Current Ibrox Stadium Problems and Future Redevelopments

DavyBlue said:
These guys were always blowing their own trumpet ! :D

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Absolute legends, the lot of them.

A few well kent faces scattered through that photo.
 
Harbour Bear said:
The white beams on top of the club deck - That is the blackest I have ever seen them.

Do we not employ a full time stadium manager to look after things like exterior prosthetics?

Sanding, power washing, painting - basic maintenance not being looked after.
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There are weeds growing out of the top of our main entrance they won’t sort.

I don’t think there’s any chance this current board will sanction cleaning beams.
 
For anyone wondering about the new Copland Rear cantilever and stadium capacity gain, Rangers have reported the new capacity figure as bang on 51,700. This is 713 seats and 30 new disabled access seats that have been added as the previous capacity reported in Rangers Annual Report was 50,987.

I thought the new capacity figure was 51,587 but it looks like the club has managed to install more seats than previously thought. One positive to take away despite the £17.2 million loss!

 
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Nacho Novo said:
For anyone wondering about the new Copland Rear cantilever and stadium capacity gain, Rangers have reported the new capacity figure as bang on 51,700. This is 713 seats and 30 new disabled access seats that have been added as the previous capacity reported in Rangers Annual Report was 50,987.

I thought the new capacity figure was 51,587 but it looks like the club has managed to install more seats than previously thought. One positive to take away despite the £17.2 million loss!

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Are the extra seats not the back of Copland front 1 and Copland front 5 where the disabled platform was originally going to extend to?
 
Had a trip home earlier in the year, weather was shite and dreary so perhaps it didn't help.
I thought the Stadium exterior looked completely rundown, from the stands to the tarmac around them.
Things outwith Rangers control too, walking up Govan road (from Plantation), Whitefield Rd, Fairley St, Copland Rd the whole area has turned into an absolute shithole. Sad to see.
Wondering if the Parkhead area has decayed so much
 
AlbertaBlue said:
Had a trip home earlier in the year, weather was shite and dreary so perhaps it didn't help.
I thought the Stadium exterior looked completely rundown, from the stands to the tarmac around them.
Things outwith Rangers control too, walking up Govan road (from Plantation), Whitefield Rd, Fairley St, Copland Rd the whole area has turned into an absolute shithole. Sad to see.
Wondering if the Parkhead area has decayed so much
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Despite the area around Parkhead being a dump, they have the addition of the Emirates Arena and help from Glasgow City Council to renovate the area around the stadium surrounds.

Ibrox on the other hand you've hit the nail on the head, it's exactly how most fans see it these days. The stadium looks tired and the area around the stadium is desolate. Sections of empty land infront of and to the rear of the stadium. Potholes around the stadium are unbelievable. One bonus was building New Edmiston House to modernise that section of the ground.
 
Gringotts Dragon said:
Are the extra seats not the back of Copland front 1 and Copland front 5 where the disabled platform was originally going to extend to?
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Honestly not sure, not unless Rangers never intended to renovate these sections in the first place? Very strange to have done the others but left these out. Maybe something to do with having restricted views?
 
iain18(7)2 said:
Main stand exterior mosaics need sorted. I’m not going to go stop going on about it. Absolutely disgraceful that we’ve let this happen to our home. The year we are supposed to be celebrating the place as well. Looks so neglected.
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When visiting the museum earlier this month, walking around the outside of the stadium without the crowds for the first time in a while, it looked really run down, neglected and filthy. Your home is your biggest asset and it should be taken care of. The ultras stickers everywhere just add to the rundown look. They were even stuck around the blue gates between the Main Stand and Copland.
 
Mendez said:
When visiting the museum earlier this month, walking around the outside of the stadium without the crowds for the first time in a while, it looked really run down, neglected and filthy. Your home is your biggest asset and it should be taken care of. The ultras stickers everywhere just add to the rundown look. They were even stuck around the blue gates between the Main Stand and Copland.
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It’s very sad.

I remember during the 80s welcoming people to Ibrox with pride at our state of the art stadium that had retained its listed building main stand.

Now, the surrounds of the stadium remind me of some European hovels I’ve visited in the past, grateful that we had Ibrox as our home. Tarmac with massive potholes, graffiti and stickers everywhere, weeds growing through the concrete and brickwork, rubbush and junk ly8ng around, lighting still from the 1980s and the grubbiest I have ever known our stadium to be , inside and out.
 
deBoersHeader said:
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it.

The current custodians care more for their blazers than they do Ibrox and the fans.

Not fit for purpose.
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The fact we're still recovering from millions of pounds of losses might keep the blazers from spunking their pennies on asphalt, tar and pressure washers mate. A few more pressing issues need addressed first.
 
Alfie shhh! said:
The fact we're still recovering from millions of pounds of losses might keep the blazers from spunking their pennies on asphalt, tar and pressure washers mate. A few more pressing issues need addressed first.
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Ask the guy with pins in his arm from a pothole how he feels about that.

The potholes have been there for years and they had spray painted them to be sorted but nothing ever happened.

Plenty of wages wasted on dross instead of looking after the stadium.

There can be no more excuses for how the club is ran.
 
deBoersHeader said:
Ask the guy with pins in his arm from a pothole how he feels about that.

The potholes have been there for years and they had spray painted them to be sorted but nothing ever happened.

Plenty of wages wasted on dross instead of looking after the stadium.

There can be no more excuses for how the club is ran.
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Who the fack ends up with pins in his arms because of a pothole? :)) Was he unicycling to Ibrox?

Only kidding brother. I still think there's slightly more pressing issues needing addressed. May I suggest you get down there and fill those craters up as a favour to the club?
 
Got lost in the accounts thread but the sale the Albion car park was confirmed by James Taylor for £1 million.

I thought this had been shelved as the previous company we partnered with went bust?
 
Careca said:
Got lost in the accounts thread but the sale the Albion car park was confirmed by James Taylor for £1 million.

I thought this had been shelved as the previous company we partnered with went bust?
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It wasn’t the whole carpark was it? a section at the back?
 
Careca said:
Got lost in the accounts thread but the sale the Albion car park was confirmed by James Taylor for £1 million.

I thought this had been shelved as the previous company we partnered with went bust?
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a million quid for at least 40% of our car park really is desperation stages, successive regimes in charge of our club really have gone out of their way to leave the club hamstrung by the failure to land bank around the stadium footprint through the years, 1 million quid is absolutely pitiful for what we are giving up and all points to anything being up for sale for a small price
 
deBoersHeader said:
Ask the guy with pins in his arm from a pothole how he feels about that.

The potholes have been there for years and they had spray painted them to be sorted but nothing ever happened.

Plenty of wages wasted on dross instead of looking after the stadium.

There can be no more excuses for how the club is ran.
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The excuse we constantly hear for the boards refusal to tidy up the surrounds of the stadium is “ we need to improve the team first”.

We’ve heard it for years. There’s zero excuse for the mess the surrounds of our stadium has become.

It needs sorted, it’s a stain on our club, our fan base and our history.

How much would it cost to level and re tarmac outside the stadium and install modern lighting fit fir purpose in place? Certainly a lot less than we paid for Ingamane.
 
Cloudburst said:
The excuse we constantly hear for the boards refusal to tidy up the surrounds of the stadium is “ we need to improve the team first”.

We’ve heard it for years. There’s zero excuse for the mess the surrounds of our stadium has become.

It needs sorted, it’s a stain on our club, our fan base and our history.

How much would it cost to level and re tarmac outside the stadium and install modern lighting fit fir purpose in place? Certainly a lot less than we paid for Ingamane.
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I think you'd probably be at least looking at the cost of Igmane to do it all.
 
Cloudburst said:
The excuse we constantly hear for the boards refusal to tidy up the surrounds of the stadium is “ we need to improve the team first”.

We’ve heard it for years. There’s zero excuse for the mess the surrounds of our stadium has become.

It needs sorted, it’s a stain on our club, our fan base and our history.

How much would it cost to level and re tarmac outside the stadium and install modern lighting fit fir purpose in place? Certainly a lot less than we paid for Ingamane.
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We should simply employ some wee lassies to bucket collect for a few weeks. Would rather the money was going to the upkeep of Ibrox than some fat maws burger habit.
 
Cloudburst said:
The excuse we constantly hear for the boards refusal to tidy up the surrounds of the stadium is “ we need to improve the team first”.

We’ve heard it for years. There’s zero excuse for the mess the surrounds of our stadium has become.

It needs sorted, it’s a stain on our club, our fan base and our history.

How much would it cost to level and re tarmac outside the stadium and install modern lighting fit fir purpose in place? Certainly a lot less than we paid for Ingamane.
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The retired couple who sit behind me in the Copland Rear had to go to the ticket office recently to sort his cards out. While walking round the guys wife fell into in one of these pot holes and skint all her face breaking her 2 front teeth at the same time. A couple of ladies came to her aid but all Rangers asked when she reported it was if anyone had witnessed it and the hole would be dealt with.

They went back round last Thursday night before the game and guess what...the hole is still there.

There is a difference between aesthetics and health & safety and it is only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.
 
bemersydebear said:
The retired couple who sit behind me in the Copland Rear had to go to the ticket office recently to sort his cards out. While walking round the guys wife fell into in one of these pot holes and skint all her face breaking her 2 front teeth at the same time. A couple of ladies came to her aid but all Rangers asked when she reported it was if anyone had witnessed it and the hole would be dealt with.

They went back round last Thursday night before the game and guess what...the hole is still there.

There is a difference between aesthetics and health & safety and it is only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.
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What an absolute disgraceful story. Typical of us though.
 
yosser hughes said:
a million quid for at least 40% of our car park really is desperation stages, successive regimes in charge of our club really have gone out of their way to leave the club hamstrung by the failure to land bank around the stadium footprint through the years, 1 million quid is absolutely pitiful for what we are giving up and all points to anything being up for sale for a small price
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That's absolutely laughable if true. £1 million for half the car park whilst Rangers are actively looking for car park space for fans with Glasgow City Council's parking restrictions on matchdays making fans park further away from the stadium.

What happens to fans with wheelchairs who currently have passes for the car park or hospitality clients, probably Rangers mantra to see who can pay the most money gets a space.

I would have expected something like £10 million for the sale of the car park, £1 million is just laughable.
 
bemersydebear said:
The retired couple who sit behind me in the Copland Rear had to go to the ticket office recently to sort his cards out. While walking round the guys wife fell into in one of these pot holes and skint all her face breaking her 2 front teeth at the same time. A couple of ladies came to her aid but all Rangers asked when she reported it was if anyone had witnessed it and the hole would be dealt with.

They went back round last Thursday night before the game and guess what...the hole is still there.

There is a difference between aesthetics and health & safety and it is only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.
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This has been a safety issue for years but it’s got worse and worse. Also the lack of proper lighting as we come into winter months is beyond a disgrace.

Asking fans to traverse a landscape akin to the moon in the pitch black is totally unacceptable and tells its own story about the current board.

We have always until recent years had a bit of pride about Ibrox. How much is peoples safety worth? Why isn’t the area around the immediate stadium walls paved or properly tarmacadamed? Why isn’t the approach to the ground from the subway properly lit? It could look great a welcome to the stadium appeal , instead it’s a case of put on your torch and try and avoid massive craters on your way up the approach to the stadium.
 
Finally, a new update!

Had been calling for pop-up merchandise outlets to be positioned around the exterior of Ibrox on matchdays for years and now we finally have them.

Not everyone has time on their hands to look about the club shop before games so it's ideal for those that will be passing a stall on their way to the turnstiles. Hopefully more will be positioned in the coming weeks around the other three stands.

Would also like to see Rangers sell food and drink using stalls outside the ground as well so that the money comes back into the club, rather than money being lost to other vendors within the stadium surrounds. Also like that one kiosk in the Club Deck, we should have more places to buy merchandise throughout the other stands as well. Like I say not everybody has the time before games to go out their way to buy things. It's much easier to buy merchandise if it was sold at kiosks or stalls inside/outside the stadium.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1911761105900253188
 
Nacho Novo said:
Finally, a new update!

Had been calling for pop-up merchandise outlets to be positioned around the exterior of Ibrox on matchdays for years and now we finally have them.

Not everyone has time on their hands to look about the club shop before games so it's ideal for those that will be passing a stall on their way to the turnstiles. Hopefully more will be positioned in the coming weeks around the other three stands.

Would also like to see Rangers sell food and drink using stalls outside the ground as well so that the money comes back into the club, rather than money being lost to other vendors within the stadium surrounds. Also like that one kiosk in the Club Deck, we should have more places to buy merchandise throughout the other stands as well. Like I say not everybody has the time before games to go out their way to buy things. It's much easier to buy merchandise if it was sold at kiosks or stalls inside/outside the stadium.

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Brilliant!, did we not have a pop up shop in the days of Advocaat citca 99/2000, just outside EH?
 
Nacho Novo said:
Finally, a new update!

Had been calling for pop-up merchandise outlets to be positioned around the exterior of Ibrox on matchdays for years and now we finally have them.

Not everyone has time on their hands to look about the club shop before games so it's ideal for those that will be passing a stall on their way to the turnstiles. Hopefully more will be positioned in the coming weeks around the other three stands.

Would also like to see Rangers sell food and drink using stalls outside the ground as well so that the money comes back into the club, rather than money being lost to other vendors within the stadium surrounds. Also like that one kiosk in the Club Deck, we should have more places to buy merchandise throughout the other stands as well. Like I say not everybody has the time before games to go out their way to buy things. It's much easier to buy merchandise if it was sold at kiosks or stalls inside/outside the stadium.

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They normally pull them out when the weather is nicer as no one wants to stand in the cold, wind and rain unprotected and pick up wet stuff.
 
Where is the sense in moving footfall from a building that was literally built to have a club shop within it?

I think it’s a bit daft to have a pop up shop for merchandise. Short sighted for me.
 
Was there not a Castore van type arrangement previously, pretty much in the exact same place?
So this is more of a replacement for that?

As has been said many times, I hope the new owners invest a bit in the stadium footprint. Fix the access pavements, flatten some of the area and make it more inviting as a place to gather pre match to complement NEH. Get the bar open in the old shop site and encourage people to spend money.

I don't know how feasible but would close the road access around the stadium for cars, and find a way of channelling the Argyle House carpark so that there is a pedestrian area all around the stadium.
 
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