Moonbeams, New Stadium - Page 2

Rosco · 6th January 2008, 3:42pm

I don't really think we need a new stadium considering we have the best in the country and it wasn't long ago that they were talking about lowering the pitch and making it a 57,000 seater. Mind you, it's the Sunday Mail so it's 99.9% bollocks.

Oopsy, i stand corrected, even the Beeb has it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...rs/7173756.stm

Wonder if they copied it from the Sunday Mail.

¡Punk! · 6th January 2008, 3:44pm

Woulldn't surprise me. The Beeb copy stories from a Morton messageboard sometimes

EvilElvis · 6th January 2008, 4:41pm

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Originally Posted by Rosco

I don't really think we need a new stadium considering we have the best in the country and it wasn't long ago that they were talking about lowering the pitch and making it a 57,000 seater. Mind you, it's the Sunday Mail so it's 99.9% bollocks.

Oopsy, i stand corrected, even the Beeb has it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...rs/7173756.stm

Wonder if they copied it from the Sunday Mail.

The Rangers website has info on it - Wonder if they nabbed it off Sunday Mail

http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/p...207470,00.html

Rosco · 6th January 2008, 4:53pm

Aye, probably

. The Sunday Mail is the only one to mention a figure of £700m, which for me seems a mental amount of money to spend on a stadium - did Wembley cost that much and it went WAY over budget.

Zooropa · 6th January 2008, 4:59pm

Bear in mind, this is "one of three" options.

i.e total spin, and is never going to happen.

Semprini · 6th January 2008, 5:05pm

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Originally Posted by Rosco

Aye, probably

. The Sunday Mail is the only one to mention a figure of £700m, which for me seems a mental amount of money to spend on a stadium - did Wembley cost that much and it went WAY over budget.

Going rate for a top of the range stadium is about £1,000 per seat.

EvilElvis · 6th January 2008, 5:08pm

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Originally Posted by Rosco

Aye, probably

. The Sunday Mail is the only one to mention a figure of £700m, which for me seems a mental amount of money to spend on a stadium - did Wembley cost that much and it went WAY over budget.

Wembley was something like £800m - But there was so many delays and problems with it - which explains the cost.

I doubt this plan is going ahead - it's maybe an idea, but I can't see it being more than that.

i_am_blip · 6th January 2008, 5:14pm

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Originally Posted by Rosco

I don't really think we need a new stadium considering we have the best in the country

**djtoast** · 6th January 2008, 5:54pm

ha, that's fucking massive compared to my local team back home in london.

whaddya reckon this seats, thirty or so?

but yeah, a new £700 million pound stadium in Ibrox will not be happening any time soon.

Rosco · 6th January 2008, 5:55pm

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Originally Posted by Zooropa

Bear in mind, this is "one of three" options.

i.e total spin, and is never going to happen.

Aye, i'd be well surprised. I think they'll lower the pitch and put it more seats - that's was talked about and would put the capacity up to 58,000 which is probably about right.

Foxglove · 6th January 2008, 5:59pm

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Originally Posted by djtoast

ha, that's fucking massive compared to my local team back home in london.

whaddya reckon this seats, thirty or so?

but yeah, a new £700 million pound stadium in Ibrox will not be happening any time soon.

That pitch looks better than most league sides.

Jushin Liger · 6th January 2008, 6:20pm

Fir Park and Rugby Park are both in decent areas but they're the exception.

DiamondAFC · 7th January 2008, 2:42pm

Heard terrible joke today.

Heard rangers have lined up 2 stadium sponsors. A mobile phone company and a crisp manufacturer.

Gonna be called the Orange Walker Stadium.

Neil. · 7th January 2008, 2:45pm

Here by the way, whats the moonbeams thing all about?

XMachina · 7th January 2008, 3:56pm

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Originally Posted by Neil.

Here by the way, whats the moonbeams thing all about?

when Paul Le Guen was announced as the next Rangers manager or the family silver was sold to JJB, I am unsure which David Murray predicted 'moonbeams of success'. As we know PLG's reign wasn't. Furthermore, Inter, Madrid and Barce were never in touch about signing Peter Lovenkrands, Murray failed to deliver the 3 'big money' signings McLeish and Rangers fans were promised in the January 2006 transfer window, Le Guen was never getting £15m to spend on new players despite Darryl Broadfoots claims to the contrary and Sydney Govou was not going to sign for Rangers (but he did score a memorable goal at Ibrox so partial credit)

As such a 'moonbeam' is a piece of pro-rangers spin that emanates from Murray himself, the Ibrox pressroom or shoddy journalism. The £700m for a new stadium is considered such because Murray international holdings can't even guarantee the ~£600m debt they're in, never mind double that amount on what is a risky project to say the least.