The Hive

Quoted from BIGChris

As our fans team were quoted £60 for their share of the pitch hire for a game on Saturday they must be making some profit!! I was told that our lads refused to pay that sort of of money and the game didnt go ahead (there may have been other reasons too but cost was certainly a significant factor)

The full fees for us to play them in the morning would have been £150 (£120 pitch and £30 for the ref).

Ridiculously over priced when you think that it is 90 minutes of football - effectively £7 each if you only have 11 men per team.

Quoted from BIGChris

I thought I read somewhere that they make buggar all as they don't own it and are desperately trying to get back to a new ground in the Borough of a Barnet??

(Or did I dream that?)

If you did dream it then you have pretty strange and boring dreams  

Those grass pitches are used by several professional teams and aren't really like regular park pitches.  The normal price for a match on them is £440.  International and European clubs who are playing at Wembley use them.  

http://thehivelondon.com/football-centre/pitch-hire-prices/

I guess they are priced to prevent over use and provide high quality facilities for professional teams. As they are used less often than most pitches then the cost has to be higher to cover maintenance.  

Quoted from BIGChris

As our fans team were quoted £60 for their share of the pitch hire for a game on Saturday they must be making some profit!! I was told that our lads refused to pay that sort of of money and the game didnt go ahead (there may have been other reasons too but cost was certainly a significant factor)

To be fair BC perhaps they were just joining in the spirit of the day and "inflated" the prices    

Quoted from BeesKnees

Those grass pitches are used by several professional teams and aren't really like regular park pitches.  The normal price for a match on them is £440.  International and European clubs who are playing at Wembley use them.  

http://thehivelondon.com/football-centre/pitch-hire-prices/

I guess they are priced to prevent over use and provide high quality facilities for professional teams. As they are used less often than most pitches then the cost has to be higher to cover maintenance.  

This was for the Barnet FC fans team to play there.

A ground like The Hive is ok as a community venture but personally any professional club that has any aspirations of moving forward and going through the leagues that builds a ground like the Hive is very short sighted. It isn't a great ground and has a very low capacity.

There are issues with the ground and as mentioned previously there are underlying issues regarding the biggest stand and with the club not being entirely happy at playing there.
BC has covered most of it as have others. It's certainly better than underhill though.

I'd certainly be gutted if that's what we end up with eventually.

Sadly the East stand and the end terraces were not built by Barnet.  They were inherited when the club took over the lease from the Council.  Eventually the end terraces will be replaced, exec boxes put in above the East stand seating and the West stand extended to make the stadium a 10k all seater.

Figures crossed it will no longer be Barnet FCs home by then.