Liquid Gold
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So free tickets are alright even though you increase the attendance?
Sky Sports saying 5 clubs would groundshare (1 Viewer)
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Nick
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Only if you are a nonce
SkyBlue_Bear83
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I’m finished with the club if we have another groundshare
BigadamL
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chiefdave
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Not an issue if they know before the fixtures are compiled. Would just alternate weeks.
Liquid Gold
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I think the point is that they alternate Saturdays so that only one of them is at home on any one day. I don't think WMP would be keen on having us playing at St Andrews the same day Villa are at home etc.
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee
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I keep seeing people saying ‘I’m done with the club if we have another ground share’. What does this even mean? What is ‘done’? You won’t follow them again? For arguments sake, I’m not here to argue about the likelihood of it happening, we groundshare at Walsall, we build a ground and move in in three years, and end up back in the championship, are you still done? Or are you done because you want to throw your toys out the pram? I get being pissed off about it, I get not going, I don’t get the hyperbole of dramatising your lack of future support* (*subject to us not being good again).
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Nick
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Were people done at Wembley after a ground share?
skybluegod
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Why jump that far ahead how about the first game back at the Ricoh
Liquid Gold
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Blues fans think they're one and seem pretty happy about helping us out
Terry_dactyl
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My dad was ‘done’ with cov when we moved to the Ricoh...it meant he couldn’t walk up to games anymore and he didn’t fancy paying for parking. Cheap, Lazy, pompey supporting git.
He’d probably go to St. Andrews cos he could get the train...if he didn’t now live in Pompey and have a season ticket at fratton Park. Pompey supporting git.
stevefloyd
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We haven't really recovered from the last time we played at Northampton, the amount of fans we lost lots of them have never returned, what the fuck is wrong with the corrupt fucking shite council, I thought they supposed to serve the community instead of feathering their own nest with piles of corrupt money ....allegedly
stevefloyd
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The only problem about parking if we play at Blues is the little bleeders holding their hands out to 'look after your car' and the overzealous police
fernandopartridge
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Our average home gate in 2012/13 was just under 11k. It was 12.5k in 2015/16. I think we've lost some fans but not that many, I think the Northampton move is one of many reasons why people don't go.
NorthernWisdom
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Yeah, a natural decline in our level will mean a natural decline in our fan base.
That being said, perversely, after we moved to Northampton, we probably needed to be away for longer, to make coming back more of an event, make people appreciate more what they'd lost - and gain a whole new fan base above and beyond thsose who'd been put off.
The club will be finished without a groundshare, as it stands.
I can get that. Having lived a long way from Coventry for nearly 20 years and not being able to go to matches (missing “the entertainers years”) on my return to the midlands I couldn’t miss a match. Hence a season ticket holder at Sixfields.
Playing passing football on a rugby pitch hasn't helped us but does give an advantage to the more agricultural 'direct' teams. So if we can actually play home games on a football pitch it would help our style of play. I can't see me going to grounds in the Birmingham area but may make the trip to Rugby town F.C.
Dimi_Konstantflapalot
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Yeah definitely agree, the Ricoh pitch really hinders the way we want to play as it's so difficult to move the ball quickly and accurately which gives the opposition more time to press and close us down, which is exactly what Oxford did last week
RegTheDonk
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Recall years ago it was usually us, blues and wba would play at home while villa, wolves and Walsall would be away don't know if this was a police and league agreement.
Sky Blue Harry H
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Burton Albion have said they will ground share
Capacity 6912 (of which away fans ???we've taken 2k IIRC?) so that means maximum CCFC can have is just under 5k?,
If we are 'forced out' (without going through all the 'drop the legals' argument), I would be tempted, although it would be a bit of a ball ache getting there.
That said - I want a Ricoh agreement, please!
Have thought about it (for a few more seconds!) and this is likely to put pressure on Wasps, and SISU will be happy to hope they struggle financially, whilst the EFL will be happy not to have to get too involved. Interested to see if they impose a time limit on it, though?
Capacity 6912 (of which away fans ???we've taken 2k IIRC?) so that means maximum CCFC can have is just under 5k?,
If we are 'forced out' (without going through all the 'drop the legals' argument), I would be tempted, although it would be a bit of a ball ache getting there.
That said - I want a Ricoh agreement, please!
Have thought about it (for a few more seconds!) and this is likely to put pressure on Wasps, and SISU will be happy to hope they struggle financially, whilst the EFL will be happy not to have to get too involved. Interested to see if they impose a time limit on it, though?
Have to be honest, I wouldn't go, not for political reasons but just because I think it would be shit. I like to go back over to my home City, that's part of the attraction for me.
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It now appears that one of those five clubs has been confirmed as Burton Albion, after Brewers chairman Ben Robinson told the Derby Telegraph: “When we played Coventry recently, the question about using our stadium was discussed.
“We said that myself and the manager (Nigel Clough) would take a positive look at it.”
Burton’s Pirelli Stadium, which has a capacity of just under 7,000, is located approximately 43 miles from Coventry.
Footballleagueworld.co.uk is the source, but it destroyed my phone browser!
“We said that myself and the manager (Nigel Clough) would take a positive look at it.”
Burton’s Pirelli Stadium, which has a capacity of just under 7,000, is located approximately 43 miles from Coventry.
Footballleagueworld.co.uk is the source, but it destroyed my phone browser!
chiefdave
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that would explain why the never previously mentioned 50 mile limit suddenly appeared.
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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If this becomes a reality the attendances will be fewer than Northampton . I won't go except to away matches. Sadly it'll be NOPM from me and if it harms the club I couldn't care.
Sky Blue Harry H
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What about when we play Burton away?
Otis
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Don't be daft. If we are sharing the same ground we can't both play at the same time can we.
Nick
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Drinking competition of warm Carling to see who gets the home end
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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By then we'll be called Wakefield 1883 and be playing in purple and red.
