I can understand lowering the pitch, but a "semi-circular" stand? How the hell would that work?

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So in that case Arsenal have the wrong name and should move back to Woolwich, Chelsea should move to Chelsea or rename to Fulham II, etc.
The point is we've been at Selhurst Park nearly 90 years so more or less 9 times longer than Crystal Palace Park or anywhere else so I think by now you can safely say it's our home.

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That is a journey and a half. It raises a key question concerning the location of the stadium - where do Palace supporters live? I suspect that if you had a heat map from 1972 and now you would see that the first one was tightly packed around Norwood and Croydon. A present one is likely to show tat support has spread very widely. Palace must have this data from their membership and season ticket sales. It would be interesting to know what proportion of support now travels from outside Croydon.

I did a poll on the BBS 823 fan's responded to where they live. Just 16% live in Croydon.

Edited by Halfwayline (22 Apr 2014 7.38pm)

That is an astonishingly small %. It begs the question of whether the club is drawing in support from the local community or is simply relying on next generation of exist g supporters. If we rely on people travelling a long way then any stadium must be close to a mainline station or major road junction.
But that % of local support has to grow or the clubs long term future is very bleak.

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That's the defining argument from my perspective. We've been at Selhurst for nearly a century. That's much more like "home" to me than the park.

I mean it's not a massive problem for me either way, because at the end of the day, the club's area is not restricted to Thornton Heath/South Norwood/Croydon.

Streatham, Norbury, Upper and West Norwood, Penge, etc - it's still all local to our club IMO.

But our stadium has been "home" since the 1920s. It's a historic ground in the middle of a built up area - the classic English football ground. And it's ours. I wouldn't want to trade it in for something like the Amex, in the middle of a huge park.

On a selfish level I love living very close to the ground but tbf when living in Streatham and Tulse Hill I still loved making the short journey to Selhurst, the pubs near the ground, just the whole ritual really.

People talking about Selhurst being difficult to get to, as an argument for moving to the park, I don't really get. I don't see how the park is more easily accessible to people. Especially those living south of the area. But also those coming from north of the river and beyond. Ten minutes to Norwood Junction from London Bridge. About twenty minutes from Victoria to Thornton Heath.

Did read a while back that cp park idea is dead and buried and we were looking at redeveloping sp with a school behind main stand and sainsburys involved to, i for one would like to stay at selhurst as im one of the 16 per cent and with lots coming from south of coulsdon and sutton way i would say about a good third to half of all support comes from croydon and surrounding areas, i would like a villa park type stadia like eastender, four different style stands2,3 and 4 tiers, but as i said, think we are staying so should get used to it!

CPP is now within the London Borough of Bromley so it has a BR postcode, not an SE one. I don't think it matters a jot mind you, and it still has a London telephone number (020.

Edited by SloveniaDave (22 Apr 2014 9.29pm)

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