I've just stumbled across this one. I mean what an absolute twunt:
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/04/25/former-council-candidate-charged-with-harassing-estranged-wife/
What?
Christ, that's harsh. It's a new facility and people have only so much money for entertainment. If you can't sound off about flat beer, loud music or wonder about the impact on train queues on here, where can you?
I'll bet you 20 pee that the club are monitoring this thread with a good deal...
Man City to 60k and Birmingham City moving to a new 62k ground as well.
But these are all big city clubs. We are a provincial club like Stoke, Plymouth Hull, Southampton, and Portsmouth. I don't think there is much wrong with a capacity of 32,000 for clubs our size.
It must be a truly shit time to be a Bristol Rovers fan. The Bristol rivalry situation reminds me a bit of Palace and us, but we had the excuse of being owned by lying asset strippers - and even then we were back to near parity 25 years later. Last time Rovers were above City in the league was...
I'm pretty sure the club and the police will have the whole place sealed off to away fans when the risk is high. But when it isn't, I quite like the idea of away fans being welcomed really. West Ham have had a bad reputation in the past, yet one coked up plum causing issues when the place is...
He is obviously fairly relaxed about the debt, but surely that's not a reason to ignore it? It simply means he won't call in that debt at times when it might put the club in jeopardy. There - I'm not ignoring it.
I'm struggling to believe that you can't see this is the real difference between...
Equally, you seem to wilfully ignore the £200m debt that needs repaying. Anything to paint Bloom as someone who was given a "tap in" after Dick Knight I guess. :shrug:
"we showed the potential we had in terms of big crowds". Hmmm. There are no more than about 6 instances of Goldstone 30,000 crowds that anyone on this board can talk about being part of.
One of those matches was against Bournemouth - and there were well over 20,000 at Dean Court for the...
But you didn't ask about whether Tony Bloom was relaxed about his debt - you asked why Bournemouth manage on gates of 11,300 while our club squeezes the pips out of 30,000 - so I gave you my educated opinion.
Because:
a) television money dwarfs all other income streams, and we're broadly at parity there.
b) our matchday income will be MUCH higher than theirs, but we have an enormous debt to Bloom that needs servicing. They don't.
They thrive (as do we) by buying excellent players at reasonable...
Haven't we got a 30,000 seat stadium to pay back the club owner for (to the tune of, what £200 million)?
Call me picky, but that feels like a pretty big difference to the AFCB situation.
Nope. The way to look at it is that when a club wins a European trophy, they get European football regardless of whether or not they qualified via the domestic league or cups.
So put simply: if Chelsea finish 6th they'll qualify for the Europa league anyway, and it will make no difference to...
Their catchment area isn't that limited. They can go as far north as Salisbury (an hour's drive), east to Ringwood (half an hour), and west is entirely theirs - you have Poole , then Dorchester, Weymouth, Yeovil - and it's a long long way to anywhere with a reasonable sized club after that...