<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[smbu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comments]]></description><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright smbu]]></copyright><generator>sNews CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Hmmm...]]></title><description><![CDATA[...didn't Wycombe Council verbally agree to allow WWFC to build a new access road to Adams Park but they have long since gone back on that verbal agreement so we have no way of improving access to Adams Park?]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:26:36 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment9</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment9</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Hamlet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Absolutley agree  
What concerns me is if the current trend continues, and even after such a move to said new stadium, we continue to lose money at the current rate. We (well it was We, before the constitution vote!)would be forced to sell the half of the stadium that would be owned by WWFC, and become tenants of the Wasps]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment8</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment8</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Right in the Middle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some very worth while points Goon.   
  
Do we actually know the following to be fact though?  
  
1. The capacity of any new ground?  
2. That Wycombe Wanderers will own half the ground  
3. Steve Hayes is 'pulling out'  
  
I thought Hayes's comments on the criteria he needed to make his plan a success very unedifying indeed. It sounds at best a Mooney style escape clause and at worse a threat to all in the town. I don't remember him saying at any point that he would 'pull out'  
  
The location and access to Adams Park is without doubt putting people off attending Wycombe matches. Whether moving is the only option is debatable but there is no doubt it is an option. It is getting more and more dangerous leaving the ground and I don't want a serious injury to happen. We must look at alternatives.  
  
Your obsession with rattling around an empty ground keeps cropping up. Do you need lots of people around? I don't think the additional space would make any difference to the atmosphere at home games. Would an extra empty tier on the home end make any difference?  
  
The debate needs to be had but at this early stage a new ground cannot be discounted. Once more information is on the table we can filter down the points and I hope both Trusts will make sure all the information required is available]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:14:39 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment7</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment7</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Jimmay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seconded - excellent piece there]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment6</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment6</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Les Merrick]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well written Mr Goon. You have articulated exactly my own feelings.  
I fear for the future of Wycombe Wanderers FC something I would not have believed a  few short years ago.  
How can the board have been so negligent over those years?]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:43:47 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment5</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment5</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Aylesbury_Bat]]></title><description><![CDATA[A well-written and well-argued article. Unfortunately since the constitution was scrapped willingly by a majority of gullible members, I see no hope of this 'progressive' move being stopped or even challenged significantly.  
  
It seems to me that the the club continues to lose money yet insists on beating the same drum and following the same path. A new stadium is not the answer to falling gate receipts. A new stadium is not the answer to an overloaded non-playing payroll. A new stadium is not the answer to ANY of the problems that Wycombe Wanderers actually face.  
  
A new stadium benefits Wasps and potentially allows Hayes to recoup some of the money he has invested in WWFC by selling Adams Park. So Wycombe Wanderers only benefits by having less of the debts that have been built up over recent years - to the outside observer these debts may appear to be 'mismanagement', to the cynic these debts may appear to be down to careful planning - it is not my place to tell you how to think.  
  
But everything that I have been told by the current administration about what is needed to survive has been wrong. Wasps coming in would solve our problems. Scrapping the constitution would sove our problems - or at the very least stop us going into administration. Now I am to believe that we must have even more empty seats and larger utility bills in order to survive. How, exactly? Is it somehow cheaper to heat, power and police a stadium closer to the motorway? Will the glamour of a new stadium entice the other 15,000 casual fans back (those that went to Villa Park and Stamford Bridge)?   
  
Sadly I believe that we are witness to a dying club - however I am not sure that we were ever ill, we only have the word of the physician who tells us what treatment we need next. I fear that we will soon hear the Shipman-esque suggestion that Euthanasia may be the kindest option ... if we are not on that track already.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:11:37 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment4</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment4</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Chairboyjock]]></title><description><![CDATA[Total sense, at last.  Well said.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:06:26 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment3</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment3</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - madmusketeer]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's not often that you and I agree but I have doubts about this project and I have a feeling that you are right that Wasps will call the shots in this deal.    
  
I've said this before that we should not abandon the idea of the 2nd tier on the home end nor give up on trying to get another access road.  Surely it would make sense to build a road that would join up with the A40 somewhere between West Wycombe and Stokenchurch.  On non-matchdays this could act as a very useful by-pass thus relieving West Wycombe of the traffic nightmare that it has to put up with every rush hour.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment2</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment2</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave New World? - Russ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well said Mr Goon. Although talk of a new stadium for "free" sounds good, in reality we will have 4500 fans leaving the stadium a quarter full. How many times have we sold out Adams Park in the last 5 years?  
  
I can recall 2, both against Chelsea. I think Hayes' intentions are good though, it's just a bit too overambitious for my liking and seems all geared towards Wasps  
  
Adams Park is perfect for us, it's just a shame the poxy council dumped us at the end of an industrial estate. I wonder where the stadium would have been located had Wasps been sharing at Loakes Park in the 80's?]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment1</link><guid>http://www.smbu.co.uk/home/brave-new-world/#Comment1</guid></item></channel></rss>