afc swindon

[dell boy]

Useless fact for you....I went to Aldershot in the early 80's for a Boxing Day fixture, it was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch. So as to not completely waste my time, I did a walk just outside Newbury up to an Iron Age hillfort called Beacon Hill. Stumbling about in the rain and gloom I discovered the grave of Lord Caernarvon, who was supposedly cursed by funding the discovery of Tutankaman's tomb, and being around the excavation....he died soon after.

Fuck me, I knew there must have been better options than going on to Tottenham - West Ham that day.

   85th minute winner from Steve Perryman....I doin't suppose for a minute you'd have thought that Ardiles and Hoddle would be the next 2 managers of STFC....Mickey Hazard and Paul Allen would play for the Town and Tony Galvin would have been assistant manager.

If I go somewhere, I always try and have a bit of a stumble round, or somewhere on the way.  Get to see bits of the country you'd otherwise wouldn't know existed.[/quote]

In my younger days having a stumble around in strange towns got me in a lot of trouble.

[RobertT]

Reg, the Rent on the CG is based on the clubs turnover, so it's quite possible a small sized non league club habitting the site could get a fair deal on the rent.  If you imagine we'd be playing in front of 500 hardy souls lets say, then you could reasonably expect 1/10th the rent we pay right now so about £20k a year.  That's less than a very small shop in town.

[Reg Smeeton]

Reg, the Rent on the CG is based on the clubs turnover, so it's quite possible a small sized non league club habitting the site could get a fair deal on the rent.  If you imagine we'd be playing in front of 500 hardy souls lets say, then you could reasonably expect 1/10th the rent we pay right now so about £20k a year.  That's less than a very small shop in town.

 Fair points, but it presumes SBC is a reasonable landlord....given that the lease as stands only has a short time to run, its more likely SBC would inssit this be honoured and use a failure to evict the club and sell off the land.

[Maverick]

Expect SBC to use any failure, as reason to change the way the land is used. IMO there would be little sympathy towards providing a ground for an AFC Swindon as it would not be demonstrable as a "best value" use of such a large facility.

Plus SBC have never convinced me that they give a monkeys about being altruistic!