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As an aside, it strikes me as astonishing both sides seem content to let the other set the agenda.
CCC seem quite happy to allow the club to say they'll move somewhere other than CCC boundaries, the club seem quite happy to allow CCC to say there's nowhere suitable for a stadium.
Now, personally,I'd have thought this always needs the swiftest resolution, and surely that requires the last vestiges of chancing and shystering to be blown away from the club by CCC showing there can indeed be a ground in the city, surely from the club POV it needs them to identify potential sites in the city and show us all which ones could work if they could get agreement with CCC. If the club had a genuine site across the county border they'd turn public opinion by declaring it - not like any rival bidder would suddenly see a massive pace of land they hadn't noticed, is it.
If one did either and the other party didn't follow, then that... would be that. I don't mean the dodgy game playing over the rental deals for the Ricoh either, when it was all smoke, mirrors, and headlines, but actual worked efforts.
Now, I appreciated in a financially straightened time the council can't really do that... but surely they could at least say they'd like to include the club in the next local plan? Can't we do away with the nonsensical deadlines, accept it's a decade needed to sort everything but... start trying to sort it?
What's depressing is neither side seems to want to push it, which suggests neither side thinks there's much weight in public numbers to get behind such a project. Personally I don't think that's true, I think enough people care in some form about the club to make it something worth fighting over but... if I'm wrong, and they're right, then the club really does have a problem.
CCC seem quite happy to allow the club to say they'll move somewhere other than CCC boundaries, the club seem quite happy to allow CCC to say there's nowhere suitable for a stadium.
Now, personally,I'd have thought this always needs the swiftest resolution, and surely that requires the last vestiges of chancing and shystering to be blown away from the club by CCC showing there can indeed be a ground in the city, surely from the club POV it needs them to identify potential sites in the city and show us all which ones could work if they could get agreement with CCC. If the club had a genuine site across the county border they'd turn public opinion by declaring it - not like any rival bidder would suddenly see a massive pace of land they hadn't noticed, is it.
If one did either and the other party didn't follow, then that... would be that. I don't mean the dodgy game playing over the rental deals for the Ricoh either, when it was all smoke, mirrors, and headlines, but actual worked efforts.
Now, I appreciated in a financially straightened time the council can't really do that... but surely they could at least say they'd like to include the club in the next local plan? Can't we do away with the nonsensical deadlines, accept it's a decade needed to sort everything but... start trying to sort it?
What's depressing is neither side seems to want to push it, which suggests neither side thinks there's much weight in public numbers to get behind such a project. Personally I don't think that's true, I think enough people care in some form about the club to make it something worth fighting over but... if I'm wrong, and they're right, then the club really does have a problem.