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Ferguson1878
Player Valuation: £30m
even upper 50s would have done
Mate I will tell you what West Ham and Man City do. They give tickets to schools and other complimentary tickets. Regardless whether these turn up or not they are counted as attendees. They do not count the fans through the turnstiles they count only sold tickets and complimentary tickets. This is why you see so many empty seats at Citeh and Wham. It is possible to have around 45000 attendees but they will say full house
toffeemeister77
Player Valuation: £5m
What was the reason for the low capacity vs our rivals?
Does BMD have any expansion option for capacity or are we effectively stuck at 52,000?
Ferguson1878
Player Valuation: £30m
think it was originally 60 k but they downsized it pretty quickly think it was one thing to do with the commonwealth games bid, i don’t know if they can expand
Giving those tickets away to kids helps build a future fan base - give the kids a reason to support you over more successful clubs
Scarcity creates demand
No expansion option but if standing is introduced and is allowed a lesser footprint than stats can increase
sw blue
Player Valuation: £6m
More seats, higher cost. I'd much prefer a quality smaller stadium with better design than a huge one that looks like a carved up cereal box.
jonnyboy316
Player Valuation: £35m
BMD capacity will be 52,888 so 53k if you are rounding. Realistically the only chance for increase would be for safe standing being introduced at better than a 1:1 ratio.
Personally I like the capacity. I have been to emirates and the Spurs stadium and when you get to 60k you start to lose intimacy IMO. One of the best stadium I went to a few years back was the Juve stadium which is around 41.5k
About 10 years ago, we used to offer discounted tickets to students and staff at local colleges. Restricted views, top balcony and when the visiting team wouldn’t take the upper Bullens section.
I got to take my lads to loads of games at decent
prices. Happy days!
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £15m
Exactly.
When we fill near 53k seats consistently after the honeymoon period with a queue out the door then we might be able to say we undersold ourselves, but I can't see it being the case unless we suddenly start winning trophies/getting into Europe each year.
Even optimistically we are a decade away from challenging consistently at the top table, and by that time there could well be the option of safe standing at ratio greater than 1:1.3 which could boost us up to 60k.
I'll take a full house at 52888 every week over 55k with 5k empty.
Connor mcloud
Player Valuation: £8m
Or the aging bad ticker brigade,
Evening all
MCtoffee
Player Valuation: £750k
That could back fire on us at the moment to be fair
Goodisongang
Player Valuation: £25m
I'm sure a lot of west hams tickets are sold to fans who don't even support them, just cheap tickets London.
Let's not run before we can walk re the stadium, if we start selling out every game for years I'm sure they can do something to increase it.
I'd rather for now at least, have a packed stadium full of atmosphere then a massive stadium with gaps everywhere
I get it like. I still think at least 60k. We sell out every home game, we will now get tourist fans as the stadium is basically in town, and we apparently have 20k on season ticket waiting list, we could of easily done 60k.