I'll happily say WHL wasn't good.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to take you to task for this Notcher.
My bad Eric, consider my arse well and truly tanned
Yes, but I don't think the owner can afford it. Worryingly, if an alternative site does become necessary, the cheaper options will be miles out and favoured by no-one and that is a serious point. I still believe that an agreement will be found regarding a new lease with the city, that's not on the basis of information received, but it is the general belief in the sector that a compromise deal will eventually be completed.
Yep to all of that. If we think like a mid-table survival team that's what we will be, and the owner does not want that.
It was the shelf that stood out for me. WHL changed very little over the years, and it certainly did not have the shiny, corporate feel of the new place, just the opposite in fact.
The 12th biggest of what?
Yeh I’ve came to the same conclusions. There’s no funding for a 500million project that in any case won’t deliver the same as WFCG. I’ve listened to all the pros and cons… moving location doesn’t add up after all does it. For me the location is absolutely at the heart of the club, the only possibility would be embankment.. but just how ?
I remember going to White Hart Lane to see a Forest game with my mate Ted, a Spuds fan, was a friend of Irvinng Scholar's other half who worked, like both of us at the time, for BA as a stewardess. She got us an invite to the boardroom after the game. We met Irving who was very keen to show us a model of those ground redevelopments, plus a chat with Terry Venables, who, upon learning I was a Forest fan, ignored me for the rest of Ted's talk with him.
I remember rushing to a Forest game very late and just went into a part of the ground unfamiliar to me, which was the shelf. You're right, scruffy spot. Got chatting to a group of skinhead Spurs fans and realised it would be unwise to let them know I was a Forest fan. It was difficult because we did pretty well that day.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm wondering what you were carrying that day?
They said "Brand" . I think they defined it as numbers of supporters globally . No idea how they measured it.
Seems so unlikely.
Tbh, I'd be surprised if we were top 12 in England for Global reach.
He meant in this country I think.
Well said. Our ambition as a club probably began to fade when Nigel Doughty decided to break-up Paul Hart's young, promotion-chasing side rather than try and add a bit of quality to it and push-on the next season. That was backed-up later by his decision that the PL wasn't for us.
Did that actually happen? Explains a lot if so.
Nigel never said it publicly of course, but his decisions were often inconsistent with that ambition from Paul Hart to the Davies era, when not a massive increase to the playing budget would probably have made a difference after each of those three Championship play-off failures. The cat was really out of the bag however when Nigel railed against highly paid footballers following the appointment of McClaren and the failure to back him with solid signings, leaving McClaren to bring-in ageing, past-it players like Boateng and Greening and other poor quality fill-ins rather than his preferred choices such as the then free-scoring Ross McCormack (who Mark Arthur allowed to be hijacked by Cardiff, and for whom he then went on to score a shedload of goals) and the quick, creative winger, Wayne Routledge (another who Arthur allowed to slip away after getting him to the CG to discuss personal terms). The less said about relegation to League One under Nigel, and the three seasons spent there is probably for the best.
What Blondie said.