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Hi john.. pleased you could join us!!
Oh dear. It seems that you really can't have your own views on here!!! Just because I don't see the vision of the ground being at freemo doesn't mean I'm John. I'm far from John!!! I am allowed a different view to most on here. Freedom of speech?? (although typed). |
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We don't need 4g pitches at all, Colchester United's ground has no shops, no housing and is Council owned. It has excellent facilities for evening events, concerts and other income generating stuff on non match days etc, its nowhere near a bus route so they run buses from the station. Difference is it's council owned and Fenty will do anything he can to avoid that.Granted it is next to the main A12 however rather than a restrictive and congested Freeman Street but the PP is no better.
Lets face it the council aren't going to go for PP and Fenty isn't going to go for Freemo. Impasse! Unless of course the council make it widely known they will finance then rent GTFC a new ground in Freemo and Fenty might then have to agree or look even worse than normal
Would you trust our council to run a football ground? In my time of taking an interest in local politics ( 50 years ) we have had a succession of councils of all political persuasion who couldn't be trusted " to run a whelk stall " to quote a famous historical expression. |
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We don't need 4g pitches at all, Colchester United's ground has no shops, no housing and is Council owned. It has excellent facilities for evening events, concerts and other income generating stuff on non match days etc, its nowhere near a bus route so they run buses from the station. Difference is it's council owned and Fenty will do anything he can to avoid that.Granted it is next to the main A12 however rather than a restrictive and congested Freeman Street but the PP is no better.
Lets face it the council aren't going to go for PP and Fenty isn't going to go for Freemo. Impasse! Unless of course the council make it widely known they will finance then rent GTFC a new ground in Freemo and Fenty might then have to agree or look even worse than normal
But we aren't Colchester. We are Grimsby. There's no comparison that I can see. |
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So who is the Tory businessman you are alluding to?
Any or all. I'm not using it as a stick to beat JF as you say. He has his beliefs and i have mine, that's democracy. I would like to see it built as a community stadium in a run down area, and put it at the heart of the community, where the working class demographic that originally built the game up can enjoy it's facilities. The game is moving away from that sadly, and to put it in a green belt with an attached housing estate of new semi's just seems all wrong, and in the wrong part of town. I accepted PP when we were told it was there or nothing, but now there is a new runner, i would love to see it happen, and i think most Town fans would agree. |
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But we aren't Colchester.
We are Grimsby. There's no comparison that I can see.
Sadly that's true Colchester are challenging for the playoffs and have a new ground As far as the council running a football ground is concerned, they don't. It's rented out to the club and run by them so it could easily work for us, John Fenty could run it.........oh err see what you mean |
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Oh dear. It seems that you really can't have your own views on here!!! Just because I don't see the vision of the ground being at freemo doesn't mean I'm John. I'm far from John!!! I am allowed a different view to most on here. Freedom of speech?? (although typed).
So sarcasm is lost on you, it's not about different views, it's about the fact that PP is JSFs foible and if you look at it realisticly it's a bloody terrible option. Logistically it'd be a nightmare of the highest order and only because of the so called "enabling project",which if translated means "the only way I could make money" he would probably of never considered it . I will always maintain we lost our greatest chance of relocating when we lost great coates but given the chance as a die hard grimbarian, to sit and look over to the dock tower as the players enter the pitch we would fill me with enough pride to split me open ... |
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It's a very popular idea with a small number of fans, most of which probably live in that area and think it's full of good,honest Grimbarians and not people selling stolen ham joints so they can buy smack. The other people who want it are old people who have a whole bunch of nostalgia for the glory days of Freeman Street and the Docks. The reality is the area has always been pretty rough and not really the best foot forward to sell the town as a viable commercial area to draw new business and growth. A shithole with a football stadium in it is still a shithole and it won't suddenly make the council spend money it doesn't have to rebuild the entire area. How many newly developed football stadiums do you go to and sing "This place is a shithole"? That's because it's true right? A new stadium doesn't fix a run down shithole. You all only want it because of your old rose tinted memories or because it's near where you live. "It'll be near the DOCKS and the DOCK TOWER will be overlooking the ground! It's be the perfect symbol of what being from Grimsby is all about and inspire the team!". I bet that's exactly what you're all thinking  .
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So sarcasm is lost on you, it's not about different views, it's about the fact that PP is JSFs foible and if you look at it realisticly it's a bloody terrible option. Logistically it'd be a nightmare of the highest order and only because of the so called "enabling project",which if translated means "the only way I could make money" he would probably of never considered it .
I will always maintain we lost our greatest chance of relocating when we lost great coates but given the chance as a die hard grimbarian, to sit and look over to the dock tower as the players enter the pitch we would fill me with enough pride to split me open ...
In what way? Admittedly I think Freemo would be a good option but the road transport links to PP could be developed a lot easier than those to Freemo. |
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In what way? Admittedly I think Freemo would be a good option but the road transport links to PP could be developed a lot easier than those to Freemo.
Oh c''mon, to get to that spot would awful, it'd be jammed all ends up..Werlsby Road, Victoria street, Scartho Road, Toll Bar, all areas that lock out now without the influx of 2000 plus extra vehicles on a match day... At least with Freemo you could quite easily put a park n ride on Pyewipe and have a park n ride into the ground, plus it would give some use to the estate. |
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New stadium next door to a new housing estate and a Chiquitos - that’s exactly what we want...
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