Bath need rugby fans support - Please help

[Rlinksteve]

I have recieved this from Peter Downey. Moving away from the Rec is the last thing that fans want.
Can we lend our support to them?

I have registered with them


"Hi all

I have been frustrated by the lack of progress regarding the Redevelopment of the "REC" I raised the money for the "Teachers" Stand on the South end about 12 years ago since when the whole thing has stood still.

The local paper ran a Petition "Keep Rugby on the Rec" last year when it looked as though no development would be allowed to take place. Still nothing appears to have happened except that the club is threatening to move to Swindon next season if they are not allowed to keep their cuurent configuration, let alone any improvement.

I have tried to find out what has been going on by use of the 'Freedom of Information Act' This has produced much paper but little enlightenment, because I believe a single Punter has no 'Standing'

I plus a number of others have decided to set up a "Real Friends of the REC" to try to find out the actual position and then try to see that the Rec, with the Rugby Club being the main Tennant is developed to enable Events to take place in a venue worthy of a World Heritage City.

I would like to ask you not only to join, but find others as well.

Since starting out on Monday nearly 200 have been recruited. Our Website is now up and running .

www.realfriendsoftherec.co.uk through which the wider audience will be able to join.

Hope you think the issue is as important as I do. Please join and see if you can get others as well.


Regards
Peter Downey
+44 (0) 1225 835553"

[Dave W]

Done Steve, hope it helps..

[FlyingTiger]

Done Steve HTH

[chinnjamie]

done it too, must say i really like the Rec as a stadium and Bath as a town so willing to help

[fleabane]

Done. Bath is one of the few real rugby towns - we should'nt lose it. Conversely, Swindon is a railway terminal.

[Bill W]

I am happy to associate myself with this endeavour.

[Ben the Tiger]

Done it. Bath is one of the cities/grounds that I would love to go to to watch rugby but never have got round to it.

[tigerben]

Done it also

The Rec holds one of my favourite in the flesh rugby memories. a 40m interception try by Ben Kay. the look of sheer anic on his face when he was looking round for (unnessacary) support as he closed in on the line was fantasic.

[Crumby]

i'm in - where is swindon

[Bill W]

i'm in - where is swindon

Half way between Bristol and High Wycombe.

Funny that!!

[Bill W]

Done. Happy to support Bath, club and city :)

Now let's not get carried away.

Happy to help Bath improve their atrocious muddy ground and its pathetic facilities for fans.

But support the club?

<spit>

[smalldell]

I hate to be kill joy but it is time to move on...

Facilities need to reflect the age we live in and if Rugby Union is to thrive and expand it needs to offer the very best facilities available to esure the game can be played and watched in the very best available.

The Rec may hold fond memories for many but it can not continue in the modern age...clubs - like Bath need to devleop their facilities so that the game can prosper. That is simply not possible in stadia that were suitable for a bygone amatuer period...

Bath, like many others, Gloucester and Worster for example, needs to provide the very best for its supporters if it is to prosper in the future. Talking about Worcester, there is an enormous amount of development going on their and it is to be applauded and mirrored.

Finally, if any club was promoted with the facilities they ad at Bath, it is highly likely they would not meet the criteria for entering the permiership. Why should Bath be permitted to stand still and cling on to an age that, while it has its place in people'e heart, needs to be laid respectfully to rest..

I am sorry if my comments upset anyone but I do earnestly believe the game as a whole needs to move forward in all aspects of its development.

[Bill W]

I hate to be kill joy but it is time to move on...

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I do not disagree with many of your general statements.

Hoiwever, such facilities and developments will not be achieved by ground sharing with a second rate foorball club.

The fans voices were heard at Welford Road. Our own ground is being redeveloped. Similarly at Thomond Park. In Llanelli the opportinity became real to sell the old ground for property development and hence fund a new ground.

For whatever historical reasons and despite whatever historical mistakes Bath can no longer fund a "greenfields" site. Clearly then, the Trustees of the Rec and the Burghers of Bath need to work together to produce a solution that is good for the Club, for the City and for Rugby.

Not starting from where we are is not an available solution.

For these reasons I support the appeal.

[tigerburnie]

I have no more sympathy for their cause than Moseley or Coventry.Bath when at the top of the amatuer game bent every rule in the book to stay there.If they didn't plan for the future then things will level themselves out one way or another.