I think Dai is referring to the conference facilities within the stadium. Which like many other stadiums whereby they hire out the various rooms for many different events. (Which may I add is not cheap!!).
At a cost and to the benefit of the companies who utilise them ,the recent league finals were held there at significant cost to the league but it is my understanding that one of the criteria for allowing the Academy being build at Landore was that it would also benefit the Community because it removed yet another local league pitch ( football & cricket ) .I know that they've had to replace the pitches at the Academy due to them not binding so were not available for anyone to use ,but it'll be interesting to see what benefits will be seen when established . When the Morfa stadium was demolished to make way for the Liberty that also with the loss of playing surfaces which have never been replaced by the Council so when Dai comments that there's something happening there everyday I wonder what that might be unless of course he likes having his perm touched up daily.
The stadium complex is used by many groups. It was built for the purpose of serving the whole community and not just football and rugby. We are by far the biggest users but that don't give us the right to do anything we want there. we have to ask like other groups has to ask to use it and we have a lease that allows us to play our fixtures there and should we ever lapse on that then we to could be locked out, It will never happen of course but im making a point that we don't own the stadium and will never own the stadium as it generates too much money for the council...
It doesn't serve the community ,it's just another facility to hold conferences , birthday parties etc .all at a cost ,I'd say it is serving the community if the venue was free but obviously thats not the case due to the need to recoup and return some financial benefit to the rate payers but unless I'm missing something here who else uses the pitch , changing rooms ?
Where does it say that Link. why would they sell and more important why would we buy? Its not exactly in a good spot where we could expand is it. we would be responsible for everything then from roads adequate parking etc etc...
Who owns it then?............... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_Stadium .......they're by no means infallible, but perhaps even wiki has got it wrong? We'd be grateful for an update.
...... John Hughes probably put that there . Do you honestly think that Cardiff City Football Club own the stadium? Rather than look at Wikipedia, which can be written by any Tom, Dick or Harry, have a look at this ........http://companycheck.co.uk/company/0...OOTBALL-CLUB-HOLDINGS-LIMITED/group-structure It's a useful starting point when discussing who owns what at Cardiff City FC.
The biggest problem we have got and certain sections did warn at the time is the stadium is built in the wrong place with poor road and parking facilities. It had to drop 5,000 from the original plans because of where it was built. We will always have problems whatever we want to do as there will bound to be objections like the last time that there is not enough space and those objections will keep on coming...We should start planning for our own stadium where there is plenty of room with good roads and room for a pony and plan for that instead of pissing around subsidizing the liberty that will never be ours...
Why would council care what we would be responsible for if they sell? The fact of the matter is the council didn't rule out selling the stadium. Whilst they haven't stated any plans to do so they haven't said it will be a protected asset neither. A sell off is a possibility if the books had to be balanced, but first the council needs to see if it can plug the hole in its finances. If their plan fails then any asset could in the firing line.
The stadium is the councils jewel in the crown and their pride and joy. I don't care if we don't expand and we stay as we are as it's not that important. but should we want to expand then you might as well build a purpose built stadium we can call our own and be done with it. The liberty cost Somewhere around £37m mark to build so a stadium that we want would be around £50m £70m mark and that's about 3 or 4 seasons plus what we have already amassed of premiership money including running the season costs. Plan for the future is the way to go and not pay money for something that wont be ours.
If we are struggling to stay up after the "Christmas schedule ", the january expansion will be abandoned till summer or all together imo .
Roofjack you're such an arch-pessimist. Do you always see the black side of everything? Just as well you don't follow Cardiff - you'd be suicidal.
