www.leeds.gov.uk/arena The Long overdue project is on its way... you can fill in a survey to help influence the arena's design here... https://consult.leeds.gov.uk/leeds/KMS/dmart.aspx

www.leeds.gov.uk/arena The Long overdue project is on its way... you can fill in a survey to help influence the arena's design here... https://consult.leeds.gov.uk/leeds/KMS/dmart.aspx

cheers for this link Rainbow, i agree it is long over due and I have completed survey

Great. Cannot wait to visit when it is built. Think thats when the return of the Kaiser Chiefs will be

Thats sounds like a good reason not to build it to me

My prediction is the the opening night will be The Who....

You mean Pete Townsend,Roger Daltrey and 2 other geezers!

WHO ?

Exactly.... The Who

The Who ??

the fan arrangement looks good although wont this limit its use to concert and theatre productions? it could never accommodate sports such as basketball or ice hockey

Was not designed for such things, most arenas are used 80-90% for Music and Performance yet have bad acoustics and visualisation due to the fact they where built for sport. Its very similar to the O2 (Dublin)....

Ice hockey is rubbish in a large arena anyway, you're too far away to even feel cold in a large arena let alone see the puck or feel the punches.

Whitley Bay ice rink was superb for ice hockey, a small old fashioned ice rink where the spectators sat within a few yards of the ice and you could be guaranteed that a stray puck would end up in the crowd at least three or four times a night, I know someone who had their cheekbone broken in such a way and he'd actually paid for the ticket



Its a great game in a small arena where the noise from the crowd is deafening, in a large arena its just sterile.

A lot of the "old guard" say the same thing about the atmosphere of the old ice stadium down here to the new arena. I've only watched hockey at the new place and it can be a bit sterile at times. However, I've also watched games where the atmosphere has been electric. I suppose it's down to how many people you get in there compared to the number of seats.

Start queuing for tickets now adam

and me!

More accurate methinks.

British ice hockey is on it's anyway at the moment. Most of the teams in the elite league are struggling financially and those that started out playing in the big arenas have now either moved out (Manchester are now playing at a 4,000 capacity arena in Altrinham) or planning to move out (Sheffield are leaving the arena to play in Rotherham). Ice hockey teams can rarely make a 12,000 seat arena viable these days.

To say I queued for Elland Road tickets and got number one and two thanks

I remember going to watch the Storm at the MEN and they had just short of 20k there and were regularly averaging 10k at home games

Quote ="RainbowRhino"www.leeds.gov.uk/arena The Long overdue project is on its way... you can fill in a survey to help influence the arena's design here... https://consult.leeds.gov.uk/leeds/KMS/dmart.aspx'" Long over due for us to have our own arena, im still abit undecided with the current design right now!

Quote ="RainbowRhino"www.leeds.gov.uk/arena The Long overdue project is on its way... you can fill in a survey to help influence the arena's design here... https://consult.leeds.gov.uk/leeds/KMS/dmart.aspx'" Long over due for us to have our own arena, im still abit undecided with the current design right now!

Sincerely hope it's not one pf Leeds City Councils usual white elephants.

Nope, its going ahead theyve been working on the construction of the old site for the last few months now.

its an arena we want, not a roman style battle theatre

That'd be great and instead of christians we could use students!!!!