[Football] Does visiting the new-build WHL really count as a new ground ticked off?

Nottseagull

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• Apr 23, 2019

• #1

If it was built on a different site then undoubtedly so, but they do overlap and even the pitches overlap slightly in which case, can it really be counted as a new ground visited?
You wouldn't count the Molineux of the 1970s as a different ground simply because it's since had four new stands and the pitch moved a stand's width to one side.

 

Biscuit Barrel

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Southwick

• Apr 23, 2019

• #2

Yes.

 

Poojah

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• Apr 23, 2019

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It’s a bit of a contentious one this. I’d say that it counts on the basis that that more than 50% of both old and new structures existed at the same time - that’s not possible if you’re simply redeveloping a ground.

 

Barham's tash

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• Apr 23, 2019

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Not for me Clive.

 

beorhthelm

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• Apr 23, 2019

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yes, only thing the same is the address.

 

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Tokyohands

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• Apr 24, 2019

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Yes of course. If you knocked down your house and built a new one on the same site you'd be inviting people round to your new house and I doubt your friends would be questioning if it really is a new house or not.

 

studio150

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• Apr 24, 2019

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Yes

 

Guy Fawkes

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• Apr 24, 2019

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Tokyohands said:

Yes of course. If you knocked down your house and built a new one on the same site you'd be inviting people round to your new house and I doubt your friends would be questioning if it really is a new house or not.

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Not quite in this case, more like knocking down your house, and also 3 other neighbouring properties and building a new house on the combined footprint of those 4 sites. There is no way that the end result could be mistaken for the old house so of course it counts as a new ground.