THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

I was having a glance at the attendances in LG2 for this weekend, and in addition watched the EFL highlights.
Some grounds are desperately empty, something we know all too well, and it got me thinking as superb as our stadium is, should we have moved from the NHS.
I know we can squeeze in 30K, but mainly concerts, women’s Euro’s, and the occasional big match in the cup, but does that really make it worthwhile.
Could or should we have stayed at the NHS, and developed that site as we went along.
There must be lots of angles to this, the Arena, the hotel propping up the club, to name just one, but the stadium must cost a fortune to run, and has possibly held us back from investing in the team at critical moments.

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Read the MELTDOWN after every game, no bullshit, just giving it straight

Nah should have stayed at Selhurst Park

You mean Plough Lane don't you?
Anyway, we couldn't stay down there as PW stole the club up here as any fule kno.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

I think of it as Milton Keynes Stadium which a football club happens to use. It is a great asset to the CITY of MK. We would not have seen Brazil play at the NHS would we, for example.

Like West Ham play at the London Stadium.

Yup. Decent point.
BTW one of the junior Ramones went there a few weeks ago and said 'if you thought the atmosphere at our stadium was bad it was worse there. The only time the WH fans made a noise was when they came out the tunnel at the start'.
Plastics.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Funnily enough the lack of atmosphere at the London Stadium was also mentioned by the commentator on this weekend's Match of the Day.

Just waiting for Camdenite to swoop in and say "you do realise that..."

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

I always feel that we should have done up the NHS and had the current stadium site as the training area, but we had to have the super stadium built and to be honest, it’s one of the nicest in the football league so I can’t complain too much.

That being said the central location and little bit of a smaller capacity would have helped us out a lot over the years.

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Cuboid of bum fluff

A tight compact full(ish) ground in the lower leagues is an asset. In an ideal world having a second much smaller ground would've been brilliant, but not being able to get our own training ground up and running anything else is just pie in the sky.

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Three cheers for his nut brown arsehole, hip hip.....

You don’t think I made this post for any other reason do you ?

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Read the MELTDOWN after every game, no bullshit, just giving it straight