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.
Yeah agreed. Just makes me laugh how quickly the club forget 15k attendances (and that includes counting ST holders who didn't actually go).
This will be dragging on long after the administrators have gone.
We don’t actually know what forest did bid for the land. And you’d also think a council would have duty to its city and residents to allow a top flight club to flourish in the area due to other benefits, both economic and social that they bring.
Is one way of looking at it. The other is that Forest have likely been underpaying quite significantly for that lease for many years and now aren't too keen to pay what it's worth. Don't forget that much of the economic benefit you mention is felt 'south of the water', so to speak.
Yet another way of looking at this is that it's actually a genius move by Cartledge. Let's just say that privately the club has decided, for whatever reason, to abandon the ground redevelopment and build a new stadium elsewhere. This could be some really smart laying of groundwork on a comms/PR front. When the announcement is made and the fanbase largely goes apeshit, you've made yourself bulletproof.
"It was all their fault," they say, pointing at Loxley House. "We desperately wanted to stay and they made it impossible."
He’s also a “massive Mansfield fan”. And more often seen in the corporates Trentside with his lad (although not seen him this season).
Nice thinking but I can’t really see why the club would actually want to move grounds. It would cost far more than paying a bit more ground rent.
I think the ground move levels of batshittery from our batshit fanbase would depend on the chosen location.
The walk over Trent bridge seems most fans reason for wanting to stay, I’d hazard a guess that most don’t do this anyway.
He’s always been a Forest fan tbh. He was often at matches pre-Prem. Stags are more like his team that he supports/attends because the locals like it thing.
For a much larger capacity? Not sure what a revamped City Ground would hold but it won’t be anywhere near 50k or whatever they’d aim for at a new place.
And also, "The Evangelous Marinakis Stadium".
Early in my career I worked with a guy who drove a Bentley. One day I asked him why he had such a nice car but no personalised plates, he gave me a pitying look and said "I drive a Bentley, I don't need plates to tell people how much money I have".
I feel like the same applies with Marinakis. He owns multiple football clubs, he doesn't need his name on the stadium for people to know who he is. I don't know why there's this insistence of ascribing character traits to him that aren't in evidence.
I'm disappointed you even felt the need to ask him. Anybody who buys themselves a personalised number plate is a 5TUP1D CUN7 and may as well have a sign saying that hanging around their neck. Also why the fuck does anyone want them to know they've made a load of cash anyway? Unless you're trying to pull birds, it's just inviting people to loathe you and is daft.
Rob Jones is fourth official at the Amex on Sunday, so best pray the ref (Michael Salisbury) doesn't get injured. although Craig Pawson is on VAR, so we're fcuked anyway.
Felipe leaves at the end of the season: x.com/louiswheeldonns/status/1764730562458038588?s=61&t=w-weDDzS0PXEYtazUCi1rg
I think he’s retiring.
U21s lost 2-0 at bottom club Man City, who featured Kian Breckin in their side.
Please tell me Ian Breckin didn't name his kid Kian...
