St. James Park - Championship Ground

[Hants_red]

Love Sussex, me.

 

[Topsham Boy]

Low cost solution for the gap?

 

[craigbratt]

Love Sussex, me.

All the best people come from Sussex (West is best )

 

[SaintJames]

If we are to become the sustainable league one team that is the current ambition we simply have to find a way to increase capacity of SJP by around 1,000 given our over reliance on match day income. The benchmark club for us to model ourselves on a sustainable L1 club imo is Lincoln who have a capacity around 10,000. Their average was close to 8,500 with the shortfall I assume being the games against smaller clubs with smaller followings. The reality for us of course is that without two or three big player sales I can't see how we can finance for example an expanded St. James Road stand. Rebuilding the Doble stand is the only other option but that looks probitively expensive

 

[denzel]

As football fans if you cannot dream then what's the point However, Brighton had two factors both of which we are unlikely to benefit from. Firstly, a population of 277,000 which in reality is much more with no other top club close by and secondly, Tony Bloom the owner who has pumpued hundreds of millions into the club. However, apart from that we can still dream haha

Negative thinking. I'm sure the population of greater Exeter is similar to that, and yes Brighton had someone willing to pump into the club, we may well have if the Trust were looking to sell.

 

[SaintJames]

Negative thinking. I'm sure the population of greater Exeter is similar to that, and yes Brighton had someone willing to pump into the club, we may well have if the Trust were looking to sell.

I did suggest the population of 'Greater Brighton' is significantly bigger than the 277,000 which is purely the urban population of Brighton and Hove. Statistics can be spun in many ways but ultimately however it's spun the catchment of Brighton is significantly higher than Exeter which is surrounded by quant villages, fields and sheep

 

[lamrobhero]

Brighton also had a site for their new stadium thanks to "2Jags".

 

[Boyo]

Negative thinking. I'm sure the population of greater Exeter is similar to that, and yes Brighton had someone willing to pump into the club, we may well have if the Trust were looking to sell.

If there was someone with tens of millions of pounds, desperate to pump money into the club, I think we'd probably have all heard about it. Those kind of people don't sit around waiting for the Trust to announce that they are seeking investment.

 

[QOTPOD Podcast]

Interesting the discussion on the ground and matchday income a and gate income. Matchday income for some clubs is much smaller than non-matchday income, retail revenue and streaming revenues. The focus should be to extend all streams of income. The continual upgrade of the pitch is positive, but some adjustments to the ground could raise more income. Access to the away end could increase the usage of that area for home fans/splitting the area. The whole area next to AS9 stand needs surveying and options to increase the usage of the area.

As for catchment areas Exeter population (133k) is over 200k people (Exeter/Exmouth/Tiverton/Crediton equals 194k alone), a quick look shows 4.9M people live in the South West. I would say we have potential to grow even more. The City is expanding and more people are moving out the cities.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

Interesting the discussion on the ground and matchday income a and gate income. Matchday income for some clubs is much smaller than non-matchday income, retail revenue and streaming revenues. The focus should be to extend all streams of income. The continual upgrade of the pitch is positive, but some adjustments to the ground could raise more income. Access to the away end could increase the usage of that area for home fans/splitting the area. The whole area next to AS9 stand needs surveying and options to increase the usage of the area.

As for catchment areas Exeter population (133k) is over 200k people (Exeter/Exmouth/Tiverton/Crediton equals 194k alone), a quick look shows 4.9M people live in the South West. I would say we have potential to grow even more. The City is expanding and more people are moving out the cities.

Good points regarding non match-day income.

We're already able to split the away end (and have done).
However, conditions apply.
See #358 on the Season Ticket thread.