LONDON - Twickenham Stadium (82,000)

[manicants2004]

Does anyone know how many seats the stadium will have for general sale once it is completed?

Wembley will only have 71,500k as I managed to find out that the corporate seats total 18,500. I never realised but there will be some blocks on the lower tier as well, adjacent to the Royal box.

I reckon because of that, once Twickenham is completed, it will be deserving of the largest capacity stadia in the UK.

[CharlieP]

The RFU sold a lot of ten year debentures to help fund the new stands - I have no idea how many though.

[Durbsboi]

Originally Posted by eddyk

Durbsboi.... This ....will become....

Thanx for clearing that up for me EddyK, looks really good.

[Durbsboi]

Originally Posted by Jack Rabbit Slim

Won't that big TV screen at the top of that stand block some people's view?

no it should be part of the stand...like ellis park in joburg SA, other wise they would have hung it on the roof like Sta denis in Paris.

[CharlieP]

[The Hunted]

When will the next tier be ready?

[kingdomca]

Originally Posted by manicants2004

Does anyone know how many seats the stadium will have for general sale once it is completed?

Wembley will only have 71,500k as I managed to find out that the corporate seats total 18,500. I never realised but there will be some blocks on the lower tier as well, adjacent to the Royal box.

I reckon because of that, once Twickenham is completed, it will be deserving of the largest capacity stadia in the UK.

I dont think its 18,000 corporate seats at Wembley. That figure includes club seats doesnt it, but though there will no doubt be some corporate guests who dont care much about the game others do as do those who buy expensive club seats.

Its still the United Kingdom and not United Socialist Utopia. Wealthy people can atually follow sports.

[kingdomca]

Originally Posted by Iain1974

I rememebr in 1991 when the RFU were awash with cash there was a newspaper article proposing adding a tier around the 3 sections bringing Twickers to 120,000. Pie in the Sky apparently. I wish I had the picture to post but sadly it's long gone.

Which "3 sections"? You mean reaching 120,000 by adding another tier to the 3 big sides and then without developing the south stand?

I am sure they dont have any such plans, even in the long term, or they would have made the current development bigger as well.

Would be amazing though, as 120-130,000 isnt beyond what they could fill and with the quite flat lower tier it does seem to be built in a way where its possible to go higher whithout getting ridiculous.

Perhaps they should just sell Wembley to Chelsea and use the money to expand Twickenham to 130,000 as a football + rugby national stadium.

(and yes I do know thats not going to happen)

[Iain1974]

Originally Posted by kingdomca

Which "3 sections"? You mean reaching 120,000 by adding another tier to the 3 big sides and then without developing the south stand?

I am sure they dont have any such plans, even in the long term, or they would have made the current development bigger as well.

Would be amazing though, as 120-130,000 isnt beyond what they could fill and with the quite flat lower tier it does seem to be built in a way where its possible to go higher whithout getting ridiculous.

Perhaps they should just sell Wembley to Chelsea and use the money to expand Twickenham to 130,000 as a football + rugby national stadium.

(and yes I do know thats not going to happen)

Yeah, thats how I remember it. Perhaps it included the South stand too. Would have been great but building up that high would probably not make financial sense.

I can vaguely remember seeing the artists impression in the Telegraph but it was too long ago for me to be much more specific than remembering the number of 120,000.

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

Has anyone got any pics of how the construction work is coming along??? A few weeks ago the thread was overloaded with updated photos, and now it seems to have pittered out a bit...what's goin on??

[victory]

Looking good.

To those who say it looks ugly on the outside, i say...

unlike women, all that matters with stadiums is whats on the inside.

[Madman]

Some 6 March Pics







http://www.rfu.com/microsites/twickenham/index.cfm

[Durbsboi]

thanx for the updates Madman

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

Yer, nice pics there Madman! Have you got any from the inside of the stadium, looking at the new stand?

[Madman]

well they're from the RFU so you'll have to ask them! I imagine the next update or the one after will have some decent views from within the stadium?...

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

After a lengthy wait, the RFU website has finally updated its webcam pictures from Twickenham. It's strange that they have only included one day from the whole of March (the 16th) to show the progress.

Anyway, the South stand development as it is today, 4th April:

[eddyk]

Much done in a month.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Jack Rabbit Slim

Wow, i knew of the facilites, such as the hotel and conference centre, they were going to include in the South Stand but it looks mighty deep there, in fact huge!

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

Yer, I was thinking that!

[CharlieP]

No new construction photos on the website, but there's an animation showing what it will look like:

http://www.rfu.com/debentures/animation_index.cfm