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« Reply #30 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:08:03 » |
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I dunno mate..........Ice hockey I presume, I'll check. I don't know what his grand plans are to link them all up though. Some kind of huge complex? Multipurpose stadium? who knows...
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« Reply #31 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:08:41 » |
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Football, speedway and what? Ice hockey? Cricket? Exactly what I was thinking. Undoubtedly the plans are all in his head. |
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« Reply #32 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:12:43 » |
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He told her he used to work for nPower you know....what a suprise :|
The third sport is ice hockey guys, can't say I've heard of any partnership with them though...
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« Reply #33 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:13:26 » |
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If they build a football ground with a speedway track around the pitch I will be fucking fuming. I doubt I'd be alone.
It'd be interesting to see them try and play ice hockey on a football pitch though.
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« Reply #34 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:14:50 » |
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I'm asking her if he said what his plans were as I'm now intrigued..... didn't even know she was gonna be there, proving to be quite useful  edit: His plans are to get all the fans united and attending eachothers matches etc etc.... obviously thinks we all have enough money to pay for speedway, ice hockey and football tickets every week. |
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« Reply #35 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:18:34 » |
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Doesn't he realise that a hugely significant chunk of the support come from outside Swindon?
The ice hockey starts at 5pm on a Saturday, not exactly ideal is it?
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« Reply #36 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:23:50 » |
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Right their plan is to do a 'sport passport' where by you get an entitlement to a certain amount of each sports matches depending on what grade passport you purchase. Would imagine it wouldn't be cheap though.....
Thankfully there was no mention footy and speedway using the same ground though.
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« Reply #37 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:26:21 » |
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and....just to complete the circle.....we wont be able to fit all of this in the current footprint.....however Im sure Bowden has already decided he will build on the current cricket pitch......probably the athletics track to.......which we cant do.......and back to square one!
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« Reply #38 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:28:21 » |
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How many fans will be interested really? A season ticket for STFC is expensive enough without the added cost of speedway, I really can't see more than a tiny fraction of the support taking up the offer.
Ah fuck it I'm going to shoot some Germans.
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« Reply #39 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:28:21 » |
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and....just to complete the circle.....we wont be able to fit all of this in the current footprint.....however Im sure Bowden has already decided he will build on the current cricket pitch......probably the athletics track to.......which we cant do.......and back to square one! I hope you are not suggesting that our esteemed board will never get anywhere with ground development  |
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:42:31 » |
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protests are fun |
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« Reply #41 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:43:31 » |
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and....just to complete the circle.....we wont be able to fit all of this in the current footprint.....however Im sure Bowden has already decided he will build on the current cricket pitch......probably the athletics track to.......which we cant do.......and back to square one! I hope you are not suggesting that our esteemed board will never get anywhere with ground development the problem with the other plans....ie with housing was the loss of green space and the cricket pitch. The cricket club have a longer lease and wont move...so you cant build anything there. Plus, due to some regulation (im sure talktalk knows alot more than me) you have to have a certain % of open green space in each ward....most of Swindon is already on its minimum quota....so you cant build on it.......which is exactly why their first plans didnt work...... |
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« Reply #42 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:43:55 » |
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protests are fun Especially when somebody is close to punching a moron.  |
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« Reply #43 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 09:35:28 » |
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wtf was that guy on at the back of the Arkells, quote:
"Bill Power, when will HE show us the money".
With idiots like that amongst the fanbase the current board have some support left, no matter how deep they are in the brown stuff. That guy made me fuming what a prize twat, try reading the paper you spanner the club have acknowledge a takeover bid and Bill Power's already invested 1.2 million floghorse |
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« Reply #44 on: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 11:09:47 » |
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To be fair, the idea of a "sports passport" to link all three sports isn't a bad one. Don't see it getting a massive take-up but if it helps promote closer ties between the three sports all well and good. But for someone brought in to "mastermind" the ground redevelopment who so far seems largely to have succeeded mainly in alienating the fans, local councillors and local residents, it's not much to show for six months inflated salary is it? Maybe he's not getting anywhere with the ground redevelopment and is looking for other ways to justify his existence? Remember initially when he first started as well as saying the Trust's plans were fatally flawed (presumably because they actually existed, being written down in a form people can see them is always a mistake) he also said the club would be publishing their own "very similar" proposals at the end of January? Instead he seems to have been focussing on a link-up with speedway so we can cash in on their massive fanbase over Reading way, because, erm, they don't have a football club to support over there. Oh.
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