Todays attendance

Quoted from ska face

I see Alexander Retail Park has recently been bought by a new management/development company. Would be a shame if the whole thing was to mysteriously go up in flames, like that crooked pub near Birmingham, leaving a nice big parcel of town centre land just off the a180.

I don't reckon that would be a big enough site, to be honest. You could certainly fit a reasonably-sized ground in there, but there would be little room for any other sort of facilities or parking. Everywhere is built up with little free space in this town. It's why the out of town option will always be the easiest.

The whole point with a town centre location is that you don’t need loads of parking. Absolute waste of money paying for massive car parks that don’t generate any income outside of a couple of grand 23-times a year.

What about Brighton, no where near a main road, limited parking, so free train  the best option. Makes me think what sort of attendance they would get at the bottom of the Championship, or lower.


The best stadiums are the ones in city/town centers or within easy walking distance, with a rail station close.

I’ve been in a couple of 22,000 plus attendances at BP, and  numerous 15k plus.  I have also been in Town away followings above 20k. As recently as 2022 around 13kof us went to the London Stadium. I realise these are mostly one off special matches, but the point is that, if we do well enough to climb up the leagues then we will have the potential to far outstrip the current capacity of BP.

The new owners are intelligent forward thinking people so I have no doubt they must be considering options because BP capacity is a constraining factor on future growth.

Quoted from ska face

The whole point with a town centre location is that you don’t need loads of parking. Absolute waste of money paying for massive car parks that don’t generate any income outside of a couple of grand 23-times a year.

Grimsby Town centre is 4 miles from my house. Without somewhere to park, I'm going to struggle to get to games, unless some really, really good transport links are sorted out. I have little faith that these would be forthcoming or usable and expect I would probably need to drive to games. It would take a lot of planning to sorting out bus services to the game, that's for sure.

Sorry, not being funny but that’s indicative of the car-centred way of thinking that’s plagued towns and cities for the past half-century. I’m sure it’s not beyond the realms of possibility to put on an extra bus route or two, a couple of times a month, running to the town’s main bus exchange at the Riverhead.

So where is this proposed new site?

Quoted from Hagrid

So where is this proposed new site?

Humberston Ave, near New Waltham end, an unknown seller has donated the land to the club…

Quoted from ska face

I see Alexander Retail Park has recently been bought by a new management/development company. Would be a shame if the whole thing was to mysteriously go up in flames, like that crooked pub near Birmingham, leaving a nice big parcel of town centre land just off the a180.

Can add this to the scope of what I'm talking about in regenerating the whole town centre.  From Freshney Place to Alexander Retail Park there is what exactly, a Sainsburys and little else.  It also straddles a river.  You go to other towns and they absolutely cream themselves over development near water, even the tiniest little bits of it.  

We've got loads of it and do intercourse all with it.

Quoted from ska face

Sorry, not being funny but that’s indicative of the car-centred way of thinking that’s plagued towns and cities for the past half-century. I’m sure it’s not beyond the realms of possibility to put on an extra bus route or two, a couple of times a month, running to the town’s main bus exchange at the Riverhead.

Additional bus services should be pretty much direct to the ground. We'd need dozens of them operating, mostly arriving within a limited window of time and they'd need to be ready to depart soon after the game. Very tricky given that the road links in the town are pretty busy most of the time in any case.

I've not been on the bus in N.E. Lincs for some years, but I have memories of it taking an absolute flipping age to get into town from Cleethorpes back then. I have less faith than you in the ability of the council/bus companies to sort out a proper service for matchdays.

Ah well, it's a long way down the road and we don't even know if a new ground would be feasible for decades. We'll see how the landscape lies then.