You are right about flat pack Stadiums, but we were more than grateful to have it at the time, our original plans for a Stadium at Stoneham near the M27 was kicked out by the NIMBYs, our present ground was sorted by our Local Council to fill the void. It can be expanded and has much room for improvement, it has the worst acoustics and lousiest tannoy in the Premier, not the fans choice, just what we were presented with at the time. Ask SB3 what it is like to have a cowshed which they can't even afford, that is a scenario that can only get better if the Club is saved from destruction.
FP is a s##t ground ( like ours because of age and poor facilities) but has a cracking atmospher. I remember them singing the whole game and not many clubs do that.
Cannot deny that, which is why I still have a lot of sympathy for their decent fans, who are the victims here not the cause.
All part of the Uk's rich tapestry, mon ami. For the record, I've spent 40+ years in Hampshire myself, so there's more "ooh-aar, b'aint be bad"! about me than "chim, chimminy, chim chimminy chim-chim cherree."
Uber are you a carrot Cruncher? I did some work in Hampshire in my early days restoration job (and no i'm not a builder just helping out a mate who needed a few bods working on this house). Anyway it's a nice part of the country with some great villages and small pubs.
Is this the same shiny flat pack stadium that took Scummers into Administration and nearly killed your club, before you very luckily got the late Liebherr as owner? Our stadium has seen great European nights in very recent years, like AC Milan, you have no recent history at all.Saddo's
But it wasn't just luck was it, it was potential, thats why you've got a property developer sniffing around, FP would make a great ASDA if the mens football team can't carry on. Sad, but true.
Nothing to do with QPR though, they aren't bothered about us, and even less bothered about you. See you on the Norwich and Liverpool boards soon I suppose, trotting out more bile.
I feel like we're now playing host to the South Coast rivalry on this board. Still, come the summer they'll both skadoodle down the M27 and cheer on Hampshire together at the Ageas Bowl.
And a large part of that potential was the stadium. It was both the source of and answer to the near-demise of the club, which is the Catch-22 that many teams find themselves facing these days...they need the revenue streams of larger, more modern stadia to finance operations, but financing those stadia can also lead down a disastrous road. Owning the ground is huge, though; look at Coventry, who got their bright new park, but are paying such high rent for it (understandably high, given the cost to build the Ricoh) that they've had discussions about moving out.
