Todays attendance

Quoted from moosey_club

Regards the training ground, I believe that the preferred site is identified but is tied up with wider council issues and also possibly Sport England or some government initiative on green spaces and funding.

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

If that's the case frankly I'd just move to the next site on the list and get on with it, inflation waits for no one.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

When I was born Grantham had a cinema with 1 screen that was built in the late 70s. They added a second screen in the late 1980s. The seats were horrible in both and it wasn't a pleasant experience to go there. We used to go to Showcase in either Nottingham or Peterborough (both around 40 minutes drive) every time we went to the cinema.

About 5 years ago the cinema was bulldozed and a 5 screen cinema was built over the site and a small adjacent council staff car park. The seats are much comfier and the experience much nice than the previous cinema.

As a result more people go to Grantham Cinema than used to go.

Build it and they will come.

I can't imagine for one minute that Stockwood with his successful career doesn't fully understand that.

If the facilities at our home ground were better (seats, no posts, nicer toilets, better catering, more spacious concourse area, better PA system etc...) then more people will come.

There are very few decent view seats left in BP for the casual fan and none at all if you want more than 1 ticket..

If the experience of attending Grimsby Town home matches was better then the attendances would rise. You only have to look at the attendance boosts that clubs who have moved from grotty old dumps to new stadiums have gained.

I appreciate JS & AP have a policy of not talking about things until they reach the point where they will become public (i.e.planning permission stage), but that policy shouldn't extend to telling blatant lies and making out BP is big enough because it was cater for all the fans that want to attend a home match against someone like Morecambe.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Cheapside must be pretty decent now given the money spent on it. I’d rather see the £7 million allegedly being earmarked for the training ground spent on a stadium.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

You raise an interesting point regarding the training ground.

Would it be possible to redevlop Cheapside in line with what they want, for a lot less? How many clubs at our level have such extraordinary training facilities that it influences players to move there?

I know they have ambitious plans for things to be at the heart of the community but everything has a cost, and getting anything new done in Grimsby seems to be fraught with difficulty.

I don't think we agree on the new stadium,  as I think with a part rebuild BP would be good enough for our foreseeable needs, and I think a new stadium is too expensive and light years away, so I would put the savings made on a training facility into Blundell Park.

Andrew Pettit is the ideal man to decide on these things given his background but even he doesn't appear to have made much progress on the training ground proposals, which could be made public at least.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Average attendance in League One on Saturday was 13600 . How can we expect to function at that level on a sustainable break even basis if we don’t have significantly more capacity then we have now.That is the question I would like to here someone ask the owners.