Relocation.

I heard a rumour that if the proposal doesn't go through then the next proposal is to build a permanent travellers site in the same location but avoiding the allotments. This should keep the allotment holders happy and their vegetables safe.

Any chance some of you can post in the GET article the more support on their the better.  Unfortunately its the same old arguments i.e. town don't need a new stadium because we only have 3K in it now blah n blah some people just don't want to understand and are determined to be stubborn sods.

Grimsby, the town that's got nothing, want's nothing and will get exactly that.

If space to build in town is limited why not get the a hot tenant eg sainsburys to build there supermarket with a multi-storey car park above it , with towns new ground on top of that ?

Simple idea covering all 3 problems .

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If space to build in town is limited why not get the a hot tenant eg sainsburys to build there supermarket with a multi-storey car park above it , with towns new ground on top of that ?

Simple idea covering all 3 problems .

The NIMBY's would complain it blocks their light out    

My post on the Telewag site thread: "It's amazing to me that people can be bothered to write such ill-informed nonsense just because they like to troll. Marks and Spencer is a department store, not rooted in Grimsby history, the first market stall actually opened in Leeds, so, no, it would not be true to say that M+S have just as much right to a free piece of land. And if you know it's free for Grimsby Town Football Club please reveal your sources . So, ahem, engage your brain,read, then comment, that would seem to be a sensible way forward. I don't live in Cleethorpes or Grimsby, I actually live in Beijing, China. I have seen for myself what happens when community based enterprises collapse and are replaced by business whose allegiances lie with the shareholders first and the community last. If you don't like football, then fine, but why do you have to deny it's role and function in the town's non-measurable success? And to those who honestly believe the argument is "build a new stadium and the players will get better", I have to ask if you are knowingly deluding yourselves or just plain daft? What happens is this: GTFC get a new stadium that is not just a new stadium but also has other ways of bringing money into the club, they are called 'revenue streams'. With that extra money, the club can buy better players, maybe even expand the youth setup so that more of these players come from the town and region. I don't expect Craig Disley of JLL will be around when the new stadium gets built, so really, how could it maker them improve? Incidentally, I actually believe that PH has built a squad that can and will get us out of the Conference and Dis and Shop are two of the hardest working players to wear the shirt in years, and they are pretty good too. So, the stadium won't make them better, it will get us more money to buy better players, to get higher in the tree. I mean the football tree (just in case you thought I meant an actual tree). My two boys were born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and live in Beijing, China, but they are Mariners, by choice. They listen with me to all the matches (except the mid-week ones that start at 03:45am here.....but I listen to those.....) and they wear the shirts and they laugh at John Moore's often grating commentary (oooh, it's a nasty one, wide of the mark!!!) and they saw John Fenty in the shop once and went all wobbly, they come to all the pre-season matches in the summer, they buy the calendars and pens and scarves and hats (well, I do....) and they LOVE GRIMSBY TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB and if it dies a small part of them will die too. They cried when we lost to Wrexham at Wembley and they think of BP as a kind of holy place. My eldest touched the pitch with his toe when he was 8, his face lit up. The point is, you doubters, a football club is way more than a football club. Even at conference level, the club signifies pride and history, it speaks about the determination of the Grimsby people, the trawler-men of years ago, in fact the merchants who brought the money to Grimsby in the first place, all dependent on the sea-faring traders, they funded the club. Let it die, and it will die if it doesn't move....and it all goes, it all disappears, the symbol that is GTFC, born 1878 has to be remembered, only remembered, not lived. A new ground will never be BP, but no new ground means no GTFC because the money will run out. I don't want my kids to say, I was a Mariner, I remember the year we got back in the league, and the year we went out of business because we couldn't afford to keep the success story going. My kids love football, they don't love business, but it is a business now. We can return a failing business that symbolises our pride and character to winning ways, or we can let it die a slow and painful death. Be careful what you wish for, people.

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My post on the Telewag site thread: "It's amazing to me that people can be bothered to write such ill-informed nonsense just because they like to troll. Marks and Spencer is a department store, not rooted in Grimsby history, the first market stall actually opened in Leeds, so, no, it would not be true to say that M+S have just as much right to a free piece of land. And if you know it's free for Grimsby Town Football Club please reveal your sources . So, ahem, engage your brain,read, then comment, that would seem to be a sensible way forward. I don't live in Cleethorpes or Grimsby, I actually live in Beijing, China. I have seen for myself what happens when community based enterprises collapse and are replaced by business whose allegiances lie with the shareholders first and the community last. If you don't like football, then fine, but why do you have to deny it's role and function in the town's non-measurable success? And to those who honestly believe the argument is "build a new stadium and the players will get better", I have to ask if you are knowingly deluding yourselves or just plain daft? What happens is this: GTFC get a new stadium that is not just a new stadium but also has other ways of bringing money into the club, they are called 'revenue streams'. With that extra money, the club can buy better players, maybe even expand the youth setup so that more of these players come from the town and region. I don't expect Craig Disley of JLL will be around when the new stadium gets built, so really, how could it maker them improve? Incidentally, I actually believe that PH has built a squad that can and will get us out of the Conference and Dis and Shop are two of the hardest working players to wear the shirt in years, and they are pretty good too. So, the stadium won't make them better, it will get us more money to buy better players, to get higher in the tree. I mean the football tree (just in case you thought I meant an actual tree). My two boys were born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and live in Beijing, China, but they are Mariners, by choice. They listen with me to all the matches (except the mid-week ones that start at 03:45am here.....but I listen to those.....) and they wear the shirts and they laugh at John Moore's often grating commentary (oooh, it's a nasty one, wide of the mark!!!) and they saw John Fenty in the shop once and went all wobbly, they come to all the pre-season matches in the summer, they buy the calendars and pens and scarves and hats (well, I do....) and they LOVE GRIMSBY TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB and if it dies a small part of them will die too. They cried when we lost to Wrexham at Wembley and they think of BP as a kind of holy place. My eldest touched the pitch with his toe when he was 8, his face lit up. The point is, you doubters, a football club is way more than a football club. Even at conference level, the club signifies pride and history, it speaks about the determination of the Grimsby people, the trawler-men of years ago, in fact the merchants who brought the money to Grimsby in the first place, all dependent on the sea-faring traders, they funded the club. Let it die, and it will die if it doesn't move....and it all goes, it all disappears, the symbol that is GTFC, born 1878 has to be remembered, only remembered, not lived. A new ground will never be BP, but no new ground means no GTFC because the money will run out. I don't want my kids to say, I was a Mariner, I remember the year we got back in the league, and the year we went out of business because we couldn't afford to keep the success story going. My kids love football, they don't love business, but it is a business now. We can return a failing business that symbolises our pride and character to winning ways, or we can let it die a slow and painful death. Be careful what you wish for, people.

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and breathe.

hahaha, nice arry, perfect response piece

I just noticed this section from the article "The club has been working with the council's legal team in agreeing the terms of a land option agreement, which the club understands is ready to go to cabinet in due course"  Does this mean there are for the proposal....I'm a bit confused.

[url]http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/article/new-stadium-progressing-well-2059496.aspx[/url]

Well, Councillor Fenty (Cons) should know if things are going forward for discussion, unless the various Labour dominated committees don't talk to their opposition members????

Have ANY approaches been made to a business partner in regards to retail opportunities?

I'd love to see a South Bank Makro here !