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[Strummer]

I'm sure it would be possible to do something like that over here ... oh, hold on ...

Coventry City fans cannot use Ricoh Arena rail station

Coventry City and Wasps fans are being told not to use the new Ricoh Arena station when it opens next month due to overcrowding fears.

www.bbc.co.uk

Don’t get me wrong, it gets busy (with anywhere between 55.000-60.000 fans at a match, it will do that) but there is sufficient capacity, and the Polizei close the entire stretch of the Mercedesstraße that the stadium is adjacent to, to allow fans to disperse quicker.

 

[Deleted User 27810]

"Ciiiiiittty Groooound!
We're pissed,
Rolling in from the train..."


etc etc

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

You can only call it a high speed rail network if it's built 20 years after the PT stand is done and the City Ground station is actually located somewhere in the Meadows where you're asked to transfer to a local bus.

 

[Strummer]

This is just frankly ridiculous nonsense.

What the club should be considering is building a giant trebuchet in the car park of Nottingham Station.

Then, fans alighting from the train could be catapulted in one fell swoop from the station to the WFCG. Simple concept using the superior siege engine.

There would just need to be some cushioning, or maybe a trampoline at the City Ground end.

 

[Redemption]

Surely a construction or engineering expert among the fan base can come up with a stadoum design than spans the Trent?

New stadium, same old shitesite.

Boats can go under - would it be much longer than some of the tunnels on the local canals? Punters can go aboard or alight either side of the river and make light of the current traffic difficulties.

 

[king_congo_red]

Surely a construction or engineering expert among the fan base can come up with a design than spans the Trent?

Might help with the running water too.

 

[Flaggers]

This is just frankly ridiculous nonsense.

What the club should be considering is building a giant trebuchet in the car park of Nottingham Station.

Then, fans alighting from the train could be catapulted in one fell swoop from the station to the WFCG. Simple concept using the superior siege engine.

There would just need to be some cushioning, or maybe a trampoline at the City Ground end.

A trampoline, you say....

 

[Statto]

A trampoline, you say....

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[king_congo_red]

 

[Strummer]

A trampoline, you say....

It was a wrestling move!

 

[Flaggers]

"It was called a jumpoline until your mum got on it"

 

[Wes' Organ]

"It was called a jumpoline until your mum got on it"

As I explained to my old neighbour, the clue's in the fvcking name.

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

Surely a construction or engineering expert among the fan base can come up with a stadoum design than spans the Trent?

New stadium, same old shitesite.

Boats can go under - would it be much longer than some of the tunnels on the local canals? Punters can go aboard or alight either side of the river and make light of the current traffic difficulties.

The boat clubs would block it as it's bound to interfere with their light one way or another.

 

[Lady Penelope]

Closing roads and maximising public transport use is the way everyone is going. It's being worked on at Everton and Villa in a big way. The former have leverage in development funds, which we won't ever get at the WFCG. There are things that could be done where we are, but to date I've not heard or seen anything to suggest that the club and the local planners are seriously on to this issue. Fingers crossed that an announcement will come soon.

 

[Lee]

Closing roads and maximising public transport use is the way everyone is going. It's being worked on at Everton and Villa in a big way. The former have leverage in development funds, which we won't ever get at the WFCG. There are things that could be done where we are, but to date I've not heard or seen anything to suggest that the club and the local planners are seriously on to this issue. Fingers crossed that an announcement will come soon.

I'd love to get behind public transport, i really would. But the way it's handled in this country is beyond shite. Especially here, we'd probably end up with one Tram per 4000 people.

 

[Lady Penelope]

Nowhere did I suggest closing TB as well as LBR.

 

[Lady Penelope]

I'd love to get behind public transport, i really would. But the way it's handled in this country is beyond shite. Especially here, we'd probably end up with one Tram per 4000 people.

That is a good point. Public transport in the UK outside of London is poor in every way. Nottingham is better than most places however, although the local trains and hopeless and the rest of the trains are almost hopeless. How about supporters buses with a dedicated place to park (perhaps on the Embankment for some, around the cricket ground for others). Newark, Sleaford and other places do this, organised I think through supporters club branches.

 

[Cloughie1975]

Thank God we haven’t announced a new 50,000 capacity stadium.
I can’t even see half of that number turning up to watch Plymouth Argyle and Hull City on a
regular basis.