http://www.clydefc.co.uk/news/2008/06/19/2763/

Sounds good, will be a great facility for the community when it's finished

Glad my cooncil tax can help out

I suppose the only benefit to us lot and away fans is that hopefully it'll break the wind a bit - stop us having to listen to all the wussies whining about the cold.

for once we wont have to listen to other supporters of other NLC based teams telling us they are paying their council tax for a facility for Clyde - basically as Jagtastic points out it is a community facility and pretty much hee haw to do with Clyde

Why Bother?

What a waste of council tax, we paid for your stand, we paid for your stand.

Expect that a plenty when it being built / is done.

I think it's cool etc and a good idea etc as it saves clubs money while providing resources for everyone.

Is it even going to be a stand?

Or just a building at the end?

I'm assuming it'll be a stand as just having a wall at the back of the goal would be like errrmmm, having a wall behind the goals.

Just a building at the end - no stand (Hence my comment about having hee haw to do with Clyde, in fact the development will take space in the overflow car park, so I suppose it is a bit of a pest.

So WTF does it really have to do with Clyde?

So really, Broadwood isn't being completed...

It is being completed...kind of. They're building this instead of a further stand.

Nothing directly. I suppose the only benefit (apart from the wind break) is that there will generally be more facilities and folk around the stadium who generally wouldnt be there and perhaps may encourage some interest, which is a pretty tenous benefit, admittedly

And a catastrophically ugly wall behind the goals which will restrict the building of a stand there possibly?

To be honest, I don't think we ever will need another stand there. It'll just go unused like the stand behind the other goal.
Quite happy that something eventually is getting built there. What would be shithot though is if they build a Small Terrace onto the wall like Ross Countys. Something like that should cost much I'd hope and would be fuckin' brilliant!

Fcuk watching the game from behind the goals.
I really hate having to watch a game from behind the goals.

I second that emotion!


Nor do I care much for standing these days - I'm getting too old for it!

Yes thatsthe way to go . . .

Clyde fc chairman - Yes , our home end (yes end as one doesnt even get used due to crappy support) doesnt even get half filled . . . . you know what. . . lets make it BIGGER!!!!

brillient idea

If it's a choice between behind the goals or behind pillars, the goals win hands down.

That's why I sit in the Bobby Cox at Dens.

Do Clyde fans ever sit in the stand behind the goals? I've been to all the Thistle Clyde games in recent years, since Jamie Mitchell tore us apart, and can't remember anyone ever being behind that goal.

It only ever used as an overspill from the two stands or for big games.
It has not been used very often.

My only concern about is that by building such a facility on the site increases its value and therefore makes it increasingly unlikely that Clyde will be in a position to buy the stadium, or that the council would be willing to sell it. As we all know, not owning Broadwood has been one of the key reasons for the clubs recent financial contraints, and will continue to be lost source of vital potential revenue for as long as it stays in council ownership.

Saying that though, if it stops the wind......

The wind comes usually from behind the away stand, and if they could fill the corner in between the end stand and away stand, that would be more beneficial. Most of our weather comes from the south west.

I would prefer the view as it is to some kind of office block containing sports facilities, however, if it means that the income to NLC is greater, does that mean our rates will be going down? Or is it a triple whammy where the ground looks worse, if Clyde were ever to progress to the SPL our crowds would be restricted to 8000 and there is absolutely no financial benefit to Clyde?

It's NLC's to do with as they like, so I have no real argument about that. But why then put it on the Clyde site if there's no benefit to the Club?

I imagine that if we turned up for pre-season friendlies/first game of the season and saw JCBs and bulldozers in the overflow car park, we would be slightly concerned as to what was going on at 'our' stadium! I guess this is the clubs way of letting you know.

How do you get a hold of the badges in your signature?

If I wanted say Clyde, Fiorentina, Real Betis and Leeds Utd how would I go about it?

Clyde have actually been attempting to take part ownership of the stadium as was mentioned at the previous forum and I believe attempts are still on going.

Fuxake..

Show Div where you've had your shaved head tattooed with a Union Jack and he'll sort it out for you.

What the f**k money do you have to buy anything???

not content with repeatedly failing on your minimal rent payments to the point you have to constantly re-write the contract, you want the Council to just GIVE you part ownership of the Stadium???

Away back to your Crack pipe.

You win as always Miles.

*Resumes smoking*

True, but there's still a lot of negotiating to go over getting the dugouts

Surely Clyde are known as the wee Celtic , no?

Fiorentina and Real Betis - two ofthe biggest loyalist clubs in Latin Europe!!

But it would stop that Falkirk supporting dobber moaning about his council tax subsidy! What was his name again?

On second thoughts, maybe he was a pre-cursor to John McVeigh, Mr Roberts and all the other aliases!!

Aye, Brown, Gorum, Roberts, Albertz, Laudrup and Dougie Bell are all closet bead-shuffers aren't they.

Well the bead shufflers employed Auld, Simpson, Wallace, Gemmell , Murdoch and Lennox to win the European Cup, so being an employee doesn't much influence the more senior and powerful elements of a club does it?

I'd imagine they'd "bother" with it to provide a facility with which the local community can play sports, be conditioned, dance, perform martial arts, let kids play, eat or play seven-a-side football


You didn't even read the link, did you? Suppose reading is a big ask from you though.

shite news, can't call it the cummernauld wind tunnel any longer. pish.

I know

You mean the rutted dirt at the back surely?

The overflow which was just weed ridden Hardcore from a builders merchants'.

There's currently no activity behind the goals at Broadwood. There is however a fence now erected around the 'overflow' and there have been several JCBs flattening & excavating the land there in the last week. There was also activity beside the away car park in the large ditch before the edge of the loch. It was dug out, flattened off and there was something water/plumbing related done to it by the looks of things. That work has now finished. I'm not sure if these are/were related projects?

The website says this work is taking place at the north end of the stadium (i.e. behind the goals) but how well will a two storey sports facility deflect the wind really?

Quite pleased about this. The area arround Broadwood is growing all the time. I just recently moved here and its a really good area. This new facility looks to be a great addition and is making the stadium a core part of the community. Clyde fans should be pleased about this, the more people from the surrounding area that use the stadium the more people who are likely to drop in on a Saturday. As a Saints fan, I wouldn't even if I was paid but at least I get two 'home' games a season.

Maybe they could do a deal with gym membership holders where they get a discount of a season ticket etc.

No.