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

[donny]

The old Players Horizon site does all that.Don't know what is happening here but wpuld work.

Ironically, thats the place I've been looking at when scouring for 'potential' sites.
Could run the tram in there as well

 

[Notcher]

It was always known as Bread and Lard Island for many,many years

I presume that means living beyond their means? It adds up because there's many a plastic millionaire lives there now.

Ironically there's one of those pretentious cafes there called bread and lard which serves things like poached egg and avocado but because it's on Focaccia bread and has some parsley it's about £12

 

[Morpeth]

I’m thinking of moving there Redders , I reckon I’d fit reet in with me clobber on and me accent, just need to accessorise with a dolly bird and a few snotty nosed kids running about.

Sod povvy West Bridgford Bonf. Move up here and we’ll take the helicopter down for the games. It’s always cheaper to run when there’s a passenger.

 

[Captain Sinister]

It was always known as Bread and Lard Island for many,many years

They're all fur coat and no knickers there...that's what my gran taught me

 

[Forrest_Grump]

They didn't miss it, because they didn't bomb it. The RAF carried out all the raids on Koln, including the first ever 1,000 bomber raid, bar 3 occasions where the USAAF carried out single-bomber raids using specialist bombs that failed to deploy. So your American colleague had no reason to feel guilty.

 

[Wes' Organ]

I lose count of how many times I've posted these words on here:

"The decision by the club's owners not to buy the land on which we play, when it was offered to them at a sensible price in the late 1980s remains the worst decision the owners of this club have ever made"

I'm happier with our owners past and present not having the ability to sell the land to the highest bidder personally.

 

[alabamared]

They're all fur coat and no knickers there...that's what my gran taught me

I was too cultured to post that one.

 

[Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.]

They're all fur coat and no knickers there...that's what my gran taught me

Was it a visual demonstration?

 

[Cloughie1975]

They're all fur coat and no knickers there...that's what my gran taught me

Is that outside the chippy before matches?

 

[Notcher]

They didn't miss it, because they didn't bomb it. The RAF carried out all the raids on Koln, including the first ever 1,000 bomber raid, bar 3 occasions where the USAAF carried out single-bomber raids using specialist bombs that failed to deploy. So your American colleague had no reason to feel guilty.

That means they friendly fire dropped them somewhere else

 

[incident]

The old Players Horizon site does all that.Don't know what is happening here but wpuld work.

They've already built on it - albeit with fairly cheap & generic industrial units so stuff that could be relocated. But that applies to most of the Queens Drive / Lenton Lane / Redfield Road area.

 

[Morpeth]

The Shut Up and Show More Football podcast is out and you can hear the chairman’s interview on it.

 

[Listen 'ere young man]

The Shut Up and Show More Football podcast is out and you can hear the chairman’s interview on it.

Did he say anything concrete?

 

[Lady Penelope]

I love the location of CG and absolutely do not wish to see the club leave there - it's unique with much history. But more importantly for me is the future sustainability for the club - new fan base, better facilities, but if possibly close to inner town to retain the right feel.

I'm not from Nottingham, but if all this I not achievable then the club should relocate and ASAP and build another unique stadium, not a pop-up one, on a site that can last the next 150 years.


Pointless dicking about once a pipe dream has been deemed unrealistic.

Absolutely spot on. The BC is 45 years old, and it shows. No point in spending more money on a stadium that will have many unique selling points but which will be substandard in many ways and which will need to be replaced at some point.
For the record, any relocation has to be to a better location (OK, the walk over Trent Bridge and the reflection in the river will have to be sacrificed) but if the new ground is better, has better access and has better transport links, and is planned for at least the next 50-75 years, then I'm for that. If however the proposed location is to be Colwick Park or even further out, then I'll argue for staying where we are and making the east of it. A new ground has to be central, very central, and now is a good time to push for that.

 

[Redemption]

So says everything is has been done towards the 106 agreement, including the relocation of the boat club, but this is all irrelevant while there is no agreement with the Council over the lease.

 

[Strummer]

The Kölner Dom is a magnificent building, and well worth visiting - when you exit the Main Station, you can‘t really miss it. Mainly because its huge.

Müngersdorfer Stadion (or, RheinEnergieStadion, to give it its corporate-sponsor name) is a fantastic venue for football. Tight, compact, with excellent facilities and great sight-lines of the pitch, superb public transport links and really good facilities, it is a proper place to watch football. The locals are a bit mental, but in a good way.

Whilst Köln escaped the worst of the Allied bombing, other cities weren‘t so lucky; most of central Stuttgart was flattened, and Dresden was pretty much obliterated, including the glorious Semperoper (which was eventually rebuilt, and it is beautiful).

Anyway, a ghetto in Ravenshead is houses where the family only has one car.

 

[Eddie Yates]

I'm not from Nottingham

Where are you from?

 

[ARedChester]

Where are you from?

Well, technically born in Essex but raised in Yorkshire.

 

[sammy the snake]

Definitely agree.

If we move, it needs to be something that says "Nottingham Forest", not Identikit stadium FC.

The biggest issue is finding a large enough portion of land to build such a facility on, and, to tie it in with the public transport networks (which, will be a big part of any planning).

Trent embankment is perfect then. Trams, park and ride nearish, short walk from town, next to the river… near a bridge. Add huge value to that area.

Also the name stays the same.

 

[Notcher]

Well, technically born in Essex but raised in Yorkshire.

Here's me thinking all this time that you were from Chester

 

[Notcher]

Trent embankment is perfect then. Trams, park and ride nearish, short walk from town, next to the river… near a bridge. Add huge value to that area.

Also the name stays the same.

Perhaps the club could allow the old training ground at ladybay to be reappropriated as public use training facilities and the land where the city ground is also used for that. That would compensate for the meadows

 

[Eddie Yates]

Well, technically born in Essex but raised in Yorkshire.

Well that's pissed all over my sarcasm

 

[Rubics]

 

[PlayedOnGrass]

The only thing id say about Koln… poor vegetarians

Beautiful place though

My kind of people
Steak & potatoes and plenty of Kolsch
I still get Kolsch delivered in 5litre kegs from Amazon

 

[PlayedOnGrass]

Kolsch and a pork knuckle

Always brings back memories of a brewery / city tour we went on with an American work colleague. Tapped me on the shoulder by the cathedral and said so all the Germans could hear “how the f*** did we miss that”

We missed it on purpose.
It was used as a landmark on route for bombing raids over the Ruhr, Dresden and back