Stadium Development

[Keen Blade]

Our ground is great. Brighton (and Hove), for example, is north of Brighton, pretty much only accessible by overcrowded trains as limited car parking and nobody can walk there. Fanzones etc but have you ever heard any atmosphere there?!

Bramall Lane might be old, but does it actually have any real issues except the pillars and the insanely slow service at the kiosks?

The pillars don't matter anyway coz we play side to side football so everyone gets a chance to doze off

 

[1889]

Leicesters £85m training facilities have done nothing to prevent them from free falling into the League 1 abyss?

 

[sufc323]

Are you in tonight ?
I'll pop round and give you an estimate.
I'll need proof of funds before I can order anything though

Send the invoice to Snek, Bramall Lane. They’ll know who to direct it to

 

[Keen Blade]

Send the invoice to Snek, Bramall Lane. They’ll know who to direct it to

Listen ,
I haven't been paid yet for that truckload of seed-potatoes I dropped at Dore last October.
Cash in advance is now my policy with idiot Yankees , especially when I hear they're looking for new investors

 

[YES Blade]

Our ground is great. Brighton (and Hove), for example, is north of Brighton, pretty much only accessible by overcrowded trains as limited car parking and nobody can walk there. Fanzones etc but have you ever heard any atmosphere there?!

Bramall Lane might be old, but does it actually have any real issues except the pillars and the insanely slow service at the kiosks?

You clearly don’t sit on the Kop if you don’t think it’s an issue.

Can you watch the match sitting on the Kop? Yes, so if it’s that’s the minimum criteria for acceptable, then everything is fine. But it’s 2026 and people expect better facilities at stadiums especially when the tickets cost a small fortune!

 

[brownblade]

You clearly don’t sit on the Kop if you don’t think it’s an issue.

Can you watch the match sitting on the Kop? Yes, so if it’s that’s the minimum criteria for acceptable, then everything is fine. But it’s 2026 and people expect better facilities at stadiums especially when the tickets cost a small fortune!

I wasn't saying pillars aren't an issue. I was purely talking about not moving grounds.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Leicesters £85m training facilities have done nothing to prevent them from free falling into the League 1 abyss?

In fairness to Leicester, the investment in training facilities meant that they could attract players on very high wages. The problem is, those players weren’t very good and got them relegated.

 

[Kenilworth]

In fairness to Leicester, the investment in training facilities meant that they could attract players on very high wages. The problem is, those players weren’t very good and got them relegated.

So, not the DoF’s fault?

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

Get a new 50,000 seater stadium built on Park Square! Barge terminal at Victoria Quays to bring fans in from all over the world.

We could close the Parkway on match days and turn it into a runway so jets from all over the world can land!

 

[Bladedog]

The pillars don't matter anyway coz we play side to side football so everyone gets a chance to doze off

Yes ..and it all starts with burrows who hasn't got the bollocks to run at the opposition..wilder needs to get in his ear..be brave...take risks.

 

[brownblade]

So, not the DoF’s fault?

Well they completely ran out of money I think. DoF can't necessarily forecast for the rich owner suddenly not being rich.

Nor that I'm intimately familiar with their set up.

 

[Tom Bott]

So, not the DoF’s fault?

Jon Rudkin was a Foxy fox though, he played in their youth system.
So according to some should never have been appointed on that basis alone.

During his time as Director the club has arguably had the most successful period in its existence. They won the 2015–16 Premier League title and then the FA Cup and FA Community Shield in 2021. They reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2016–17 and UEFA Europa Conference League semi-finals in 2021–22.

He has since led them to two successive relegations, so much of the blame is pointed at him.

That's why we need a DoF because only the good things would happen to us if when we appoint one.

 

[Gimli]

You clearly don’t sit on the Kop if you don’t think it’s an issue.

Can you watch the match sitting on the Kop? Yes, so if it’s that’s the minimum criteria for acceptable, then everything is fine. But it’s 2026 and people expect better facilities at stadiums especially when the tickets cost a small fortune!

Unless I sit on the end of a row I pretty much can’t ‘watch the match sitting on the Kop’ as I’m over 6ft (that said I suspect anyone taller than 5ft 4 would also struggle with leg room)

So as it is I either stand, pick a row end seat, or go in other stands. (I’m not a ST holder at present)

 

[Tom Bott]

But it’s 2026 and people expect better facilities at stadiums especially when the tickets cost a small fortune!

So if the Kop had no pillars, heated cushioned seats and cost a large fortune would the club attract more supporters?

If you go to a music venue and someone (s) obscuring your view with their camera phone on, videoing the performance is that an outrage. Or acceptable because it's 2026.

 

[Rodders]

Jon Rudkin was a Foxy fox though, he played in their youth system.
So according to some should never have been appointed on that basis alone.

During his time as Director the club has arguably had the most successful period in its existence. They won the 2015–16 Premier League title and then the FA Cup and FA Community Shield in 2021. They reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2016–17 and UEFA Europa Conference League semi-finals in 2021–22.

He has since led them to two successive relegations, so much of the blame is pointed at him.

That's why we need a DoF because only the good things would happen to us if when we appoint one.

I suspect you’re ok with United not having a DoF because they haven’t appointed one, yet if they did do so you’d think it was the best thing since sliced bread

 

[relish]

Can they make the pillars wider so we don’t have to look at so much of the pitch?

 

[YES Blade]

So if the Kop had no pillars, heated cushioned seats and cost a large fortune would the club attract more supporters?

If you go to a music venue and someone (s) obscuring your view with their camera phone on, videoing the performance is that an outrage. Or acceptable because it's 2026.

My issue is that the Kop isn’t even up to basic football stadium standards. I’d say that 3/4 of the Championship provide better away ends than our Kop.

I wouldn’t mind as much if the poor facilities were reflected in the price of season tickets, but it’s not. Plenty of Championship clubs have cheaper season tickets.

 

[shorehamview]

Us planning on developing the stadium for crowds of 40,000 or more in our current situation is rather akin to planning your wedding meticulously, reception venue booked, food sorted, disco and band in place, honeymoon to an exotic location paid for, the church packed with friends and family then as you’re stood at the altar remembering your fiancé fucked off with someone else a year ago and has been seeing another bloke ever since.

 

[YES Blade]

Us planning on developing the stadium for crowds of 40,000 or more in our current situation is rather akin to planning your wedding meticulously, reception venue booked, food sorted, disco and band in place, honeymoon to an exotic location paid for, the church packed with friends and family then as you’re stood at the altar remembering your fiancé fucked off with someone else a year ago and has been seeing another bloke ever since.

The problem is that there will never be a perfect time to do anything significant to the stadium. Whether that’s moving stadium, rebuilding a stand or extending a current stand.

Plenty of clubs have invested heavily in their infrastructure without needing to be an established Premier League club. But they have ambition. Unfortunately, ambition and Sheffield United is something that doesn’t go together.

 

[Upton_Blade]

So, not the DoF’s fault?

Change the record

 

[Sean Thornton]

Change the record

It’s a long player.

 

[ml1997]

Any big expansion or redevelopment would be unwise. The kop needs work and could do with being a little bigger.

A niche I’d like to see us go into is hosting more live music. A 30,000 stadium would bring a lot of artists to Sheffield that usually skip it and just do Manchester. I’m sure they’ll be reasons why this is unlikely though.

 

[Keen Blade]

Can they make the pillars wider so we don’t have to look at so much of the pitch?

I'll pop round and give you a quote tomorrow but I'll need cash in advance before I can order anything

 

[Kenilworth]

Change the record

Why?
All those clamouring for a change to go with a DoF don’t change theirs.
Is there some exemption if you’re pro DOF?

 

[Kenilworth]

It’s a long player.

It’s like a pulsar neutron star

 

[Upton_Blade]

Why?
All those clamouring for a change to go with a DoF don’t change theirs.
Is there some exemption if you’re pro DOF?

No not at all. It's just those clamouring to modernise our football club don't show themselves up to be an absolute dinosaur that's all

 

[Kenilworth]

No not at all. It's just those clamouring to modernise our football club don't show themselves up to be an absolute dinosaur that's all

The flip side of that coin is that they show themselves as potentially naive fools.
Same argument.

 

[Selly]

The problem is that there will never be a perfect time to do anything significant to the stadium. Whether that’s moving stadium, rebuilding a stand or extending a current stand.

Part of the issue is that any capacity reductions are far more "doable" whilst in the Championship - but of course that's precisely when the finance isn't readily available.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Part of the issue is that any capacity reductions are far more "doable" whilst in the Championship - but of course that's precisely when the finance isn't readily available.

If clearing the Kop site and building a brand new Kop then going down to 20K capacity for 2 full seasons is too much.
We have 23K season ticket holders….so imagine telling a ST holder they can’t attend for 2 years.

The better plan was doing like what Liverpool did at Anfield and Man City have done
And that is build the new stand behind the current Kop or South stand….then there would be a minimal reduction in capacity and only for 1 year.

 

[YES Blade]

If clearing the Kop site and building a brand new Kop then going down to 20K capacity for 2 full seasons is too much.
We have 23K season ticket holders….so imagine telling a ST holder they can’t attend for 2 years.

The better plan was doing like what Liverpool did at Anfield and Man City have done
And that is build the new stand behind the current Kop or South stand….then there would be a minimal reduction in capacity and only for 1 year.

Liverpool and Man City didn’t extend stands built on a spoil heaps. They extended stands that were of a decent standard and worth extending.

I agree there would be problems with doing a rebuild of the Kop, which would mean it’s highly unlikely to ever happen, but the solution isn’t to build a bodge job extension.