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Spurs set for ground-share with MK Dons after 'positive talks'

Kendall

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One point to mention though, part of us staying in Tottenham was due to local economy, can the current economy (particularly pubs) survive for a year without matchdays?
 

Gaz_Gammon

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It's the best all round solution, and aside from the WH ground share (that i read may still be an option) would give the best viable set up and professional facilities available at such short notice. Oh and it looks like a cheap deal for Levy that King of all things prudent.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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One point to mention though, part of us staying in Tottenham was due to local economy, can the current economy (particularly pubs) survive for a year without matchdays?
In all honesty, i don't care. Many of them have resisted over the years and think they can cow without us, so let them try. We come back in a year and bass businesses have gone leaving the good ones.
natural selection as it were.
 

robbiedee

Mama said knock you out
Jul 6, 2012
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In all honesty, i don't care. Many of them have resisted over the years and think they can cow without us, so let them try. We come back in a year and bass businesses have gone leaving the good ones.
natural selection as it were.
Easy tiger...thats a bit harsh...there's only really 1 business in N17 that most fans don't care about. That business being the root cause of us having to move for a season...probably :)
 

StanSpur

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What's the other choice then? Down Hackney marsh? Mk is an ok choice and there are virtually no other options open to us

It's only 30mins up the road, takes less time to get to from tottenham than bloody Stratford, and it's likely only for a year, so we get a massive upgrade.

Can't see the logic? Can't cope with a little temporary change for a big permanent benefit?

Come on grow up. You sound like a scouser

To be fair its only closer than Stratford for those living in north london or beyond. There are a lot of us living south and i for one would struggle with the additional £20-30 train ticket and almost 2 hour journey each way. Especially for evening games and Sunday service. It is only for a year though so providing my place on the waiting list and loyalty points are frozen for the year i would accept the fact i would go to far less games on the promise of a new stadium the following year.
 

worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
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So what is the extre evidence that this is a reality since last week when the club said they are not looking to move away for a year? Is this just a rehash if not what is the source?
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Easy tiger...thats a bit harsh...there's only really 1 business in N17 that most fans don't care about. That business being the root cause of us having to move for a season...probably :)
This has been going on for at least 15 years. Local councils have tried to make a name for themselves, businesses have complained, officials have rejected plans because, I shit you not, the stadium wasn't in keeping with the local area!
Shocking when Tottenham Hotspur really is all that's keeping it alive there.
 

tommo84

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Aug 15, 2005
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Thing is for me it's the other way around - if I want to go to a Spurs game at the moment it costs me the best part of £25-30 to get there.
A temporary move to MK is great as it will cost me about £1 in petrol and I know where best to park for free!

Same as. While I sympathise with fans local to Tottenham who will struggle with the added travel cost and time to attend games in MK, I have seen pockets of ignorance among some fans, seemingly oblivious to the fact that every week 000s of us make the exact same journey as they are now faced with but in reverse.

Even if many of the London based fans can't afford to/won't go, we'll still fill Stadium MK with fans across Bucks and Beds who currently struggle to afford travel in and out of London.
 

Blackcanary

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Same as. While I sympathise with fans local to Tottenham who will struggle with the added travel cost and time to attend games in MK, I have seen pockets of ignorance among some fans, seemingly oblivious to the fact that every week 000s of us make the exact same journey as they are now faced with but in reverse.

Even if many of the London based fans can't afford to/won't go, we'll still fill Stadium MK with fans across Bucks and Beds who currently struggle to afford travel in and out of London.

Definitely - i'll be able to make it to a lot more games if they're in MK. With any luck this might actually make a whole other geographical area feel more engaged and, if people from London can only get to fewer games, it might 're-energise' them when they do go. It will be more of a pleasure than a routine.

*Readies herself for a billion optimistic ratings*
 

newbie

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Be interesting to see what happens to ticket prices, personally think levy sees this as a last resort, the loss of income will really bother him, moving out of London, smaller stadium, I am sure there is a lot of political mind games going on, I am sure we are using it so Boris Johnson and local mps will be trying to push for the original plan build 3/4 of the stadium beside WHL (which I have heard the FA have stopped) rather than us move out or move us to Stratford. I don't think there is an easy solution we have taken a long time to get this far I am sure levy has really researched and explored every decision and what conclusion he comes to will be the best for spurs.
 

1882andallthat

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There is nothing positive about this at all. The whole thing stinks and it's a complete farce.

I know this ground may well have an increased capacity for MK Dons bringing it up to 32K but cutting through all of the PR bullshit we are being temporarily forced to move out of London to groundshare with a club in the 3rd tier while the Spamners who quite frankly couldn't fill a bath and are scrapping it out to be the 4th best supported team in London alongside QPR and Fulham are being given a 54000 all seater in the capital at a virtual peppercorn rent.

At the first sign of whinging and trouble from those bitter and twisted Spammers who are tenants after all and who are trying to put obstacles in the way of a groundshare or renting a former ground they have vacated simply out of spite and inspite of the fact that the OS was funded by the taxpayer are acting like some sherriff judge and jury to run us out of town. So what do we do ? We simply roll over scuttle off miles out of London and up the M1 and then claim it's a good deal. Good deal my arse !!!

Mark my words this will make us a laughing stock, being the butt of all jokes. Oh and what happens if the delay goes on for longer than a year because of the legal obstacles and unforeseen hitches in funding the build etc.

Get real, it's time to get tough and let's name and shame the legacy committee and the Spammers and insist on a groundshare deal of the OS and show them up for the fact that it is them who are openly conning the taxpayer out of repayments and if anyone thinks my objections are based on the fact that I live nowhere near Milton Keynes they are mistaken.

This smacks of a climb down and surrender and humiliation much like many of our pathetic defensive displays over the years and decades.
 
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slartibartfast

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Oct 21, 2012
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What I've taken from this is that we are definitely going to get a stadium then.
Was beginning to wonder if I'd live to see it.
I'm 43 so avoiding Ebola, buses and the many other wonderful ways to pop your clogs it looks like I might actually get to see the bugger (y)
 

mkkid

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Unless we can get into Olympic stadium , we don't have a choice.
 

Don_Felipe

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Anyone think we need to get some AFC Wimbledon banners?

Not opposed to a year outside London if it is unavoidable - but that club symbolises all that is wrong in football
 

davidmatzdorf

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Jun 7, 2004
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Read the article. It's spin. As usual.

The whole article, headline and all, has been tweaked to gull you all into assuming that this deal has been agreed and will happen: the journo-cliché 'set to' in its classic misleading usage.

If I were THFC, I'd be negotiating with as many potential ground-sharing candidates as possible - including MK and also the OS - in the hope that one of them might come up trumps ... if we actually end up needing a ground-share at all.

The club is covering the bases and MK is obviously one of the bases. That doesn't mean that we'll go ahead with this specific arrangement. The journalist wants to appear that s/he has a scoop, so s/he's made it sound as if everything has been agreed and confirmed, which I would seriously doubt is the case.
 

Matthew Wyatt

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Aug 3, 2007
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The journalist wants to appear that they have a scoop, so they've made it sound as if everything has been agreed and confirmed
FYP -- a tidier way to make it gender neutral, I think.

And you're right about the spun article. People are already picking out parking spots in Milton Keynes.
 

yido_number1

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Jun 8, 2004
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Well that's one year I won't make it to games... travelling up from Surrey is a 2hr affair already. Can't please everyone though and I guess it will suit people coming in from Cambridge etc...
 
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