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Originally Posted by shakermaker

"There is an income to be gained from hiring the pitch out and money to be saved in maintenance costs and the fact that you can train on it".

"The community benefit is that you can get people down to the ground seven days a week rather than just 23 times a season for home fixtures."

Agree with Rob. There are lots of benefits to a club like ours. This isn't the 80s and it isn't Deepdale. Technology has moved on. We have to be forward thinking to survive.

I partly agree. But where is that initial outlay of half a million pounds going to come from? And let's not forget that having people at the ground seven days a week incurs its own costs. Security, extra secretarial and financial work etc. The money saved in maintenance costs may well have to be spent on other costs.