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If JF thinks he can continue enjoying the benefits of being a Football League club's chairman
Intrigued to hear what you think the benefits are to John Fenty, in being the chairman of a football league club? As far as I can see, in the years he has been the chairman, its been all about him putting his hand in his pockets to give/lend money, not receive money. I'd hardly call that a benefit. Now if you think that sitting in a posher seat and eating a prawn sandwich on a Saturday is a benefit, I'd suggest that he could do that anyway without having to pay the amount he has over the years for that minuscule experience. Benefits indeed. Please don't make me laugh
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Peaks Parkway was only picked because at the time Fenty insisted that the enabling development had to be on the stadium site. He’s since back tracked on this and said enabling developments could be anywhere in NE Lincs.
Garth Lane would be ideal.Town centre location and close to railway station and town centre bus routes. And it’s bang next door to the Riverhead development.
Is the Garth Lane still available or has it been sold to another developer?
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Intrigued to hear what you think the benefits are to John Fenty, in being the chairman of a football league club?
As far as I can see, in the years he has been the chairman, its been all about him putting his hand in his pockets to give/lend money, not receive money. I'd hardly call that a benefit.
Now if you think that sitting in a posher seat and eating a prawn sandwich on a Saturday is a benefit, I'd suggest that he could do that anyway without having to pay the amount he has over the years for that minuscule experience.
Benefits indeed. Please don't make me laugh
If/when he leaves I think he wants ALL that money back so in effect won`t he have had his prawn sandwiches and posher seats for nowt?
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Peaks Parkway was only picked because at the time Fenty insisted that the enabling development had to be on the stadium site. He’s since back tracked on this and said enabling developments could be anywhere in NE Lincs.
Garth Lane would be ideal.Town centre location and close to railway station and town centre bus routes. And it’s bang next door to the Riverhead development.
Is the Garth Lane still available or has it been sold to another developer?
Happy to be corrected but I think Garth Lane would be too small, even without an enabling development.
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If/when he leaves I think he wants ALL that money back so in effect won`t he have had his prawn sandwiches and posher seats for nowt?
Garth Lane is far too small a site. You might just fit a smallish stadium in there but that would be it. Very little parking available, surrounded by town houses. The traffic on Saturday match days would be far worse than now and much worse than even PP. In essence we would move location but still be faced with similar problems.
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Peaks Parkway was only picked because at the time Fenty insisted that the enabling development had to be on the stadium site. He’s since back tracked on this and said enabling developments could be anywhere in NE Lincs.
Garth Lane would be ideal.Town centre location and close to railway station and town centre bus routes. And it’s bang next door to the Riverhead development.
Is the Garth Lane still available or has it been sold to another developer?
A football stadium there would be a problem assuming it would fit? I suppose a road off the 180 direct to the ground could though be a possibility to at least get rid of traffic congestion and added to it fans would be able to access the ground far easier from train and bus? A poor 3rd choice at best for me though.
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It's obvious everyone is bored with having no Town games, no exciting signings and the World Cup being tantamount to a penalty competition.
After a refreshing break of three or four months (since he employed Jolley) it looks like it's starting to become 'have a go at Fenty' time again
Leave it until we are 10 games into next season please
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Peaks Parkway was only picked because at the time Fenty insisted that the enabling development had to be on the stadium site. He’s since back tracked on this and said enabling developments could be anywhere in NE Lincs.
Garth Lane would be ideal.Town centre location and close to railway station and town centre bus routes. And it’s bang next door to the Riverhead development.
Is the Garth Lane still available or has it been sold to another developer?
Garth Lane would be a ridiculous place to put a football ground. It would cause similar or worse problems with traffic congestion and has been stated the parking would not be enough. Peaks Parkway would have been a far superior location if comparing both. Without going over old ground Great Coates would have been ideal, gateway to the town, good road and rail links, easily commutable and not too far out and was big enough. Unfortunately that ship seems to have sailed. The local authority could do more but some councillors seem hell bent on keeping this town in the dark ages. That must be frustrating to the ones who want to try and progress the area. A football club, especially a league member is a major part of a community and should be capitalised on as if successful brings income to the area and surrounding businesses. I love the club and the town, it has got so much going for it. I do despair though when I see how other areas progress where we could but don't.
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It's obvious everyone is bored with having no Town games, no exciting signings and the World Cup being tantamount to a penalty competition.
After a refreshing break of three or four months (since he employed Jolley) it looks like it's starting to become 'have a go at Fenty' time again
Leave it until we are 10 games into next season please
Not sure they are Swin I think most fair minded people blame the Council for the lack of new ground of course Fenty`s part of that but you know what I mean.
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Garth Lane would be a ridiculous place to put a football ground. It would cause similar or worse problems with traffic congestion and has been stated the parking would not be enough. Peaks Parkway would have been a far superior location if comparing both. Without going over old ground Great Coates would have been ideal, gateway to the town, good road and rail links, easily commutable and not too far out and was big enough. Unfortunately that ship seems to have sailed.
The local authority could do more but some councillors seem hell bent on keeping this town in the dark ages. That must be frustrating to the ones who want to try and progress the area. A football club, especially a league member is a major part of a community and should be capitalised on as if successful brings income to the area and surrounding businesses. I love the club and the town, it has got so much going for it. I do despair though when I see how other areas progress where we could but don't.
This Council built Meridian Point ,scrapped Scartho Baths and built another leisure centre on the site of one already failing due to lack of footfall.What chance have we got?
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