by Yorkieandy » 25 Jan 2018, 10:52
MellowYellow wrote: 25 Jan 2018, 02:07
Any planning put forward to the council for a new stadium, I expect, would be very similar to Scarborough Athletic Football Clubs £15 million, 2,000 seat stadium & leisure development. The clients there are Scarborough Council although some of the funding was raised with a bit of land swapping with the council and the developers. For Scarborough it is great as it means that after ten years, the town can get its club back again! However, given that Scarbroughs 2,000 seat stadium tallied up to £15 million and Forest Green Rover have unveiled plans for 5,000 seat sports stadium at a cost of £100m just how much will a 6,000 stadium at Nightingale Park cost with a train station, acres of car parking space for a lower support base and leisure facilities for the whole of the Torbay Community . It beggers belief to think CO is actually going to fund any proposal put forward to the council. From my perspective I can now see why Osborne is seen as a wrecking ball with a history of razing stadiums on the promise of building replacements that never materialise.
Scarborough Athletic Ground (Grandstand)
Ah the good old Flamingo Land Stadium, Scarborough. Been in the shed end there a few times now and in fact they are the club i most go and watch. I'm just so impressed by everything they have done there and can't help thinking that if Torquay could emulate them then TUFC would have a positive future.
Tuesday night there was nearly 1,100 there for a night county cup game against Pickering Town! Compare that to Torquay's last home league game in the NL. Scarborough are 4 divisions below Torquay and it is a lot smaller town and when you factor in the likes of nearby Middlesbrough, Hull and a bit further afield Leeds then the progression they are making and the crowds they are getting is remarkable.
It does feel like Scarborough is alive and vibrant whilst Torquay is dying and exhausted. It's the way forward folks!
Also Chesterfield. There is no adjacent infrastructure. There is a huge TESCO that dwarfs it, an ALDI and across the road is a little gym thingy. That's it. There is nothing else but shops and fast food outlets. It's just a soulless bowl of a stadium shoehorned into a space between things. There is no surrounding infrastructure. I can say this as i live 2 miles away.
Also the ground was part paid for by a council loan which i'm not even sure has been paid back yet. I'm certainly paying out of my council tax an i **** hate the club!
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Any planning put forward to the council for a new stadium, I expect, would be very similar to Scarborough Athletic Football Clubs £15 million, 2,000 seat stadium & leisure development. The clients there are Scarborough Council although some of the funding was raised with a bit of land swapping with the council and the developers. For Scarborough it is great as it means that after ten years, the town can get its club back again! However, given that Scarbroughs 2,000 seat stadium tallied up to £15 million and Forest Green Rover have unveiled plans for 5,000 seat sports stadium at a cost of £100m just how much will a 6,000 stadium at Nightingale Park cost with a train station, acres of car parking space for a lower support base and leisure facilities for the whole of the Torbay Community . It beggers belief to think CO is actually going to fund any proposal put forward to the council. From my perspective I can now see why Osborne is seen as a wrecking ball with a history of razing stadiums on the promise of building replacements that never materialise.
Scarborough Athletic Ground (Grandstand)
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Ah the good old Flamingo Land Stadium, Scarborough. Been in the shed end there a few times now and in fact they are the club i most go and watch. I'm just so impressed by everything they have done there and can't help thinking that if Torquay could emulate them then TUFC would have a positive future.
Tuesday night there was nearly 1,100 there for a night county cup game against Pickering Town! Compare that to Torquay's last home league game in the NL. Scarborough are 4 divisions below Torquay and it is a lot smaller town and when you factor in the likes of nearby Middlesbrough, Hull and a bit further afield Leeds then the progression they are making and the crowds they are getting is remarkable.
It does feel like Scarborough is alive and vibrant whilst Torquay is dying and exhausted. It's the way forward folks! ;-)
Also Chesterfield. There is no adjacent infrastructure. There is a huge TESCO that dwarfs it, an ALDI and across the road is a little gym thingy. That's it. There is nothing else but shops and fast food outlets. It's just a soulless bowl of a stadium shoehorned into a space between things. There is no surrounding infrastructure. I can say this as i live 2 miles away.
Also the ground was part paid for by a council loan which i'm not even sure has been paid back yet. I'm certainly paying out of my council tax an i **** hate the club! :@
