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Seems you can get in to Nene Park if you try hard enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmLFoMCx47I

Cool video! I enjoyed watching that.

This was quite a hard watch. To see it in this sorry state is a crying shame!

Just to see where I used to stand on the DeBanke (near the score board) and Block EA where I had a season ticket with my old man during football league days, brings a lot of the cracking memories. The last time I stepped foot inside, it was bathed in sunshine and we had just beaten Kiddy in the last minute of the last ever R&DFC home game (not that we knew that then).

So I, like I'm sure many others will always try and remember Nene Park on days like that rather than for what it is like now. I'm fortunate in so far as I live 100 odd miles away so I very rarely have to see it in it's current run down state.

However I would weirdly like to get a look round for myself though, just the once. I'm sure there's some old RDFC stuff that could be salvaged and put to use. Even if it's just the odd pendant, or item with the old badge printed on it. Failing that I wouldn't mind unscrewing my old season ticket seat and putting it to use as some garden furniture some how.

One thing this film does go to show is that the cost to bringing it back to a suitable standard to accommodate a football team or any sort of sporting activity would run into the 10s if not 100's of thousands of £s. Confirming that despite a lot of peoples hope that one day AFC R&D could return, it would be almost impossible, without major funding from an outside source. 1. To repair it and 2. To pay the cost of running it.

Although lets just say 1 day it will be knocked down, could the club take some of the old seats and other salvageable things to use either at the D&D or to include in the new ground? Hypothetical question of course, but I feel it would be a nice touch, should that day come later down the line.

Dowlo wrote: Although lets just say 1 day it will be knocked down, could the club take some of the old seats and other salvageable things to use either at the D&D or to include in the new ground? Hypothetical question of course, but I feel it would be a nice touch, should that day come later down the line.

IF we could get it for free, then absolutely I think we should explore that. If however we had to pay the tosspot running the place any money at all then it'd be a big fat no from me.

BartonRaz wrote:
IF we could get it for free, then absolutely I think we should explore that. If however we had to pay the tosspot running the place any money at all then it'd be a big fat no from me.

Oh yeah 100%. If that see you next Tuesday wanted payment for any of it, then of course we would tell him to go forth and multiply! If he didn't benefit then it would be a no brainer to try and get some seats etc to bring the best from what would be a very sad end to a great stadium.

Dowlo wrote:One thing this film does go to show is that the cost to bringing it back to a suitable standard to accommodate a football team or any sort of sporting activity would run into the 10s if not 100's of thousands of £s. Confirming that despite a lot of peoples hope that one day AFC R&D could return, it would be almost impossible, without major funding from an outside source. 1. To repair it and 2. To pay the cost of running it.

I dunno, it's in a better condition than Kings Langley's ground!

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/nene-park- ... 16.t101245

Quite a few people have been in on this site also.

Dowlo wrote:
One thing this film does go to show is that the cost to bringing it back to a suitable standard to accommodate a football team or any sort of sporting activity would run into the 10s if not 100's of thousands of £s. Confirming that despite a lot of peoples hope that one day AFC R&D could return, it would be almost impossible, without major funding from an outside source. 1. To repair it and 2. To pay the cost of running it.

Although lets just say 1 day it will be knocked down, could the club take some of the old seats and other salvageable things to use either at the D&D or to include in the new ground? Hypothetical question of course, but I feel it would be a nice touch, should that day come later down the line.

Would be cheaper than building a new ground from scratch after securing the land though. However of course there is the question of paying the landlord which I'm sure no-one would want to do unless he comes over all charitable..

cool vid. surprised they put their faces on there. knowing the owner he's probably going to hunt them down and get them done for trespassing

therushden wrote:cool vid. surprised they put their faces on there. knowing the owner he's probably going to hunt them down and get them done for trespassing

I was shocked they managed to get in without being noticed!

Great video, but so sad to see the state it's in now.