New Stadium Details And Discussions

[EZSpur]

Omdz! I'm so excited I'm actually researching retractable pitches!!

Seriously though, where would the pitch slide out to - i'm guessing it would go underground, ie under the new apartments, as the artificial pitch is lifted into place?

 

[WalkerboyUK]

There's a better chance of me becoming the President of the United States.

8pm kick off is 3pm EST, 1pm PST.... Not entirely unfeasible, yet highly unlikely.
Mind you, 12 years ago you'd never have considered 2/3 games annually in London.

 

[Riandor]

Excellent...
So by the sounds of it, we play this coming season at existing WHL and then move out until 2018, so 2 years, as expected.

 

[MillerT]

Great news! Surely this will mean we'll be attracting some big name sponsors for naming rights etc...the rumoured interest of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook reported in the telegraph is making me drool!

 

[yankspurs]

We are moving forward as a club boys. Hang on to your hats. Never been more proud. Gotta hand it to ENIC, they've done well here

 

[Gardham90]

What a day!

 

[StockSpur]

61000 Capacity, this is amazing news, is it the game changer weve been waiting for?

Levy looked like the cat who'd got the cream, cleared the cellar of all the mice and rats, then gone out in the garden and caught 3 birds and was given smoked salmon for his tea..

 

[yankspurs]

Great news! Surely this will mean we'll be attracting some big name sponsors for naming rights etc...the rumoured interest of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook reported in the telegraph is making me drool!

Facebook and Zuckerberg can go fuck themselves.

 

[Wick3d]

 

[tobi]

8pm kick off is 3pm EST, 1pm PST.... Not entirely unfeasible, yet highly unlikely.
Mind you, 12 years ago you'd never have considered 2/3 games annually in London.

I didn't think the London games would be a success but the Super Bowl is untouchable, no amount of money will peak their interest to move it outside of America. If someone had the balls to entertain such a thought, God help that person.

 

[razor1981]

Levy confirms plan is for capacity to be "just over 61,000" (at about 0:45 in the video)

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...tenham-hotspur-ink-10year-stadium-partnership

 

[StockSpur]

Superbowl day is a celebration sunday in the states, they probably wont go that far. But who knows, the NFL knows the market outside of the states is huge too..

 

[nicdic]

By the sounds of it the intention within these 10 years is to have at least 8 games being played in London, if not moving a franchise over here.

This is huge news. Great to see the capacity increase confirmed too.

Can't wait to see plans.

 

[lukadownthelane]

There's a better chance of me becoming the President of the United States.

If there's a UK franchise then there will be a UK Super Bowl at some point. I'd bet money on it!

 

[brasil_spur]

Omdz! I'm so excited I'm actually researching retractable pitches!!

Seriously though, where would the pitch slide out to - i'm guessing it would go underground, ie under the new apartments, as the artificial pitch is lifted into place?

Yeh has to be underneath the flats at the south end.

 

[Ohweretheshelfside]

Populous press releae



http://populous.com/news/2015/07/08/club-announcement/

 

[Deeyal]

Woah, don't tell me we're sticking a roof on it as well. Ok, now I'm getting very, very hard.

Positively tenting!

 

[tobi]

"Just over 61k"

Video at the link.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...tenham-hotspur-ink-10year-stadium-partnership

 

[Khilari]

Agreed, got to give the yanks time to wake up, have their coffee and smother their pancakes in maple syrup.

Maple syrup = Canadians.
Not sure what Yanks smother pancakes in. Lard?

 

[Spurger King]

Populous press releae



http://populous.com/news/2015/07/08/club-announcement/

Looks like the report of it being egg-shaped from above was spot on.