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£50k towards funding our own place in the Rushden area really. There has to be a point between where we go from putting money in to improve the D&D and where we start looking for our own ground.

If it was to the D&D then terrace at the far end.

AFC Airmart wrote:Keep the money for moving the club back to the Rushden area, imo that should be our focus. Why spend money on a ground that we hope to leave?

That's all very well but it's like being in rented residential accommodation. You might as well make it as comfortable as possible while you'll there. I think we'll be playing at the Dog n'Duck longer than many will think. We've yet to identify a suitable site.

BartonRaz wrote:

Trek wrote:A mobile toilet block would suffice subject to drainage.

I don't even know where the toilets are at D&D.

Me either :lol: I presume they're in the clubhouse somewhere?

Trek wrote:

SouthRushdenJFC wrote:I'd dig the pitch and start again with better drainage.

I mentioned this to a Doughboys official recently and he said it wouldn't help with flooding issues because of the high natural water table level.

I've got a plan for that

AFC Airmart wrote:Keep the money for moving the club back to the Rushden area, imo that should be our focus. Why spend money on a ground that we hope to leave?

Amen.

SouthRushdenJFC wrote:I'd dig the pitch and start again with better drainage. Any remainder would go on the pitch and if there's any left after that I'd use it for the pitch.

Hayden wrote:

BartonRaz wrote:

Trek wrote:A mobile toilet block would suffice subject to drainage.

I don't even know where the toilets are at D&D.

Me either :lol: I presume they're in the clubhouse somewhere?

They are on the left as you enter the clubhouse. The facilities are not really sufficient for crowds of 500+. It was a real scrum at half time during the game against Oadby.

Some of you need to re-read the question. BR said if you HAD to spend it at the D&D. ;)

How much would a 3G pitch cost? If its a lot more than £50k though, then either an extension/larger PDB that runs the length of the pitch and a small stand perhaps the size of the current PDB at the other end.

Olly wrote:How much would a 3G pitch cost?

Approximately 400k according to this:-

http://www.sportsandsafetysurfaces.co.u ... orts-pitch