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It couldn’t. As Dave says there were loads of plans looked at and the ground needed a ton of work. It’s not like the club never looked at expanding HR. Adding another 5k people to the local infrastructure alone would have been difficult. IIRC Keane was always due to go after one season and...

No the Ricoh is significantly more accessible than HR for anything other than walking from town. I get it: jumpers for goal posts, hmm? bovril, rattles? Marvellous. But as a club with Premier League ambitions just not fit for purpose. How the club came to give away their stake in a stadium has...

i think the fact it coincided with the decline of the club soured people on it. Missing the promotion season with Covid didn’t help either but we’ve shown the last couple of years with a bit of on field success it can produce a great atmosphere.

I think you have to phrase it as a question to the cabinet. So “Does the leader agree that Kevin Maton is a massive bellend?” Should be OK.

It just wasn’t a goer really. That’s why the club was helped to find a new ground (same as the rugby club, ice hockey and basketball teams - though the crusaders turned the SkyDome down).

The city still owns it.

But the city did build the Ricoh?

There was no ability to expand HR. The local infrastructure couldn’t handle it and permission would never have been granted.

It was a shit tip. Ages to get in and out, no chance of parking, half the football happened behind a pillar and quiet as a graveyard most games. I’m convinced the people who romanticise HR spent all their time in the west terrace, which was great if you were in there but pretty much inaudible...

Some public money (and far too much) goes into US stadia, but they are often privately owned and ridiculously expensive (some in the billions of dollars) I’m not sure they’re who we should be looking to!

He’s disabled his account. If it’s Twitter it says account suspended usually. He did this a little bit back too. Adds to the mystique.

We weren’t a Championship club really. The plans were in progress while we were in the Prem. Us not going back up as expected was definitely the problem though. HR was at capacity and wasn’t really fit for a Premier League club and nearly 10k is a significant bump in capacity and gave the city...

Not explicitly no.

CEO, whatever. He’s the man who seems to run the club day to day is what I mean. Sisu seem to always have been about funding the club and leaving them to it.

Boddy said it’s still the plan in his recent CT interview I think.

Boddy? He’s the Chairman after all

Cabinet positions for loyalty rather than competence sadly. There were a couple on each side who could string a sentence together but overall it needs people who aren’t complete weirdos to do the hard yards in local politics and only psychos and weirdos manage to sit through years of meetings...

Today (well yesterday) in SBT: Simone Barone is better than Messi cos he won more World Cups.

They’d need 10k if they want back in the Premiership.

Gilbert let it slip in a reply. Also it’s bloody obvious from his posting style.