New Stadium Details And Discussions

[dagraham]

I'm pretty convinced now that there never was a proper reason for the delay on announcing the move to Wembley other than to reduce the time for fans to get all nostalgic about the existing stadium.

To get the best naming rights deal, it is vital the name 'White Hart Lane' is erased from our minds as quickly as possible, starting in May. The last thing Levy wants is big media exposure on this and whl one of the most searched for terms.

If at all possible, he'll somehow drag the doubt out until after the last home game, then the stands will be wrecked before anyone grasps the enormity of the event. The election fever has come at quite a convenient time really for extra distraction.

I think you're overthinking it a bit.

I don't believe it was anything but an attempt by Levy to get the local authorities and the mayor to get their arses in gear, and at the very least make a public announcement reiterating their commitment to the whole wider project.

Seems a bit wishy washy as we know politicians lie through their teeth, but public announcements are harder to wriggle out from and investors and sponsors like that sort of shit.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

I'm pretty convinced now that there never was a proper reason for the delay on announcing the move to Wembley other than to reduce the time for fans to get all nostalgic about the existing stadium.

To get the best naming rights deal, it is vital the name 'White Hart Lane' is erased from our minds as quickly as possible, starting in May. The last thing Levy wants is big media exposure on this and whl one of the most searched for terms.

If at all possible, he'll somehow drag the doubt out until after the last home game, then the stands will be wrecked before anyone grasps the enormity of the event. The election fever has come at quite a convenient time really for extra distraction.

@Rob
We need a tin hat emoji.

 

[Drink!Drink!]

Don't want to start the surely it isn't that high debate again....but..... two new steel columns in the west stand taking the stadium up to a new height

 

[Clark28]

My dad said levy said something abit naughty on the BT video. Something about we should have better people living in Tottenham as it's close to central London??

i watched that interview earlier today and didn't interpret anything Levy said in that way.

he said something like being only 20 minutes from Liverpool Street, London's financial district, we have a lot of potential in the area etc ....


edit: they start talking about the new stadium at 15 minutes in

17:15 Levy talks about the people of the area

 

[whitesocks]

I'd have thought it would be the opposite. Make a big song and dance that this was the end of whl and an era. That when we come back it would be to a totaly new stadium.

Sure, but in between the song and dance, and moving in the new stadium, Levy has to negotiate a naming rights deal that by many calculations has to be absolutely enormous.
Levy has to minimise name leakage to the new stadium.
...

I love a conspiracy theory, and have entertained a few for this delay, but this seems the least controversial of them all by far, and hardly warrants a tin hat status and .. wait... is that an illuminati symbol on that raker?

 

[Led's Zeppelin]

I'd have thought it would be the opposite. Make a big song and dance that this was the end of whl and an era. That when we come back it would be to a totaly new stadium.

Agreed.

And that is what will happen. I don't believe for one minute that DL or anyone else at the club is trying to minimise the impact of the move, or any other machiavellian explanation. He's just trying to keep all options open for as long as possible. It's his preferred MO.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Look at the size of that stand being buit. Towers over The Lane

 

[NickHSpurs]

I'd have thought it would be the opposite. Make a big song and dance that this was the end of whl and an era. That when we come back it would be to a totaly new stadium.

This. DL is not going to miss a marketing opportunity as big as the last game at WHL. There's no conspiracy theory here, it's just a huge project with a lot of moving parts that they want to make absolutely sure is on schedule before we reach the point of no return.

 

[Phischy]

Think back to when the north stand at the lane (after it was first all-seater) was just one tier with that enormous sort of plexiglass wall behind it... and now we're going to have four walls of blue and white.

 

[JimmyG2]

Can't see anything wrong with
'The Nike Stadium (or whoever) at White Hart Lane: 20 minutes from Liverpool St.'

 

[JimmyG2]

Or:

Nike (or whoever) at White Hart Lane: 20 minutes from Liverpool St. Stadium

Give em a choice.

 

[thebenjamin]

Can't see anything wrong with
'The Nike Stadium (or whoever) at White Hart Lane: 20 minutes from Liverpool St.'

If you're paying hundreds of millions to sponsor a revamped stadium, the absolute last thing you're going to have is any association with the previous name. Everyone would just call it the Lane and you've done your dough.

 

[Led's Zeppelin]

If you're paying hundreds of millions to sponsor a revamped stadium, the absolute last thing you're going to have is any association with the previous name. Everyone would just call it the Lane and you've done your dough.

Sounds good to me.

 

[Lilbaz]

Call it what you want. Nobody can stop you calling it the lane.

 

[worcestersauce]

Funnily enough I don't think I have ever said I am going down the lane about going down the Spurs, going down the lane meant something completely different.
By the way, Wembley is now officially Wembley connected by EE, I am on the EE network and couldn't get a bleeding service on Saturday so much for what things are called.

 

[longtimespur]

Anyone using ssc there are loads of great pictures posted by Bazza, taken from his plane.

Page 1679 there are plenty there, won't post them on here as there are too many.

 

[JimmyG2]

If you're paying hundreds of millions to sponsor a revamped stadium, the absolute last thing you're going to have is any association with the previous name. Everyone would just call it the Lane and you've done your dough.

It was a facetious joke.
However the sponsors don't give diddly what the fans call it.
It's what its official name is on Sky, in the Press, On FA communications.
The fans are also rans in this context and the true fans
will continue to call it what they've always called it.
What ever that is.

Funnily enough I don't think I have ever said I am going down the lane about going down the Spurs, going down the lane meant something completely different.
By the way, Wembley is now officially Wembley connected by EE, I am on the EE network and couldn't get a bleeding service on Saturday so much for what things are called.

Agree
But there is a difference between 'Going down the Lane' which we always called it on Sunday mornings
And ' Going over the Lane ' which is how we referred to going to watch Spurs.
Depends where you lived I suppose

 

[longtimespur]

Anyone using ssc there are loads of great pictures posted by Bazza, taken from his plane.

Page 1679 there are plenty there, won't post them on here as there are too many.

Even looks like a new crane base by Warmington House.

 

[philip]

Anyone using ssc there are loads of great pictures posted by Bazza, taken from his plane.

Page 1679 there are plenty there, won't post them on here as there are too many.

they aren't Bazza's. They're from Spurs.

http://new-stadium.tottenhamhotspur.com/image-gallery/

 

[longtimespur]

they aren't Bazza's. They're from Spurs.

http://new-stadium.tottenhamhotspur.com/image-gallery/

Oops sorry I thought they were his. There as good as each others now then.