Cant spot the information on Website or Forum (but I do need new glasses). For those who were unable to get to the Bath City game, before kick off Welling signed a new 50 year lease with the council so I will see you all there in 2057 when I am 106!
Not a terribly constructive comment Mark. You could at least say why the speculation is incorrect if you know that to be the case.
I would think it may well have something to do with potential future grant applications since many of the bodies making grants insist on long leases. I may be barking up the wrong tree too. I would have thought that the signing of an extended lease warranted a press and website release so that we all know what is happening and people wouldn't then speculate.
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It doesn't take a very bright person to establish that you would not sign a 50 year lease after just signing a 40 year lease
It hadn't been done before so it now has - Isn't that good for us - Yep it is!!!!!
Now if we can all get back to worrying about where the next three points are coming from and getting behind the players and the club then that would be very nice
That's very sweet Mark. Can I say thank you on behalf of all those who post on here. The 3 points will come on Saturday. Neil will get another striker and a solid midfielder, we will win 15 games 1-0 and will be in the mid-table obscurity that WIE used to dream of. We will also do very badly in the Cup and Trophy but win the London Senior Cup.
I agree that the signing of a fifty year lease is a positive step.
Mark's explanation ties in perfectly with the original 15 year lease signed in 1977 being renewed for the same period in 1992. However, I do recall the issue of the lease being mentioned at the time of the FF grant for the stand and if a like for like renewal of the lease was made in 1992 this would have had to have been extended before the grant could be awarded as the FF requires that a club owns, or has at least 10 years left on the lease of, their ground as a pre-requisite to a grant being considered.
Without speculating, the length of lease held would be a material factor in any evaluation by a prospective purchaser of a club which did not own its ground just as it would anyone purchasing any other leasehold property - the longer the better.
I certainly hope that the next 3 points do come next Saturday and that gives the side the confidence to go out and tackle Eastbourne and Eastleigh both of whom are currently high flyers. We desperately need a couple of wins or, at the very least, good performances before we go into the FA Cup qualifier on the 29th.
Just a point Andrew were WIE not dreaming of mid table in the Vauxhall Conference (now the Blue Square Conference Premier)?
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