Your New Ground

[Poojah]

Evening!

Inquisitive Grimsby fan here - came across a few pictures of your new stadium earlier and thought it looked bloody magnificent. With all of these crappy pre-fabricated stadiums popping up these days, like Colchester and Chesterfield, it was refreshing to see something so striking and different.

You boys must be wetting yourselves with excitement - afterall, I've been to the Withdean!

Anyways, what I came to ask was how you were funding the stadium? According to Wikipedia it's costing £95m to build, which seems a hell of a lot for a club in League One.

We've been trying to build a new stadium since the late 90's to no avail, a major reason we've fallen off the face of league world. The key reason given was that by the time we secured planning permission on our preferred site, around 2006, the economy had crashed. But then the economy can't be that much better in Brighton, can it?

Just wondered. All the best in your promotion push this season and enjoy your new home - you deserve it after a decade or so in your current shed!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

We have a professional poker player as chairman providing the funds.

 

[Horsham Gull]

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Sir Tony "The Lizard" Bloom.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Wikipedia is WRONG. It's not costing £95m.

It's costing £100m!(!)

 

[Driver8]

Evening!

Inquisitive Grimsby fan here - came across a few pictures of your new stadium earlier and thought it looked bloody magnificent. With all of these crappy pre-fabricated stadiums popping up these days, like Colchester and Chesterfield, it was refreshing to see something so striking and different.

You boys must be wetting yourselves with excitement - afterall, I've been to the Withdean!

Anyways, what I came to ask was how you were funding the stadium? According to Wikipedia it's costing £95m to build, which seems a hell of a lot for a club in League One.

We've been trying to build a new stadium since the late 90's to no avail, a major reason we've fallen off the face of league world. The key reason given was that by the time we secured planning permission on our preferred site, around 2006, the economy had crashed. But then the economy can't be that much better in Brighton, can it?

Just wondered. All the best in your promotion push this season and enjoy your new home - you deserve it after a decade or so in your current shed!

We got lucky. A wealthy true supporter not out for a quick buck.

Without him we'd be f***ed.

 

[Poojah]

Sounds like a good deal. Stadium looks amazing in the picture above.

 

[Return of the Rev]

We got lucky. A wealthy true supporter not out for a quick buck.

Without him we'd be f***ed.

still no fans bar

 

[Smithy]

Sounds like a good deal. Stadium looks amazing in the picture above.

Yet we still have fans moaning about the blue roof.

 

[Bwian]

Sounds like a good deal. Stadium looks amazing in the picture above.

Have a look at these

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?t=188175

It's not exactly Withdean but we'll cope.

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

You wouldn't happen to be the same Poojah as the author of these legendary threads?

Grimsby Town Forum - Dear Players of Grimsby Town FC

Grimsby Town Forum - World, fúck off

 

[Poojah]

You wouldn't happen to be the same Poojah as the author of these legendary threads?

Grimsby Town Forum - Dear Players of Grimsby Town FC

Grimsby Town Forum - World, fúck off

Uh, yeah - that's me.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Uh, yeah - that's me.

 

[Billy the Fish]

You boys must be wetting yourselves with excitement - afterall, I've been to the Withdean!

Check out the weekly picture updates from Jack straw and Everest on here or at http://www.countdown2falmer.co.uk/

I rekon wetting ourselves is an understatement. As for being able to afford it, we got unbeliveably lucky to have a lifelong fan who happened to have a spare £100million cash laying around. He wasn't supposed to be paying that much as the banks were meant to be funding some of it, but as you know that financial situation put a stop to that.

I don't think some fans appreciate how easily it could've gone the other way as without Tony Bloom we'd be bankrupt by now, he's been funding the £2million shortfall in our running costs for a number of years as well.

 

[Poojah]

Check out the weekly picture updates from Jack straw and Everest on here or at http://www.countdown2falmer.co.uk/

I rekon wetting ourselves is an understatement. As for being able to afford it, we got unbeliveably lucky to have a lifelong fan who happened to have a spare £100million cash laying around. He wasn't supposed to be paying that much as the banks were meant to be funding some of it, but as you know that financial situation put a stop to that.

I don't think some fans appreciate how easily it could've gone the other way as without Tony Bloom we'd be bankrupt by now, he's been funding the £2million shortfall in our running costs for a number of years as well.

Bammy jastards!

Seriously though, good luck to you. It's nice to see clubs who've been through the ringer in recent times do well - I hope and pray that one day, maybe, just maybe, it might be us...

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Legend, can we keep you

It not costs nearer 120m due to continuous investment into the project with new additions, the chairman wants everything to be the best of best. He has given the club the money on an interest free loan which if he doesn't make back in a number of years he will convert to shares.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Uh, yeah - that's me.

I remember that! It was one of the funniest football related things i've ever ever read!

 

[Garage_Doors]

Uh, yeah - that's me.

You sir are a legend, and that is a word i don't use often, reading your posting "World, fúck off" back in April when it was linked to this site struck a chord that it was from a real fan who knew what it was to really support a club though thick and thin.
Directly because of you my whole outlook of Grimsby FC and more so their fans changed from that day.

And for that I hope you and your clubs fortunes change. Ours did more by luck of having a fantastic benefactor in Tony Bloom ( thank you Tony ).

 

[Hiney]

I remember that! It was one of the funniest football related things i've ever ever read!

This

 

[Hiney]

*ejaculates explosively*