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Post by Reverend on Jan 21, 2004 11:28:06 GMT 1
After listening to Cllr Armstrong on Shropshire radio, plus reading Cllr Fox's letters in local papers it is quite clear to me that the council is trying quite hard to back the club into a corner over the GM and get them to move into a council owned stadium. Forgive me if my memory fails me but I believe there were some clever people who post on this and the rivals board who had collected info on clubs who have council owned stadia and how this had affected those clubs, at the moment I can't think of any club who don't have a multi millionaire at the helm, that exists sucessfully in this situation? I was just a thought if those of you who had this info might feel persuaded to write to the local press to denounce the idea once and for all, imagine if we has such a place, 6000 seats, bland neutral colours and no extra revenue making facilities for the club, shudder, what a nightmare!!!!!
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Post by Daviimo on Jan 21, 2004 12:11:44 GMT 1
With a bit of an athletics track, one 6000 seater stand running the length of the pitch, oh what a nightmare!
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Post by ProfessorPatPending on Jan 21, 2004 13:20:23 GMT 1
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Post by MRJPSHREW on Jan 21, 2004 13:25:12 GMT 1
At least it's officially out in the open. It would be the finish of us
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Post by tim gallon on Jan 21, 2004 13:48:54 GMT 1
i didnt hear the radio interview but the reporting of this in the star doesnt indicate a council owned stadium in the making, in fact the following exert indicates Oteley road as the preferred site: "According to Councillor Charles Armstrong, borough portfolio holder for sport and leisure, a group of councillors still wanted to see the council's sports village and theatre plans combined with Shrewsbury Town Football Club's project to build a new stadium in Oteley Road." maybe the star have got it all wrong i dont know?. the cynical side of me says that this a ploy by the tories to use against an application for housing at the gay meadow to claim that determination of that application would be "premature" in advance of the council deciding whether to build its own stadium and develop the GM as a theatre. whats the latest with the gay meadow application anyway, guess we'll know in "a couple of weeks"
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jan 21, 2004 13:57:18 GMT 1
I was just a thought if those of you who had this info might feel persuaded to write to the local press to denounce the idea once and for all, imagine if we has such a place, 6000 seats, bland neutral colours and no extra revenue making facilities for the club, shudder, what a nightmare!!!!! I'm wondering where the extra revenue for the club is going to come from anyway with the New Meadow, given that there hasn't been any offers for the additional land at Oteley Road.
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Post by Reverend on Jan 21, 2004 14:05:36 GMT 1
Definatley a cloncil owned complex, it would solve many of their sports facilities shortage problems, and as such they could claim many grants, though it seems the prefered place still at the moment is Smithfield Road, its going to take a lot of money there to solve the flooding problems, the GM is a lot cheaper to make flood proof.
A council owned stadium just can't make economical sense, paying out for the lease year after year, money down the drain!!!!!!!! never mind not being able to have all the facilities that the Club need to make the extra revenue the club is crying out for, ie; Bars, conference facilities, pitches hired out to local clubs, i'm sure we could come up with more ideas.
If it was viable surely the club would have snatched their arms off?
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jan 21, 2004 14:30:51 GMT 1
it's a silly idea from a bunch of silly people
STFC will NEVER swap a freehold on a £12million piece of land for a leasehold on a cacky stadium
Tories are doing it for political point scoring against directors of STFC
There is no viability of any stadium in the town without STFC. The suggestion is we share with the rugby club, who have gates in the low hundreds if that
the municipal stadium is just another ploy, just ignore them, our board certainly will
in terms fo this article though, the suggestion is that STFC can build it's own ground on oteley road. The council build their theatre, and both projects look like they have done the work, the new football ground becomes their achievement for the people of shrewsbury, paid for by the sale of GM and gives them further land on oteley road that they ened to fulfill their obligations for leisure facilities
basically they come back years after we asked, say yes, and then take the credit. If we get our new ground I don't care who gets the credit.
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Post by petetheloon on Jan 21, 2004 14:50:32 GMT 1
I think a musical stadium sounds like a good idea as long as it plays a bit of barry manilow every now and then
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