safe standing, more room, better facilities, access to Valley Grove and Charlton Lane (so just as close to the station, closer to the village) – would you be happy to swap ends and have away fans in the NW quadrant / half the covered end?
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Blimey, this thread makes me really uncomfortable. We’ve taken 9 points from the last 13 games and we’re talking about what size stadium we need when we’re challenging at the top of the Premiership!
I’d acknowledge like everyone else that there is cause for optimism and it’s possibly very big but it’s only a possibility and we’ve had huge let downs before. Let’s just see how the next few weeks pan out then we’ll have a better idea.
It’s one thing to tempt fate but this thread is pulling our collective trousers down and asking fate to roger us senseless.
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The new 'bumpy road'.charente addick said:pulling our collective trousers down and asking fate to roger us senseless.1 -
This isn't a dig at you by the way but the old argument that away fans would have to walk the perimeter of the ground, that it's a long walk from the train station etc for me isn't valid.Pedro45 said:
With a c40k capacity, we would only be obliged to give away fans 10%, or around 4k tickets. That would probably be an expanded lower tier of the Jimmy Seed stand. In reality, while the CAFC fan base expanded, we may give some of the "bigger" clubs both tiers, or up to 10k seats per game. The problem is that currently, getting 10k people into that end of the ground is pretty much impossible using Harvey Gardens turnstiles, and so the old Sam Bartram entrance would be required, but this means a long walk for away fans, and also with limited access rights now (that we sold the house on the corner), is a major problem.milo said:Another hypothetical question. If they did redevelop the Jimmy Seed stand / open end and it was going to be larger than the covered end, single tier to improve the atmosphere, with safe standing, more room, better facilities, access to Valley Grove and Charlton Lane (so just as close to the station, closer to the village) – would you be happy to swap ends and have away fans in the NW quadrant / half the covered end?
There's plenty of grounds all over the country where the nearest train station is miles literally away from the ground and other grounds you can walk the whole perimeter of the ground, and while the South end of the stadium no doubt needs better accessibility, if we ever expanded The Valley to 40,000 the JS Stand must be reclaimed with away fans in the SW or SE corner.
The other question is that original plan was drawn up so long ago now, could we come up with a better plan now? For example I don't think a second tier on the East would make any sense, just knock down the current boxes, add the same number of rows intended for the top tier and rebuild the boxes on top. Better to have one big tier than a small five row tier for the sake of having a tier.
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I would imagine the police would have a say in that and it would not happen.milo said:Another hypothetical question. If they did redevelop the Jimmy Seed stand / open end and it was going to be larger than the covered end, single tier to improve the atmosphere, with safe standing, more room, better facilities, access to Valley Grove and Charlton Lane (so just as close to the station, closer to the village) – would you be happy to swap ends and have away fans in the NW quadrant / half the covered end?
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We struggled to sell out in the Premier before, many games still having tickets on the day. To expand the ground to between 35-40K would be ample.We do not need to move, and I am sure we won't.................for a very long time.2
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Millwall can have the North, West and South Stands.bobmunro said:
I've had an exclusive preview of the plans and managed to take a quick snapshot of one of the pages:jacob_CAFC said:Doubt they will move the stadium tbh, seems pointless to spend all that money when ticket sales are not that important in the game these days, and there is room to expand where we are.
I don't imagine it's something in the plans for the next 5 years though.
#justsayin
i_b_b_o_r_g said:I think its one of the most obvious questions to be asked when a new owner is possibly on the horizon.
My answer is, to stay put in SE7, and redevelop, but I am a die hard traditionalist9 -
And a bloody good wash... the herberts!MuttleyCAFC said:
Millwall can have the North, West and South Stands.bobmunro said:
I've had an exclusive preview of the plans and managed to take a quick snapshot of one of the pages:jacob_CAFC said:Doubt they will move the stadium tbh, seems pointless to spend all that money when ticket sales are not that important in the game these days, and there is room to expand where we are.
I don't imagine it's something in the plans for the next 5 years though.
#justsayini_b_b_o_r_g said:I think its one of the most obvious questions to be asked when a new owner is possibly on the horizon.
My answer is, to stay put in SE7, and redevelop, but I am a die hard traditionalist1 -
We haven’t sold out a regular league game in years with our current capacity, there is no justification to be moving us to a bigger stadium or even increasing the capacity on the current one for quite some time.
And even if we did, we would never sell out 40-50k each week - even in the Premier League. Manchester City can’t even do it!1 -
Pres has always had a bee in his bonnet about this and anyone who disagrees is a luddite and an ostrich.Off_it said:
It’s no surprise this thread got resurrected or who resurrected it.
Reminds me of my son. As soon as he gets something he wants he then immediately wants something else without enjoying the first thing for any length of time.
it seems that El Presidente has a new ground “itch” he just has to scratch, whilst most of us are just happy we’ve finally got rid of the last dose!
The valley is such a big part of us that I dont ever want us to move. Thats before you even get to the point of why would you even need to?
if we get to the point where we need a bigger ground then my view would be - a small extention to the east stand with basically another row of corporate boxes added along the top. Beyond that the obvious thing to do is to rebuild the Jimmy Seed stand and fill in the corners again, with some corporate facilities added. No more needed.2 - Sponsored links:
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If we were a successful prem team, regularly playing in Europe and finishing in the top 6 year after year, we would probably be able to attract 30-35k each week, I dont think we could get more then that even if we won the league.1
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There is a bit of a weird arms race with London clubs and their stadiums, especially at the top end. Just get the Valley upto standard, expand where you can, and it's good enough for a long time to come4
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I seem to recall each time East Stand development is raised someone like Airman says is now not possible due to the sale of some land immediately behind it. Previously we owned that which made the redevelopment/corner filling possible.cantersaddick said:
Pres has always had a bee in his bonnet about this and anyone who disagrees is a luddite and an ostrich.Off_it said:
It’s no surprise this thread got resurrected or who resurrected it.
Reminds me of my son. As soon as he gets something he wants he then immediately wants something else without enjoying the first thing for any length of time.
it seems that El Presidente has a new ground “itch” he just has to scratch, whilst most of us are just happy we’ve finally got rid of the last dose!
The valley is such a big part of us that I dont ever want us to move. Thats before you even get to the point of why would you even need to?
if we get to the point where we need a bigger ground then my view would be - a small extention to the east stand with basically another row of corporate boxes added along the top. Beyond that the obvious thing to do is to rebuild the Jimmy Seed stand and fill in the corners again, with some corporate facilities added. No more needed.
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I'm probably in the minority of older fans who wouldn't be against a move but the new ground would have to be clearly superior in many ways (capacity, sight line, facilities, location, transport, parking) to justify a move in my eyes.
It's not been mentioned, and as far as we know not even considered, so it is all a moot point to debate for a long time yet. The takeover hasn't even been completed as yet and the Peninsula isn't an option.2 -
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It's during the next protests.LargeAddick said:
In order to get rid of ESI all fans are boycotting petrol, sourced in the UAE, and so using public transport
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If you look closely enough you can just about see Sue Parkes in the red seats.bobmunro said:
I've had an exclusive preview of the plans and managed to take a quick snapshot of one of the pages:jacob_CAFC said:Doubt they will move the stadium tbh, seems pointless to spend all that money when ticket sales are not that important in the game these days, and there is room to expand where we are.
I don't imagine it's something in the plans for the next 5 years though.
#justsayin0
