Legacy fans?
Don't underestimate just how bad the Olympic Stadium is. It is really really shit. Bolton, Wigan and Reading are all a better experience.
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As Ingo says, have you been to the London Stadium? It is the shittest stadium I've visited.
As an aside I wondered how they got away tickets but subsequent conversations revealed that they seemed to have about 80% of the tidkets they actually needed to get in and blagged/Shadied the rest.
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It's a great stadium for athletics, in a great location with excellent public transport links. It's just not a modern football stadium (almost everyone has moved away from ovals, apart from the Scottish FA and West Ham). The away end is fcukin awful for example.
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I'm not actually convinced either of these are true unless you want to leave by canal boat and spend your time before and after in a shopping centre.
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Stratford Station is a pleasant 10-minute stroll away before the game (much longer afterwards due to largely unnecessary pedestrian flow management put in place) and you can get pretty much anywhere in London/East Anglia directly from Stratford (London Overground/Lizzie Line/Jubilee/Central/DLR/Greater Anglia).
Saturdays in November/December are pretty ridiculous though because of the aforementioned shopping centre (the fourth biggest in the country). -
I didn't mind the queue afterwards, kept moving, well managed and with a nice view of the trains. A much better view than that of the pitch and being only a 100 yards away from the trains I was quite a bit closer too.
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It's not a ten minute stroll from Stratford to the ground. Takes nearly that time to get out of the bloody station!
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Lengthy interview with the new chairman on social media tonight. Clearly trying to crank the pressure up on the Council (and / or prepare the fan base for another delay)
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How about us fans set up a trust, invest some money, and buy the ground off the council. We get a return on investment with the club paying us rent.
Tricky can organise it all.
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I'll believe it isn't just about putting pressure on the council once they have a viable alternative site.
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Seems quite a few clubs are introducing a policy that they’ll take your season ticket off you if it isn’t used for a certain number of games in the season (counting exchanged as “used”). So expect that from Forest next season.
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Championship clubs do it too?
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The timing of this seems far from coincidental, in that the club has chosen to go public a couple of days after government-appointed commissioners arrive at Loxley House. I suspect Cartledge believes this is the perfect time to swoop and apply pressure over the lease.
My feeling is that his timing probably couldn't be worse. When commissioners are sent in to stricken councils, probably quite correctly, they have precisely zero fucks to give about any of the things the chairman raises, i.e. the club's emotive and historic connection to the City Ground. It's all about finding every possible cost saving at the same time as maximising revenue generation wherever that's possible.
Even if the club could persuade the council's commercial property department to accept something below market rate for the land (which they clearly seem to think they can with this recent media campaign), there is absolutely no chance it would be signed off by commissioners. They will view this land purely in terms of its value to taxpayers and if Forest want to play hardball, they'll likely happily wave them off to Gamston and flog the site for housing.
Hopefully the two sides can get back around the table, but it looks to me like Cartledge might have dropped a bit of a bollock here. Fans will lap it up in the meantime, though, of course.
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Notts MPs have written a joint letter urging Forest and the Council to sort things out. Looking at the signatories, what on earth has the county done to deserve such appalling representatives? Anderson, Clark-Smith, Jenrick, Bradley… it’s a roll call of incompetent, racist right wingnuts.
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Ben Bradley's chosen this moment to reveal in a tweet he's a Forest season ticket holder and a massive Reds fan (at the same time as reminding folk he's standing in the mayoral election in a couple of months' time, of course...).
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Leeds introducing it was the prompt for me posting that.
We’d still have more demand than supply in the championship. At least at the start of the season.
