Meadow Lane…stay or move…

[optipez]

In a fantasy world cash wise, considering them over the river have just gone up, is it time to consider moving out of the city centre and thinking of land elsewhere and looking at a stadium fit for our last 30 years progress (or lack of)
Somewhere like Phoenix park on the tram line or elsewhere north of the city to have a different appeal to Florest?
Just something I was thinking about last night.
Not saying I’m for it, as, like the rest of us, known the Lane all my life and I’m about to hit 50, but do we need to be more pragmatic if the funds could be raised?

We won't get better. If we move it will be a backward step to an out of town Meccano ground on an industrial estate. It will just about finish is off.

[jackal2]

We won't get better. If we move it will be a backward step to an out of town Meccano ground on an industrial estate.

Anybody who has visited the Deva Stadium at Chester would concur. Nothing spells football death like standing in a Legoland stadium at the back end of an industrial estate with the pungent smell of sewage drifting in on the air. I think the smell of cr*p was from the Welsh side of the ground.

[lunaspie]

Anybody who has visited the Deva Stadium at Chester would concur. Nothing spells football death like standing in a Legoland stadium at the back end of an industrial estate with the pungent smell of sewage drifting in on the air.

That certainly didn't do the New Den any harm.

[jackal2]

That certainly didn't do the New Den any harm.

Bearing in mind the Old Den, they were starting from a very low base!

[Robertomac]

I don't think the location of the ground has any bearing on our appeal. Maybe it did 60 years ago when less people had cars.

Moving from ML would be a bad move. Too much history and it's Notts' home. What we need is the sustained success that will bring the crowds and realise Derek's ambition. Easy 😀

[upthemaggies]

I don't think the location of the ground has any bearing on our appeal. Maybe it did 60 years ago when less people had cars.

Less people will have cars in the not too distant future.

Relocation has worked out well for a lot of clubs, Hull, Reading, Swansea, Wigan, Cardiff and Huddersfield all spring to mind as clubs that have gone up to the PL after moving, either for the first time ever or first time in a very long while. Doncaster went all the way up to the Championship. Colchester and Chester have gone downhill since they moved. Darlington was the ultimate disaster but that was a ridiculous set of circumstances, the success stories seem to significantly outweigh the failures.

You don't have to move out to the middle of nowhere or build a ground with no character, but it's usually going to work out cheaper to do it that way.

Isn't it the case that we could be forced to move out if we dropped to tier 6? I think that question has come up a few times with no definitive answer.

[Elite_Pie]

Isn't it the case that we could be forced to move out if we dropped to tier 6? I think that question has come up a few times with no definitive answer.

As I understand it we could be forced out if we get relegated again, but I doubt it would be enforced.

[magpie_mania]

100% stay.

[legs77]

Less people will have cars in the not too distant future.

Relocation has worked out well for a lot of clubs, Hull, Reading, Swansea, Wigan, Cardiff and Huddersfield all spring to mind as clubs that have gone up to the PL after moving, either for the first time ever or first time in a very long while. Doncaster went all the way up to the Championship. Colchester and Chester have gone downhill since they moved. Darlington was the ultimate disaster but that was a ridiculous set of circumstances, the success stories seem to significantly outweigh the failures.

You don't have to move out to the middle of nowhere or build a ground with no character, but it's usually going to work out cheaper to do it that way.

Isn't it the case that we could be forced to move out if we dropped to tier 6? I think that question has come up a few times with no definitive answer.

I think we can play at NL North level at ML I read.

Question is where would we play if lets say we got booted out of ML ??!!

[GranthamPie]

We could ground share with Carlton Town and stay in the city? State of the art stadium, only a half mile or so from Inn For A Penny and a mile from Victoria Retail Park and Maccy Ds…. In fact, just merge with Carlton Town.. be done with it. They’d probably whoop our asses anyway.

I mean… how much more humiliation can we endure ?