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MuddyWaters
May 4, 2019, 10:39pm
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Mr Fenty stated a couple of months back that there needed to be political will from NE Lincs Council to build a stadium on Freemo.

On the basis that he’s part of the ruling group as of yesterday, (and allegedly going to be Deputy Leader), does that make the political will more likely?
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I expect we won't hear another word. He's lost another convenient excuse now.

Quite simply, there isn't enough money, there never has been and there never has been a business case, with the possible exception of Great Coates when it was first rejected by the council.


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Nope, as nobody can say where the money “WILL” come from to build the thing.

Also worth noting teams 17th in league 2 don’t tend to have the finances to build new stadiums especially when they have a despot at the helm ☹️

No spade will be “dug into turf” this decade or the next IMHO.


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Depends if he has more to gain by building it on PP
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If I was the club, I would invite a few different Councillors each week down to Blundell Park as guests next season. I bet there's quite a few that have never been and experienced a game before.  I doubt the likes of Ian Barfield would accept, maybe a few more will actually realise how much it means to people of Grimsby and the surrounding area, that nothing else in North East Lincolnshire brings so many people together in one place at any time of the year except for maybe Armed Forces Day.


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Quoted from Vance Warner
Depends if he has more to gain by building it on PP


Still doesn't explain where the club would get the money from. There's no way any developer is going to make an extra £20m in profit from that site which it will give to the club. So the club would still be in hock for several million. Unless someone can show realistic projections of the extra revenue it will make (rather than vague statements about 'conferencing', or 'community facilities') it's just a pipedream. If the person proposing this scheme in the first place had ever shown an ounce of vision, and delivered on it, in running the club, it might have a bit of credibility.


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I don't think political will could do anything to bring us a new stadium, regardless of the party involved. We (both the club and the town), don't have a pot to urine in and wishful thinking isn't going to cut it.
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The only way I can see it happening is if I (or anyone other Town fan as stupid as me) win the Euromillions when it’s the £180m jackpot and give practically all of it to the club to build a new stadium. That’s the facts I fear.


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The only way I can see it happening is if I (or anyone other Town fan as stupid as me) win the Euromillions when it’s the £180m jackpot and give practically all of it to the club to build a new stadium. That’s the facts I fear.


If I won £180 million I'd be straight on it that's for sure!  

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Quoted from Nelly GTFC
If I was the club, I would invite a few different Councillors each week down to Blundell Park as guests next season. I bet there's quite a few that have never been and experienced a game before.  I doubt the likes of Ian Barfield would accept, maybe a few more will actually realise how much it means to people of Grimsby and the surrounding area, that nothing else in North East Lincolnshire brings so many people together in one place at any time of the year except for maybe Armed Forces Day.


4000 there today......hardly a resounding  voice of Gy/Clee or even NE Lincs.

probabaly about 2% of the electorate (?) .....hardly worth a politicians time and effort unfortunately.


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