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It's always refreshing to read GPC's contributions and his views again are as reliable as his great work unearthing Cardozagate! Thank you again.
I totally agree regarding Sixfields, I for one had stopped going long before I moved abroad and so had most of my other week in week out mates too, we would travel to all away games yet never to many home games. It's dull, moreover uninspiring to not only hardened fans but ultimately the wider public and potential new support. Buildings make statements and surroundings are incredibly important, that's why even some decrepit and knackered old grounds can be much more conducive to creating atmosphere and fun.
I do however disagree to one extent, my mundane existence, before retirement was on larger construction and engineering projects worldwide and they all have one aspect in common, they make a statement of intent, aspiration. They sell something!
Put aside the MK white elephant project, that's peculiar in such a large stadia development to a largely new and untested market. Give that stadium to an established league club in need of a new stadium and you will see a huge upturn in average attendance.
Sixfields is now bad press, barely anybody here has a clue as to what's going on let alone the wider public, it's tainted. It has grown a fish bowl level of support, in which I mean the support, business and commercial interests are pretty much set and cannot grow. You only have to look at the average attendances since the ground opened, it has barely fluctuated.
An in scale development alongside a careful PR and Media campaign could change everything. Cardozas original plan, if anyone can remember, was almost there, still a little disappointing but a few thousand extra shiny new seats with enticing corporate facilities would be easy to sell. It doesn't need to be a huge first leap, but a tangible, exciting and newsworthy development to capture a little imagination, and at the same time bury some of the bad.
We all know a new exciting stand would be full for it's opening game and similarly as Sixfields enjoyed an instant and substantial leap in average attendance over the CG, the same financially at least, would be enjoyed by the new stand. The incorporation of desperately needed commercial accommodation would secure this.
Even the largest noses on here are quite clueless as to the true intentions of the owners, but unless they're willing to pump endless amounts of money down the drain they must develop the facilities or surroundings to recoup some or all, this as we know is the contentious issue, "surroundings". Let's just hope they do have some exciting ideas for the stadium side of things when or if things are cleared up and the atmosphere in the stadium should improve a little.
You can all fuck off with the spending other peoples money shit as that's all I've ever done. Nobody here is buying the club, or are they? So just carry on speculating chaps, it's fun and it clearly winds up some of the more super intelligent and higher mortals here.
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