unification
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Sorry have I missed something, did Middleton suggest OUFC could move to Didcot?
That's against EFL rules.
He cited it as an example site from one of the 60+ sites in the Savills report that should have been explored ahead of SB/The Triangle.
That Didcot was one of the proposed sites for the Thames Valley Royals, that playing that far outside the City of Oxford city itself would contravene EFL rules to keep the Oxford name, that it really doesn't encourage sustainable means of travel to matches and that the Savills report was a first pass at possible sites so included a lot that also came with colossal red tape was not mentioned by our Ian.
His argument boils down to 'well, the locals don't want it so it should go somewhere else'. If the locals 'somewhere else' don't want it, what then? We build nothing of note ever again seemingly.
good assessment @unification
absolutely spot on re Sophie Law not asking questions & pressing prospective candidates on specific points
Shame that despite having probing questions submitted that the Rad Ox show producer bottled asking most of them, thus giving the politicians a very easy ride
It was all a bit BBC. Letting councillors talk rather than posing them serious questions, especially as we saw a few good ones posted on Twitter, Facebook and the like ahead of the programme. Old gasbag Middleton went on for too long too. Why bother asking for them if you're going to ask two at most to councillors?
In fairness to Sophie Law and her program, she's a breakfast radio presenter and not Jeremy Paxman in this. It was designed to be asking some questions and not a grilling of these people. If it had been Jerome and a clued up local journo who knew all about local politics, I suspect we would have had a lot more. A 30-minute special involving these people would have been interesting. Simpson v Middleton would have been a great battle.