TOPIC: Kasam Stadium

Picture on OS with match report...............another example of a huge new stadium and it`s only a three sider apparently - attendance 5000 plus today. Yet another case of Stadium over development IMO. Does such a stadium improve the match day experience.............

Piss poor crowd for top of the league tbh


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I wouldn't call 12,500 huge and just under 6k is 50% more than what we are getting.

chopper wrote:
Any more and they wouldn't get parked. The car park was almost full at 1.50 pm Nice cheese and tattie pies though at the ground. That wind blew right through the car park and the open end today. Otherwise not a bad day out getting a useful point!

seesaw50 wrote:
Looked into the costs of building it, meant to have cost £15 million in 2001, looking at pictures they have been ripped off especially when you look at what Rotherham built for £20m, Oxford will be the next club to go bust, when you look at our debt and losses its nothing compared to them, they made a loss of £1.4million and the year before that they lost another £1 million, the debt to the owners is currently at £7.5m

Speaking to Oxford fans yesterday the club rent the Kassam Stadium for, I was told, £500,00 pa.
They also pay 50% of the match day proceeds, apart from Gate receipts to the landlords.
Firoz Kassam came in to save the club.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firoz_Kassam

What a savior!!.

Actually £500k a year is not unreasonable if the capital cost is £15 million. It all depends on the small print of the contract but with a free car park the match day proceeds are not going to be gigantic.

Read the article about Firoz Kassam carwash.

am just glad we own BP - my point was do we really want to move to Lego Stadium I certainly don`t, son-in law from Brighton loves BP coz it`s got proper terracing he hates the new Amex as there`s no atmosphere......................how ironic.

Has the atmosphere at BP improved this season?

Yes.
But from a very low ebb.

I`m going for a "yes very much improved" .....................fans are behind the Manager and Players

seesaw50 wrote:
Bollocks. The atmospheres been crap for years. I'd go as far as saying since it became reserved seating in the east stand.

Preston has unreserved seating. I can't understand why we dont have this in the East stand. Make it unreserved block by block - I can only remember the East stand being full for Leeds, Tottenham, Sheff Wed and Arsenal - 4 times in 18 years.

seesaw50 wrote:
Could that now have a lot to do with it being brigton who are not exactly a passionate club, also the advantage of the amex is it makes more money than Brunton park, also Brighton can actually play in their stadium

Happyblue wrote:
Ill bet the fella wouldnt have loved the away end at the Withdean. Worse view than at Derwent Park

Dancingbear wrote:
he has mentioned that to be fair.........noticed Everton fans on MotD the other week stood up throughout in one part, can`t remember which goal or side......obviously the stewards don`t make them siddown!!

Old school grounds are king

carwash wrote:
After Coventry's rent dispute they wanted theirs reduced to £170k to match what other were paying in League 1, so £500k seems a bit high for a team that is a league 2 perennial, especially when the cost of their stadium was virtually paid off from the sale of theit old ground.