Ground Improvements - Well done GTFC

Quoted from diehardmariner

No argument from the majority that the stadium should be central and accessible.  

Not convinced that Blundell Park is the best place for that though, not at present anyway.  If we're going pie in the sky and not worrying ourselves too much with realities, I would have thought the White Elephant regeneration of Grimsby Town centre would have been the absolute perfect place to tie in regeneration funds and a new stadium.

Keeps everything central, accessible, right on a train line and all local bus services and fills space that's largely empty at present.

Quite a few years back I was told that part of the 'plan' for the stadium on the former Freemo flats would have involved NELC as the anchor tenants (or vice-versa) with their main hub sites moving to the site too.  How much truth was in that I don't know but it made sense and fitted with the councils plans to reduce the number of their buildings and centralise the ones that remained.

Quoted from aldi_01

What? So we build a ground with magic beans simply to accommodate a few fair weather types who fancy getting involved because there’s a sniff of the big time.

Quoted from diehardmariner

They're all good suggestions Golly, but I think we've missed the boat on a lot of them.

Enabling developments are dead at the minute. There's enough prime retail and business space available to negate a need for  anyone to attach a business to a football ground.

The Gym Group set up a 24/7 in Grimsby very recently. Empty unit in a retail park, very accessible and central location, free parking. By all accounts got a very good deal on it as the landlords were desperate to fill it and recognised they'll struggle to do so otherwise.  That wasn't the case even 5 years ago.

I don't know what the situation is presently on funding and grants but the sheer costs of a new ground would surely make them look like drops in the ocean. I guess the same when comparing the mortgage on the Findus to a new ground too.

We need to do something and the typical Grimsby mentality of "well we've not had gates over 8,000 since 1996 so let's not strive to get better than that.. ." smacks of the reasons the place will never progress or even hold its ground.

I just don't think that something has an easy solution.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

The problem is we have no option but to find a solution. In the last 20 seasons of the 20th Century we ranked 40th in terms of average league finish.

Ahead of Bolton (42nd), Brighton (45th), Bristol City (46th), Reading (47th), Plymouth (50th), Fulham (51st), Brentford (52nd), Bournemouth (55th), Swansea (56th), Hull (57th) Rotherham (59th), Preston (62nd), Wigan (63rd), Burnley (64th), Blackpool (67th) & Cardiff (68th). Teams we can't dream of competing with now, but teams we got the better of over a sustained period.

The only way we can compete again is with a new stadium. Anything else means in the long term we will be consigned to being a bottom end EFL/National League club.

Quoted from GrimPol

I guess in 1899 nobody sat down and thought through the repercussions of allowing houses to hem in BP., shame but there we are.
Today Freemo would have been ideal, if BP history was overlooked, however the £20 million + build would put a heavy strain on GTFC finances hence team build for years to come.
Where is an Oil Sheikh when you need one?

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Freemo i personally think is the place where the new stadium ‘SHOULD’ go if we were ever to relocate. Though am not sure which part of land  is free/vacant .

When I was back a couple of weeks ago, I wondered if the pyewipe (moody lane) or the docks side of new clee train station were viable or available. Then you’ve got the area next to Morrisons in laceby and the big chunk of land opposite Grimsby leisure centre (west marsh?) that are probably sizeable enough.

So it’s not like we don’t have possible options. It’s the availability and cost to acquire said land.

Quoted from GrimPol

I guess in 1899 nobody sat down and thought through the repercussions of allowing houses to hem in BP., shame but there we are.
Today Freemo would have been ideal, if BP history was overlooked, however the £20 million + build would put a heavy strain on GTFC finances hence team build for years to come.
Where is an Oil Sheikh when you need one?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Freeman Street isn't suitable. Too many houses adjacent to the site. Realistically the new ground needs to be easily accessible from the A180 but not bordering a residential area or requiring driving through one to get to it.

Is that link road between Laceby & Great Coates Interchange going to happen? That could be a perfect location and the road infrastructure would be built for us..

Is that link road between

Quoted from wuffing

The old Western school building site seems to have stalled... a really big site too??!!