| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 09:54 - Aug 22 with 5057 views | stevec |
Bit of a relief to know they'll still be the smallest club in West London |  | |  |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:39 - Aug 22 with 4963 views | DWQPR |
Was reading something about this on one of their sites. Doesn't seem in any way ambitious, no club shop, just some pop up trestle tables and cash boxes with big umbrellas placed around the ground on match days, very few corporate boxes and no plans for the ground to be used other than for match days with London Irish sharing the facilities. Have a feeling that the rugby will eventually be the landlords and Brentford once they have got themselves back to their rightful place in the National League will be the tenants. Sounds like the bloke who owns them is getting bored and will look to sell once he has made his money out of Griffin Park for flats, which despite the sprawling estate across the road down Green Dragon Lane, is worth infinitely more than the NOX polluted area of Lionel Road. Shame really, hope it happens. |  |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:43 - Aug 22 with 4945 views | PunteR |
Seems they're doing things sensibly. Unlike our 40k stadium plans that hasnt seen a high viz or hard hat on a site for 6-7 years..
Maybe they're realising that as long as you've got hospitality sorted for the corporates than its better to have a packed out stadium that they can maintain if they drop down the leagues, and the Tv money covering the rest whilst in the prem. If they ever get there. Bournmouth seem to be doing ok.
Whats their capacity now? |  |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:51 - Aug 22 with 4918 views | Boston |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:43 - Aug 22 by PunteR |
Seems they're doing things sensibly. Unlike our 40k stadium plans that hasnt seen a high viz or hard hat on a site for 6-7 years..
Maybe they're realising that as long as you've got hospitality sorted for the corporates than its better to have a packed out stadium that they can maintain if they drop down the leagues, and the Tv money covering the rest whilst in the prem. If they ever get there. Bournmouth seem to be doing ok.
Whats their capacity now? |
189 and a dog kennel. | |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:51 - Aug 22 with 4918 views | Pommyhoop |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 09:54 - Aug 22 by stevec |
Bit of a relief to know they'll still be the smallest club in West London |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 11:30 - Aug 22 with 4814 views | southbrookstreet |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 09:54 - Aug 22 by stevec |
Bit of a relief to know they'll still be the smallest club in West London |
They are not in West London... | | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 11:38 - Aug 22 with 4792 views | bosh67 |
Sounds like they have been forced to compromise. |  |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:07 - Aug 22 with 4721 views | DejR_vu |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:39 - Aug 22 by DWQPR |
Was reading something about this on one of their sites. Doesn't seem in any way ambitious, no club shop, just some pop up trestle tables and cash boxes with big umbrellas placed around the ground on match days, very few corporate boxes and no plans for the ground to be used other than for match days with London Irish sharing the facilities. Have a feeling that the rugby will eventually be the landlords and Brentford once they have got themselves back to their rightful place in the National League will be the tenants. Sounds like the bloke who owns them is getting bored and will look to sell once he has made his money out of Griffin Park for flats, which despite the sprawling estate across the road down Green Dragon Lane, is worth infinitely more than the NOX polluted area of Lionel Road. Shame really, hope it happens. |
Have to say the second part of that sounds very much like it could be our situation. | |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:27 - Aug 22 with 4661 views | switchingcode |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 11:38 - Aug 22 by bosh67 |
Sounds like they have been forced to compromise. |
Reduced due to costs and no possibility to increase at a later date.aprox 3000 away 14000 home which is ok as we only get 8500 to 10000 home fans at the moment during the best period in over 50 years.If we ever get to the PL our capacity will be irrelevant with the bundles from tv.Not that fussed as think the championship is a great league but wouldn't mind a 1 season payday in PL so Matthew Benham got some of his investment back. | | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:28 - Aug 22 with 4653 views | TacticalR |
Given current property prices, and to ensure maximum efficiency in land use, it would seem sensible to have no seats and just provide matchday deckchairs on the balconies of flats surrounding the pitch. |  |
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:40 - Aug 22 with 4613 views | hoof_hearted |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:28 - Aug 22 by TacticalR |
Given current property prices, and to ensure maximum efficiency in land use, it would seem sensible to have no seats and just provide matchday deckchairs on the balconies of flats surrounding the pitch. |
Don't think that's as far off the truth as it sounds. They have HEATED seats at Man City and I think Arsenal for the top dogs. Chelsea and I'm sure many others have patio heaters outside boxes. Our very own C (unts) Club give out blankets. I can imagine a stadium with the boxes being extended away from the pitch and opening up into "luxury apartments". The service charges for the apartment would include the box season ticket prices. So the club owner that developed them would get the capital profits to remove and the club would still have a guaranteed corporate type income. That sounds profitable and plausible enough to me to have been done already in America! Maybe they don't have so many city centre stadia. Mind you, the old Highbury is almost like that but without the football being played in the middle! |  | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:44 - Aug 22 with 4602 views | switchingcode |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 10:39 - Aug 22 by DWQPR |
Was reading something about this on one of their sites. Doesn't seem in any way ambitious, no club shop, just some pop up trestle tables and cash boxes with big umbrellas placed around the ground on match days, very few corporate boxes and no plans for the ground to be used other than for match days with London Irish sharing the facilities. Have a feeling that the rugby will eventually be the landlords and Brentford once they have got themselves back to their rightful place in the National League will be the tenants. Sounds like the bloke who owns them is getting bored and will look to sell once he has made his money out of Griffin Park for flats, which despite the sprawling estate across the road down Green Dragon Lane, is worth infinitely more than the NOX polluted area of Lionel Road. Shame really, hope it happens. |
Absolute nonessence,our owner is in it for the long run I think you need to do some research before you start peddling crap.Listen to yourself and you moan about Chelsea's arrogance.pathetic | | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 13:12 - Aug 22 with 4503 views | hoof_hearted |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 12:44 - Aug 22 by switchingcode |
Absolute nonessence,our owner is in it for the long run I think you need to do some research before you start peddling crap.Listen to yourself and you moan about Chelsea's arrogance.pathetic |
It looks like almost all of the extra capacity is going to the corporates. They'll love a few seasons in the PL. The odds of getting it are virtually the same with the new stadium or without it. If the owner wants to increase the chances of it he needs to do a Bournemouth or a Leicester or a QPR (ouch) and blow cash on players. The real estate deal helps pave the way but he must be paying for the building work himself - or is he building up debt for the club?. [Post edited 22 Aug 2017 13:13]
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 13:31 - Aug 22 with 4457 views | switchingcode |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 13:12 - Aug 22 by hoof_hearted |
It looks like almost all of the extra capacity is going to the corporates. They'll love a few seasons in the PL. The odds of getting it are virtually the same with the new stadium or without it. If the owner wants to increase the chances of it he needs to do a Bournemouth or a Leicester or a QPR (ouch) and blow cash on players. The real estate deal helps pave the way but he must be paying for the building work himself - or is he building up debt for the club?. [Post edited 22 Aug 2017 13:13]
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Matthew Benham has put about 30 million in to the new ground so far but the building company will be financing the whole development including housing so he will hopefully get his money back.He has put more than 80 mill of his own money into the playing side and we lost 24 million over the last 2 years dispite some excellent sales like Hogan and Gray.We just have to hope his companies carry on making money but that goes for every club in the football league.Griffin Park redevelopment is tied in with the new stadium so Benham doesn't get any money from the sale. | | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 13:36 - Aug 22 with 4439 views | hoof_hearted |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 13:31 - Aug 22 by switchingcode |
Matthew Benham has put about 30 million in to the new ground so far but the building company will be financing the whole development including housing so he will hopefully get his money back.He has put more than 80 mill of his own money into the playing side and we lost 24 million over the last 2 years dispite some excellent sales like Hogan and Gray.We just have to hope his companies carry on making money but that goes for every club in the football league.Griffin Park redevelopment is tied in with the new stadium so Benham doesn't get any money from the sale. |
So if he put in £80m and the losses were only £24m presumably the other £56m is in the bank? | | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 14:00 - Aug 22 with 4378 views | Tonto |
can someone pretend there is a footpath going across the site, or let their dog sh!t there a couple of days in a row, just so it can be postponed for a few years?
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| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 14:05 - Aug 22 with 4371 views | hoof_hearted |
Just had a look at the accounts. A year out of date but it explains the direction of travel.
The headline grabber and underlying fact is that there was turnover of £10m and staff costs of £17m. Benham can juggle it and subsidise losses for a few lucky years of players sales maybe but unless he's got hundreds of millions he wants to keep chucking in then it's going to be the best ground in the National League at this rate. Benham has secured (a year ago, probably more now) £49m of the money he has introduced into the club on the freehold. Fair play to the man, it's interest free and he's not after getting it back any day soon by the looks of it but it's still a long term debt for the club. Hopefully the £450k that Mr Holier Than Thou Benham made Brentford pay to his company, Triplebet softens the blow.
The fans will be okay once the stadium is built. I hope the club goes bust then and the fans get to control it with a trust. Win win as far as I'm concerned so enjoy the roller coaster and I hope it goes up before it goes down or that really would be a sh!tty roller coaster. Hope I (and my knees) live long enough for it to happen to us. | | | |
| Brentford look to reduce capacity of new ground on 14:43 - Aug 22 with 4307 views | vegasranger |
Not much room for growth on the fan based side. Can't even think of competing long term with a 17,5000 capacity at the higher levels. | | | |
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