Where is the source of this 'groundshare', all i can see is that Palace are selling naming rights to Selhurst Park and it'll now become the '2Bob stadium'.
I hated being at Selhurst, but in truth there is a a very good case for clubs ground sharing, permanently. We don't like the idea because it's not what we're used to but it does make sense to have two incomes paying for the stadium. All the 'good reasons' that were trotted out when we left The Valley still apply. If we could get someone to pay for half the running costs of The Valley then we would have more money for other things, like players or not running up losses.
I wouldn't want them playing on our pitch, but it might be better than having Millwall suddenly come into £1m a year and we don't!
Groundsharing should be more widespread, look at the San Siro and Olympic Stadium in Rome for example, but in reality it's too much trouble. Add to that the fact that most teams have new or recently developed grounds now anyway and it's only shit teams in shit grounds that would want to share with anyone
Sorry Palarse but you can go share with Tooting for all I care, you're not coming here!
As others have already said they are simply selling the naming rights, they are not building a new Sainburys. A couple of thousand plastic seats in their tinderbox stand, the value of their shitty ground will double.
Those seats are the originals from 1924, so yes they are of historical interest, so I can imagine people buying them, especially if they've sat there for a long time. I've sat on the same seat in the East Stand since August 1994, so I've been sitting there for 19 years now :-)
As for the stadium rename, strange timing, but I guess being in the PL they'd got an offer they couldn't refuse. With the state of our finances, I wonder what our price would be?
Original Archibald Leitch seats as well, worth an absolute fortune, but being palace they tried to sell them for only £20, hardly advertised them and ended up throwing most of them away, in true nigel style with a Sainsburys shopping trolley.
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Can you imagine Palace playing a home game and the usual haunts being packed to the rafters with our lot!
http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Palace-fans-snap-antique-seats-ripped-ahead/story-19604919-detail/story.html#axzz2bSkaUgTV
a nostalgic peice of history apparently
No thanks, I'd rather we stayed potless.
And I used to post pictures of sports direct lorries on my Geordie mates Facebook page saying I'd seen their team coach.
I hated being at Selhurst, but in truth there is a a very good case for clubs ground sharing, permanently. We don't like the idea because it's not what we're used to but it does make sense to have two incomes paying for the stadium. All the 'good reasons' that were trotted out when we left The Valley still apply. If we could get someone to pay for half the running costs of The Valley then we would have more money for other things, like players or not running up losses.
I wouldn't want them playing on our pitch, but it might be better than having Millwall suddenly come into £1m a year and we don't!
Sorry Palarse but you can go share with Tooting for all I care, you're not coming here!
As for the stadium rename, strange timing, but I guess being in the PL they'd got an offer they couldn't refuse. With the state of our finances, I wonder what our price would be?
Considering that's where all their fans come from...