New Stadium For Whitehaven!!

[HavenWarrior]

[brett kinghams mullet]

a pitch with a running track around it  no thanks

[RegDunnsFlatTop]

''We are not in the business of mergers between clubs, it would have to be a new team playing here, a Cumbrian one rather than say Whitehaven, Workington or Barrow''

Absolute pie in the sky!

I wouldnt be bothered where the stadium was if we were to manage to build one. This fella however talks absolute rhubarb.

[HavenWarrior]

''We are not in the business of mergers between clubs, it would have to be a new team playing here, a Cumbrian one rather than say Whitehaven, Workington or Barrow''

Absolute pie in the sky!

I wouldnt be bothered where the stadium was if we were to manage to build one. This fella however talks absolute rhubarb.

You may think so, but the team they have in charge up there have turned the place around. They have people queueing up to use the place. They have had Thousands of Pounds of grants.

HW

[havendan]

No squash courts - I'm out 

[Flannerz]

Certainly is very interesting to read, not sure if it will ever happen though. Maybe one of the reasons this has been done is to simply get key people around the table and discuss the viability of a Cumbria Super League team? Without a stadium the idea is nothing, with a stadium then it puts a totally different complexion on things.

[Keith]

I think that has more possibilities than the Rec ever being redeveloped in the next 5 - 6 years and if they did manage to get together a new rugby league club it would have my support. 

Bkm, your remark and thinking about a pitch with a running track around it is out of date.    All stadiums now have to be able to provide facilities for every day use not just once a fortnight for a single team to play there.   That is how they stay viable.    Imagine the income from an International Athletics meeting with some of the worlds top athletics stars performing there.  The Halliwell-Jones stadium at Warrington is used every week day by the local health authority with physio and health care departments for instance.   Okay it may be a bit further from the pitch but at least it is a modern stadium fit for purpose!!!

Even if the Rec does get developed, do you imagine that it will reamin for the sole use of Haven?    To get the money that they require it would have to be a community facility being used in the way that they are suggesting for the Sports Academy.   

[brett kinghams mullet]

I think that has more possibilities than the Rec ever being redeveloped in the next 5 - 6 years and if they did manage to get together a new rugby league club it would have my support. 

Bkm, your remark and thinking about a pitch with a running track around it is out of date.    All stadiums now have to be able to provide facilities for every day use not just once a fortnight for a single team to play there.   That is how they stay viable.    Imagine the income from an International Athletics meeting with some of the worlds top athletics stars performing there.  The Halliwell-Jones stadium at Warrington is used every week day by the local health authority with physio and health care departments for instance.   Okay it may be a bit further from the pitch but at least it is a modern stadium fit for purpose!!!

Even if the Rec does get developed, do you imagine that it will reamin for the sole use of Haven?    To get the money that they require it would have to be a community facility being used in the way that they are suggesting for the Sports Academy.

last time i looked HJS didnt have a track around it??

[jammy dodger]

I would hate to leave the rec, but im all for this. Like all new stadiums new/lost fans would initially come back to the club, the magical SL stadium box would be ticked and i could see a certain buzz back abiout Haven.

Cons could be losing matchday income, but as the development would be paid for with grants rather than public/private money i would hope this would be minimal if not nil

[Maca]

it would have to be a new team playing here, a Cumbrian one rather than say Whitehaven, Workington or Barrow.

[cano]

Time for Dick, Ralph & Co. to go public with any counter proposals the club may have regarding development of the Rec. I definitely do not want to leave our present home but we need to see something positive happening sooner rather than later.

[Keith]

last time i looked HJS didnt have a track around it??

I never said that it did if you read what I wrote.    I was merely illustrating that stadiums have to have extra usage not just for one team to play once a fortnight.

I can see how you thought that bkm.   The last sentence in that paragraph should have come before the sentence about the HJS.    I was meaning the Sports Academy would be a bit further from the pitch but a nice new modern stadium.

[Monte2carlo]

Looking at the picture shown in the paper it looks amazing. I hope the Rec will look as appealing when or if it ever gets modernised

Monte

[arfwayliner]

There was only ever a handful of athletics events there...it would be great to see more but I just can't see it...there aren't enough punters.  But I'd be happy to see either the Haven there on reasonable rental terms or a SL cumbria team...progress and change for the better

[whitehavenRLforever]

It will never come off. Looks nice from an artists impression but as already said its pie in the sky stuff.

Main concern though is the running track round it. Take away that then I'd be all in favour. If not you'd be miles away from the pitch and the atmoshere would be not existant with say 1500 there. Also expect to pay sky high prices for food and beverages. Nice idea but no thanks. Do up the Rec where there's already 500K pledged.