Ground Share with Rotherham

Quite a nice stadium though, the New York.

 

I hope you're right.

 

isnt it about the that dim and distant 3rd party claiming some sort of "dibs" on the ground ?, so the crynes are saying " give us what you owe us" the 3rd party saying they dont owe you they owe us" and the club/owners saying" until you sort out who owes who what then nobodies getting nothing" and to save paying rent/upkeep on someone elses ground ( but f**k knows whos ) we'll move to a cheaper option until you get it sorted and save the club money

 

Millers fans seem up for it. Be a nice bit of income for them and the neighbouring area after all .

 

Ah ok interesting. Surely the YP article is referring to those talks then, rather than some later ones. Especially as Leon says it was dismissed quickly by Rotherham.

I'd forgotten that the Supporters Trust statement mentioned Rotherham, I only remember the lancashire clubs part

 

I recall the statement at the time when the info hit the national press about trying to share with Wigan. I don't recall Rotherham being mentioned at the time, so for most supporters, this is new information and it's only right people should want to know what the owners continuing actions and intentions are.

And absolutely concur with your last sentence. Hopefully light can be shone and it can be shown to be old news just now surfacing rather than there being something more behind it.

 

As long as we didn't head down the A61

 

Just my opinion but if Barnsley FC moves out of Barnsley it's no longer Barnsley FC and my feelings for the club diminish to the point where I no longer care. If I was interested in supporting a club who didn't play in my home town I could go and watch premier League football within an hour's drive in fact I could watch Champions League football but I don't because I want to support my home town team of playing in my home town. I don't care about the rights and wrongs of the argument between the owners about who owes what to who and who did or didn't disclose what to who. But I do care about where my club plays and which ever party took the club away from Barnsley would in my opinion be very much the villian of the piece.

 

The ground share story came out September but no team was mentioned. The article mentions Rotherham and says late last year, which sounds like new news to me as September isn't late in the year. Either way Barnsley FC is no longer Barnsley FC if it isn't playing in Barnsley. I would rather watch a brand new Barnsley non league club than watch Barnsley FC outside the town. The Club are bonkers if they think fans will travel to watch them.

 

Absolutely agree. Move it outside the town boundary and it no longer belongs to the town. It would most definitely end my 54-year association with the club. There are four more season ticket holders in my family and, although I cannot speak for them, I suspect it would be the end for them also.

 

I'd go to Rotherham to watch us, so long as it was only ever a temporary thing.

I'd not go to Wegin, because I want them to go bust, and I'm not giving them a penny. When I support a club who does things to budget, I don't see why I would bail out the financially-doped, particularly when they're on their last legs: on their way to their traditional home of the fourth tier, in administration, with no buyer anywhere to be seen.

I reckon the whole thing will be sorted by the time we're let back into stadia, though, and that we'll remain at Oakwell.

 

Somebody needs to point out to the can't pay won't pay lot (they aren't the owners they've not paid for the club yet) that this isn't the good old franchise league USA and if you move Barnsley FC out of Barnsley you will probably lose 75% of the home match day support.

 

What about swillsboro then

 

Lots claiming they’ll no longer support the club should a move happen. However, I’m fairly sure we went through all of this last time and it was stated that a ground share wouldn’t be a permanent solution. It was also stated that since the Wimbledon/MK Dons debacle, the EFL wouldn’t permit such a move permanently.

I can only imagine Barnsley FC moving out of ‘Barnsley’ itself if a new stadium is built on a field near Darton that’s technically in Wakefield, or somewhere along the Dearne Valley corridor where the land actually sits in Rotherham/Donny. I can’t see it happening.

 

No.

Rotherham, yes, because I don't mind them.

Wegin, or either of the deedars (even though I live here) and it's a no.