This has been an open secret for a good few months now but seeing it seemingly confirmed in actual media articles is wild.
Possibly the biggest ever news in the club’s history?
And it’s worth contextualising this for the people who are bound to go “Hurr durr Birmingham can’t fill 25k seats let alone 55k”.
The ability of Blues to fill a stadium once a fortnight for 9 months of the year is, right now, irrelevant. There is no stadium capable of holding massive concerts in the Midlands like Spurs/Arsenal/West Ham/Man City can.
Villa Park is not big enough for the top shows and is too old. Cov is too small and too inaccessible. That’s it for choice. This stadium will literally print money for these owners, and it can only be a good thing for Blues, especially with HS2 just around the corner from this site.
Build it and they will come.
dmdjjj on
How many Bellinghams is there?
Additional-Moose-164 on
Hopefully got it cheap as fuck off the criminal council.
Dynamicthetoon on
Always wondered if that go kart track was in use as saw it many times going into new street, i guess not
Paul_my_Dickov on
Going to need a good few years of winning before there’s enough Blues fans to fill a fancy new stadium.
MarcusH26051 on
This feels like a big step for Blues given the St Andrews issues , hopefully it’s a bit more interesting than the standard new Stadium/ Big Tesco/ Retail park type developments.
The only thing I’ll kinda raise as an outsider to the city but someone with a few friends that live in the city – couldn’t the Alexander Stadium be used for concerts as that seems to be barely used for much post Commonwealth Games? Or is that at risk of being a bit of a white elephant with the council issues?
shanfan36 on
more seats means more fans to go with it, i fear these owners have more money then sense 😭
name1227returns on
Given the precarious situation we’re in regarding league position, is this a sign the owners are certainly here for the long haul, even if we get relegated?
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This has been an open secret for a good few months now but seeing it seemingly confirmed in actual media articles is wild.
Possibly the biggest ever news in the club’s history?
And it’s worth contextualising this for the people who are bound to go “Hurr durr Birmingham can’t fill 25k seats let alone 55k”.
The ability of Blues to fill a stadium once a fortnight for 9 months of the year is, right now, irrelevant. There is no stadium capable of holding massive concerts in the Midlands like Spurs/Arsenal/West Ham/Man City can.
Villa Park is not big enough for the top shows and is too old. Cov is too small and too inaccessible. That’s it for choice. This stadium will literally print money for these owners, and it can only be a good thing for Blues, especially with HS2 just around the corner from this site.
Build it and they will come.
How many Bellinghams is there?
Hopefully got it cheap as fuck off the criminal council.
Always wondered if that go kart track was in use as saw it many times going into new street, i guess not
Going to need a good few years of winning before there’s enough Blues fans to fill a fancy new stadium.
This feels like a big step for Blues given the St Andrews issues , hopefully it’s a bit more interesting than the standard new Stadium/ Big Tesco/ Retail park type developments.
The only thing I’ll kinda raise as an outsider to the city but someone with a few friends that live in the city – couldn’t the Alexander Stadium be used for concerts as that seems to be barely used for much post Commonwealth Games? Or is that at risk of being a bit of a white elephant with the council issues?
more seats means more fans to go with it, i fear these owners have more money then sense 😭
Given the precarious situation we’re in regarding league position, is this a sign the owners are certainly here for the long haul, even if we get relegated?