Speedwell 🦊 Posted 16 August 2019 Share Posted 16 August 2019 38 minutes ago, OntarioFox said: There's a perfectly good railway line 200 yards from the Kop with room for a station, but unfortunately the County Council have done everything they can since the 1960s to prevent it from being reopened to passenger traffic, on the flimsy basis that they would have to part-subsidise the service. The political will is there from literally every other area - City Council, regional development forums, passenger rail groups, local MPs, multiple transport ministers in recent years and even apparently from those involved in the HS2 project. But it's a non-starter unless someone steps in to help make it viable - which is where the club could really make a difference. A bit of investment from the club in such a project on the basis of the wider Leicester-Burton reopening case would be massively beneficial for A) those attending the match and B) Northwest Leicestershire as a whole. It could even be as simple a gesture as purchasing the land north of the Knighton South junction to accomodate relaying of the north curve (would cost about £2 million apparently, chicken feed for the club). With the rate Coalville is growing, there's bound to be interest in travelling by rail, either to games or into Leicester or Burton for work, and you'd have stations at places like Ashby and Meynell's Gorse Park & Ride as well. A growth in matchday crowd figures will only boost the business case for it - a simple survey of where people travel from to the game would be very useful in showing potential demand along the route for rail services to matches. For reference, we just sold Harry Maguire for about the same amount of money as it would cost to fully re-open the line. You’ve certainly done your homework Ontariofox!If they could join both lines going north and south,that would be great if it went ahead.A train from narborough to the ground and back for me Would be perfect.In reality,I think their would be too many hurdles to overcome sadly.We can all hope though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Weller Posted 16 August 2019 Share Posted 16 August 2019 Excellent idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09bballer Posted 17 August 2019 Share Posted 17 August 2019 20 hours ago, stripeyfox said: I sat right at the front of the kop just to the side of the goal for a game an Tim Flowers hung a massive towel on the net and it obscured a huge amount of the pitch! Had to ask him to move it to which he politely complied. I think that might be the same game Robbie Fowler told me to fvck off because I was giving him a load!! That's probably when Robbie Fowler showed his arse to the kop?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastik Man Posted 17 August 2019 Share Posted 17 August 2019 8 minutes ago, 09bballer said: That's probably when Robbie Fowler showed his arse to the kop?! In doing so obscuring a large part of the pitch! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr The Singh Posted 17 August 2019 Share Posted 17 August 2019 41 minutes ago, 09bballer said: That's probably when Robbie Fowler showed his arse to the kop?! The guy from EastEnders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted 17 August 2019 Share Posted 17 August 2019 1 hour ago, 09bballer said: That's probably when Robbie Fowler showed his arse to the kop?! Rumour has it he was the hooker body double in that scene from Wolf of Wall Street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayday Posted 17 August 2019 Share Posted 17 August 2019 23 hours ago, Raw Dykes said: I'm guessing you never sat behind a pillar at Filbert St. I’ve still got a stiff neck even now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueArmy123 Posted 3 October 2019 Share Posted 3 October 2019 Any news on this after the survey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Fox Posted 3 October 2019 Share Posted 3 October 2019 Build the ground Top. No time to waste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 3 October 2019 Share Posted 3 October 2019 Any news on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldeagle Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 One step at a time . Training ground 2020. Stadium after. Be patient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayday Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 3 hours ago, baldeagle said: One step at a time . Training ground 2020. Stadium after. Be patient Thanks Top. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheppyFox Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 On 16/08/2019 at 13:25, OntarioFox said:With the rate Coalville is growing, there's bound to be interest in travelling by rail. Have you ever been to Coalville? It’s literally benefit frauds, single mums and charity shops. Oh and William Hill. Scumbags are everywhere, it’s a comedy to drive through though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markyblue Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 1 hour ago, SheppyFox said: Have you ever been to Coalville? It’s literally benefit frauds, single mums and charity shops. Oh and William Hill. Scumbags are everywhere, it’s a comedy to drive through though. Its literally not. Lovely people and mainly loyal to city unlike some of Leicesters satellite towns. Disgraceful post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Clender Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 1 hour ago, SheppyFox said: Have you ever been to Coalville? It’s literally benefit frauds, single mums and charity shops. Oh and William Hill. Scumbags are everywhere, it’s a comedy to drive through though. Such a bandwagon comment. There are few places in the UK that don't have the negative social aspects you state. Coalville has the best boozer in the country, 'Stamford and Warrington', even if the landlord is a Wolves fan, or that's what I remember. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheppyFox Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 (edited) Don’t make me laugh, Coalville is a dump. were talking about the same place, near Ibstock? The place with the engineers arms and a couple of Chinese takeaways? Edited 4 October 2019 by SheppyFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voll Blau Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 Not from Coalville, but the lads I know who are are sound as a pound. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheppyFox Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Markyblue said: Its literally not. Lovely people and mainly loyal to city unlike some of Leicesters satellite towns. Disgraceful post. Ok mark own up, you own the red house don’t you?! Or would have if it hadn’t shut down in failure and poverty like everything else in that cesspit 🙂🎣 Edited 4 October 2019 by SheppyFox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manini Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 My mum and dad live pretty much in Coalville. It’s fallen on hard times recently and it’s not the most attractive place to look at, but the folk who live there would do anything for anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheppyFox Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 (edited) You’ve all convinced me, you’re absolutely right. Coalville is a desirable place to live, full of joy and economic boom. I’ve just instructed my financial team to buy Bakewell street, I’m moving in. Edited 4 October 2019 by SheppyFox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoopid Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 5 hours ago, SheppyFox said: Have you ever been to Coalville? It’s literally benefit frauds, single mums and charity shops. Oh and William Hill. Scumbags are everywhere, it’s a comedy to drive through though. I used to travel to Coalville several times a week and always found it an interesting town with decent and humorous people - intelligent and welcoming. Certainly I would say few of them would willingly display the kind of lazy clichés and dopey stereotypes that you seem to deal in... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Eaton Fox Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 Well if any justification was needed for building the new training facility for £100m is that the three academy players in our first team, Chillwell, Barnes and Choudhury, are worth more than that alone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facecloth Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 (edited) I work in Ellistown, have done for 7 years out the last 7.5 years. There's certainly parts of Coalville that aren't great but it does get an unfair rep. It's pretty standard for an ex mining town of it's size. The shopping centre isn't the Highcross, but it's never going to be. It does get ripped, even by the people who live here, and it does have some weirdos and scroungers, but then so does everywhere. The one thing that you can and should criticise the place for is the Coalville Coat. Bloody hideous things. And as I've just stood up for you, any local here, Gimme six! Edited 4 October 2019 by Facecloth 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 4 October 2019 Share Posted 4 October 2019 OT, Commercially speaking big retailers and online shopping companies can’t get enough of land in and around Coalville due to the transport links - within 30 minutes, you can get onto three important motorway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 4 October 2019 Author Share Posted 4 October 2019 I have genuinely been to Cape Town more often than I have to Coalville. That's how attractive Coalville is. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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