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Not Sad at all when you consider we would get to remain on the same site.

Some teams don't get or take that option.

 
For me its very sad. Like many here I watched the bridge getting built to the ground we know today from the benches to the bucket sits in the shed it was a struggle for the club to keep the ground and develop it. I remember when the west upper opened and I was in the upper tier looking around and thinking we finally have a completed home. Watching the bridge get built was a big part of my childhood but on the plus side we will be still on the property we fought so hard to keep

 
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Nearly every club is moving their stadium these days, i don't see the big deal. Old Trafford is the only ground that is fortunate enough to be located where it is, whereas at least we can still stay put in the exact same location and still have our name to it. It would be interesting to see what the architecture's plans are, because with Roman being Russian and having a taste for the finer things, you can be sure he'll want state of the art design. 

 
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It's sad because while it's on the same spot, it's not the same stadium. However, being on the same spot is preferable to moving.

I think it's necessary to increase our capacity and this is the best and most realistic way to go about it.

 
One thing I wonder is where this £500 million is going to come from. I hope it's Roman who foots that bill, as I don't want us to do an Arsenal for 15 years while we wait for it to pay off.

Otherwise this is great news - we need a bigger stadium to compete with the major clubs out there.

 
Of course it's sad, it's sad that the first stadium with a 100k+ capacity is long gone, but it's also exciting, a new chapter in our history is unfolding, and fingers crossed, we'll be here to see it happen.

This will be the first time in our history that we have had a complete new stadium erected, rather than a new stand or two.

Am I right in thinking, if it's a complete new layout of the site, then we can only do a 60k stadium if we gain extra land, or we dig down ?

 
I can see not having the bridge for 3 years causing problems to our chances of winning silverware.

 
RichardCFC said:
It's sad because while it's on the same spot, it's not the same stadium. However, being on the same spot is preferable to moving.

I think it's necessary to increase our capacity and this is the best and most realistic way to go about it.
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But then Stamford Bridge already isn't the same stadium it was 25 years ago. Staying at Stamford Bridge, even in a new format, is much better than moving elsewhere. Chelsea just wouldn't be the same without the Bridge, and vice versa.

 
axman2526 said:
I can see not having the bridge for 3 years causing problems to our chances of winning silverware.
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Think it'll be weird for a while, playing at a 'neutral venue' but after a while we might get used to it. Three years is a long time though.

 
Playing at Twickenham or Wembley should help with the ticket demands at least. Wonder if the club will lower the ticket prices to ensure it sells out

 
The problem with both Twickenham & Wembley as temp stadiums is that they're far too big for us.

I can see parts of those grounds being closed when we play there, and that will kill atmosphere.

 
Xfaxtor said:
Playing at Twickenham or Wembley should help with the ticket demands at least. Wonder if the club will lower the ticket prices to ensure it sells out
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Think they might have to because travel costs for some might increase. Can't imagine they'd use the whole stadium on matchdays though.

Joe_Piggfort said:
Would have been a million times better to just move.
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Easier, yes. Better? I'm not sure. After it's done we're going to have a brand new stadium in the same place.

But in those three years we're going to have a whole different arena, a lack of home advantage for a while and I reckon some real issues with the pitch. Short-term pain for long-term gain and generations to come have a great stadium that more of them can visit.

 
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Think they might have to because travel costs for some might increase. Can't imagine they'd use the whole stadium on matchdays though.

Easier, yes. Better? I'm not sure. After it's done we're going to have a brand new stadium in the same place.

But in those three years we're going to have a whole different arena, a lack of home advantage for a while and I reckon some real issues with the pitch. Short-term pain for long-term gain and generations to come have a great stadium that more of them can visit.
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With a still-cramped pitch that teams can park the bus easily against us on and a stadium design we probably wouldn't have plumped for had we had a more grandiose land area available to us with a capacity we'll probably revisit the same old expansion problems for in a decade's time or so.

 
Joe_Piggfort said:
With a still-cramped pitch that teams can park the bus easily against us on and a stadium design we probably wouldn't have plumped for had we had a more grandiose land area available to us with a capacity we'll probably revisit the same old expansion problems for in a decade's time or so.
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Isn't our 'cramped pitch' like one yard shorter than Arsenal's? Apparently it's only two yards shorter than Wembley's. Is it that big a deal?

Expansion problems in the future will exist though you'd assume.

 
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Blue Daze said:
Isn't our 'cramped pitch' like one yard shorter than Arsenal's? Apparently it's only two yards shorter than Wembley's. Is it that big a deal?

Expansion problems in the future will exist though you'd assume.
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And the SB pitch is actually only marginally smaller than the Nou Camp's.

 
I hope they look at giving ourselves the option of a 'safe standing area', this will surely come in time if the premier league continues to grow.

 
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