One of TF's threats over the last few months has been for the club to groundshare with a club nearby either until ACL drop their stance or until the club builds a new ground. A (relatively) recent precedent for this is Brighton-who aren't doing so bad now, so could it actually work?
1. BHA were booted out of their ground in the '90s as the owners sold it off for property development and pocketed the money for themselves. The club had just about stayed in the bottom tier at the end of that season.
2. The following few seasons they groundshared with Gillingham-not exactly local and also costing the club to play there at all. Not long after they moved into the Withdean-basically an athletics track with minimal capacity.
3. The club starts putting things together to build a new ground in Brighton with the backing of the city council. New ground gets built after nearly a decade's protesting against neighbouring Lewes council-and they get promoted to the Champs just before moving in.
4. 15 years after being chucked out of their old ground, BHA are a top 10 Championship side, with waiting lists for season tickets, the ground already expanded after just one full season, and sell out crowds every week.
A long journey (made longer by a neighbouring council), but ultimately the club came from being made virtually extinct to being a real success story. Could it happen here?
One of TF's threats over the last few months has been for the club to groundshare with a club nearby either until ACL drop their stance or until the club builds a new ground. A (relatively) recent precedent for this is Brighton-who aren't doing so bad now, so could it actually work?
1. BHA were booted out of their ground in the '90s as the owners sold it off for property development and pocketed the money for themselves. The club had just about stayed in the bottom tier at the end of that season.
2. The following few seasons they groundshared with Gillingham-not exactly local and also costing the club to play there at all. Not long after they moved into the Withdean-basically an athletics track with minimal capacity.
3. The club starts putting things together to build a new ground in Brighton with the backing of the city council. New ground gets built after nearly a decade's protesting against neighbouring Lewes council-and they get promoted to the Champs just before moving in.
4. 15 years after being chucked out of their old ground, BHA are a top 10 Championship side, with waiting lists for season tickets, the ground already expanded after just one full season, and sell out crowds every week.
A long journey (made longer by a neighbouring council), but ultimately the club came from being made virtually extinct to being a real success story. Could it happen here?
What you have to consider is that the council would have to give planning permission for a new stadium. Why would they give that? Two fair sized new stadiums, purpose-built for one football club? Any such land could be used for housing or whatever instead.
You seem to be implying that Brighton are where they are today due to them sinking to the bottom and ground sharing, but I wouldn't say that's the case.. I'd say its more to do with having a brilliant chairman take over the club in dick knight , and tony bloom bringing nearly 100million into the club in intrest free loans, to build your new stadium
You were a very lucky club to get both dick knight and then tony bloom and the Intrest free funding he brought with him.. Fair play to you for both, but these are more of a lucky one off , rather then something othe clubs can look to as a realistic option
Dream on. Will you Take the Cathedrals with you as we'll?
This notion that City will re emerge out of the city boundaries is unpalatable. I'm not convinced fans would commit to travelling further than the Ricoh which is deemed to be far away by some of them.
But taking it out of the city kills the club. We are as important to the identity of Coventry as the Cathedral is.
I'm not implying that at all-more showing that it wouldn't necessarily be Goodnight Vienna if it happened.
But taking it out of the city kills the club. We are as important to the identity of Coventry as the Cathedral is.
i hear ya & fair play play, maybe you are right and we would get our knight in shining armour come along and save us ( see what i did there.... but to be honest, and as i said below, the chances of getting what you did are slim at best ..
you got as dick knight & tony bloom,and its put you where you are.. Luton didnt & look where they are
You talk to me as though I'm actually a Brighton fan-I just lived there !
ahh sorry i thought you did support them too! ok, explains why maybe you didnt know about / mention some keys points to their rise from the dead in your original post.. points which meant their story is more of a one off, with a very very slim chance of happening again, especially in todays economy
one in a million chance is better than no chance though i guess..
One of TF's threats over the last few months has been for the club to groundshare with a club nearby either until ACL drop their stance or until the club builds a new ground. A (relatively) recent precedent for this is Brighton-who aren't doing so bad now, so could it actually work?
1. BHA were booted out of their ground in the '90s as the owners sold it off for property development and pocketed the money for themselves. The club had just about stayed in the bottom tier at the end of that season.
2. The following few seasons they groundshared with Gillingham-not exactly local and also costing the club to play there at all. Not long after they moved into the Withdean-basically an athletics track with minimal capacity.
3. The club starts putting things together to build a new ground in Brighton with the backing of the city council. New ground gets built after nearly a decade's protesting against neighbouring Lewes council-and they get promoted to the Champs just before moving in.
4. 15 years after being chucked out of their old ground, BHA are a top 10 Championship side, with waiting lists for season tickets, the ground already expanded after just one full season, and sell out crowds every week.
A long journey (made longer by a neighbouring council), but ultimately the club came from being made virtually extinct to being a real success story. Could it happen here?
One of TF's threats over the last few months has been for the club to groundshare with a club nearby either until ACL drop their stance or until the club builds a new ground. A (relatively) recent precedent for this is Brighton-who aren't doing so bad now, so could it actually work?
1. BHA were booted out of their ground in the '90s as the owners sold it off for property development and pocketed the money for themselves. The club had just about stayed in the bottom tier at the end of that season.
2. The following few seasons they groundshared with Gillingham-not exactly local and also costing the club to play there at all. Not long after they moved into the Withdean-basically an athletics track with minimal capacity.
3. The club starts putting things together to build a new ground in Brighton with the backing of the city council. New ground gets built after nearly a decade's protesting against neighbouring Lewes council-and they get promoted to the Champs just before moving in.
4. 15 years after being chucked out of their old ground, BHA are a top 10 Championship side, with waiting lists for season tickets, the ground already expanded after just one full season, and sell out crowds every week.
A long journey (made longer by a neighbouring council), but ultimately the club came from being made virtually extinct to being a real success story. Could it happen here?
Another example of a failing club now doing well,Swansea City
But Brighton have tapped into all those middle class types who like football thesedays. There are no other teams nearby who are tapping into this market [vomit], whereas we're competing with a number of well established clubs within a 50 mile radius.
That sort of 'success' story, if success is a ground full of day-trippers, will not happen here. I hope it doesn't either in all honesty.
I disagree there. The football club has a real community presence throughout the city and people campaigned hard to get permission for the ground. Their support is no more middle class than ours.
With respect, I know a Brighton fan and he says the complete opposite.
I've been to the Brighton ground a few times, it's a great stadium.. And I wouldn't say it's middle class at all... And if it is then they certainly do themselves justice as the atmosphere up there I very very good, lots of singing around the whole ground..
As I said earlier though, it's just not a good example, due to the fact that the owners there are a very rare breed, and what they did for the club is very unlikely to be repeated elsewhere
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