The kind of person you wouldn’t mind calling a c*** to his face.
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It could easily have been us during the COVID crisis. One has to acknowledge the efforts of Pomlett and Gamble for keeping us afloat and solvent.
I believe other clubs (bigger than ours) who are drowning in debt and some may not survive.
There are the “cheaters” out there that flagrantly violate FFP rules and seem to get away with it time after time,
The EPL needs to go after the violators, sending them to prison will end this nonsense.
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I’m not knocking anyone’s efforts, and am obviously glad we got through it. The fans efforts leaving season ticket money in the club, twice plus money raised and donated to the club shouldn’t be forgotten either. Not an insignificant amount combined. To this day I am still amazed at the numbers which left the money in the club, considering the uncertainty everyone was facing at the time.
Having a couple of saleable players also helped a lot.
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Was it Jules and Adebayo we sold? Probs got a pittance in real football terms but much needed cash injection id expect.
It was. I can’t remember the exact figures but it was a decent amount.
Pomlett looked like a big weight had been lifted in one of his pomcasts after Adebayo was sold.
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Bescot Stadium, Bescot Cres, Walsall WS1 4SA
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Located in: Meat Market
Closed ⋅ Opens 9:30 am Fri
I love the location of the club shop, in the meat market.
This is what came up when I googled the club shop.
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Slow morning before heading home after working away and the dentist.
Just wondered if the move to the new stadium was imminent?
Has anyone heard anything?
The suspense is killing me. 
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Lines are being drawn out for the foundations as we speak, Wendy Mumford told me.
I hear they are just waiting for the cooling towers at Reedswood power station to be be demolished before re-using the bricks to build the stadium there
I did see Jimmy Walker marking some lines out around the Lidl Wednesbury Regional Distribution building near Junction 9 . Apparantly they are closing it fairly soon and moving to a purpose built building somewhere in the environs
The plot is probably 50% bigger than the Bescot site and then they could build housing on the current site
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The site (almost) of one of our former homes, Wednesbury Oval.
Temporary lodging might be a better description than home though, we only played a few games there.
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Could ihe current building be adapted so we get an retractable roof
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In line with our incremental improvement the new stadium will be ready when most of us on here are brown bread.
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Can you magine the queues when Ikea or Next have a sale on? Huge backlog on the M6 now when they have sales.
My understanding was that lidl were closing their distribution facility in bloxwich, the Wednesbury one is to remain open.
When was this?
The opening 2 home games of the 1893-94 season (lost both) while we were “between grounds”. It was the home of Wednesbury Old Athletic, who had arguably been the bigger club before the Swifts and Town merged to form our present club in 1888, but had folded at the end of the previous season.
The site is still a football pitch - aka Ellwell’s Field with a brick wall around it (we sometines used it for PE if our own sports pitches were waterlogged while I was at Wood Green high school a few yards away). Ellwell’s was an engineering company (my dad once worked there) just next door to the field. They were taken over by Spear & Jackson before that site became the present Lidl distribution hub.
I’ve never been sure but I think that the present day The Oval, a street that is part of the Old Park estate just off Woden Road North (a mile or so away) was named in tribute.
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Wonder if the planning for the new stadium is the reason for the delay in getting new floodlights? Must be something in this new ground talk… I have heard that Villa Women want the Poundland for their women’s and youth teams to use as their home. Would an alternative location on the site of the former Gala Bingo near Darlaston be an option, train station being built and good bus routes. Its also close to Smash Burger…
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