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Possible Valley departure avoided

mart77
mart77 Posts: 5,662
edited January 2011 in General Charlton
Taken from today's Guardian:

One of the consortiums that made unsuccessful bids for Charlton Athletic last month had plans to take the club away from The Valley, the club's hard-won home for 85 of the past 92 years. The proposed relocation site was the now-disused Tate & Lyle factory to the west of Charlton on the Greenwich peninsula, which the consortium's prospectus said would be suitable to house a 40,000-seat stadium. Charlton's new owners are highly unlikely to adopt the scheme as their own.

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  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,760
    we can get the valley to 40 k anyway ... fricken weirdos... obviously dont know nothing about our club...
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,818
    If that is true then a huge section the fan base would simply have walked away from the club.

    The Valley IS Chartlon Athletic Football Club and always will be, I would rather be here in League Two than in the Premiership in some Legoland monstrosity in the middle of nowhere.
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    I don't think 40k would be worth moving for, if it was 80k that would be different, but that's not likely to be required for at least 5 years.. so it sounds more like some dodgey scheme (since we have pp to make that valley that amount)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,477
    Where's Itsmyball when you need him?
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,676
    Was it AEG ? A 40 k stadium on the peninsula would have suited them ?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,271
    So that could have ruined the club. Assume that was the Sainsbury's bid?
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Terrible idea, even if we play in that area in the past.

    Is there a disused Tate & Lyle factory on the Peninsula? I thought it was over the river.
  • McLovin
    McLovin Posts: 2,307
    They probably mentioned something about syrup and RM took it the wrong way.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,074
    [cite]Posted By: Vincenzo[/cite]Terrible idea, even if we play in that area in the past.

    Is there a disused Tate & Lyle factory on the Peninsula? I thought it was over the river.

    Just as you enter the blackwall tunnel on the left, tunnel refineries old site.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,271
    [cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]So that could have ruined the club. Assume that was the Sainsbury's bid?

    I believe so. Our worst nightmares....

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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,869
    What was once know as the Deep Water terminal that the council wanted us to move to in the late 90's
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    The air stinks round there what a rancid idea thankfully just that.

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