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Look at the plots of land Hull, Rotherham and Chesterfield have built their stadiums on. Not huge. Genuine question, why are our perceived needs different to theirs?
I've not been to Rotherham or Chesterfield's new grounds but I'll wager Hull's site is larger than 20 acres.
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I've not been to Rotherham or Chesterfield's new grounds but I'll wager Hull's site is larger than 20 acres.
KC Stadium 34.2 acres Rotherham's training facility measures 14 acres without including the stadium
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I've not been to Rotherham or Chesterfield's new grounds but I'll wager Hull's site is larger than 20 acres.
Sutprised by that, from roadside and Google maps, did not appear that large. Happy to be proved wrong.
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KC Stadium 34.2 acres
Rotherham's training facility measures 14 acres without including the stadium
Rotherham's training ground is away from the stadium isn't it?
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Rotherham's training ground is away from the stadium isn't it?
Yes, as are most clubs in the League..
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I've not been to Rotherham or Chesterfield's new grounds but I'll wager Hull's site is larger than 20 acres.
The new ground site I find most baffling is Brentford's. Griffin Park, famous for having a pub on each corner holds nearly 13,000. The club are moving to a 7.6 acre site at Lionel Road. The initial capacity was going to be over 20,000 but has now been reduced to 17,500, with no possible expansion I'd presume. Brentford could well be a Premier League club soon. We all know finding land for a new stadium in London is hard but I cannot understand how the owner or supporters can be excited by such a move. Moving from a ground that has been your club's home for a century is necessary if the new stadium will give a much higher capacity and income. The Bees are shifting for an increase of under 5,000. If I was a Brentford supporter I think I'd be very disappointed. They're going to have a rugby team sharing the new stadium too, which although being another source of income can bring problems with the pitch of course.
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Look at the plots of land Hull, Rotherham and Chesterfield have built their stadiums on. Not huge. Genuine question, why are our perceived needs different to theirs?
Probably backed by council funding and also the clubs own money in the first place......the club need to generate the money to actually build a ground as we have none of our own, hence why an enabling development is needed...hence why the club are saying that they need all the space and no coincidence that PP is towards arguably a more attractive area of town to attract housing developers who will get more £££ per house = more profit = greater incentive. It all comes back to us not having the money to independently build our our ground, otherwise we could easily have been sat watching footy in a new stadium years ago.
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Probably backed by council funding and also the clubs own money in the first place......the club need to generate the money to actually build a ground as we have none of our own, hence why an enabling development is needed...hence why the club are saying that they need all the space and no coincidence that PP is towards arguably a more attractive area of town to attract housing developers who will get more £££ per house = more profit = greater incentive.
It all comes back to us not having the money to independently build our our ground, otherwise we could easily have been sat watching footy in a new stadium years ago.
Alas all true. It's going back a bit now but I THINK that the K.C. was part of the funding Hull City council provided out of the windfall they got from selling off their city owned telephone network.
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