No Docks Stadium

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Same plans for the ice House, and nothings happened and probably won't, Shutes is full of shite with no money, he lives in cloud cuckoo land unfortunately.

What ever is planned it will be destroyed by the scrotes that live in this town, we can't have anything that people may enjoy.... I'm a bit of a misery I suppose but it's the truth.

State of this thread. There’s no wonder most young people leave at the first opportunity & the town’s a shitehole. One bloke with little real attachment to the town spends a wedge buying land & planning a massive redevelopment of the docks, trying to bring in investment, and a load of old codgers dump all over it.

Quoted from pen penfras

Wow, sounds absolutely rubbish. The Town needs something like what Liverpool did with the docks, not a swimming pool and salt Marsh. Would anybody travel to visit this?

I would to be fair, sounds pretty cool.  Wild water swimming is a big thing at the moment so an open air pool could work well.  It’s not like we’ve had something like that in the area historically and widely used 👀

Quoted from ska face

State of this thread. There’s no wonder most young people leave at the first opportunity & the town’s a shitehole. One bloke with little real attachment to the town spends a wedge buying land & planning a massive redevelopment of the docks, trying to bring in investment, and a load of old codgers dump all over it.

Indeed, typical Grimsby attitude. See also social media whenever there is a news story detailing any positive development in the town... "It looks excrement", "Will never happen", "Vandals will wreck it within 2 days", "we don't deserve it". I have to say it really pisses me off, other towns/cities seem to get excrement done and move forward, not here.

I never knew there were so many investment & urban regeneration experts on one message board.

Personally I hope something like this comes off as it would make a difference even if it just cleaned that space up a bit.

Quoted from ska face

State of this thread. There’s no wonder most young people leave at the first opportunity & the town’s a shitehole. One bloke with little real attachment to the town spends a wedge buying land & planning a massive redevelopment of the docks, trying to bring in investment, and a load of old codgers dump all over it.

Yes, how weird that Town fans on a GTFC board point out that the stadium has suddenly gone missing from the plans. Not the sort of thing any of us should be bothered about really I suppose.

Ask for change - moan about it when change happens - moan if it doesn’t - ask for change again - repeat

It’s an attitude engrained in the town and goes right through to the stands on a Saturday afternoon. Part of the answer as to why the town & the football club are stagnating lies quite close to home.

Quoted from ska face

State of this thread. There’s no wonder most young people leave at the first opportunity & the town’s a shitehole. One bloke with little real attachment to the town spends a wedge buying land & planning a massive redevelopment of the docks, trying to bring in investment, and a load of old codgers dump all over it.

Might be more prevalent in Grimsby than some other spots but by no means unique to GY... there's a huge generational gap with attitudes to development and change, and sadly NIMBYs (many of which bought their house for 3x national average salary or less and have seen their assets increase hugely in value) are a huge factor in why we are so behind as a country. HS2 as a case study... Meanwhile France, Spain and Italy look to legislate on flights to destinations that can be reached in under 2.5 hours by train, which thanks to their High Speed Rail investment is huge parts of the country.

My personal favourites are the ones who buy a new build then campaign to block other new houses being built.

Completely agree with your point about open water swimming. It's popular and quite an interesting facility to have in the town, not all that common. Been to one in Sale in Manchester that was extremely popular.

These plans look incredible. Would be huge for the area.

I regularly open water swim in the Docks and there's so much scope for it and water based activities to be a huge part of the local identify and economy.

Think small, get small.

Quoted from diehardmariner

These plans look incredible. Would be huge for the area.

I regularly open water swim in the Docks and there's so much scope for it and water based activities to be a huge part of the local identify and economy.

Think small, get small.

You actually swim in the docks?!?!