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if you were in charge of planning where would you put the new ground?

Personally I'd look into whether we can shift the Accy Amateurs from their site next the FES. Would solve a heck of a lot of problems regarding car parking although arterial road access would still present a problem on big match days. There is room though if they were willing to sell and a lot of existing materials could be shifted 200 yard to keep costs down. Show of hands and we could do it in a weekend.......................

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Wasn't there talk once of going to Huncoat? . Given the reason for a new ground is promotion and you would expect bigger crowds then I would guess the next door ground is not suitable either given the access roads.

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Highams is closer to the main road...

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In an ideal world i would move the ground just next to the M65 junction. There is enough land there to build a new stadium & a big car park.

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fantasy island ?








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well i'd put it round 22 premiership players :D

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I’m a lover of Heritage and Tradition, so a trip back up the road to Peel Park would do me nicely. I’ve really been away too long to know where an ideal place wood be.

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The old huncoat power station site was originally talked about years ago.

Accrington amateurs is currently on a 25 years lease from the council and I may be wrong but I think they have refused us permission for that ground before when we were on about putting an all weather pitch in.

If you were going to build a new ground now you would have to go out of town.
The area near junction 7 of the M65 would be great if the canal didn't run straight through it!!
Huncoat near the bypass at the top of burnley road would be the ideal place, as it would be easy to put in the relevant access roads, straight onto the bypass, also it is reachable by public transport. Oh and there's a pub on the corner and a petrol station!!

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Sod it, lets have it in the town centre, close all the pound shops and there will be plenty of space :D

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King Georges, Next to Hollins High School

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I thought there were houses on the site of some of the old stands.

Subject to that it is and always will be Stanley's spiritual home.

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The cricket ground was mentioned a few years ago, that would do me as I won't have far to walk.

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we could always do a Wimbledon (topicl innit), I hear there is a lovely patch of ground up near Dumferline that would suit us perfectly!

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Forget it - absolutely nil parking anywhere around. No-one had cars when we used to play there!

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Very true.......I just hope if they do relocate it's to some where level and well drained. There's got to be some where thats ideal.

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What about building the new ground in Antley when they level most of it as part of the Princess Street Project? It's nice and flat there.

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Anywhere where there are no thieving gits to smash ur car window and preferably with stewarded car parking, so that rules out Accy then - joking apart, I have heard the old power station site could not be used for 10 years after it was demolished - well guess what, its 10 years ago since it was demolished - so Huncoat it is, especially with the links to the Highway in the sky and the M65

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We ain't going to get the bloody miserable Accy population to flock to a stadium which is even further away than the present ground! *******.

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Top o' coppice instead of those silly ideas of a panoptican. floodlights would be seen for miles:D :D :D

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The old dairies on Eastgate would have been the best ever place - til Poundland moved in!

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Milnshaw park, waste of space nowadays, anyone been recently - what a mess

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ASDA is the biggest eyesore in Accy; knock it down and build the stadium on the site, keeping most of the carpark. Everyone benefits - the drum can be played without the neighbours complaining, there will be plently of parking, the shops and market in the town centre will be busy again and the pound stores will be out of business.

Everyones a winner!

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A few good ideas here.

Not keen on King Georges - I like them the way they are.

Asdas would be good to flatten and redevelop - and Rawtenstall is only just up the road for shopping anyway. Nice and central.

I'd also like to flatten Tescos on Blackburn and turn it back into the stock car track!

The back of the coppice would be ok but we'd suffer from exposure without a decent roof!

Seriously, motorway access should not be a major consideration for ground location - most of us like a pint or two and should therefore not be driving. We need somewhere within walking distance of the town centre or no more than one bus ride away.

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the place next to the fes would be great however Highams is a good space and like shakermaker said its right near a main road!

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Just out of interest sake, have any of you tried a town centre stadium (JJB in Wigan springs to mind) God awful driving conditions for the locals and parking is rubbish unless you don't mind paying Whelan. OK so they have a few more attending their matches, but, when you consider that the stadium is next to 2 retail parks, a cinema complex and major bingo hall as well as the usual restaraunts etc etc it adds up to a nightmare. Keep football stadia out of town which is why I favour the old Power Station site. Rail and road access is pretty good, bus access aint too shoddy either Huncoats pubs are not that far away so whats the problem?

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Huncoat Power Station is being turned into a recycling centre but there are acres of unused land behind the railway pub which would be ideal, it's quite far back so the drum would be no problem and it's big enough to build a stadium and car park, it's close to the motorway, train station and the pub and best of all within walking distance of my house.........:)

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But you ahve to think about all the young kids that come on there own how would they get over to huncoat?

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Shortcut from FES now through Huncoat industrial estate 2 minutes walk or there's a bus every 5 minutes from town!

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With current crowd numbers at the FES,building a new stadium is like building a double garage for a bicycle....

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Doesn't quite matter about the crowds at this time. What matters most, that if we want promotion to Chanmpionship/Premiership (dreaming I know) we have to move or redevelop FES and that is not feasible. Highest we can go at FES is League One and thats not ambitious enough for Eric etc

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I know this topic started as a where if, but did i hear right on the Championship yesterday that Accrington have announced plans to relocate, so where have they announced ?.

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See fishy site
Its early stages and its only in the discussion stage

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They have announced PLANS not announced a move.
If as Ozzy suggests that the Crown is good enough up to league 1 then I think it would be well worth waiting to see if we do actually make it there before upgrading. After years of worrying over putting a roof up in case it finished us off now we`re ready shift the whole kit and kaboodle on a whim. We`ll see.

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A cynic might suggest this is art of misdirection ... Eric won't spend any more money on the ground other than the long-promised roof, but in the meantime we get to dream of a shiny new stadium on the edge of town.

We are clearly a very long way from needing to build a new stadium to satisfy the requirements of being a Championship club and, given our revenue streams, we cannot even consider it unless it is funded almost entirely from public funds.

I, for one, would be perfectly happy with the current ground if the Club kept its promises on the Clayton End Roof, the underfoot conditions outside the ground and, to a lesser extent, the "bar" in the Clayton End. After years of having virtually unrestricted access around the ground and to the clubhouse during the game, being penned in the Clayton End takes a lot of getting used to!

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Establish ourselfs as a league club before thinking about a new stadium.

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I have to agree with Whalley Red, i like the FES but would prefer it if it had a roof.
maybe Santa with bring us one.

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Well someones bringing us one, it will be up in january :D
Details Here

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So Santa did get my letter.

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"Keep football stadia out of town which is why I favour the old Power Station site. Rail and road access is pretty good, bus access aint too shoddy either Huncoats pubs are not that far away so whats the problem?"

Sorry Outback Ozzy, I disagree.
Turf Moor is only a stone's throw from Burnley town centre and I don't hear the Dingles complaining. The Reebok on the other hand is out of town but a real pain in the arse to get to if you don't have a car. I say keep it within walking distance from town. Parking shouldn't be a problem because more people could leave their cars at home and walk to the football via one of Accrington's fine drinking establishments.

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What about building the ground on the car parking areas at the bottom of black abby street, grange lane and oak street in the town centre. You'd be suprised how bit that area is and if the council was to flatten one or two of the old mills alongside it would free up plenty of room for parking ect. Also with the amount of roads leading out of that area, traffic problems would be minimal, and close to the train station. The amount of money going into local business' would also increase and i dare say a lot of empty town centre shops would be occupied.

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good idea - the big kop end could be build into the hillside as well to alleviate cost of shifting the hill.

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Ya mean like Frickley have? :D

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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thats a slag heap Jimbob!


keeps the wind away though

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It has worked well at newcastle...

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I meant the hill they have behind one of the goals pal but good point anyway...

Jimbo T :horn8:blower