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Tom Collins
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K's forward confirmed as returning next season.
Read the full news item at https://www.kingstonian.com/news/tom-collins/4394
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Where we playing next season?
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Thought he looked a little lightweight for the ILP at times, but can't argue with his return of 5 goals in eight games.
Welcome back Tom!
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Agree with that easily gets knocked off the ball and very lightweight!
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I presume the players being signed have been told which stadium they will need to get to for home matches?
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Clearly the fans will be the last to know
Edited by JBreeze at 17:49:06 on 30th April 2023
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More worryingly, you’d presume Lane has been given an indicative budget already. Unless the board are disgracefully planning to dig into the AFCW new ground money to supplement it, you’d have to assume it’s going to be a lower budget than even last season’s very low budget. We have zero commercial revenue and season tickets will be down.
A reminder there was no need for this.
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We could have gone back to Levred.
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We could have gone back to Levred.
Considering they’re moved Epsom & Ewell on, I don’t think they are interested in a groundshare at the moment. Would guess their ego is still high as Rish Sunak wealth.
Nice ground & easy for driving to/from but I’d be spending £10 every midweek game just get to games as Leatherhead isn’t in the Oyster card zone. They’d be others in a similar situation as me having to pay for a train ticket to Leatherhead Plus I don’t think they’d be a minibus put on to/from Kingston to help people to get to Leatherhead each home game. Putting people going as well
Edited by KsOllie at 09:28:51 on 10th May 2023
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I don’t understand this clamour for Leatherhead, particularly if ‘proximity to Kingston’ is one of the main considerations given it’s even further from Kingston than Mitcham. The exact same points that are being made about Mitcham were being made about moving to Leatherhead at the time.
https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/15113663.were-fading-away-kingstonian-finally-seals-deal-for-ground-next-year-but-supporters-face-trek-to-leatherhead/
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I think it's a bit of an over-statement to say there's a "clamour" for ground-sharing at Leatherhead. Some people would prefer it, some people wouldn't. Most people would say it's a better stadium for the crowd atmosphere. And there's a direct bus route from Kingston to Fetcham Grove.
But thanks for linking to that Surrey Comet article. Interesting to read "Ks fan Jamie Cutteridge said (2017): “If we don’t have our own ground in 10 years or so then I think the club will be dead or close to dying.”
That noise you can hear is a clock ticking...
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and yet decades later Epsom and Ewell survive nomad existence.
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and yet decades later Epsom and Ewell survive nomad existence.
It depends on various of things, a level of attendance, league stability, good cup runs (major & country level) & a good period at one place. Many clubs like Epsom & Ewell, Cray Wanderers, Balham etc have survived BUT in Ks situation, I’d agree with Jamie C & Co. Time is ticking, yes they have been some unprecedented events but there are some things that could of been prevented
Look at the Kingfisher mess, utterly embarrassing & we have no idea when this “glamorous” leisure centre & the high rise tower with “affordable” housing will open. The Lib Dem are behind schedule with the gentrification of the Cambridge Road Estate as well. So hope of getting some bricks laid for a home somewhere in Kingston is going to be hard but we have to keep pushing Andreas Kirsch. Is it worth inviting him & a few councillors to a Ks game in bid to show them that Ks is important to the borough. Just a thought
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Given your list of tales of woe in the borough,Ks back in the borough probably ranks low on council's concerns.
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So would you say that if we emulate Epsom and Ewell that will have been a success?
Is “survival” all we are aiming for?
I increasingly think this is the difference between the groups of fans debating what we need to do on here. For a lot of people, like me, I’m not bothered about “surviving”; I genuinely believe k’s can thrive again with a plan and some much improved leadership. But I accept that for some people, as long as they’ve got a club playing in red and white hoops they can watch on Saturdays with friends/family, then that’s sort of okay.
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Hi Alastair I might have an opinion as to whether Ks could survive a sustained period of ground sharing of not, but that's all it would be an opinion. Epsom and Ewell show demise within 10 years is not a given.
I'd think quite a few would like a club as you describe towards the end of your post.
From previous post others would give up on the Ks at county level
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IMHO whether K’s ground share at Leatherhead or Mitcham makes little to no material difference to the sound of that clock ticking and it would be better instead to focus on obtaining a permanent ground in RBK rather than moving from one less than desirable ground share to another.
Edited by Nick Garland at 11:47:13 on 10th May 2023
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It does seem that the opportunity to play or watch football at several levels within the borough compares favourably to other sports.
I would hope if Ks were to move to the athletics ground, athletic events and more pertinently training is given seniority over any game of football.
Having in the past used the facilities there, athletes seemed to use the ground for training in the evenings.
As an aside would not the use of the athletics ground rule out artificial surface due to field events?
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The club trains on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so we'd have to have Mondays or Wednesdays as our midweek as we have for the last 20 years.
Competition, whether club or schools, is almost entirely from May to July with a small number of days in April and August where we might need to play on a Sunday or ask to be away, again as has been the case for the last 20 years of groundsharing. The list of closure days is on the centre's website.
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and do you accept that's a minority view?
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Possibly, but is it relevant?
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For what it's worth, I don't think the 'focus on getting a permanent ground' is relevant, no. I'm not sure the effort required to negotiate a return to Fetcham Grove (or KGF, or anywhere more local) would even 1% detract from the prospect of getting a permanent ground (in part because progress on that front is so slow anyway.)
If I'm several years from being able to afford a property of my own, and I'm renting a flat that I don't like, I'd look to rent somewhere better in the meantime.
That said, while I would personally prefer a return to Fetcham (nicer ground, better atmosphere, better matchday experience overall), I'm not convinced it would make a significant difference to our general attendance / prospects / morale.
That's just a hunch. But the idea we shouldn't bother to think about where we are currently playing, when we'll probably be groundsharing somewhere for another half a decade or so at least, strikes me as a bit naive.
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