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Future of the WFCG? What‘s your preference?

  • Current site - just replace the BC and PT stands

    Votes: 204 61.1%

  • Current site, demolish the existing stadium and build a new one (with ground share during works)

    Votes: 101 30.2%

  • New Stadium further down the River Trent

    Votes: 25 7.5%

  • New Stadium out-of-town

    Votes: 11 3.3%

  • New Stadium in the city centre (Eastside option)

    Votes: 35 10.5%

  • Do nothing and stay as it is with 30k max capacity

    Votes: 9 2.7%

  • Other (I will tell you in the comments)

    Votes: 5 1.5%
  • Total voters
    334
If someone’s offering to buy you a 4 bedroom house, you take it over the 2 bed, even if you don’t have kids yet.

Sheffield attracts about 50k football fans a week in the lower divisions. Everton plus Liverpool is over 100k matchgoing fans in Liverpool. Similar size cities as us attract way over 50k fans for PL football, so there’s no reason we wouldn’t.

If I’m wrong, we just keep a tier closed like Villa did in the Championship.
 
God damn, I'll be in my bunk!
 
Credit @nottsideaslab / Matthew Dreweitt on X ;

Very interesting idea proposed. Could something like this work?

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You're talking about a completely new tram line reaching down from the the existing network. What route would it take? And who's footing the cost?
 
Dawg said:
Credit @nottsideaslab / Matthew Dreweitt on X ;

Very interesting idea proposed. Could something like this work?

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It's ambitious, and it's pretty. The "high level" bridge idea would make a huge difference, but .....

Where do the trams go after the WFCG? Out along Radcliffe Rd to a P and R at Gamston? Be useful but a nightmare whilst in build. Turn right along Radcliffe Rd then left at the TBI into WB? Again, it would get good usage but the turns would be tight (and therefore slow) and the disruption in build would be enormous. There's also the issue that the tram line would need to gain elevation before the bridge over the river, which would add significant cost.
The trams would need somewhere to go after the WFCG so that there can be a number waiting to run through to pick up customers ... think Hillsborough. Parking four trams at a terminus at the WFCG doesn't make sense, the cost per journey would be enormous. In any case, I understand that Forest have plans for the Environment Agency building.

I've often thought that a tram running behind the BC stand would be great though, and then I think about the old railway route from LBBridge over Radcliffe Rd and through WB, out to Edwalton. Now that would be a game changer, and not just for Forest. The problem is that a century or more ago WB never wanted a railway, then more recently a Government that I won't mention by name made it extremely difficult to re-use or re-open former railways by selling off bits along the route (ideologically driven, or brown paper bags?), and now the only countries who could possible drive such a thing through would be Russia, China, N Korea and (very possibly, because that's how they are) France.

If only .....
 
Lady Penelope said:
It's ambitious, and it's pretty. The "high level" bridge idea would make a huge difference, but .....

Where do the trams go after the WFCG? Out along Radcliffe Rd to a P and R at Gamston? Be useful but a nightmare whilst in build. Turn right along Radcliffe Rd then left at the TBI into WB? Again, it would get good usage but the turns would be tight (and therefore slow) and the disruption in build would be enormous. There's also the issue that the tram line would need to gain elevation before the bridge over the river, which would add significant cost.
The trams would need somewhere to go after the WFCG so that there can be a number waiting to run through to pick up customers ... think Hillsborough. Parking four trams at a terminus at the WFCG doesn't make sense, the cost per journey would be enormous. In any case, I understand that Forest have plans for the Environment Agency building.

I've often thought that a tram running behind the BC stand would be great though, and then I think about the old railway route from LBBridge over Radcliffe Rd and through WB, out to Edwalton. Now that would be a game changer, and not just for Forest. The problem is that a century or more ago WB never wanted a railway, then more recently a Government that I won't mention by name made it extremely difficult to re-use or re-open former railways by selling off bits along the route (ideologically driven, or brown paper bags?), and now the only countries who could possible drive such a thing through would be Russia, China, N Korea and (very possibly, because that's how they are) France.

If only .....
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Well that dream didnt last long, cheers
 
Chairman Mo said:
Yeah- I liked those plans 😡. Shame they were just pie (tram?) in the sky.
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Thing is, if the tram extension went at least into WB, ideally further out to the ring road, then it would make sense to fund it. An extension just to the WFCG does not add up, even with 'events' other than football. The task then is to get WB 'tram ready'. LGR will help but age-related anti tram attitudes are very strong south of the river, in streets and homes as well as in County Hall.
 
Lady Penelope said:
Thing is, if the tram extension went at least into WB, ideally further out to the ring road, then it would make sense to fund it. An extension just to the WFCG does not add up, even with 'events' other than football. The task then is to get WB 'tram ready'. LGR will help but age-related anti tram attitudes are very strong south of the river, in streets and homes as well as in County Hall.
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Given how crowded it gets now at Midland Station post-match, a tram-stop at the CG would be chaotic immediately after the final-whistle.
 
Lady Penelope said:
Thing is, if the tram extension went at least into WB, ideally further out to the ring road, then it would make sense to fund it. An extension just to the WFCG does not add up, even with 'events' other than football. The task then is to get WB 'tram ready'. LGR will help but age-related anti tram attitudes are very strong south of the river, in streets and homes as well as in County Hall.
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Simply stop parking on the Embankment and run shuttle buses down to Embankment tram stop and on to Queens Drive park and ride on match days and use the millions a team extension would cost somewhere far better.
 
The Supporters Trust have put out a couple of cryptic posts indicating something happening on Thursday this week.. Could be a formal announcement from the club about the development possibly...
 
pk44 said:
The Supporters Trust have put out a couple of cryptic posts indicating something happening on Thursday this week.. Could be a formal announcement from the club about the development possibly...
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Free mustard trousers for every ST member?
 
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