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BillyBlue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2026 10:17 pm Be very careful what you wish for.
I attended a council meeting at Vickerstown school in the l990’s where the Soccer and Rugby tried to get a joint stadium on the old Rezza site. The Labour council knocked it back and nothing solid has ever been proposed again.
York City and York Knights share a stadium with each club getting 17% of the match day food and drinks income, does anyone really think we could survive off that?
Other clubs are trying to get a joint venture but unless you own your own stadium,like us, then you’re just giving money away

McMark wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2026 10:47 pm As huge as it will be to get relegated IF it happens Barrow AFC and Holker Street has faced far greater adversity over the years and pulled through and will continue to do just that!

Cokey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2026 7:31 am

BillyBlue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2026 10:17 pm Be very careful what you wish for.
I attended a council meeting at Vickerstown school in the l990’s where the Soccer and Rugby tried to get a joint stadium on the old Rezza site. The Labour council knocked it back and nothing solid has ever been proposed again.
York City and York Knights share a stadium with each club getting 17% of the match day food and drinks income, does anyone really think we could survive off that?
Other clubs are trying to get a joint venture but unless you own your own stadium,like us, then you’re just giving money away

Exactly this, but people prefer to ignore the facts and keep bringing it up again every few weeks.

SayitagainSam wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:10 pm Workington don't seem to have a problem coming up with an 'extra £4.5 million', on top of the already allocated '£11 million', to build a new 5000 mainly seated, community stadium, to be shared by both the town's Football and Rugby Clubs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9vg94g7x4o

Appreciate this old chestnut has been discussed for years, but Barrow has 3x Workington's population, so could someone please remind me again, simply and briefly, why Craven Park or Holker St can't be sold and the town's 2 professional teams, supported by funding from the Government, Cumbria and Furness authorities, Sports grants, £BAE, etc. copy Workington's fully funded plan and get serious about sharing one new, decent, ground? If our Cumbrian neighbours can do it, with a Football team languishing in the Northern Premier League and a Rugby team struggling in the Championship League, both with attendances of less than 1000, why can't we at least start talking? What is the problem here?!

Jonty wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:29 pm

SayitagainSam wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:10 pm Workington don't seem to have a problem coming up with an 'extra £4.5 million', on top of the already allocated '£11 million', to build a new 5000 mainly seated, community stadium, to be shared by both the town's Football and Rugby Clubs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9vg94g7x4o

Appreciate this old chestnut has been discussed for years, but Barrow has 3x Workington's population, so could someone please remind me again, simply and briefly, why Craven Park or Holker St can't be sold and the town's 2 professional teams, supported by funding from the Government, Cumbria and Furness authorities, Sports grants, £BAE, etc. copy Workington's fully funded plan and get serious about sharing one new, decent, ground? If our Cumbrian neighbours can do it, with a Football team languishing in the Northern Premier League and a Rugby team struggling in the Championship League, both with attendances of less than 1000, why can't we at least start talking? What is the problem here?!

The problem here is that there is not enough appetite for it. There are too many not prepared to think differently and will always come up with negative scenarios about ground share.

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:46 pm

Jonty wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:29 pm

The problem here is that there is not enough appetite for it. There are too many not prepared to think differently and will always come up with negative scenarios about ground share.

It shows what can be achieved when there is a will in a want to do it. Sadly in Barrow there isn't that will or want so we are left with two money pit shit grounds.

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:46 pm

Jonty wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:29 pm

The problem here is that there is not enough appetite for it. There are too many not prepared to think differently and will always come up with negative scenarios about ground share.

It shows what can be achieved when there is a will in a want to do it. Sadly in Barrow there isn't that will or want so we are left with two money pit shit grounds.

mall wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2026 12:22 am I'm led to believe York City now want a ground of their own !