WSC Article about sharing with rugby team

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Re: WSC Article about sharing with rugby team

by Jerry St Clair » 24 Oct 2010 09:56

rabidbee I've always thought that the real "villains" of the piece were/are Merton council. They were the ones who wouldn't allow a ground back in Wimbledon.


Completely untrue. Merton have always claimed they have supported a stadium in the borough. Regardless, Winkelman had no intention of staying. He hired a PR company to lobby the council and to whip up local opposition to a stadium in Merton.

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Re: WSC Article about sharing with rugby team

by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 24 Oct 2010 10:05

rabidbee I've always thought that the real "villains" of the piece were/are Merton council. They were the ones who wouldn't allow a ground back in Wimbledon.

Didn't Sam Hammam sell Plough Lane and pocket the money himself?

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Re: WSC Article about sharing with rugby team

by Svlad Cjelli » 24 Oct 2010 11:54

Jerry St Clair
rabidbee I've always thought that the real "villains" of the piece were/are Merton council. They were the ones who wouldn't allow a ground back in Wimbledon.


Completely untrue. Merton have always claimed they have supported a stadium in the borough. Regardless, Winkelman had no intention of staying. He hired a PR company to lobby the council and to whip up local opposition to a stadium in Merton.


It was Koppell, who sold to Winkelman, who did that, but the basic facts are correct. No application was ever made, and WFC's owners spent the club's money advising local residents how to find grounds against any applicaton.

WISA members also had drawn up plans for a smaller stsdium at Plough Lanem with associated travel startegy etc, that probebly would have met Merton's conditions.

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Re: WSC Article about sharing with rugby team

by rabidbee » 24 Oct 2010 18:47

Fair enough, then, I'm happy to exonerate Merton.

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