The World Famous City Ground - Home of the PROPER WORLD‘S OLDEST LEAGUE CLUB

[Eddie Yates]

Those Romanians that live near Bryn would soon take it away and burn it.

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20 odd years ago we bought an old house in Mapperley to renovate, it had an old asbestos garage that I needed to replace

Obviously wasn't going to touch it me sen so I gave a Bulgarian fella a ton & when I got home from work all that was left was the concrete base

 

[incident]

Simple solution

EM just needs to buy a bollock load of land at the Eastcroft site & then dismantle the CG piecemeal & build it back up at the new site, ok we lose the river location but it's closer to town & the boozers for pre-match larrup

With regards to the asbestos in the main stand roof then I know some Romanians that will deal with this if we give them a few dust masks

For f*** sake I don't know why it's always left to me to sort everything out

To get around issues with the City Council owning the land, we should move to some land owned by the City Council?

 

[sammy the snake]

Everything will work out, just forcing the council to stop pissing around.

I don’t share your optimism mate I really don’t and I’m generally optimistic. The problem is that the city council aka uk gov will want to extract every single extra increase in ground rent revenues here on. The council itself is fiscally dead. Why wouldn’t they want to charge 1 million per season… Forest see that as a non starter so they need to stop f***ing around and take control of the club’s future

Sitting on their fat arses for another 5 years means more players sold, and clubs like f***ing Brentford move on lol

We’ve all got that link the WFCG but we need to move quickly here on

 

[eyupmeduck]

The building up the road (I assume) you're refering to is County Hall mate, the HQ of Nottinghamshire County Council. Our beef is with Nottingham City Council.

I could try and be smart and say that I was referring to the canal house (Which I think NCC are selling) but you are correct and I was mistakenly on about County Hall!

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[Eddie Yates]

To get around issues with the City Council owning the land, we should move to some land owned by the City Council?

Did ya miss the bit where I said EM should buy the land

& yeah it was a really serious suggestion

 

[sammy the snake]

I can’t understand why the Brian Clough stand can’t be rebuilt. There’s loads of room behind it?

This gets me as well. I think the point is that it’s not financially viable to simply extend, it would need tearing down completely because the foundations are older than the stand. So I get their point.

 

[incident]

This gets me as well. I think the point is that it’s not financially viable to simply extend, it would need tearing down completely because the foundations are older than the stand. So I get their point.

The idea that there's loads of room behind it is somewhat inaccurate as well.

There's loads of room behind two thirds of it. There's f*** all room behind the other third. So any expanded stand would either have to start knocking down more boathouses, or would end up as lopsided as the Bridgford End.

 

[Statto]

No.

Perhaps they should do what they did in Chicago years ago and lift everything up a few metres.

Reminds me of the time on thunderbirds when they tried to move the Empire State Building... it didn't go well

 

[Rubics]

Simple solution

EM just needs to buy a bollock load of land at the Eastcroft site & then dismantle the CG piecemeal & build it back up at the new site, ok we lose the river location but it's closer to town & the boozers for pre-match larrup

With regards to the asbestos in the main stand roof then I know some Romanians that will deal with this if we give them a few dust masks

For f*** sake I don't know why it's always left to me to sort everything out

It’s a cross you have to bear Eddie. Some folks talk some folks do!

 

[donny]

To get around issues with the City Council owning the land, we should move to some land owned by the City Council?

I've heard worse ideas..
Really piss Notts County off as well if we built a brand new stadium on their doorstep.

 

[Eddie Yates]

It’s a cross you have to bear Eddie. Some folks talk some folks do!

Thanks Rubics, I appreciate your support

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

Reminds me of the time on thunderbirds when they tried to move the Empire State Building... it didn't go well

The buildings were not quite so tall when Chicago was raised in the mid 1800s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

 

[Lady Penelope]

Oh Flatpack Stadium,
The smoke rolling in from the burger shop on the corner
My desire is always to get the hell out of here before the traffic builds up
Oh Flatpack stadium.

It doesn't really carry the same sort of feeling or emotion does it?


Just so you know - You will never ever recreate the City Ground somewhere else. It is impossible. It is a unique location with a unique feel to it.

You can try to create something else but the moment Forest leave that location something dies and it will never be recreated.

You can argue all you like for relocating the ground and make some very good valid reasons for it , and many, including myself, would understand them, but don't ever try to sell us utter garbage like 'it is entirely possible to recreate the City Ground elsewhere' because it simply can't happen.

Anyone who thinks we can recreate what we currently have somewhere else simply does not understand it.

Physically, but better, is possible. History, legacy, no.

 

[Lady Penelope]

I can’t understand why the Brian Clough stand can’t be rebuilt. There’s loads of room behind it?

Probably because to rebuild with an increased capacity would overload the access routes. I did wonder why that statement was made though, and made in the way that it was.

 

[Lady Penelope]

It looks pretty spectacular to me

Believe me, this is not a soulless bowl!

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

Simple solution here is just to ditch the CG and move in to Meadow Lane in a ground share.

Sure we might have more season ticket holders than capacity but if I've learned anything recently it's that shoving loyal fans into an arbitrary queue to get tickets is a benefit, so just do that.

 

[alabamared]

That’s the one!
Not built to my taste but we are all different
And agreed

A lady who lives more or less opposite was telling me some stories about that house and its occupants.
Talking of houses have you seen the 'rebuild' on the corner of Denbury and Waltham?

 

[Lord Wazzock]

It appears as though NFFC is willing to compromise over the rental figure, but as Danny Taylor reported previously, the City Council see considerably more value in the CG land being redeveloped for riverside residential properties and could therefore be unwilling to budge. Not everything is the fault of the club.

Yep, the city council is effectively being run, financially at least, by government accountants. They won't give a flying feck about Forest or the good people of Nottingham. Just cold hard cash.

They will see prime development land on the banks of the trent.

 

[Rubics]

A lady who lives more or less opposite was telling me some stories about that house and its occupants.
Talking of houses have you seen the 'rebuild' on the corner of Denbury and Waltham?

Is that the one that’s massive! Just about finished?

 

[Notcher]

They will see prime development land on the banks of the trent.

Good luck with that when we've still got 33 years on a lease. They'll be back out once the capitalisation directions are being fulfilled and some assets have been sold off

 

[Erik]

So it's agreed then. All we have to do to get ourselves an iconic ground and cracking atmosphere is to either

a) Stay where we are

or

b) Move to Italy.

Awesome.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

So it's agreed then. All we have to do to get ourselves an iconic ground and cracking atmosphere is to either

a) Stay where we are

or

b) Move to Italy.

Awesome.

Easy choice really.

Pizza, red wine, sun and easier to stay up or 25 minutes from Mansfield.

 

[Erik]

Easy choice really.

Pizza, red wine, sun and easier to stay up or 25 minutes from Mansfield.

We may be onto something!

 

[incident]

Good luck with that when we've still got 33 years on a lease. They'll be back out once the capitalisation directions are being fulfilled and some assets have been sold off

tbh even if we ever reached the end of the lease without a new one being signed - it'd take an exceptionally brave and/or stupid political party to evict the club. Be that the city council themselves, or via accountants answerable to central government.

 

[DizzyBala]

If we move away from the river, then inevitably, it'll lead to the badge being changed as well since it won't be accurate any longer.

I'm not saying I agree with the Council here, because £1m a year in rent is quite excessive but if £250k wasn't that bad in the Championship and even under Fawaz, then considering all the extra money the club earns as a Premierleague team, the club can't seriously expect the Council to keep that same rate surely?

Surely they can just agree to a reasonable increase in rent, for a longer term commitment and it being dependent on what league the club is playing in?

Seen some shit takes about people being up for moving. I don't want to trade memories and tradition to be able to buy another Emmanuel Dennis or Jonjo Shelvey. Because that is the difference here. Plus, if you think Marinakis is going to finance a brand new stadium in this economy and drop a shit load on new players during them seasons, you're potty.

Don't want the owner owning the stadium, seen too many horror stories.