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Date Posted: "Wed, Apr 20 2011, 18:00:31 GMT"
How wrong can you be "jonnisigod". Never heard of Exeter City Football Club? Pymouth Albion, Bristol City or Bristol Rovers or Leicester City (Gordan Banks, Peter Shilton, Gary Linneker all played for Leicester and Martin O'Neil has been the manager)? As Moseley Matters constantly reminds us there are more people in just the City of Birmingham at 1.08 million people(and that's not even counting the Greater Birmingham conurbation of over 3.5 million!)than there are in the COMBINED total for the towns/cities of Leicester, Bristol, Gloucester, Worcster and Bath!!!! Worcester itself has of less than 100,000! There's more than enough population capacity in and around Birmingham to support teams at the top of all the major sports in the country. The Gt Birmingham RFU is a big part of the North Mids RFU which has two representatives on the RFU Council becasue of its size so there is plenty of rugby interest in the Birmingham area despite what you say.
Also I'm not sure you how old you are but past history goes against your theory. Before professionalism Moseley's gates were at least on a par wth Gloucester, Leicester, Bristol and Bath and some people in the club will tell you that about 25 years ago our membership was double that of Leicester's! Our big gates against Coventry and even Welsh clubs were considerbaly more, regularly getting 4,000 crowds for Boxing Day and couple of thousand people even then for Newport and others. The Sam Doble game drew 8,500 and the All Blacks around 1971 over 11,000! By the way, my sources at the club tell me that the Worcester gate this season was 2,437 and that last season Coventry beat that figure twice and Bees neared it twice. Northampton was over 3,500 depite dreadful weather and even Launceston game in the old National League 2 had a gate of 2,200! So bang goes another of your theories!
Do you really not think that if the RFU facilities management people, the city council and all the experts involved at the club are wrong and you are right if this whole thing was not doable or the right thing to do? In fact you are also wrong on another point. Birmingham does not have many facilities which could accommodate over 500 people for a sit down function. Not many cities do and there is a demand for that. Our stand would meet that as well.
What we need are better facilities and to "produce the product off the park as well as on it" which I have often heard quoted. Then the issues around the ground which have rightly in my view been raised will have been addressed. You just cannot expect even diehards to turn up week in and week out in poor facilities.
You are right about thing though. Exeter is not comparable with Moseley. Moseley in Birmingham has far greater capacity and potential and its facility will be even bigger! The challenge at the moment is not validity of the game plan or the accuracy of the vision for providing the facilities, it is meeting the effect of the current most severe financial mess in the country and the slashing of previously available grant streams and funding. I am sure the management will get there and get these funds eventually be added to existing finds for the stand which are ring fenced from the club's other activites. It has produced miracles in the past to get us where we are now. The "impossible" will just take a bit longer that's all!
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