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Feb 7, 2024 19:54:37 GMT
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Post by Tom Bowen on Feb 7, 2024 19:54:37 GMT
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Feb 8, 2024 9:42:31 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2024 9:42:31 GMT
Subject to pitch inspections!
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Feb 8, 2024 10:02:06 GMT
Post by borobob on Feb 8, 2024 10:02:06 GMT
Hmm, Taunton have also had pitch problems this season, hence their backlog of fixtures, so I can't see how this helps really!!, unless Taunton see it as a valuable help to their financial position?? Cynical? Moi?
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Feb 8, 2024 23:45:27 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2024 23:45:27 GMT
Two drunks hugging a lamp post? The post below comes from a BBC reporter:-
Clearly Taunton are in serious financial trouble, while Truro have only played 11 home games, so 12 more home games for them before the last day of the season, on 20th April.
Truro share with Plymouth Parkway, who've also only played 11 home games this season, so a total of 22 games would need to be played at a ground plagued with postponements due to a frequently waterlogged pitch. That'd be a home game for Truro or Plymouth Parkway every 3 or so days from now until the end of the season.
Hmm ... I can see why Truro have decided to bail out from their arrangement. Very expensive for them either way and I'll salute their supporters doing a 242 mile round trip to see them play at "home".*
*To put that into context, that's the same distance as us playing our home games at Taunton.
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Feb 9, 2024 13:45:55 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2024 13:45:55 GMT
Truro's new groundshare not getting off to a good start ...
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Truro
Feb 9, 2024 18:03:17 GMT
Post by borobob on Feb 9, 2024 18:03:17 GMT
What a farcical situation! Taunton's pitch has been notoriously bad for some time causing them to be behind fixtures anyway, and quite how they thought taking another club in to share it, beggars belief!! I sense a desperation for cash being the primary reason here!!
Finding a ground for Truro to share, of NLS standard, albeit for only a few months, must be difficult, and I wish them well, but the pure truth of why they are homeless, could well be of their own making!!
On the subject of NLS standard grounds, there is quite a long discussion on the Welling forum regarding suitable grounds eligible to share while their ground is developed. It's quite illuminating, and there is a link to all the current NLS grounds and capacities in line with League rules!!
I wasn't aware, for instance, that Slough is listed as 2000 capacity when the rule is 3000+?? Not sure how old that report is, and they may well have increased it by now!
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Truro
Feb 9, 2024 20:45:56 GMT
Post by markhardy on Feb 9, 2024 20:45:56 GMT
As they struggle to get more than 250 whilst playing at Parkway, they may as well see if they could groundshare in Cornwall. It's not like they have thousands going in. It's only for the rest of this season.
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Truro
Feb 9, 2024 21:04:21 GMT
Post by Tom Bowen on Feb 9, 2024 21:04:21 GMT
As they struggle to get more than 250 whilst playing at Parkway, they may as well see if they could groundshare in Cornwall. It's not like they have thousands going in. It's only for the rest of this season. Wonder if Helston Athletic would work? That's just off the top of my head, may be better options?
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Truro
Feb 9, 2024 21:10:13 GMT
Post by borobob on Feb 9, 2024 21:10:13 GMT
Maybe there aren't enough clubs with sufficient standard grounds to allow them, even if they wanted to?
I'm sure Mark could identify some? He keeps on about Mousehole!!
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Truro
Feb 9, 2024 23:30:45 GMT
Post by hawleybootboy on Feb 9, 2024 23:30:45 GMT
Bideford and Barnstaple are not far over the Cornish border and could be potentials but at least Taunton is far easier for everyone to get to... When the pitch is playable that is!
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Feb 10, 2024 8:37:21 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 8:37:21 GMT
There's a League rule that any groundshare must be at a venue that complies with National South ground-grading requirements.
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Truro
Feb 10, 2024 9:17:56 GMT
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Post by Phil M on Feb 10, 2024 9:17:56 GMT
There's a League rule that any groundshare must be at a venue that complies with National South ground-grading requirements. If someone could tell me how Taunton met those requirements, I'd be very interested.
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Feb 10, 2024 9:30:29 GMT
Post by markhardy on Feb 10, 2024 9:30:29 GMT
Maybe there aren't enough clubs with sufficient standard grounds to allow them, even if they wanted to? I'm sure Mark could identify some? He keeps on about Mousehole!! Mainly to see all the moans and groans on here if we ever had to play them.
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Feb 10, 2024 9:54:28 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 9:54:28 GMT
There's a League rule that any groundshare must be at a venue that complies with National South ground-grading requirements. If someone could tell me how Taunton met those requirements, I'd be very interested. They clearly have met the grading requirements otherwise they would have been demoted at the end of last season. I do wonder how some clubs managed it, notably Concord Rangers and, currently, Peterborough Sports. From what I've read, Truro's new ground, while ticking all the boxes, will also be very basic.
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Truro
Feb 10, 2024 10:39:53 GMT
Post by borobob on Feb 10, 2024 10:39:53 GMT
Phil wrote: If someone could tell me how Taunton met those requirements, I'd be very interested.
Or, indeed Slough, if the report of 2000 capacity is correct?, and as for their segregation system??
There are so many places we visit that we, as mere mortals, can see do not comply!
Hayes was another one that had a restriction of 1600!! Wonder what would have happened had they beat us in the play offs?
I'm amazed sometimes how the ground grading officials actually do their job!!
Don't tell me... they are all volunteers!!
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