quaker4life wrote:Darlo will wrote:Why the f*** do people even think about going back to that graveyard? If anything goes wrong at HP im sure the board could sort another ground share with say shildon or waste aukland, although the latter would double rental charges
Agreed, to a point.
The two grounds you have mentioned do not meet Evo Stik level grading, if HP went tits up our next best bet would probably be Spenny!
Darlo will wrote:Why the f*** do people even think about going back to that graveyard? If anything goes wrong at HP im sure the board could sort another ground share with say shildon or waste aukland, although the latter would double rental charges
Sod Shildon, look what happened last year when we nearly played there instead of HP, as for Wank Shitland, they would want us like a dose of the clap, not wanted at all...Your right about there grading, Shildon is not graded above the Northern League, and them down the road probably aren't either. As for Spenny, no thank you, it may be the only choice pretty much and closer to a higher grading than HP, Dean Street and West, but if we thought last seasons fixture congestion and backlog was bad at HP when it waterlogged, then I would bet the Spenny pitch is just as bad, if not worse.
Darlo will wrote:I was making the point that anything is better than the arena! I dont get why people dont understand that that place has killed us, what idiots we would look going back
Yes, the Arena killed us, no doubt about it, but right now, it's not the worst option to think about, where is there another ground that meets a Grade B srandard, Spenny could probably achieve it with minimal work, Bishop probably as well, after that, who is left, Gateshead and York are probably too far, and the only other option is, well, that does not bear thinking about.
Darlo will wrote:divas wrote:Given Bishop don't even own the ground I'd find it highly unlikely that if something happened to them we'd not be able to utilise it.
do bishop rent it then? if they went tits up could we not take over as landlords?
Not sure who owns HP, but if it came to that, I cant see why we could not become landlords, I also cant see why we could not do something like what AFC Wimbledon(although there is different reasons to ours)did and buy Kingsmeadow, I think the deal is something like Kingstonian pay a nominal fee for rent with a Pre Season Friendly between the 2 every year and if/when Wimbledon move back to Merton then Kingstonian have first refusalmt8 buy it back for a nominal fee...If push comes to shove, we could look into that as an option, although it is an option I dont particularly like and would not support it fully...
The facts are quite clear, the only real viable option is unfortunately the Arena, it was a breeze block round our necks, it was terminal and ultimately fatal.
If we were to go down that route, I would rather see us at the Arena in Conference North rather than HP and stuck at step 3, and if it were too happen, it should be done with promises that we still look for a new ground.
As a fan owned club, we, as fans, obviously makes us the kingmaker so to speak, and can call the directors out with issues, a new ground being most peoples biggest issue