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Sky Sports saying 5 clubs would groundshare (1 Viewer)

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  • Start date Mar 28, 2019
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Liquid Gold

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #36
Nick said:
That's high up. You are just doing it to give them money for no reason
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So free tickets are alright even though you increase the attendance?
 
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PurpleBin

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #37
Can't see it being Villa or Birmingham. One of them has to play at home on a Saturday. Unless we played all home on a Sunday it can't be likely.
 
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ccfc_Tom

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #38
Port vale? Chairman is a cov fan
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #39
Liquid Gold said:
So free tickets are alright even though you increase the attendance?
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Only if you are a nonce
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #40
I’m finished with the club if we have another groundshare
 

BigadamL

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #41
Nick said:
Only if you are a nonce
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chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #42
PurpleBin said:
Can't see it being Villa or Birmingham. One of them has to play at home on a Saturday. Unless we played all home on a Sunday it can't be likely.
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Not an issue if they know before the fixtures are compiled. Would just alternate weeks.
 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #43
chiefdave said:
Not an issue if they know before the fixtures are compiled. Would just alternate weeks.
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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.
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #44
SkyBlueDom26 said:
I'd put my money on Birmingham's ground
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Nick

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #45
Liquid Gold said:
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.
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Zulu Legion isn't it?

 
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GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #46
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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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #47
GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee said:
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 hear 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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Were people done at Wembley after a ground share?
 
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skybluegod

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #48
Nick said:
Were people done at Wembley after a ground share?
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Why jump that far ahead how about the first game back at the Ricoh
 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • #49
Blues fans think they're one and seem pretty happy about helping us out

 
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Terry_dactyl

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #50
GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee said:
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 hear 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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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.
 
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stevefloyd

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #51
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
 
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stevefloyd

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #52
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
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #53
stevefloyd said:
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
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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.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #54
fernandopartridge said:
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.
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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.
 

MalcSB

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #55
SkyBlue_Bear83 said:
I’m finished with the club if we have another groundshare
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The club will be finished without a groundshare, as it stands.
 

MalcSB

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #56
Deleted member 5849 said:
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.
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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.
 
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Jay Cee

Active Member
  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #57
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.
 
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Dimi_Konstantflapalot

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #58
Jay Cee said:
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.
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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

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #59
PurpleBin said:
Can't see it being Villa or Birmingham. One of them has to play at home on a Saturday. Unless we played all home on a Sunday it can't be likely.
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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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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #60
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?
 

chiefdave

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #61
Maybe we could alternate to keep it interesting, play 3 or 4 games at each ground!
 
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Ashdown

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #62
SkyBlue_Bear83 said:
I’m finished with the club if we have another groundshare
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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.
 

higgs

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #63
Good to have options anyway as it looks like our time at the Ricoh is coming to an end as neither side will back down

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MusicDating

Euro 2016 Prediction League Champion!!
  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #64
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!
 

chiefdave

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #65
MusicDating said:
is located approximately 43 miles from Coventry
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that would explain why the never previously mentioned 50 mile limit suddenly appeared.
 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #66
MusicDating said:
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!
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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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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #67
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
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.
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What about when we play Burton away?
 

Otis

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #68
Sky Blue Harry H said:
What about when we play Burton away?
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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.
 
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Nick

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #69
Sky Blue Harry H said:
What about when we play Burton away?
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Drinking competition of warm Carling to see who gets the home end
 

Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Mar 29, 2019
  • #70
Sky Blue Harry H said:
What about when we play Burton away?
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By then we'll be called Wakefield 1883 and be playing in purple and red.
 
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