The State Of Cappielow.

[LinwoodTON]

The major obstacle to this isn't the Raes (who I believe we're quite far down the road at one point with Riverside Inverclyde before that group's problems) but finance. To build anew we'd need £8-10m, which is not just beyond the Raes but beyond any likely owner. The sale of Cappielow and the car park might help, but I have my doubts as to how valuable that land is, particularly as those who would look to develop it would run into issues with network rail (a reason why we can't make significant improvements on the main stand side) and Arnold Clark and with the costs of preparing the land for development (with land that's ready to build on ready to go and available at Port Glasgow and IBM). It's not impossible, of course, that circumstances could change.

 

Back in the day of building new stadiums there was a grant available, can't remember who from. Is that, or similar, still available?

[TONofmemories]

Back in the day of building new stadiums there was a grant available, can't remember who from. Is that, or similar, still available?

Let's not turn into Fallirk.

[SpoonTon]

Back in the day of building new stadiums there was a grant available, can't remember who from. Is that, or similar, still available?

 

There would certainly be the potential for grants that would be available as part of the project, but nothing that would get remotely near the core costs of building a new ground.

[dunning1874]

I was also wondering what kind of stadium would suit Morton at this current time.  Now this is obviously not possible under the current owners but a slightly less extravagant version of Man City's Academy stadium would be ideal imo.

 

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/the-club/city-football-academy/academy-stadium

 

Certainly if we were building a new one, having two stands and two terraces would be the way to go. I'd switch that design so we had one of each behind the goals and one of each running along the touchline rather than only having terracing behind the goals though.

[cmdc]

Back in the day of building new stadiums there was a grant available, can't remember who from. Is that, or similar, still available?

I don't think there's a specific grant to help elite clubs build stadia. But as SpoonTon said there could be grant funding available from various places that might help towards, but get nowhere near, the total cost of a new build project.

[AyrshireTon]

Dumbarton's main stand, Somerset's behind the goals and our own Cowshed.

 

Job's a good'un.

Not Somerset - poor view from behind the goals owing to it being not very steep.

I'd prefer the covered terracing behind the goal that Queen of the South have.

[LinwoodTON]

There would certainly be the potential for grants that would be available as part of the project, but nothing that would get remotely near the core costs of building a new ground.

 

 

I don't think there's a specific grant to help elite clubs build stadia. But as SpoonTon said there could be grant funding available from various places that might help towards, but get nowhere near, the total cost of a new build project.

 

That's where I was going with it. If any project was backed up with sport grants of sorts, that could possibly be what convinces other outside investment. 

[Rampage Nu Sport]

I was intrigued by an article in the Herald yesterday about Judy Murray's plans for a tennis/golf facility near Dunblane - which was to be funded by building and selling luxury houses, and which was also claimed to be sufficiently sustainable funding-wise to make it affordable for users on low incomes.

 

Now given that if I read Nacho's reply to my query about costs correctly it excluded land (or at least that land was available very cheaply in the St Mirren example he used), then we could actually need £15-20 million for a new site.  Could you help fund that with housing, and if so how much profit could you make on a house?

 

Just playing with some figures, if you sell 100 houses on the site at £500,000 a pop then a profit margin of 30% might generate enough to pay for the stadium?  The Raes can then sell the existing site and recoup whatever money they've spent on the club (if that's what they want).

 

So could some enterprising local company come up with a scheme that developed part of the IBM site in a way that generated enough funds to pay for a stadium?  And could you make that site multi-functional at least sport-wise, so that its not just in use 20 Saturdays a year?

[LinwoodTON]

Not Somerset - poor view from behind the goals owing to it being not very steep.

I'd prefer the covered terracing behind the goal that Queen of the South have.

 

I've never watched from behind the goals at Somerset or even been to Palmerston, so I'll give you that one.

 

Now, what about the pies? Forfar..

[lazy_ar*e_student]

There is no way that you could sell 100 houses on the land given the area that is in between. 500K new builds are found towards the South West of Inverclyde. I am sure the new builds behind Cappielow were built for around 70K and maybe sold (for those that were sold) for £100K+ plus there is a pending application for housing in the former Cragieknowes area. 

[TheGoon]

Noticed the club have offered free hospitality to folk that helped out at Cappielow over the summer for tomorrow's game, nice gesture I suppose and well deserved.

[BluebirdTon]

The club probably hope they all get f*ckin wrecked and trash the hospitality so that they redecorate that for free too...

[capitanus]

I was intrigued by an article in the Herald yesterday about Judy Murray's plans for a tennis/golf facility near Dunblane - which was to be funded by building and selling luxury houses, and which was also claimed to be sufficiently sustainable funding-wise to make it affordable for users on low incomes.

 

Now given that if I read Nacho's reply to my query about costs correctly it excluded land (or at least that land was available very cheaply in the St Mirren example he used), then we could actually need £15-20 million for a new site.  Could you help fund that with housing, and if so how much profit could you make on a house?

 

Just playing with some figquote if you sell 100 houses on the site at £500,000 a pop then a profit margin of 30% might generate enough to pay for the stadium?  The Raes can then sell the existing site and recoup whatever money they've spent on the club (if that's what they want).

 

So could some enterprising local company come up with a scheme that developed part of the IBM site in a way that generated enough funds to pay for a stadium?  And could you make that site multi-functional at least sport-wise, so that its not just in use 20 Saturdays a year?

The bit in bold, I read in work today and was knotting myself with laughter. Several hours later, its still hilarious

[TRVMP]

Yeah, there's a couple of small differences between Spango Valley and Dunblane.

[Tubes]

Love my constant red dotting from Bewildered Beast as soon as there's a hint of Easdale chat 😂

[TRVMP]

The Easdales are singularly awful, in fairness.

 

They did halfway wreck the tribute act, though, so nobody's all bad.

[The Morton Mole]

Easdales were very clever with Rangers. Shares when at 10p a share. They go up and shares will etc

[TONofmemories]

New gates been fitted to the WDE entrance just now. 

[Tubes]

New gates been fitted to the WDE entrance just now.

Thank fuck for that! Any ideas about the first part of main stand and the wall?

[TONofmemories]

Thank **** for that! Any ideas about the first part of main stand and the wall?

 

Under the bin-bag like material that was covering it on saturday was some falsework in place - i assume forming part of a rebuild. Plus, i seen joiners in at Cappielow during the week. Can only assume work is being done on it just now.