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The Godfather wrote:If we do move to Hayden Road, does that mean Rushden & Higham will be losing the Reserve team?

bozzer wrote:

The Godfather wrote:If we do move to Hayden Road, does that mean Rushden & Higham will be losing the Reserve team?

they don't have a reserve team.

The Godfather wrote:

bozzer wrote:

The Godfather wrote:If we do move to Hayden Road, does that mean Rushden & Higham will be losing the Reserve team?

they don't have a reserve team.

Oh really? Since when.

BartonRaz wrote:

The Godfather wrote:

bozzer wrote:
they don't have a reserve team.

Oh really? Since when.

I could have this wrong but I thought they had a player exodus at the end of last season and promoted most of the reserve team to the first team, hence the reserves disbanded.

oliverrush wrote:

davealbon wrote:A couple of points that haven't been considered yet.

1) oliverrush, you keep saying we don't have money to spend on improving Hayden Road (or any other ground we might go to), but this is simply not true. The club has a healthy bank balance, which I won't post on here, but is available for all members to see in the 2015/16 Accounts section of the members' forum. It's not millions, but it's enough to make some substantial improvements to the facilities. We of course want to retain that money to go towards a ground of our own one day, and I'm not saying we should use it, just that it is there, and is an option if necessary.

On top of that, there are a number of funding options that may be available to us to improve HR, e.g. Football Foundation. The D&D is owned privately making it more difficult to obtain this type of funding, but as HR is owned by a trust it might well be easier to obtain funding.

2) A couple of people have now mentioned the state of other grounds at our level, particularly the appalling Central Ground (home to Romulus and Sutton Coldfield, who are actually a league higher), but please don't be naïve enough to think that that has any bearing on us getting HR (or any other Step 5/6 ground) approved for Step 4 football. We had to jump through hoops to get the D&D up to Step 4 standard, despite the fact that it was already better than the grounds of countless clubs already at Step 4 and above. For example, how many places have we visited at this level where the car park is inside the ground - we had to fence off the D&D car park just to get into Step 5, let alone Step 4!

One moment you stated I'm right that it will cost a lot of to do up Hayden Road, and then the next moment you state a different thing? How come, and when did I state that about other grounds, I never stated that.

davealbon wrote:

oliverrush wrote:

davealbon wrote:A couple of points that haven't been considered yet.

1) oliverrush, you keep saying we don't have money to spend on improving Hayden Road (or any other ground we might go to), but this is simply not true. The club has a healthy bank balance, which I won't post on here, but is available for all members to see in the 2015/16 Accounts section of the members' forum. It's not millions, but it's enough to make some substantial improvements to the facilities. We of course want to retain that money to go towards a ground of our own one day, and I'm not saying we should use it, just that it is there, and is an option if necessary.

On top of that, there are a number of funding options that may be available to us to improve HR, e.g. Football Foundation. The D&D is owned privately making it more difficult to obtain this type of funding, but as HR is owned by a trust it might well be easier to obtain funding.

2) A couple of people have now mentioned the state of other grounds at our level, particularly the appalling Central Ground (home to Romulus and Sutton Coldfield, who are actually a league higher), but please don't be naïve enough to think that that has any bearing on us getting HR (or any other Step 5/6 ground) approved for Step 4 football. We had to jump through hoops to get the D&D up to Step 4 standard, despite the fact that it was already better than the grounds of countless clubs already at Step 4 and above. For example, how many places have we visited at this level where the car park is inside the ground - we had to fence off the D&D car park just to get into Step 5, let alone Step 4!

One moment you stated I'm right that it will cost a lot of to do up Hayden Road, and then the next moment you state a different thing? How come, and when did I state that about other grounds, I never stated that.

F**k me, I give up.

Curly wrote:I for one am extremely happy with at least one of the options put forward. I don't know and never will that the idea that the stand has to be demolished for us to be there came from. The fact that it won't take anywhere near as much to make it up to standard as some were suggesting makes it the obvious choice.

I haven't been this excited about our club for a long time and feel this is the first step in being where we want to be in the long term

mikerd wrote:

Curly wrote:I for one am extremely happy with at least one of the options put forward. I don't know and never will that the idea that the stand has to be demolished for us to be there came from. The fact that it won't take anywhere near as much to make it up to standard as some were suggesting makes it the obvious choice.

I haven't been this excited about our club for a long time and feel this is the first step in being where we want to be in the long term

Well put Curly, I also believe in that (as quite a few people told me, and believe it in) that the stand would have to be demolished in order for us to be there. Don't know where it started from.

That's a massive bonus for us, that the stand doesn't have to be demolished in order for us to be there, it has changed my vote.

Let's stay in Rushden.