27-03-2022, 10:24 PM
(27-03-2022, 08:37 PM)Pompey_in_Derby Wrote: Pompey remain a much bigger club than either scum or Brighton - traditionally our capacity was 50% higher than scum's and even allowing for Pompey's relative economic decline, we still have the potential to exceed their capacity by at least 25%........ meaning a 40k Fratton Park should be viable...... eventually!
Of course, it'll take a long time to redevelop FP and the long-term key to reaching 40k surely has to involve turning the ground around by 90 degrees........ and talk of the electricity sub station ruling that ambition out is nonsense...... it'll cost a handful of million to sort out which is peanuts in the overall scheme of things if we take a long-term view!
Now that's the sort of vision stuff I like to see.
I did a piece of work a while ago that looked at what was euphemistically called "Greater Pompey" which went from bandit country in the West, up to north of Petersfield, across to Midhurst and then down to the coast beyond Bognor. That is the club's natural catchment area and with a suitable capacity there is the opportunity to target schools and families across the area to get them to come to their club and the City.
Vision plus some "means", that is all that is needed.
The Eisners have the "means", but.....