Rubbish. I recently met Tony Bloom at the Brighton & Hove Business Awards and he clearly said that he had faith that the season would turn around. I got the impression that he was being sincere and that there's no way he'd sack Slade this side of Xmas.
To stop some of the doom and gloom around, here's some interesting stats on how attendances have improved for similar sized clubs since moves to new stadiums....
Hull City
2006 19,841
2005 18,025
2004 16,847
2003 12,843
2002 9,506
2001 6,684
2000 5,736
1999 6,025
1998 4,682
1997...
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reading
Fair point LB, you did your research...
However, there were still 19 seasons where Reading didn't get over 7,000 average which really does back up my point.
Oh, and most of those I remember were throughout the 70's and 80's when they struggled to get even 5,000 in Elm Park.
While we...
potential
To the laughing bluebird...
You really are a fool mate.
When Reading were at Elm Park, I would suggest that the crowds NEVER got above 6-7,000 on a regular basis. Now that they have some success and a great stadium, of course they have the ability to sell 30, 000 plus.
By the same...
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Hi,
Prescott's error wasn't about the boundary of the National Park, it was on thinking the stadium was within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove (see Telegraph article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/08/nbrighton08.xml).
No, no, of...
Just received this response from the CPRE, when I asked them to clarify their stance:
Hello James,
Thanks for your email. I think it's probably best for us to agree to disagree about whether it's right to put the stadium on an area soon to be designated a National Park. May I just point out...
I got this reply back from Marina Pepper when asking for her comments... I can't help thinking this AONB thing will haunt us..
Any thoughts....?
By the way, no idea why she signed it with 'peace and love'!
I think you might be surprised at what "other" papers may or may not say. You see the...