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2:25 here gives a better view of the penalty incident. Looks like he took a backhand to the nuts.

He said £20 million.......not £20 🤣🤣

And winning goal a pen conceded by Gogic!...lovely

I think we’d have enough for a training facility as well

If he picked up all the coins that were thrown at him, that would raise a few bob.😆

Grizzly could always do a nationwide stadium tour.🫠

Well, well, who would have thought it? A Dundee Utd player rolling about on the ground tonight after a no contact incident. Some people should practice what they preach. Are you listening Jim?

I do, I'd quite like St. Mirren to be relegated.

£20m. Could we raise that if we sell 3 of our midfielders + JT?

I looked about small stadiums in Europe and I think around £20m is the cost. I’d hate a Lego style stadium like St Mirren or St Johnstone. If we did get a new stadium I’d like it to look a bit unique. the stadium of Nijmegen is a 12000 seater and is the sort of style I’d like and the stadium of stade de la maladier in Switzerland is a belter, that’s a 12000 seater and was £20m to build. id prefer to stay at fir park but unless we knock down the main stand and start again. I can’t see the stadium lasting another 10yrs or so as financially I think that main stand is a money pit for maintenance.

Youve taken that too far.

You also have to consider where would all the fans currently seated in the POD move to? Loss of gate revenue, catering, hospitality etc, etc. So add in all these potential costs and issues to the demolition/ rebild costs and it would be a significant sum, which would have to be costed against the new stadium option as to which one would be the least intrusive and most financially attrative to the club.

Lots of interesting and sensible debate regarding this. Let's see this season out and take it from there. I am trying to keep calm and not start dreaming of us achieving the impossible but its difficult. Already friction in our house as I confessed to Mrs Grizzly I had fell in love with someone else and his name was Jens! 🤣🤣

Dundee Utd v St Mirren tonight and we don’t give a fk what the score ends up. what a great feeling 😃

Hopefully fit for sellik game so we can play 4 right backs in defence again ( apologies to Manny) 🤣🤣

Demolition/construction equipment in limited space possibly encroaching into playing area. I’m not saying it can’t be done, I’m just saying there might be that chance I don’t have enough knowledge to say one way or the other

Just out of curiosity and comparison purposes I asked a work colleague who deals with large commercial loans how much the annual servicing cost would be on a £30m capital and interest loan over 30 years. Approx £2.2m at current rates apparently.

What would make it impossible?

There are many aspects to the stay V go debate Jonesy, but for the moment I'll focus on the community argument. What community are you referring to? If we assume that Ravenscraig is the preferred location, a site would be approximately 1Km from Fir Park, as the crow flies. Thats about the same distance from Fir Park to Asda, and considerably less than the distance to Forgewood. So, it wouldn't be a huge move distance wise. Motherwell is a strange settlement geographically as its part of a wider conurbation including Wishaw, Newmains, Craigneuk, Netherton, Cambusnethan, Newarthill and now Ravenscraig. Indeed it used to be part of the Burgh of Motherwell and Wishaw. The only similar places I can think of are Stoke on Trent and Levenmouth. Remove the placename signs and visitors would have difficulty in knowing exactly where they were. In short, how do we define a settlement? Over the years, Motherwell and satellite settlements have changed dramatically and evolved and must continue to do so or they will die. It needs to be conserved not preserved. My own family originally lived in Logan’s Rows then moved a short distance to Forgewood Road. Post WW1 they moved to Netherton and split to various places like Knowetop, Pather, and outside Lanarkshire. They began supporting MFC when we located at the Roman Road ground and continued when we moved to Fir Park. In microcosm that’s how a community evolves. Like it or not, Ravenscraig is just a modern version of Netherton, Pather, Gowkthrapple Coltness etc, which all developed post WW1. A lot of big Ifs in this discussion, but if we ever do move to the likes Ravenscraig, it wouldn’t be ripping the community apart.

I'd wager £20-30M for a 12,000 seat stadium but I'm no expert.

Whatever route we go, we won’t be able to fund it ourselves. What are our options for funding a major renovation or new stadium? Looking at minimum 50M perhaps closer to 100M for new build. Not sure that major renovation would be much cheaper. New build you could still play at Fir park during building amd no effect on crowd size. Playing at Fir Park during major renovation coukd be a nightmare or not even possible.

I think he is likely peak value in the summer. 23/24 year old. Couple of years on the contract. Stonker of a season for club & country. Good pedigree at academy level to suggest not a flash in the pan. Reckon we get more in the summer than we were offered in January. I like the guy but it will be time to cash that chip in. Hopefully we keep Just for another season though!

Last time we won 4 or more league games in a row was Feb 2019 when we achieved 6 wins in a row under Robinson. So, not an easy task ahead on Saturday. However, taking the game purely by itself, the team is more than capable of picking up 3 points but I’m sure we will have to play well to get them. Hope we get Johnny K back soon as it just gives us more coverage and flexibility in defence. Going to need all hands on deck for the last 10 games.

I'd like to know the annual maintenance costs of Fir Park. I'd wager it runs into 6 figures easily. The cost of patching up the POD doesn't bear thinking about as its long past that stage.

If he stays with us does he have another top scorer season amd is worth more and also helps bring in more money from success on the field? I have no clue how much money can be made from progressing thru each stage. I sometimes wonder how some of our ex players would have done at Fir park if they had stayed another season.