Excellent game tonight.
The only thing that separated us was that they had a goalkeeper who saved 2 penalties and we didn't.
We roll again on Saturday
COYD

I think that anybody with half an ounce of "savvy" would recognise that the Stadium is, and was, our natural home. What BCP Council think about that and what powers or money they have to act, who knows ?. Unless its road alterations, cycle lanes or covering what open space we have remaining with concrete I think you will struggle to get a direct answer. Best wait until 2029.

The stadium is dead. It won't happen. Too much needs to be done for it to a football stadium, it didn't work when we shared with speedway last time, it won't work now. And for those asking why BCP don't help, we'll, I'd forget that shower of sh*t, they haven't got two pennies to rub together and are not interested in us at all! They may have talked a good game in the past, but they're all fart and no poo.


As regards to Tatnam. Everyone knows it's far from ideal, but it's our current home for the next few years. We're not moving to Branksome, we're not moving to Bearwood and we're not moving to where we were going to move to but couldn't be told because it was a secret. Our home is Tatnam until the lease ends. If by the end of that we still have no clear plan, then hold the BOD to account. Granted, after recent false dawns it doesn't bode well, but let's hold judgement..... for now.

OR, they had players who can score from 12 yards and we at least two that couldn't.

As I did not attend this match I was hoping there would be a detailed account of this match on the Poole website but nothing also the Bracknell end is no better. But overall from what I can gather the penalty shoot out was not the core reason Poole lost it seems to be down to the same repeating problem the team unable to hold a lead and conceding late goals. Being a central defender surely the captain of the side must take some responsibility in marshalling the defence especially in the later stage of the match when the team seem more likely to concede goals. Also even if a squad system is in operation players should only be picked for the starting line up on merit of their play in previous games.
There is now only promotion worth playing for now but if the teams present form continues that is out of the question. The only thing certain to happen is attendances dipping down to the 200 mark. Can the club survive financially on that sort of attendance number?

Until the lease has run out there is no chance of a return.
Afterwards do you really think they would be interested in something at best 500 of us watch over the demands of homes?
I think you need to wake up, as it stands Tatnam is still the only choice 

Any new ground we would get in that sort of set up wouldn't necessarily only be a football ground used by 500 people once a week/fortnight and left empty through winter. Most new Non-League grounds nowadays have a 3G or 4G surface and are a 'community asset' used by the 'main' team on Saturdays (and Tuesdays) and used by local teams/schools for training throughout the rest of the week. Locally, you can hire those surfaces at Hamworthy and Wimborne, so they become a source of extra income either for the club, local FA or for the council depending on how the set-up is. I know that for some, playing on an 'artificial' surface isn't ideal but needs must, if the options are play on one or slowly risk going out of business I'm sure we'd all deal with it.

If you can get ownership of the clubhouse attached to the ground then that is where the money can come in, being used through the week for bar hire or even hired in the day for other community projects (pretty sure that the bar area at the Speedway stadium is currently used as a nursery through the week, so I assume that brings regular money into the stadium owners.)

It's for that reason that we need to try and get a foot in at the ever revolving door of BCP Council, and get council leaders onside and convince them that having a sports facility at the centre of any potential new development is a huge asset to the community.

Stop talking common sense Benito and others!@!

we have been down this road before BUT the pro Tatnam faction write us off as a bunch of bletherers living in the past

Well,to the past I go. When PTFC had local business men behind the Club,happy to be associated with its success
Well come on BOD try it. Dont let WTFC have all the glory. And i would say to the BOD the very first item on your campaign to recruit some capital is very simple

!, Put A believable team out there capable through its results of bringing back some of those who have gone astray\

2. Get on the local media of any sort and show the punters that you are going to match our believable team with
SUPERLATIVE efforts to get us noticed(for the right reasons)

3. Campaign LOUDLY for a decent home facility for Poole's only semi pro football team

4. Get out there and get some of your fellow businessmen involved. we have read the reports of affluence in various
parts of Town!!

% we have a lot of the necessary to do a WREXHAM/ Pass that on as well

I have told this anecdote before. When i was in the UK last year i got into a conversation with a person previously unknown to me but obviously someone who followed the Town closely. Absolutely disillusioned with our inconsistencies and our lack of progress he no longer attended Tatnam,Anything changed?.They are out there in large numbers. Bring them home!!