Next 10 years
1Am I correct in thinking we need to negotiate soon with the WRU to enable us to play at Rodney for the next 10 years?
County Valleyboy wrote: April 19th, 2022, 4:53 pm Am I correct in thinking we need to negotiate soon with the WRU to enable us to play at Rodney for the next 10 years?
Surprised , yet pleased to hear that.Exile 1976 wrote: April 20th, 2022, 7:36 am Agreement is signed. Will be announced before new season starts.
Got to push you on this one mate. Your sources are normally very good and this is brilliant to hear. Why is it I wonder why they don’t get the good news out there straight away. Any ideas? There will be lots of us who will be chomping at the bit for good news here. There is no long term future for the club if we don’t have a place to play. That could and will be our best signing pre season. Timing is crap but, hey ho.Exile 1976 wrote: April 20th, 2022, 7:36 am Agreement is signed. Will be announced before new season starts.
WRU/Dragons NEED us as tenants - there is a bit of posturing and back and forth but we have the whip hand - we have 2 stadiums in the Newport/Greater Newport area nearby which could with a few tweaks be made to league 2 standard so we have some leverage and a back up (if Sutton can do it we can) of course we all want to stay at RP and work with it owners to improve it (cover the north bank?), etc but no real danger of us being kicked outpembsexile wrote: April 20th, 2022, 8:38 amGot to push you on this one mate. Your sources are normally very good and this is brilliant to hear. Why is it I wonder why they don’t get the good news out there straight away. Any ideas? There will be lots of us who will be chomping at the bit for good news here. There is no long term future for the club if we don’t have a place to play. That could and will be our best signing pre season. Timing is crap but, hey ho.Exile 1976 wrote: April 20th, 2022, 7:36 am Agreement is signed. Will be announced before new season starts.
Which of course no-one is arguing now or ever has. Rodney Parade needing us is not the same thing even if the WRU owns it.Stan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:05 am For those of you who wish to believe that the WRU need Newport County as much as Newport County need the WRU...
I don't have either the figures or the way the groundshare agreement works nor how the WRU/Dragons/Rodney Parade Ltd [or whatever name it has] split the loot BUT we are a big contributor in both finance and exposure for WRU/Dragons/Rodney Parade Ltd and they do NOT want to lose us - would the WRU go bust without NCFC? - no - would the WRU lose the equivalent of funding for several community programmes or youth teams or whatever if we got our own stadium? - yes it would be a blow for them, it quite simply makes sense for both parties to groundshare and is a model widely used in the English rugby premiership/Rugby league, etcStan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:05 am For those of you who wish to believe that the WRU need Newport County as much as Newport County need the WRU you may want to ponder the following questions.
If Newport County were to have their own stadium, Jim's EuroMillions finally came up, would the WRU survive?
If the WRU ended their agreement to share Rodney Parade, would Newport County survive as a League club?
I agree insomuch as it makes perfect sense for two football teams to share a stadium. My difficulty is that it is not a partnership. After 11 years at Rodney Parade I don't know how much Newport County have paid towards the upkeep and care of Rodney Parade but the truth is that we own not a single blade of grass.CathedralCounty wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:25 amI don't have either the figures or the way the groundshare agreement works nor how the WRU/Dragons/Rodney Parade Ltd [or whatever name it has] split the loot BUT we are a big contributor in both finance and exposure for WRU/Dragons/Rodney Parade Ltd and they do NOT want to lose us - would the WRU go bust without NCFC? - no - would the WRU lose the equivalent of funding for several community programmes or youth teams or whatever if we got our own stadium? - yes it would be a blow for them, it quite simply makes sense for both parties to groundshare and is a model widely used in the English rugby premiership/Rugby league, etcStan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:05 am For those of you who wish to believe that the WRU need Newport County as much as Newport County need the WRU you may want to ponder the following questions.
If Newport County were to have their own stadium, Jim's EuroMillions finally came up, would the WRU survive?
If the WRU ended their agreement to share Rodney Parade, would Newport County survive as a League club?
George,George Street-Bridge wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:16 amWhich of course no-one is arguing now or ever has. Rodney Parade needing us is not the same thing even if the WRU owns it.Stan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:05 am For those of you who wish to believe that the WRU need Newport County as much as Newport County need the WRU...
my point I guess is that nobody else in the Newport area wants to lease the whole of a semi dilapidated stadium (on 3 sides) for 20+ events a year and we provide via rental payment and beer takings a LOT of money to the WRU/other - 'whip hand' may have been an overstatement of it but they definitely WANT if not actively NEED us to remain tenants - its moot anyway because we are 99% nailed on for another 10 years lease anyway - my guess is they get in the region of £150 - 250,000 [profit after costs] out of us per year all told a LOT of money in rugby union circles and that's not counting the intangibles of exposure for RP when we have cup runs, etc.Stan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 11:16 amGeorge,George Street-Bridge wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:16 amWhich of course no-one is arguing now or ever has. Rodney Parade needing us is not the same thing even if the WRU owns it.Stan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:05 am For those of you who wish to believe that the WRU need Newport County as much as Newport County need the WRU...
Cathedral County has argued that County have the 'whip hand'. He or she is a County fan, entitled to express his or her opinion. I disagree with that opinion and put my arguments as to why Cathedral County is wrong. That's how a message board works.
Not reading the views of others and/or dismissing others as nobodies is extremely rude on your part.
Stating the obvious - no football club can survive if they don’t have a pitch to play on. We currently play at RP, long may it remain so.Stan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 10:05 am For those of you who wish to believe that the WRU need Newport County as much as Newport County need the WRU you may want to ponder the following questions.
If Newport County were to have their own stadium, Jim's EuroMillions finally came up, would the WRU survive?
If the WRU ended their agreement to share Rodney Parade, would Newport County survive as a League club?
Which, of course, I haven't done.Stan A. Einstein wrote: April 20th, 2022, 11:16 am Not reading the views of others and/or dismissing others as nobodies is extremely rude on your part.
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