Whaddon Road Twice Next Season?

[Robot Chicken]

Fancy going to Cheltenham twice next season? Bristol Rovers are playing at Whaddon Road from the middle of next season while their ground is redeveloped.

Rovers confirm Cheltenham switch
Bristol Rovers will play their home games at Cheltenham's Whaddon Road from the middle of next season, while their Memorial Stadium is redeveloped.
The club will begin building an 18,500 all-seater arena in early 2008 and expect it to take around 18 months.

The Pirates, newly-promoted to League One via the play-offs, had also considered ground sharing with Swindon.

But Rovers have opted to play their last nine or 10 games of the 2007/8 campaign just 40 miles away up the M5.

Rovers director Geoff Dunford told the club website: "The venue received a positive response from a survey of our supporters earlier in the year and throughout our discussions the Cheltenham Town board of directors and manager John Ward have made us feel very welcome.

"We feel the size of Whaddon Road will help create an excellent atmosphere, much the same as Twerton Park did for us when we moved to Bath in 1986.

"The playing surface is also superb and will suit the type of football Lennie Lawrence and Paul Trollope wish to play."

The move is set to be formally rubber-stamped by the Football League later in the week ahead of the release of the 2007/08 fixture list next Thursday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bristol_rovers/6721699.stm

 

[ditchy]

Cant understand why they wont share with Bristol City

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Cant understand why they wont share with Bristol City

Main reason I think is actually because the rugby union team do or are going to ground share with City.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Main reason I think is actually because the rugby union team do or are going to ground share with City.

Bristol RUFC currently share the Memorial Ground with Rovers. I think they are playing at Ashton gate during the refurb.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Bristol RUFC currently share the Memorial Ground with Rovers. I think they are playing at Ashton gate during the refurb.

I knew it was something like that.

 

[Simster]

I think Swindon would have been more sensible but the Swindon fans kicked up a FUSS over it - I think there has been trouble between Swindon and Rovers fans in each of the past 3 meetings.

Wouldn't it be a shame if Swindon got relegated and the board came out saying that the groundshare might have paid for an extra player or two?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Why could they have not gone back to Bath.

 

[Simster]

Why could they have not gone back to Bath.

Twerton needed significant upgrading apparently.

 

[Bluejuice]

I think Swindon would have been more sensible but the Swindon fans kicked up a FUSS over it

Swindon fans kick up a fuss? They weren't MOANING about something were they? That seems so unlike them.

WHINING CUNTBAGS

 

[Uncle Buck]

Twerton needed significant upgrading apparently.

That is a shame.

A day out in Bath was always a giggle and some good pubs as well.

 

[Simster]

That is a shame.

A day out in Bath was always a giggle and some good pubs as well.

Couldn't agree more. I loved our trips there - even if we only ever got 900 tickets.

Codners shit pen, Devon White punching the ball into our net and the ref missing it, and still coming home with a 3-1 victory.

Even that 4-1 defeat the following season was LAUGHS.

Happy days.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Codners shit pen, Devon White punching the ball into our net and the ref missing it, and still coming home with a 3-1 victory.

Quality!

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Bristol RUFC currently share the Memorial Ground with Rovers. I think they are playing at Ashton gate during the refurb.

Bristol rugby are only going to use Ashton Gate for a handful of the bigger games but City thought it would be too much to have Rovers as well (and it wasn't greeted well by the fans unsurprisingly).

There is some talk that they reckon the building work won't start at the beginning of 2008. I'll be gutted if the Albion's game v Rovers is in the 2nd half of the season since the Mem is 200 yards form my house !!

 

[Braders]

we'll probably get them first off anyways

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Bristol rugby are only going to use Ashton Gate for a handful of the bigger games but City thought it would be too much to have Rovers as well (and it wasn't greeted well by the fans unsurprisingly).

There is some talk that they reckon the building work won't start at the beginning of 2008. I'll be gutted if the Albion's game v Rovers is in the 2nd half of the season since the Mem is 200 yards form my house !!

I will be equally gutted, as the stadium manager at the Memorial is a freind of mine, so I am expecting hospitality!

 

[bhaexpress]

I just hope that Cheltenham have resolved their catering difficulties, I like a hot meal but there are limits

 

[withdeanwombat]

Surely with those 30,000 fans fighting to get tickets they should have gone for the Milennium Stadium?

 

[the full harris]

i like cheltenham.

always nice to have a chinwag with pals at half time.

 

[Uncle Buck]

i like cheltenham.

always nice to have a chinwag with pals at half time.

In person and all that?

 

[the full harris]

In person and all that?

:athumb:

my favourite.