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Anyone see the Palace manager (head coach?!) doing a Klinsmann dive to celebrate beating DONCASTER ROVERS?!

Yet another thread descends into bemoaning what we're not instead of celebrating what we are

Bournemouth averaged about the same as us in this league, and their current capacity is about 12,000

Don't see why we need more than that to be honest. If we go up our average will go up next season because we'll get more away fans every week and some more home fans because we'll be playing bigger teams at a higher level

And if we were to go up again we'd sell out every week

I'd much rather watch football in a 12,000 stadium that is full than a 25,000 stadium that is half full

Then again, that's only going to get considerably worse as crowds grow.

Reading v Shrewsbury tomorrow night.

Would love to go and see Gareth batter the Biscuitmen but unfortunately I won’t be able to get there on time.

Should be a good watch on Sky Plus though.

Think of all the money a stadium on that site would make from pop concerts and the like.

Mostly Coldplay, I'd guess, if Dan Rice has a say.

If you drop a piano down a pit shaft you get A Flat Minor.

To expand a bit (and I know our circumstances are all different) now that I’ve given up my ST due to the sheer lack of Saturday games, I now see the horror of a £31 ticket that was previously hidden from me (even though it was actually costing me more).

At the same time, someone is offering me the chance to watch the game with a great commentary team for a tenner and I can literally think about tuning in five minutes before it starts. I don’t have to pay £5 + to park my car and a halftime coffee costs me 10p.

Of course, if there were more Saturday games I’d never have discovered this other option. But now I have, it’s trickier.

For me, the gap between our matchday experience and the price of it is totally out of whack with the club’s excellent streaming option. But it appears that the club is unconcerned by this.

To complete the dream, we might get our slope back!

Whilst we are talking hypotheticals it seems to me that the possibilities are

a) as suggested above ML buys up the industrial estatem redevelops it with other leisure amenities, car parking and a second point of access & extends the stadium progressively to c15k

b) we look for a site near the M40 - unfortunately the majority of the land to the south of the M40 is designated Green Belt & to the north is already developed. The one exception is the air park at Booker which we all hated the last time it was raised as an option. Other than that we are then moving out to south of Lane End, or south of the M40 to the west of Lane End none of which is designated Green Belt.

c) we look for a suitably sized Brownfield site in or around the town that has reasonable access to public transport, can be accessed readily from the M40 (e.g. the hospital site if the NHS moves out)

Moving too far from High Wycombe may fall foul of FA rule 2.1

I am inclined to think if the ownership group are committed to the long term development of the club then option a) or b) are the most likely, however the latter leaves the Trust in a difficult position unless they were to make Adams Park the home ground of the women's teams and bust a gut to get them up the pyramid.