Thetownend.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bristol_rovers/6267143.stm

"Swindon is also a licensed Football League ground and they would love to have us."

"Then there is Cheltenham, but I can't think of a single advantage over Swindon"

Imagine how much trouble there would be every other week with thousands of Brizzle fans in town

:shock: Crikey.Ummm

It would be money I guess. They're thugs though.

I'm sure the police will look forward to that !!!

By mentioning us like that, I would guess that they have spoken to Smarnes and Co. about the possiblility of temporarily using the CG, and that is why he'd quoted as saying 'Swindon is also a licensed Football League ground, and they would love to have us'.

So long as the pennies are dropping into the bank accounts of the club, i dont mind drizzle rovers using the county ground. It depends if the club are allowed to negotiate any deal or whether the council do, which would be their right as the stadium owners.

Millom

They's soon return the CG to terracing anyway.

To be honest I could see the old bill blocking any prosed temporary move to the CG on the grounds of potential trouble. They'll end up in Cheltenham

Imagine the scene -

-We dont go up
-Rovers are squatting at the CG for a season

We would have an "away" game at the CG and get the Arkells and stratton bank. HOW GAY WOULD THAT BE?

That would be mental.

It's a good point.

I'd assume we'd be given a massive allocation though based on the cirumstances. Nationwide or Arkells and Stratton Bank I expect.

I thought the same. Would the decision be the club's or the council's though?

Perhaps the board want to merge with Rovers!

That would be superb - it'd be a 14,000 crowd for both matches as neither are really away and it'd be bonkers.

Obviously I'd love to go up but hey.

Just one thing:
Home match - Bristol Rovers vs Oxford at the County Ground
 :shock:

Pubs will start having collections in advance for damage repair!

Just one thing:
Home match - Bristol Rovers vs Oxford at the County Ground
 :shock:[/quote]

Well it won't be a league match, will it !!

Won't happen.

Its not going to happen .. more likely to use Ashton Gate I would have thought .. they have before

twerton park is where they will go imo

I believe they are saying Ashton Gate will be used for the rugby team who share with Rovers at the moment.

The Rovers plans include building accomodation into the side of one of the stands - seems they managed to get planning permission OK, even with such a "fatal flaw" :D

i wont be happy ground sharing with them! they can go to cheltenham or twerton park!

Not league standard though.

I'm amazed the tip they play in now is 'league standard'.

It's a fucking toilet........

It'd have to be a hell of a lot of money to justify playing on a cabbage patch of a pitch by October and relaying it by February!

Terrible idea, no way.

I dont think the Police will allow it. Both clubs would have it.

I can see serious carnage. I cant imagine comming back from away games knowing there are knife weilding Rovers about every week.

If it happens it will change everything. Seeing Rovers in the Town End, and in the CGH! UUURRRGH! The self loathing!

Most of the options seem to be out from what I've seen.

If the rugby club go to Ashton Gate then Wovers will have a straight choice between us or Cheltenham.

Don't shitty aready ground share with a rugby club?

They are in talks about going back to Twerton according to the News.

certainly hope it doesnt happen.and tbh i cant see it happening.

if it did happen there'd be so much trouble.aswell as that i dont want the scum stepping foot inside our home stands!Can you imagine, after they'de of left , aswell as the stench theyde leave in the ground there'd be graffiti everywhere i, broken seats .alot more aswell

groundsharin with a rival  would be hell.especially with the rovers granny beatin thugs

hope they share with shitty

imagine how strange it would be to play them "away" if they ground shared with us! sitting in the bank!

that would be wierd.horrible!

Fuck off. The ground is great for non league.

If Rovers did ground-share with us, we wouldnt have any seats left!
Plus more and more trouble outside the ground. There would be small positives if they ground-shared with us, but a lot more negatives

Their fans will want Twerton, it's a shorter trip, they have history there and they'll get bigger crowds than at ours or Whaddon Rd.

The trouble is that Twerton Park itself needs quite a bit of work doing to it to bring it up to current football league standards - so they'd end up shelling out even more cash to move there on top of their spend on the new stadium.

Whereas they could spend the money on policing at swindon. Never going to happen

The Board may well be interested in getting into bed with Wovers, because if  we scratch their back they'll scratch ours.....the lease on the the CG runs out relatively soon......with the best time frame available it will be several years before they can franchise us to Chippenham....so somewhere to play while they're waiting would be helpful.

  Bit like the NHS for MKD.

From the Gasheads Forum, Looks like it is Twerton

"As a football club we have to listen to our members and the majority have said they would want us to go to Twerton Park."

"We will be working to try to make that happen. I know there are concerns about the facilities but we have had a look down there and it is not actually as bad as people might think."

Looks like a return to Twerton then.

thank fuck for that!

Martin Starnes, or whatever his name is, was on the radio this morning talking about it. The club are 'exploring' the idea. He said the club would be very interested and the ball is in their court.   :x  What I don't understand is that do people not remember the trouble at the rovers game?!!

Gazza, like I said above, the Rovers lot might not have the choice of Twerton in the end. It'll all depend how much it costs to bring the place up to FL standards. Also, it's already got two teams sharing it - Bath City and Team Bath - so what if the second club (presume TB) has long term lease agreement already?

Maybe Rovers will end up at trhe Rec in Bath!  that'd please the good peiople of central bath ahving a few thousand rabid gasheads turn up very week!

Cheltenham can have them then!

There's also the aspect that if they were to groundshare with us for a couple of seasons, that may then delay us being able to get on with the CG redev. And if it really p's off the locals, may cause such a backlash as to scupper any ground redev at all. Both of which aspects the more I think about them, the more they worry me - it would be a bit unfortunate to scupper our own ground redev by helping Wovers out with theirs.

thats a really good point Paul. i actually never thought of that! would we have to groundshare for the CG redevelopment or not?

My interpretation of the CG plans would be no?  The major could be done over a summer.  As the pitch isn't being turned and the existing fotprint isn't to be changed wouldn't it be like blakcpool or plymouth who've remained in situ, albeit with a reduced capacity for a period of time?

I think Diamandes might negotiate a ground share for us at the kassam...........

Not under the plans the Trust put forward as you could do it a stand at a time, but that would be a lot more difficult if we were sharing the CG as the time windows available in which to do disruptive work would be negligible. ie in a normal season we'd have periods of 2-3 weeks when we didn't have a home game so you could do a lot in that time. Of course, seriously major work would still have to be done in close season, but without sharing the CG you get quite a few 2-3 week windows. If we're sharing with Wovers, we'd be lucky to get any, and the situation with adapting to two clubs using one ground would likely be pretty chaotic anyway without attempting to start the redev so it may delay start of work until they're gone.

And then there's whether having two years or whatever of Wovers fans causing aggro in town centre plus all the extra traffic etc would alienate local residents etc and run the risk of turning them against STFC's ground redev.

Do our council not look at the plans for Rovers' ground and wonder why they aren't being so forward thinking and, well, good?

I'm pretty sure if the Rovers plans were submitted for the CG they'd get a lot of positves said about them from people on the Council.  Maybe a desire for slightly less housing involved, but generally get the nod from all concerned due to the fact the footprint remains so tight to the current ground.

As one of those residents and a Swindon fan I'd be worried about walking through town on a saturday!

It's not the council the trust/consortium have a problem with dave. If a problem exists at all.