Would you supprt Pools if.....

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

they moved to a nice new state of the art complex at Wynyard ....... ? :evil:

poolpower · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:07 pm

so what have you heard then?
another old rumour
clappp

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

...answer the question ....my answer is NO! .....what's yours?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

Like you Cornelius, I like to slip things in ... in my case awkward questions, in your case ..... :shock:

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:23 pm

Yes, but I would hope that if that were the case we'd have a conservatively small quality stadium instead of something like that soulless monolith in Darlo.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22568

If they moved there then probably yes. If they were based there when I was born then probably no.

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:26 pm

it would stick in my throat, but yes i'd go

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

FRANCHISE 2 ...nah, if it's not in Hartlepool it's not Pools.

Moriarty · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:14 pm

Snowy wrote:

they moved to a nice new state of the art complex at Wynyard ....... ? :evil:

Where is 'Wynyard'??

Mr Codyakker · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:37 pm

Snowy wrote:

they moved to a nice new state of the art complex at Wynyard ....... ? :evil:

Absolutely yes, as long as it was a realistically sized stadium say around 15,000 I and many other Yakkers have travelled from the colliery areas for thousands of years to watch our beloved team although I don't have to now, cos I live in the town, incidentally it can take anything from 10 to 20 minutes to get from my house to the town centre but from here to Wynyard takes only 15 minutes maximum.
Moving to the outskirts of town wouldn't make much difference to most people to most people anyway never mind the out of town fans, how many fans already drive, get a bus, train, taxi or lift to the match already, if it was done right you'd be able to get all your food and drink there and more of the takings would be going straight into the club.
Just as long as they didn't move the club to a completely different town, then it will still be Hartlepool United, my club and yours, just a different church to worship in thats all.
KEEP THE FAITH

Mr Codyakker · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:40 pm

Snowy wrote:

FRANCHISE 2 ...nah, if it's not in Hartlepool it's not Pools.

Feckin hell man, it's still on the edge of Hartlepool ! rage

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:28 pm

Ive always thought of Wynyard as a part of Billingham,I couldnt say for certain but I dont think I'd carry on going if we went there.

Jonny · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:42 pm

Snowy wrote:

they moved to a nice new state of the art complex at Wynyard ....... ? :evil:

i think it would be a struggle to get to every game no matter how well the team was doing. Hartlepool United belong in Hartlepool. The town centre location is ideal and I would hate it to change.........

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

Er, before we go any further...I've only made this up

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

MadJohn wrote:

I'd have no problem travelling to Wynyard. It would make very little difference to me. I certainly wouldn't believe we would lose any of our identity by such a move. Heck, depending where exactly sucha a hypothetical stadium was built it could even still be within the Hartlepool boundary. The MK/Wimbledon comparison is just daft. Snowy is talking about Wynyard not Wetherby, which would be a "move" of similar distance to that of MK.

Sarf, Wynyard is just west of the A689, at the Hartlepool exit. You're talking 5 or 6 miles from Hpool town centre

NOW HEAR THIS...NOW HEAR THIS...it's not gonna happen, I made the whole f***ing thing up...... :roll:

Moriarty · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:02 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Sarf, Wynyard is just west of the A689, at the Hartlepool exit. You're talking 5 or 6 miles from Hpool town centre

Thank you John.

nick · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:11 pm

it might help us sign better players - when they are brought to look around the ground they'd see the rural idyll that is Wynyard, with it's nice houses, rather than the town centre, with it's smack heads.

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

Id still go, but i cant see the point of having a ground in Stockton :roll:

A good site would be near the Queens Meadow business park just off the A689, or even better, the land adjacent to Tees Bay retail park.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

I'd still go of course but it would be a disastorous move IMO.
The ground is perfectly placed, within easy distance of pubs and shops etc... and I think you would get a lot of lads who decide to go last minute wouldn't bother if it meant having to catch a taxi up the 689.

You cant beat rushing to Silks after the match to see the where pools are in the table and catch the other results. clappp

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:42 pm

I'd go but I'd be really angry for a very long time!!!! :evil:

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

3Quid wrote:

Id still go, but i cant see the point of having a ground in Stockton :roll:

A good site would be near the Queens Meadow business park just off the A689

That is a good spot Mr £3, walking distance for me then :grin:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

..... why do I start these things :roll:

dawlishmonkey · **Joined:** Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:53 am **Posts:** 1588

yes.
new ground,possibly picking up a bigger catchment area.plus you could nearly turn out a team from the players who live on that estate,and get john hall in as chairman

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:08 pm

moving grounds away from town centres and rebuilding them away from civilisation is the football equivalent of building retail parks. I prefer town/city centre shopping, and I prefer town/city centre football grounds. I hate going to Chester, Scunthorpe etc because it's a crap day out. Going to Carlisle has always been the same for this reason, their ground is on the edges of their town so there's no choices for drinking hostelries. For me, having the choice to have a few pints in more than one very overcrowded location is the essence of a good day out.

Good day out = Hartlepool, any London club, York, Blackpool, etc etc you get the picture

Crap day out = Hartlepool at Wynyard, Walsall, Scunthorpe, Chester, plus I imagine somewhere like Reading would be crap etc etc

To answer the question, I think my attendance at HUFC games at such a location as Wynyard would be approximately half the home games of a season. If we were playing crap, I would not go at all. That's what a potential disaster it could be for Pools, if people like me would bail out during the crap times. How many others wouldn't go there if/when we had a season like the last one?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

Within a few years the name would change to suit the sponsor ..... North Tees has a certain ring to it and as the local catchment area displaces the Poolies so it would all change .....BUT IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN ... I was thinking more hmmm Marina ...opposite Focus on the corner from Staples....

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

HE'S RIGHT Y'KNOW rolfl

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:17 am

AND five weeks before that, AND four months before that, AND six weeks before that.........

He's nowt if not consistent is the NoRarfs Arms landlord!! :laugh:

katcha · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:35 am

MadJohn wrote:

I'd have no problem travelling to Wynyard. It would make very little difference to me. I certainly wouldn't believe we would lose any of our identity by such a move. Heck, depending where exactly sucha a hypothetical stadium was built it could even still be within the Hartlepool boundary. The MK/Wimbledon comparison is just daft. Snowy is talking about Wynyard not Wetherby, which would be a "move" of similar distance to that of MK.

Sarf, Wynyard is just west of the A689, at the Hartlepool exit. You're talking 5 or 6 miles from Hpool town centre

#

quite a few teams have moved their new locations to the outskirts of towns

loids, scunny,boro (sort of), coventry, there'll be more but i've got to go to work and can't be arsed to think further - don't want to go to work with a thinking head on!!

Mister Ed · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:34 am

Mr ADG wrote:

Snowy wrote:

they moved to a nice new state of the art complex at Wynyard ....... ? :evil:

No I wouldnt.

It wouldnt be HUFC any more.

They would get new fans and be like MK donkeys.

yes u would!

and you know it......without it you would be like a smack head going cold turkey...and where would we go every other saturday ....Dalton Park....shopping!!!!!

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:47 am

Mr ADG wrote:

Yes.

They would get fans from Wynyard village..............."shudders".

And Wolviston.

Fishburn

Sedgefield

Need I go on.

What makes you think we don't get people from there already. Isn't John Hall a regular at Victoria Park?

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:56 am

Mr ADG wrote:

Its not really what I meant.

We do have fans from those places.

But the new club would get others attending that arent really footy fans.

Like MK Donkeys.

It would be like watching a West end show.

Or Darlow.

Why do you refer to 'the new club', it would still be Pools just located a little further along the A689.

Karl Marx · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:15 pm

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

Mr ADG wrote:

Yes.

They would get fans from Wynyard village..............."shudders".

And Wolviston.

Fishburn

Sedgefield

Need I go on.

What makes you think we don't get people from there already. Isn't John Hall a regular at Victoria Park?

Because they're likely to go to the Boro. From about Trimdon Village down, you get an increasing number of smogies.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:52 pm

We wouldn't need to worry about parking, we could walk there :laugh:

ChunkyMonkey · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:59 pm **Posts:** 569

Same question but substitute Durham for Wynyard?? :shock:

Mister Ed · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:23 pm

Mr ADG wrote:

ChunkyMonkey wrote:

Same question but substitute Durham for Wynyard?? :shock:

Thank god you are joking.

You are joking...............arent you? :shock:

at least our lass could drop us off on her way to the shops?

ChunkyMonkey · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:59 pm **Posts:** 569

Mr ADG wrote:

ChunkyMonkey wrote:

Same question but substitute Durham for Wynyard?? :shock:

Thank god you are joking.

You are joking...............arent you? :shock:

I thought we were asking hypothetical questions. :wink:

poolpower · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:06 pm

would the well heeled people of Wynyard accept hordes of rampant poolies in their area?

for me it would be like going to an away game but i would give it a try then decide if i was going back

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

YOU ARE CORRECT ! Whether it's 60 miles or 60 metres out of town, it wouldn't be the same...... IF IT AINT IN HARTLEPOOL IT AINT POOLS

Salty · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:24 pm

no bollocking way would i go to durham tho

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22568

No chance, they might as well change the name to Durham United. They won't get any support up there though, arent they all mackems ?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36398

Let's be honest, it won't happen, no body would support us out of town, it's all sewn up.HOWEVER ...I now know the names of people who can expect a visit in the middle of the night when I take over the world, so this was a particularly fruitful exercise

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:48 pm

right, that's it. I'm never going to Pools ever again. :shock:

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