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Wolfman Jack
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 8:56 pm Post subject: Clyde relocation. |
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Club Statement
Thu, 21st Apr 2022 9:45pm
Clyde Football Club will, imminently, be issuing a notice to North Lanarkshire Council terminating its lease at Broadwood. Consequently, the upcoming fixture against Airdrieonians, on the 23rd April, will be our last match at the stadium.
It is widely known that the club had begun developing a proposal to relocate to a stadium of its own. Although we had fully expected to continue the process at a pace of our own choosing, North Lanarkshire Council has now confirmed that it will not consider extending the club’s lease at Broadwood on a permanent basis beyond the end of season 2022/23, when the current arrangement was due for renewal.
Given the need to meet the club’s immediate operating requirements, the board has arranged with Hamilton Academical to play our home matches at New Douglas Park while we accelerate the process to secure a site and new stadium back in Glasgow. All of the club’s activities delivered through the Clyde Foundation will be unaffected. The Board is immensely grateful to Hamilton Academical for their co-operation and the efficiency with which this deal is being finalised.
For the older generations of the Clyde support this is a scenario which is familiar, having had to leave Shawfield behind in 1986, and following the club through the ground-sharing days of the late eighties and early nineties. The loyalty of our supporters was unstinting during the uncertainty of these years, and the resolve that saw us through those times will now be called upon again – both from them and from the newer generations of Clyde supporters who have made this club their own during our time in North Lanarkshire.
This is a historic moment in the unfolding story of Clyde Football Club and not one without an element of regret. Over 28 seasons, we have experienced many highs and lows at Broadwood. Many new fans had their first Clyde experience here and, sadly, many also had their last. All of us will set off from the ground with treasured memories, but also with the assurance that the final destination will be a home which we can truly call our own.
https://www.clydefc.co.uk/news/2022/04/21/7104/#.YmHEXIXMLIW
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stan drew rover
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Now there is proper PR, from a club that has been forced to make a premature move away from its most recent home by an unthinking, bandwagon jumping landlord - ie, North Lanarkshire Council.
The club's board has matter-of-factly, yet sensitively, explained its next steps. But the unwritten subtext is also clear: we won't stay a minute longer than we need to where the stadium owner restricts our ability to trade.
Whether this means that David Goodwillie plies his trade in Hamilton, playing with Clyde again after all, will remain to be seen. But meantime, well done Clyde on standing up to their bully-boy landlord |
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StarksBarmy
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I’m just feeling old that it’s been 28 years since they moved to Broadwood.
The move never really payed off, lost a load of fans by moving and (unsurprisingly) failed to really tap in to old firm hotbed that is Cumbernauld. Now, they face the same scenario again of losing many of the fans they HAVE nurtured the last twenty or so years… |
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Vinnie
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| stan drew rover wrote: | Now there is proper PR, from a club that has been forced to make a premature move away from its most recent home by an unthinking, bandwagon jumping landlord - ie, North Lanarkshire Council.
The club's board has matter-of-factly, yet sensitively, explained its next steps. But the unwritten subtext is also clear: we won't stay a minute longer than we need to where the stadium owner restricts our ability to trade.
Whether this means that David Goodwillie plies his trade in Hamilton, playing with Clyde again after all, will remain to be seen. But meantime, well done Clyde on standing up to their bully-boy landlord |
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Pretty sure the landlord could have terminated the lease earlier eg some 4 or 5 years ago
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Wolfman Jack
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| Vinnie wrote: | | stan drew rover wrote: | Now there is proper PR, from a club that has been forced to make a premature move away from its most recent home by an unthinking, bandwagon jumping landlord - ie, North Lanarkshire Council.
The club's board has matter-of-factly, yet sensitively, explained its next steps. But the unwritten subtext is also clear: we won't stay a minute longer than we need to where the stadium owner restricts our ability to trade.
Whether this means that David Goodwillie plies his trade in Hamilton, playing with Clyde again after all, will remain to be seen. But meantime, well done Clyde on standing up to their bully-boy landlord |
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Pretty sure the landlord could have terminated the lease earlier eg some 4 or 5 years ago |
Until recently the ground was under the control of an arms length Leisure Trust, it only came back under control of North Lanarkshire Council after the trust was ended.
It would seem that NLC has different values to the previous incumbent.
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stan drew rover
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| Wolfman Jack wrote: | | Vinnie wrote: | | stan drew rover wrote: | Now there is proper PR, from a club that has been forced to make a premature move away from its most recent home by an unthinking, bandwagon jumping landlord - ie, North Lanarkshire Council.
The club's board has matter-of-factly, yet sensitively, explained its next steps. But the unwritten subtext is also clear: we won't stay a minute longer than we need to where the stadium owner restricts our ability to trade.
Whether this means that David Goodwillie plies his trade in Hamilton, playing with Clyde again after all, will remain to be seen. But meantime, well done Clyde on standing up to their bully-boy landlord |
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Pretty sure the landlord could have terminated the lease earlier eg some 4 or 5 years ago |
Until recently the ground was under the control of an arms length Leisure Trust, it only came back under control of North Lanarkshire Council after the trust was ended.
It would seem that NLC has different values to the previous incumbent. |
On the surface, WJ is quite correct. But the common ground between North Lanarkshire Council and their Leisure Trust leads me to believe this was all just a convenient smokescreen, and the supposed change of hands from one to the other (but the same actual PEOPLE in charge) just a flimsy excuse |
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Vinnie
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My thoughts as well stan
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| stan drew rover wrote: |
Whether this means that David Goodwillie plies his trade in Hamilton, playing with Clyde again after all, will remain to be seen. But meantime, well done Clyde on standing up to their bully-boy landlord |
Perhaps the end of the DG saga for us, just a shame some Raith minded parties didn't have the cojones to do the same to the naysayers.
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KirkcaldyRover
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Wolfman Jack wrote: | Until recently the ground was under the control of an arms length Leisure Trust, it only came back under control of North Lanarkshire Council after the trust was ended.
It would seem that NLC has different values to the previous incumbent. |
Many councils, including Fife operate this way. Ultimately the council are still the owners of the real estate and they just use a third party non-profit to run the services. Take Fife for example, we have OnFife who operate theatre venues but Fife council still own Adam Smith theatre and Lochgelly Centre.Similarly with the Fife Golf Trust that operate the council owned golf courses, and Fife sport and leisure trust that operate the council owned fitness centres in Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. |
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Wolfman Jack
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BSC Glasgow now OG Broomhill FC previously tenants at Alloa are the new tenants at Broadwood Cumbernauld.
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Wolfman Jack
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Looking to move back to Glasgow.
| Quote: | | Located on the Gallowgate less than a mile from the club’s first grounds of Barrowfield and then Shawfield, the current sports complex at Crownpoint represents an historic opportunity to embed Clyde Football Club back in the heart of the very community which gave birth to it 145 years ago. |
Full statement.
https://www.clydefc.co.uk/news/2022/09/09/7217/#.Yxs9k6HMLIV
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