- May 5, 2004
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The area behind the West Stand was needed for parking. If they had built on it there would have been nowhere for players and staff to park. The new stadium's got a whole underground car park.Not sure if this has been covered before, but looking at the amount of land between the West Stand and the High Road, rather than demolishing the whole ground and starting again, could we not have just pulled down the West Stand and built a new, much bigger and better-featured West Stand with three tiers? Surely we could have added up to 10,000 seats that way?
Clearly the brand new stadium will have ~15,000 more seats than that might have resulted in, but at a much, much grater cost. I guess Levy et al are banking on the predicted greater commercial profile of the club / new ground increasing our future earning potential above and beyond the extra cost associated with a complete rebuild?