Our location is perfect as it is. Pity they were allowed to build houses around us.
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IT is still better than Luton, where they built a football stadium inside a housing estate 
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I was very impressed with the Wimbledon ground. Sat near the half way line with my Wimbledon friends, (weāre still friends 
). The view was great as was the atmosphere, in part due to our fantastic supporters. The flats which have been built on one side of the ground and wrap around a small section of each end were built due to the cost of the stadium. Not originally intended. In fact the whole area is very built up and congested. Parking is very difficult. Canāt say the same about Bescot. Always find somewhere to park just a short walk away. Agree the stanchions spoil the view and the atmosphere is sometimes lacking. Not sure whether this is because the stadium design means that the sound is not projected but disappears into the ether?
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Also went in the Wimbledon club shop. Very impressive, light years ahead of ours!
Their tennis courts arenāt too bad either!
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Their litter collection is good too.
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Weād know for sure if accounts had been filed, but they werenāt. We could always ask Bonser, as he was a director at the time, but Iām sure youād not get a straight answer. Heās dodged that for ever.
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As an ex-Sneyd pupil, I bloody loved that placeā¦.if you ignore the local populace being cretins having the professional ambition of benefits and petty theft.
That being said, the routes in or out are a narrower tunnel leading to Crab Lane/Sneyd Lane or past the old pub - neither of which lend itself to anything other than clogging up roads.
Then youāve got the issue over parking rights for the boating lake and the fishing at the reservoir - imagine telling some of these anglers or boaters that they canāt park their car on a Saturday afternoon!
They would certainly have something to carp about 
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I can imagine that it would create a bit of tench-on.
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Would I have to drive sideways along there?
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Yes or you could get sandwiched 
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Iād claw my way out.
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Never understand why people want to move from our location!
Like seriously itās nearly perfect!
Right by the motorway!
Can see the ground from the motorway which is awesome and the ad revenue that brings
Has it own train station !
Near the Black Country route!
Walking distance from Walsall with bus links right outside the ground
Only issue is the traffic after a game
What more do you want !
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āWhat more do you want !ā
We want the world and we want it, NOW!!!
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Iām sure that in the Simon Inglis book on football league grounds it notes that we ended up with Stantonās because it saved somewhere in the region of 250-450k Iāll dig the book out to check
I canāt remember what the cost reported to take out the main stand central supports in the early 2000s was. Iām sure it was a couple of hundred thousand. I donāt think removing them will happen because itāll never generate any revenue. Shame because it would look fantastic.
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If I recall correctly the original design of the stadium didnāt have stanchions but as costs rose they decided to go down the Scunthorpe route. I will never forget how disappointed I was to see them when I went to choose my seat.
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This is it. I might be a bit more inclined to make allowances for some of Bonserās decisions if he hadnāt been so evasive and secretive about them. But his whole tenure was," never apologise, never explain."
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āItās what the people of Walsall wantā
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