Attempting to sell the location not the club

I think that the most frustrating thing about the total non movement on the new ground is that it also has the added spin off of BP having zero investment in it,falling further into disrepair and becoming more and more of an embarrassment.
I know I am in the minority of this, but I think the time has come to abandon the 'pie in the sky'  stadium that is unlikely to be built anyway and explore ways of replacing the main and Osmond stands with single  tier unobstructed stands with the option to extend into the corners.
I know many will cite needing 7 day a week income streams, but exactly how many clubs have this?
Not a high percentage j suspect.
Just doing nothing, which seems to be the present situation, is not an option for much longer.

I think that the most frustrating thing about the total non movement on the new ground is that it also has the added spin off of BP having zero investment in it,falling further into disrepair and becoming more and more of an embarrassment.
I know I am in the minority of this, but I think the time has come to abandon the 'pie in the sky'  stadium that is unlikely to be built anyway and explore ways of replacing the main and Osmond stands with single  tier unobstructed stands with the option to extend into the corners.
I know many will cite needing 7 day a week income streams, but exactly how many clubs have this?
Not a high percentage j suspect.
Just doing nothing, which seems to be the present situation, is not an option for much longer.

Your average lad in his twenties isn’t arsed about areas of outstanding natual beauty, village pubs and “golden” coastline.

Quoted from LH

Your average lad in his twenties isn’t arsed about areas of outstanding natual beauty, village pubs and “golden” coastline.

There's some cracking totty around Meggies on a weekend.

I was born in Cleethorpes and left when I was 21 to go to uni in Huddersfield (and I've been living in Leeds ever since).

I attended an open day at Bangor university in North Wales and liked the place. But when I also saw an equally nice campus at Huddersfield I decided on Yorkshire because, well, Bangor was out on a limb and Huddersfield was within half an hour of several major cities (and that meant a better social life - gigs, nightlife, etc - and job prospects).

Of all the people I went to school with who left to go to uni, precisely none of them have returned.

I absolutely adore Grimsby and Cleethorpes. I love the football club and I love that I can return to see my parents - still living in the house that I grew up in. My grandparents used to live down Manchester Street - also where my dad grew up.

I have a job in Leeds that just doesn't exist in North East Lincolnshire. There are nice things from back home that I miss, but that's because of the emotional connection I have with a childhood spent there. It's almost impossible to view our home town(s) objectively.

I must admit, that drive along the A180 past the refineries, food factories and decrepit docks isn't doing us any favours. I see those things and feel all warm inside because it means I'm almost 'home', but if I saw the same things on my approach to Wigan, for argument's sake, I'd feel very different about it.

Footballers' careers are short. For what we're able to pay them, they'd have to consider uprooting from places they call home - even if they don't live in Leeds, for example, they can have a career in Sheffield, or Manchester, and still feel close enough. Grimsby, on the other hand, just feels that bit further and that bit unknown - and it's not like we have anything to offer that other cities in the north don't have (although our beach is decent).

It's vital we look after our youth team and develop local talent because fewer players will relocate. If we were still in the Championship and had money to play with, I'm sure that would sweeten the deal, but when Carl Magnay left I remember him saying something about petrol money.

Seems trivial in the grand scheme of things, but that's the level we operate at now. As much as I (and we) love Grimsby, we're only going to become less attractive to players. As hard as that is to hear/read.

This has been said before but needs saying again,

The best times we have had are the years in the top flight mainly with local lads,

The next best time we had was in the now championship mainly with local lads,

So if we want to compete at a higher level we have to grow our own.

Quoted from LH

Your average lad in his twenties isn’t arsed about areas of outstanding natual beauty, village pubs and “golden” coastline.

The attraction to footballers coming to GTFC from outside the area has faded since the demise of the Bags Ball

Dose club house players and families? if they did it may be easier to say this house comes in with your job. that way they dont have to spend money to relocate and when they sod off to better things we reuse the housing.
Trouble is look at the quality we have attracted in recent decades theres very few that have gone on to better things.

Quoted from monkeyboy

Dose club house players and families? if they did it may be easier to say this house comes in with your job. that way they dont have to spend money to relocate and when they sod off to better things we reuse the housing.
Trouble is look at the quality we have attracted in recent decades theres very few that have gone on to better things.

Erm, Townsend, Nolan, Toto, Mendonca.oh, lest not forget Bogle, Francis who both are now at premier league clubs...unfortunately monkeyboy the times we now live in are those where to get young blood isn't about the house it's about what living here offers them, which to the outsider us a shitehole that stinks of fish, you and I know that's wrong but it's how the outside world perceives Grimsby

Quoted from monkeyboy

Dose club house players and families? if they did it may be easier to say this house comes in with your job. that way they dont have to spend money to relocate and when they sod off to better things we reuse the housing.
Trouble is look at the quality we have attracted in recent decades theres very few that have gone on to better things.

Erm, Townsend, Nolan, Toto, Mendonca.oh, lest not forget Bogle, Francis who both are now at premier league clubs...unfortunately monkeyboy the times we now live in are those where to get young blood isn't about the house it's about what living here offers them, which to the outsider us a shitehole that stinks of fish, you and I know that's wrong but it's how the outside world perceives Grimsby