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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 10th March 2023 - The Peterborough Sports FC Special with special guests Grant Biddle and Tim Woodward · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to CDC, ah school. Good evening and welcome to PCR
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Sports here on Friday evening. Friday the 10th of March on pc r
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FM for the start of your sporting weekend.
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I'm Nilesh and always on our show every Friday between six
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and seven will be discussing the latest sports scene from in and
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around our local city. I'll guess this evening our
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grant Biddle and Tim Woodward from Um, Peter Brooks Sports,
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and we'll be chatting to them about the ownership changes
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there and plans on and off the pitch for not only just the
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remainder of this season, but looking ahead as well.
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And they're ambitious plans for the ground itself as well.
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Depends back in the studio this week with me.
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And also he's got the headlines soda, Pam away, you go good
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English. Thank you very much so good
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evening Peterborough. Right?
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These are your sporting headlines.
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This evening on PCR, sports starting football, Peter United
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had Mixed week after narrowly losing by one goal to nil at
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Sheffield Wednesday last Saturday.
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However this was followed up by a 2-1 victory over Shrewsbury
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town at the Western home stadium on Tuesday.
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Evening goes by Johnson, Clark Harris and Ryan.
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Kent were enough to secure the three points for the Posh Peter
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of sports only match of the week ended in a 1-0 win over
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strugglers Bradford Park Avenue at the be Arena last Saturday, a
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Jordan Nicholson strike. After 49 seconds, meant the
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turbines had to fight hard against the determined Bradford
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side but held on to secure the points sports are now back on on
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the road. This week, we'd long trips to
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spending more town tomorrow and Chester FC on Tuesday.
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However, do keep a lookout for the outcome of the second Pitch.
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Inspection at spending more tomorrow.
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In case you're traveling to that game.
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People United ladies fell to a for no loss at soluble hormones.
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Last Sunday. It was their first defeat in
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seven matches and they will try to get back to winning ways.
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When when Town lady's visit born Lon, happy lawn at born, this
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weekend, ice hockey. It was a weekend to forget for
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Peter, a Phantoms after they fell to a to Defeat a Swindon
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Wildcats before slumping to a heavy 93 loss to League leaders
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lead nights. At the planet is on Sunday this
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weekend. The Phantom's.
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Travel to Rivals Milton Keynes on Saturday before entertaining.
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Bristol pit bulls at home on Sunday rugby Peter.
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Our UFC comfortably beat Leighton Buzzard 4114 at home
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last Saturday and travel to lots of wealth for their next game.
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Tomorrow, meanwhile put meanwhile, Peter Lions went down
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3615 at Kettering last weekend and the side will be visiting
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latent. Azad tomorrow for their next
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fixture in hockey, this week's Roundup comes, courtesy of
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Michael green and Dave. Simpson of the city of
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Peterborough, Hockey Club. Firstly, the home matches from
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last weekend, there were victories for the men's Force as
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they beat Kansas City for seconds.
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Sorry cam CD forced to nil and the ladies Force who beat Kansas
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City by one. Neil the ladies fifth Drew
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nil-nil with with speech force and there were defeats for the
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men's, s, the 6 and the 8, and the lady S as well.
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Anyway, fixtures, there was a solo win for the men's who Men
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to beat certain thirds at the 21, while the ladies first and a
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third were held to draws by cam South thirds and lectures first
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respectively, the men's first and the fifth and the ladies
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fifth felt a defeat in their matches this weekend, fiction,
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highlights at the Breton gate include lady s taking on
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Spaulding. First this evening at 7:30 p.m.
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and the day starts at 10 a.m. tomorrow when the men's seventh
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played born deepens, Force, followed by Lady thirds match
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against long. Certain first in the afternoon,
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there are three matches where the men's fifth steak on the
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long seat and seconds and the men's first entertain,
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Bradford's first. And the day ends with the men's
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thirds hosting, Kettering firsts in table.
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Tennis the youngster Hannah Saunders and made history in
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table. Tennis after she won the ladies
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singles at the Cambridge here. Close Table, Tennis
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Championships, last weekend, 10 year old Hannah, who is a member
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of the city's, Archway? Club beat multiple title,
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winner, Carrie cope by 3, sets to 1, she went on to clinch, the
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double by also winning the junior event in the straight, in
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straight sets against Barbara. Hargreaves Archway, chairman.
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TNT beamed, Hannah was Fearless in the final against every
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expert of against a very experienced and talented player.
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I guess you are fearless age 10. I believe this has to be the
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best table tennis achievement from a city player since the
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formation of the Peterborough league in the 1930s.
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Although there have been many successes over the decades.
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A ten-year-old winning the County, Senior League will never
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be surpassed. She might be one of the youngest
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winners of any County Event in the country.
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In squash, to this, to, to city of Peterborough.
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Squash club members were winners of the Camden County, junior
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championships last weekend, Judy a Sci-Fi and 11 year old and
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under 11 and Josh film or under 13, both beat their respective
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Hunt County, opponents three-nil as they took advantage of Home
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territory, a Breton gate in athletics, Peter and Nene
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Valley, Athletics Club Duo Jack weakly and angers bowling both
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won gold at the S6 and Eastern Indoor championships at Lee
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Valley last weekend, weekly achieved.
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A personal best of a point for three seconds and you under 17
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60-meter hurdles while bowling one the under He's polvo pole
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vault after clearing four point two meters.
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There was silver medals with Dylan Phillips in the high jump
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after, he jumped 1.83 meters and Taylor Benson who clocked up a
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time of twenty six point eight, two seconds in the senior,
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women's 200 meter event, in boxing.
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Youth fighters from the city, top top, top yard have completed
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a hall of five eastern region titles wins for Adam Jared.
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I mean, if you're at Sea and John Doe at Billerica last
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weekend, come on top of the to already won by Santino Harris
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and Claude gray and roller, hockey, if you tuned in last
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week, you may have heard our studio guests from the pizza
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roller roller hockey club, talk about their prestigious Euro key
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cup. The City Club qualified and
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played in the under 17, to 19 in Spain last year.
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And we're hoping to qualify as a national champions against this
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again this season. Well, we can bring you exclusive
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news. They're managed to be their
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closest Rivals lecture 32 last week and secured their passage
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into Europe. Once more huge, congratulations
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from everyone at PCR Sports and good luck to them and those are
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your sporting headlines this evening and bats an eyelash.
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Perfect thanks to pump. Lindsay going on again in the
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local sports team there, it's the youth, ma'am, and the
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younger girl, ten-year-old to winner, senior table tennis
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tournament against a renowned multiple Champion was absolutely
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incredible. Yeah, so fantastic from Heather,
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fantastic. Yeah.
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Hannah Saunders. So, good luck to her and, and
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well done, and obviously squashing Athletics again, the
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youth doing well, so the Pathways in our city clubs of
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doing, well, yeah, and that's the bodes.
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Well for those clubs, certainly in the opportunities that those
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clubs offer youth in this city as well.
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Lindy development opportunities, whether it be socially or
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whether you know something a bit more serious as well.
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Exactly yes. And that stuff.
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So the the sporting a city looks good.
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Yeah but I think coming encouraging to hear the
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definitely and so you are listening to PCR Sports this
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evening on pcrf firmware here every Friday between six and
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seven I'll guess this evening our team Woodward and Grant
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Biddle from Peterborough Sports. So much going to bring them in
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very quickly before we go to a break.
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Grunt no strangers to the show here.
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Welcome back, thank you for joining us and Tim welcome to
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PCR Sports and this new opportunity that you've taken
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on. Now with Grant support, good
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evening. I'm excited to be involved and
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be able to take this club forward in Peterborough.
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Perlina Peterborough guy. Yeah, fantastic.
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And Grant, you hand over the reins or, or in the, in the
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course of it or not, not quite gone through.
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Yeah, but perfect man to hand over by the Yeah.
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If I could have chosen someone to come.
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Come forward with a qualification to the background
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and the enthusiasm for the job I could have picked anyone better.
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So I'm really pleased that Tim identified it and came forward
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about chats over at three or four weeks and I think he got
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the bug for it and it's on it and thought about it and said
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yeah this is something really fancy.
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So I'm delighted I'm cracking stuff, right?
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sporting weekend. We're here every Friday between
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six and seven discussing the local sporting headlines and
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chatting to local sports clubs and organizations about the
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goings-on in their organization and Sport itself and our guest
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this evening and very pleased to welcome back Grant Biddle from
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Peterborough Sports, and Tim Woodward from Peterborough
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Sports as well, who's joined the club and we'll be taking that
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club. Forward grunting.
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Welcome back. Yeah, thank you for joining us.
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Let's just have a little bit of a recap on the season from a
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Peter, a sports perspective going well off the pitch.
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Sorry on the pitch, certainly on the pitch to be fair, we've
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extended where we thought we'd be.
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We really thought it would be a battle weren't to be fair.
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I do a week or 10 days ago. I was just looking down a little
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bit and I'm really hopeful we'll just be a sort of mid to
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slightly below mid-table. Yeah, well you've got the world
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at the for auditions. You came in the summer of of
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made a difference their first choice starters and they just
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come in and key positions but one or two of the other players
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are stepped up. And to be honest, we look a very
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aside that's very handy at that level.
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We have a lot of compliments. We've had a couple of days where
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we've let ourselves down Buxton away was pretty disappointed.
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Yeah. But apart from that we're very
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happy with how it's going. Yeah.
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And the space, you know, back in August, when the season started
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as well, the changes that have taken place in management,
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obviously not to Jimmy as well in everything that he did for
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the club over the last few years.
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Is. Yeah, obviously that wasn't
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expect. Well, I'll say you always
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expect, it might happen at some stage, but midseason, was a bit
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of a hiccup. But to be honest, there was
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someone already under the club's Banner with Michael cash in
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there who Jimmy identified as being someone who could take it
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on and straight away, I agreed with him and then after a week
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or ten days, I think he probably realized that playing as well as
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trying to do. That was a big change and he's
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good friends with Luke Steele and have a chat with him.
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I think Luke came in and did a date at a couple of games.
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Just just see what? See if you liked any and he did.
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So we've appointed him as joint manager through to the end of
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the season initially. But to be honest, I think the
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idea is that they can hopefully create a new era that follows
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Jimmy's success and take us on further from where we are.
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Yeah, it's been fascinating to watch certainly on the picture
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as well. The challenges that you face
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this season, the traveling, for example, the different teams
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you've been playing in X Football League clubs as well
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with that. I was like this.
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The last couple of days, the weather is, it is probably worse
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this year, the probably of the five years I've been doing this.
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It's been the worst for weather and postponements and trying to
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rearrange. So there's a lot of Tuesday
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night traveling away from home. We've had more Tuesday night
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games. This year, we have in the past,
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which isn't great, for crowds and certainly not great for
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traveling, trying to get back from Scarborough juicy knots
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along opportunity. So the traveling is probably the
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biggest thing. But yeah, the the, when I took
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this on five years ago and we were playing time unite in front
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of 70, People to be going to Oldham and kidderminster and
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filed in front of up to 2,000. People are just totally
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transform where I thought it would be.
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So it's just fantastic. Brilliant stuff.
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Let's bring him in here then as well Tim.
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You're you've come on board to help the club out why people are
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sports question. The, there's a couple of guys
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that work for my company now and they were For my case and come
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down and watch Peter responds. Come never look.
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You'll enjoy this. And to the point where I did and
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then obviously, we've moved on to the stage, we're at now.
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And interestingly nicknamed, the turbines Peter, brotherhood's
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back in the day, with a, the first company to develop and
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produce a steam turbine, and our company, we installed and have
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installed steam, turbines gas turbine.
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So, it was kind of synonymous with what we did and it just
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clicked in my head. And, and here we are now and
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there's no Earning back. Yeah, football your background
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at all. So we brought up with football,
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mmm Peterborough, United seasonally, hold her own with
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that. But, you know that those days
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are gone there and obviously Premiership side Tottenham
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Hotspur but we won't talk much about them.
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Shall we not for the arsenic in their cup for Cup competitions
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subtly in that way as well. So you obviously got a vision
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for the club itself and some of the grant no doubt spoke to you
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about as well. Buying That was it is that a
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difficult transition or so to speak or was it something that
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you sort of thought? Yeah I can do this i-i'm pretty
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strong minded. I don't do failure if I take
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something on its going to succeed and I looked at that and
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I thought, yeah, there's opportunity here to take this to
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another place to improve what we've got and turn it into a
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club to be reckoned with and two or three years time, let's
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select speed tickling the the National League.
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And hopefully get into that place which is where I'm aiming
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it to be. Yeah, Grant just bringing you
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back in there. I suppose from a legacy
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perspective, you've the success you've had, and how you've grown
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it perhaps quicker than you expected.
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You're handing, over to Tim here, it sounds like you're in
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clubs in good hands undoubtedly. Yeah.
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So I would never have imagined. I could have taken it to where I
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did, but I recognize sort of before Christmas that I was
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reaching the end of either the commitment I could give it both
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financially. Also time and Infuse, Our Salon
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knew it was time and that's why I went out at Christmas and just
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said it's time for someone else to come in to carry on what
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we're doing. I didn't want to lose what we
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achieve and I was just concerned.
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Actually if we didn't expand it and at the time I wasn't sure
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exactly how that would what form that would take but I knew I
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couldn't carry on doing it on my own.
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So, yeah, I'm very glad I got Tim to my board to come in.
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Was it an easy sell to be honest?
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Yeah. Yeah, he didn't have to try too
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hard. It was I looked at it and
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thought, yeah, this is something I can do.
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And something I want to be involved with.
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And, and I believe I've got the ability to take it to that
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place. Yeah.
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What's your background? Tim just in terms of your
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suppose, professional personal life with in Peterborough?
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Well, I was brought up in Whittlesey served an engineering
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apprenticeship in Peterborough started Life as a welder, and
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I've done quite well at that. Now I run a company of a
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substantial number of people and we do mechanical electrical
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Works across the whole of the United Kingdom and with a
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fantastic team of people that I've got around me.
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It's been a lot of hard work, it's not always been easy, but
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yeah, it's been very successful and it's near giving me the
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opportunity to be able to take on the football club.
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That could be the resource. I've got behind me, which is
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brilliant. Yeah, if I'm, I think, when you
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talk about any level of football, it is an exciting
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opportunity. Unity to be able to get a chance
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to own a football club. Not many people get a chance or
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the opportunity and I think you've got embracing Avenue,
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really? Just come in there.
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And then like you say, you're not going to fail at it, so but
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it's that that excitement of thinking, I've got good
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opportunity that not many people, get a chance to do, you
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know, you can go and buy retail shop, you know, most people can,
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so they always in most businessman people can.
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But to get a unique business, like a football club is, this is
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something special, isn't it? Yeah, it's absolutely fantastic.
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I might and to be honest, if you'd have asked me to three
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years ago, with the will ever contemplate And they saw the
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sedna advance. It's not on my radar, but it is
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and I'm absolutely drawn to it and like you said I don't do
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failure so it won't fail. Yeah, I'm absolutely up for it's
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brilliant opportunity. I think for to take the club to
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another level and what grants that this last five years has
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been absolutely fantastic you've got to recognize and realize
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what he's doing. They've come on Leaps and Bounds
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from where they were and that you know, if I can replicate
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that In the next five years and take them to the next place then
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that will be job done and tick and then that might be time for
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an average of the world to come along and take it the next
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place. Let's talk a little about the
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football. Grant just from a background
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perspective for our listeners. This evening, there's a lady
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section as well. It's doing very well this year.
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Yeah, this is the first couple of years.
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I was doing it was very much focused around a first team.
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We did have an under-18 team but that's all disappeared.
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But but 18 months ago, I want to read To expand what we were
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doing. We have a youth section of the
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wasn't strictly Affiliated to us.
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So, I thought, particularly given the area we've got at the
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back of the pitch, we had go to take that forward with both the
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ladies team and used to him. So, we've now got two ladies
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teams and three, you themes. This this year, we've also had
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midseason the ladies Under 12, sorry, girls under 12, join us.
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So I think the plan is trying to expand that a couple of teams
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next year. Obviously on a grass picture.
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You've got a limit as to how much you Could play there.
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Yes, you could get team to apply it to other centers, but I think
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the idea initially is to keep teams with play by where we are
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and that Vision, Tim as well, no doubt off the pitch, but
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certainly on the pitch as well with the ladies football, the
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youth set-up. I suppose that ties in making it
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a community club as well. Yeah, absolutely.
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And obviously with luque still coming along, he's involved with
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lots of kids in the area and they had some of his stuff and I
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think that is something he'll want to get involved with.
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Greatly involved with it's just we need to put a structure
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together to work out how we're going to do that.
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And what we're going to do and obviously with the pitches and
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what type of pitch is we might get into and one then we'll talk
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about that later. There's a, there's an
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opportunity there and that there's a big catchment area and
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lots of people that want to play football for sure.
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I mean, one of the guys contacted me this week, that one
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of the girls teams, I think he's Steve Phillips.
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He's really nice. He's got those two or three of
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those, they will have a chat as well, because they want to, To
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plan to go forward, as well as I think everybody's quite excited
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about what's possibly about to happen.
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And it's certainly within them sort of millfield dogs.
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Thought that area itself, you know, football children.
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There's lots of primary schools around there as well.
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And the opportunity to spread the word about Peterborough
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Sports and making those facilities available for the
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community as well. Going forward as well.
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From that perspective, it's it was a massive catchment area.
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And, you know, it's it's something that we've got to look
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at and put The right plan in place the right structure in
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place. And I think once we've got that,
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then we move forward a great rate of knots.
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Yeah, we had Luke Kennedy on from youth dreams projects,
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who's the co-founder along with Luke Steele as well, and he was
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talking about the good work that they do and how they work with
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communities, perhaps, disadvantaged children
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underprivileged areas as well. So, something along, those seems
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like a perfect Synergy for a sportster to bring in ydp.
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From that perspective as well in there as well.
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Playing wise Grant, you're obviously very happy with how
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things have gone, you know? If it looks like sports a touch
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words, you know, it on a template too much but that win
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against Bradford Park Avenue, certainly helped shall we say?
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Yeah, that was real setback during the week because both
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lemming ton and Farley had away wins top of the type of top of
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the cycle side. So that Gap that we thought we'd
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just stretched a little bit on Saturdays, come back.
21:23
We've got a couple of tough away games at spending more and then
21:26
Chester, Then we've got three or four games where I'd like to
21:29
think that there are points on offer that we can pick up on
21:32
then, by early April, we're looking a bit more comfortable.
21:34
Yeah. And in terms of the fan
21:37
attendance as well, you've got your core support there as well,
21:40
but talking about volunteers as well.
21:43
They've been a huge part of the development of the club over the
21:45
years. Yeah, we've gone through quite a
21:47
few changes. I mean, there are quite a lot of
21:48
people who were watching in the early days when I was in who,
21:51
perhaps drifted away or or perhaps seen it as being not the
21:55
same thing that they were. But we've gained a new batch
21:58
batch of fans of come into like a serious level of football.
22:02
So the the attendances have go up with Laden's go up a bit more
22:06
than it cost. Yeah, but actually it's been a
22:09
slight change. And there are some people have
22:12
been there ever since the start but we've sort of changed a
22:14
little bit and they've got a lot of new fans.
22:17
Yeah yeah which is encouraged to hear dip.
22:19
Am in terms of cost him your mind back to the beginning of
22:21
season Grant and I know you and Jimmy were on the show, actually
22:24
obviously excited about the promotion and that and the time.
22:27
We will saying, you know, what would be classed as a successful
22:31
good season? You know, and I think one of us
22:33
or send me from your side, you didn't really commit, say what
22:35
you were ambition tour, but looking back now and then what
22:38
you are now, it does that kind of match the ambition, you had.
22:41
It started out. We were saying, we wanted to
22:44
finish 20th and that was for above, or below us.
22:47
And, and we have taken that, but type bringing people, like,
22:49
college on some kind of Kennedy, and pick Peter, Crook and
22:52
long-term and Nathan, we thought.
22:54
Yeah, we've got a side. They're not probably wouldn't be
22:56
challenged if playoffs. But ought to be capable of
22:58
playing with mid-table football and we're not miles away from
23:01
that. I mean, if you look at the gap
23:03
between 7th and 17th, it's only about 10 points.
23:06
So you only need to go on a run, a 3 Port 3, get 3 wins.
23:09
And you shooting up and down with.
23:11
Wait wait you can look back on certain games, I think.
23:13
Yeah, if only because I think this this let the step up as
23:27
They've been greater than any of the others.
23:29
Probably a bit too much for us to cope with really.
23:32
But we just had to make the best of it off the field and having
23:36
settled and enjoyed going to places like he referred and
23:40
kidderminster and Darlington and place like that, and blind
23:43
spots, we went the other week, big historic name it something.
23:47
Once you go there, you don't want to go back to some of the
23:49
people at step three and four that you play that.
23:52
So once you get that as your sights, a bit of a bug like
23:55
these old grounds, you can look back on your time.
23:57
Very Fondly can't yes, it's probably count five ideas as
24:00
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24:01
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you PC our Sports here on pc r FM were here every Friday
26:46
between six and seven, discussing the local sports
26:49
scene in our city guests, this evening, our grant Biddle and
26:54
Tim Woodward from Peterborough Sports.
26:56
And we've just been speaking to Grant just before the break
26:58
there about his time at the club and the developments over the
27:02
last five years or so, both on the pitch and off it and we're
27:06
going to start this. It's half an hour of the show
27:08
just catching up with Tim now and having a little chat about
27:11
the off the field developments. Tim, there's obviously
27:14
development what going on at the ground able to just fill us in
27:17
on that and what the plans are going forward.
27:22
We'll see playing in the league were in.
27:24
Now there's a requirement for the grand capacity to be
27:28
increased to three thousand and we have to make that happen or
27:34
the, the be serious problems at the end of the Jason where we
27:37
could be put down a leak, that's not going to happen.
27:42
And since I've been involved with identified areas of the
27:46
ground where we are going to increase the capacity and what
27:50
we're currently doing on the Eagles, thought side of the
27:54
ground, we're Puttin a 4-tier step Terrace the 50 meters along
28:01
and the work has already started on that.
28:03
Obviously the last couple of days have been a problem.
28:05
We were going to pour concrete. It's just a little bit too cold
28:08
for us but it won't delay us and then across the behind the, some
28:13
Paul's Road goal end where the was a plan to put a 39 M 10-step
28:19
tip Terrace in. I've been creased that 255 M,
28:22
the maximum I could get across with everything that's in there
28:25
at the moment. 10 steps high and we're going to put in the
28:29
foundation blocks to take the still work, which will allow it
28:33
to have a roof on it, which will be put on in the summer.
28:36
So, Cantilever roof on. That should be totally covered
28:39
that piece of the ground will hold 1240 people in that one
28:43
stand and then down the Eagle store.
28:46
Roadside that holds think it's 740.
28:50
So it's increased by about 1980, which gets us to the point of
28:55
3175, which keeps us qualified in in this league.
28:59
Or when there is an extension on the Colin day, stand, another 50
29:02
seats in there, takes us to that going on from that.
29:06
If you were to look at the national league, we would have
29:09
to have a 4000 capacity which we're not a million miles away
29:14
from my intention through the summer, would be to get us up
29:17
somewhere near that with works at leave behind the other goal
29:20
and down the side battery and the doctor surgery.
29:23
Yeah. In the middle of that intention
29:28
is to put LED flood Lighting in and it'll be far far more
29:32
effective than what's there at the moment.
29:34
Obviously, the halogens that are there.
29:37
After time they do deteriorate and the looks levels go down.
29:40
So we will that we're looking at replacing those in the summer.
29:44
There's a lot to do that. We did have a timescale really
29:49
had you been mother 31st of March?
29:50
So I've met with the chairman of the league Marketplace overnight
29:54
transfer, an extension, to the end of April and that's use
29:57
virtually in place near and they're backing us 100% with
30:00
what we do and they can see that we mean business.
30:04
Yeah and I'm I'm in the middle of This is what I do.
30:07
I build things and yeah, I love it.
30:09
So that project management and developing.
30:13
Well I seem to have got everyone on Red Alert is obviously from
30:15
doing a lot of the work through my company.
30:18
I mean, it is this it's a family-run businesses, in must
30:20
own Adam is a senior project manager in it, Natalie's the the
30:24
accountant. So they're all involved in the
30:27
background of putting this all together, and then I've got my
30:30
health and safety manager, David Anderson.
30:32
He's been an absolute Superstar with doing what we've done so
30:35
far from health and Dew point of view the eggs.
30:38
We got a few Hoops to jump through and make sure everything
30:40
is good and safe and sound and making sure the ground is secure
30:44
every night. And yeah, secure as well as the
30:46
still matches to be played as well while the works going on as
30:49
well. Yeah, we've got, we've got to
30:50
make it safe on Match days as well.
30:52
So it's fenced off insecure. You can, you can't have it.
30:55
So as anyone can go one really, and, and have an accident that
30:59
once it's done, I think one or two people, be surprised when
31:02
they come to the first game next year, it will.
31:04
When they see these stands there.
31:07
And hopefully with the sponsorship that I bring in will
31:09
be displayed on these stands as well.
31:11
Okay, I think courage into hey, I'm sure for all sports fans but
31:14
just for football and the community of Peterborough itself
31:17
as well, that you're developing this setting and the opportunity
31:22
that will give not just for the club but other aspects of the
31:27
club to bring in income as well. Oh, absolutely.
31:30
Yeah. I mean, I think there's, there's
31:31
opportunities that we haven't tapped into to bring sponsors.
31:37
The bring bring people that want to invest in in certain aspects
31:40
of it and get them interested. The key is obviously getting the
31:44
attendance. He's up, that's something we've
31:46
got to work on. We do need to increase that by
31:50
three or four hundred people if we can, which is, which is a
31:53
big-ass, considering we get sort of 300 350 now.
31:56
So we virtually looking to double that, it's going to have
32:00
to go in. Those kind of numbers really, to
32:03
make it pay for itself, so long as it wipes, its feet, as I say,
32:06
in the The next couple of years we're on the right track but
32:10
that will be that will be the hardest part of it.
32:13
But with me, sat behind it financially, that will be
32:17
supported so that won't be a problem.
32:18
But to bring in some sponsorship, money will be
32:21
fantastic and I'm already on the case with that.
32:23
So yeah, I think you like a challenge is the word that you
32:26
used earlier. I love a challenge.
32:30
Is that what your family? I think, people think I'm
32:32
challenged this. I've said half an hour, I don't
32:39
do failure. If I take something on, I know I
32:41
can succeed at it and I don't think there's anything I've
32:44
found that really in life so far.
32:47
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm fired up. I think, is the word.
32:51
I'm absolutely fired up for it and I'm embracing it.
32:54
And I want people to walk in there when I've done what I've
32:57
done this season. For the first game next year, it
32:59
will be all unveiled. I wanted to go.
33:02
Wow, this is a big change. Yeah, we want to be part of
33:04
this. In fact, I'm gonna bring some
33:06
soda Our next week and I'm going to tell my mate and let him
33:09
bring his friends as well. You know, I want the word needs
33:12
to be out, coming up a look at this because look, what they're
33:15
doing down there for a little Club.
33:17
That's come a long way. Little Club at droughts wrote a
33:20
long way. You know.
33:21
It's yeah you must be quite proud of that Grant in terms of
33:23
the vision that Tim's got there. Yeah, exactly.
33:25
I'll go back on-site. Tom you gotta bring Tommy into,
33:28
as well. Before me, Tommy did five or six
33:31
years and took us up for levels and probably bit like me came to
33:36
came to the Meditate on what he can do.
33:38
But ya know I look forward to coming down, continue to watch
33:41
not even the pressure of that station and wander around the
33:45
ground if we can still wander around those days and then
33:48
enjoying the sidewalk I helped to kick off and and take further
33:53
forward. Yeah.
33:54
And you've talked about took the stands and the fans facilities.
33:58
So I'm guessing a pitch is a part of that as well.
34:00
Potentially as well to just improve the pitch itself, the
34:03
picture at the moment. I think he's holds up pretty
34:06
well for the game. Observe Laden, doesn't it g?
34:08
That's so, I think that certainly for next year will
34:11
probably remain as it is. Obviously, there's a question of
34:15
a 4G pitching in the background. Possibly not quite sure where we
34:21
will land up with that. It's certainly on the cards, not
34:24
in the next few months, for sure.
34:27
And obviously, there is various amounts of funding available
34:31
from the football Foundation. We just need to investigate
34:33
where that is, I think for now. During the grand developments,
34:38
I've got enough going on to control and manage that you know
34:42
we've got a we've got to walk before we can run otherwise it
34:46
just will be a problem. You'd be trying to do too much
34:48
and then it just it Go all goes out of thing then and it will be
34:51
a problem. Yeah, definitely.
34:54
Also looking at the pitch as well possibly because a lot of
34:57
pitches now play with a ten percent acrylic woven in some
35:01
about. Yeah, yes, yeah.
35:03
I don't know where that fits in obviously with The ground and
35:07
the land, that's another conversation.
35:09
I need to have with the council to wear on might want to take
35:11
that. And that's something we can
35:13
discuss in a future maybe in a few months time.
35:15
Yeah, brilliant stuff. And and again bringing people
35:19
with you, I suppose the way the club's developed over the years,
35:21
the volunteer aspect and you looking to develop sort of off
35:25
the pitch to help you in terms of the number of staff that are
35:29
on duty as well. Just to help make sure that the
35:31
club is offering that support I guess to you as well as the
35:36
Orders that are coming in. Yeah, sure.
35:39
I'm yet to sit down with everybody.
35:42
I've been meeting people on a weekly basis of my grand so I'm
35:45
not sure of my absolutely everybody yet but yeah, I've got
35:49
to say that the guys that are down there especially the
35:52
volunteer and don't get a lot out of it.
35:54
They do an absolutely fantastic job and particularly Robbo the
35:59
sexy. He's an absolute Superstar and
36:02
you've got dowel running the bar and the club and all the guys
36:05
that have the turnstiles and do the other Bits and pieces to the
36:07
two brothers, that do the tidy up and clean their personality.
36:10
Absolutely brilliant. In the, their commitment is, is
36:14
phenomenal. No one's going anywhere, but I
36:18
need to assess what we've got to do, to make it successful,
36:22
certainly with the clubhouse and that side of it.
36:24
And that's a, that's a side. I want to develop and make that
36:26
a bigger Revenue generator perhaps as well.
36:30
Absolutely. Yeah.
36:31
And to be able to make full use of that for the community as
36:34
well as the football club. Absolutely.
36:36
And look The possibility of maybe a couple of concerts or
36:40
Battle of the Bands, type thing down there in the summer, or one
36:43
again just to bring in a bit of Revenue.
36:44
Because you know that the wage bill is up there for the players
36:48
for sure. And I can only see that probably
36:53
increasing and there is only enough manager coming.
37:00
I suppose that's football and being a fan myself as well.
37:02
You know, you always want the best players for your Club.
37:04
The manager always wants the best players as well.
37:06
So that's, that's something else that you'll have to manage in
37:09
time with, with the, with the management team that you've got
37:12
at the moment as well. It's gonna be a challenge.
37:17
I know it's gonna be a challenge, but what I'm seeing
37:20
so far, it's the the structure, the infrastructure, and the
37:24
structure around the team. And everybody that helps is
37:27
fantastic. It's am, I can see.
37:30
It's there. I can see there's there's body
37:32
to it and we'll just we'll take it to where we can take it.
37:37
Damn, with the help of those people, which Grandma's chili
37:41
appreciates what they did. And I can see that for sure.
37:44
The little time I've seen these people operating.
37:46
It's it's brilliant, what they what they give from what they do
37:49
it really, is he thought it Grant, you know, your team going
37:52
up on a Friday night for a Saturday game, you know.
37:55
Yeah, we've done that. Yeah, yeah.
37:57
We looked at it in the summer and chatter through and actually
38:00
watched him who's in charge. I know he took a lot of advice
38:05
from Michael gash who was the senior play later level.
38:09
And one of the things he said is you don't want me getting on a
38:11
coach on Saturday morning at 8:00, 5 hours up to Blind and
38:14
getting off the couch and playing football.
38:17
So he said, forget the coach will drive up on a Friday night.
38:20
We'll have 12 13 rooms, whatever it is.
38:23
So, they're staying up there, Durham somewhere tonight, and
38:26
they'll be, they'll wander around in the morning.
38:27
It's sort of an element the professionalism that you have to
38:30
do moving from 322nd. Nice place that helps attract
38:34
players as well known at the club is that way inclined.
38:37
Well, and not just on a Saturday, come to the club
38:39
knowing that it's got a special element.
38:41
They're not, they're not getting the fifty six seater flash
38:45
coaches, that most clubs come to a point where ground, they know
38:49
that it's a bit of a sort of Band, of Brothers type thing.
38:52
That's come through the League's, what, the fighting
38:55
above, our weight, a bit. And even this year, I know that
38:58
there are things that we're not doing as professionally and as
39:01
well as other clubs. So the players have gained a lot
39:06
of respect for me. Me this year for how they battle
39:08
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39:11
battling in this, and they've stuck together, and so it's
39:14
great. Yeah, fingers crossed for the
39:16
game against penny more tomorrow, as well, then they're
39:18
hoping that passes. That pitch inspection.
39:20
That they've got plans tomorrow morning and hopefully pick up a
39:23
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39:25
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39:26
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This evening, you are Tim Woodward and Grant video from
42:19
Peterborough Sports, and we've just been having a chat about
42:22
the the changes, the progress that Peter has Sports have made
42:25
over the last five years, especially and then Tim coming
42:28
on board in the last few weeks to help move the club forward
42:31
again and help meet the needs and developments that are going
42:36
on, not just off the pitch but also on it as well.
42:38
And sustaining National League, North set football again for
42:43
next season fingers across for them as well.
42:46
Tim I am, you're obviously a very Driven, Man.
42:49
Businessman your Smite in there. Some may think you're crazy,
42:52
taking over a football club, certainly perhaps in this
42:55
current climate. I guess you're looking for the
42:58
support of the city where where if they've not got a football
43:02
club, they're not following Posh potentially on a Saturday
43:04
afternoon, come down and watch him local football at its best
43:09
Peter Berg come down and see what it's like.
43:12
Is it's an experience and I think it's a brilliant
43:15
experience. It's good quality.
43:17
Leti football, you're close to the action, it's a friendly
43:21
atmosphere. Yeah I need I need Peterborough
43:24
to come and support Peterborough, Sports.
43:26
I need to get people through the gate, so everyone in Petersburg
43:29
come on down. Come on, come and support us and
43:31
see what we're about. Certainly from the first game of
43:35
next season, when everyone comes and sees the new Terrace, in the
43:38
stands, the new stadium, which is only part of my vision to
43:43
take it Forward. Yeah.
43:45
Come on down. Come and support us.
43:47
We'll see what it's like, it's a friendly place to be and also
43:49
from the I suppose the business community of the our region, as
43:52
well as opportunities for them to be involved with the project
43:55
that you're building. Yes, your we're looking for
43:59
sponsorship. For sure.
44:00
We are and I will have a guy involved with that will be going
44:05
and contacting local companies to see if we can drag in some
44:08
sponsorship match, sponsorship ball sponsorship.
44:11
I'm going to bring along some sponsorship myself from my
44:14
contacts with suppliers from the company I come.
44:17
P'nay and some of those will be substantial amounts and just one
44:23
that we've got at the moment and I'm not going to name them.
44:25
I've already got 25,000 pounds from one, just one company.
44:29
If I can get another couple that are sort of round, that sort of
44:32
10 to 15 thousand pounds. That's a fantastic amount of
44:35
money to be given to a club in the in the Northern premier
44:40
league and we'll build on that and we'll make it a success.
44:43
But yeah and that can only help not entirely.
44:47
Terms of the environment that you are in as well.
44:48
But we mentioned just before the break there about, you know, the
44:52
managers budget, for example, as well, and the playing side, not
44:56
got to that yet. That's the big one, is the big
45:00
one. And obviously, we'll sit down at
45:02
the end of the year. And I think grants to be
45:06
involved with that with me. Because I've asked Grant, stay
45:08
around, and give me a bit of help, little bit of guidance, on
45:10
certain things. But yeah, that's, that's going
45:13
to be the big one. It's because that will be a big
45:16
number. And looking at the looking at
45:18
the figures from last year, I think the plane budget we sat
45:22
11th. Did we know yet?
45:24
Oh yeah. Yeah, nobody love with you.
45:26
Yeah so me tightly in that way tight.
45:28
Yeah a table in that way. Yeah.
45:29
The league the league won't tell you over wires things but when
45:31
we were talking about finances Etc said yeah, 11th in terms of
45:35
the overall playing but yeah for that effect on my feet.
45:39
For the results perspective this is you know there or thereabouts
45:41
aren't you as well. I'm shows talking to a number of
45:43
the other clubs like I wasn't meeting last Monday or Monday
45:46
before. Actually wouldn't wish it on a
45:48
strategy meeting that there was a feeling around the number of
45:51
clubs that there actually might be an element of realism next
45:53
summer. A lot of clubs I've seen
45:55
attendance is down the guy at Gloucester has made a big
45:58
statement in the last couple of weeks about budgets and funding
46:01
wages. So I suspect players about it,
46:04
good for a couple of years but I suspect in the summer, it might
46:07
be a little bit tighter in certain quarters for budgets and
46:11
that's any right? Isn't it to be able to sustain a
46:13
club at this level as well? Yeah.
46:15
Affections of the economy. Where things on, perhaps things
46:18
won't be quite as fruitful for some of them but yeah, State.
46:21
And that was something to discuss feet actually
46:23
sustainable. Yeah, it can't just be a honey
46:27
pot. It's got to balance itself out,
46:29
so I think there is going to be grants, right?
46:31
Are you in area of realism that comes along?
46:34
Yeah, if I'm to find that, obviously, when you took looking
46:38
at the top echelons of the foot, buffer of the game and you've
46:42
got huge amounts of money, not just in the English Premier
46:44
League but throughout Europe and what have you but Do you think
46:48
feel that sort of attitude that people have at that level if all
46:51
be scaled down like, so players and will fans to have that sort
46:54
of sort of, almost that sorts of cautions bias of that sort of
46:58
thing and think you know, money is everywhere in the in the
47:02
sport. Yeah.
47:03
I mean we took we do get an element of funding coming down
47:05
from the top level but it's just astronomical sort of figures
47:08
that right, that top level and yeah that the support through
47:11
the stadium funds and through certain other facilities.
47:15
But it's a very, it's a It's nowhere near the same level is
47:19
lead true for all because it did what I meant by.
47:21
That was just one question was that is the expectation for
47:24
people that you deal with with the club raise because of what
47:27
they see at the high level thing, you want to scale down
47:30
level, there could be still be money, sloshing around.
47:32
I think people are actually coming to our level because they
47:34
don't see that. Yeah silly money sloshing around
47:36
at that level of they see something that's much more in
47:39
tune with what they see day-to-day.
47:41
Some of the a number of the players are local and they come
47:45
across from during the week and you don't That would probably
47:47
ship footballs do they live in an ivory Tower?
47:49
I think you did well as some somewhere else, but maybe two.
47:53
Or three years ago, particularly two or three of the players were
47:55
often out and in town and well, known around town as been local
48:00
people. It's moved a little bit away
48:01
from that recently but there's much more of a connect between
48:04
players and fans at this level than there is a possum.
48:08
That's good policy with indigenous, only premium level.
48:11
Yeah, a few games last season with you guys and yeah, you can
48:16
see That camera rodri that bond that you had certainly with the
48:20
playing side and you know, the promotion winning day was just
48:24
something to be, you know that you'll never forget will you?
48:27
And your in your time with the go you've got to say that was
48:30
probably the highlight of my time here.
48:33
Yeah there's some other event something going to Oldham just
48:36
before Christmas with the trophy go that for me was just a
48:39
fantastic thought that this isn't a club that was in the
48:42
Premiership. 20, 20 odd years ago, 25 years ago and here's my
48:46
little foot. Club - the next Premier League
48:49
Stadium. Yeah, that was a that for some
48:51
respects that was as good for me as that the Colville go and
48:54
literally a few kicks away from beating him as I wasn't supposed
48:59
to go and see one. There would have just been a
49:01
really but yeah, that that for me, was actually nearly as close
49:05
to, to the Culver gum, the cold would go.
49:07
Mad had its headaches on the day and yes, the result was made.
49:12
It all worthwhile. Actually, Paul is often said
49:15
what was well prevent us. He said, Not sure, enjoyed that.
49:18
And I was watching that, all right.
49:19
And yeah, that the day itself is good, obviously What It produced
49:22
was good. But for me Oldham, this was
49:25
probably my biggest memory Tempe, you've got some ambition
49:30
goals and dreams to be had as well.
49:35
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. I'm you I think, you can see I'm
49:41
absolutely, I'm excited without a doubt.
49:45
I'm looking forward to I'm looking forward to everyone
49:50
supporting and helping me as much as they can because I will
49:52
need some help. Yes, you need that buy-in won't
49:54
get lonely. Combine from lots of people, you
49:58
know, Oldham. That's a wow moment that you
50:01
know that grants are the former premier league and you're
50:03
playing at Premier League grounds from not many years ago.
50:05
That's a wow. Moment if we could get ourselves
50:09
a run in the FA Cup and get ourselves into the first round,
50:13
I mean yeah, my usual. If we could ever get to the
50:16
third round, And draw a fantastic team.
50:18
It'll be amazing. I'm not sure why.
50:24
Yes, I didn't really say that now, from this perspective.
50:27
Yeah, the new ground there as well.
50:29
And we're coming very quickly to the end of this week show.
50:32
Tim Grant, thank you so much. Grant, just a special thanks
50:36
from us here at PCR sports, for all the support, you've given us
50:39
and, you know, coming in on the show and giving us updates of
50:42
the club and inviting us down as well as very much appreciated.
50:45
And I know, You'll stay involved in Tim's already mentioned that
50:49
he'll want, you is right arm, right hand man, effectively at
50:52
times over the summer as well, you know, it's probably not
50:55
going to walk away. I want to carry on watching and
50:58
following the progress of the club.
50:59
Yeah, brilliant. And Tim, good luck from
51:01
everybody here at PC our Sports yet.
51:03
You know we'll certainly keep a close watching brief there and
51:06
you know fingers crossed the next season when the ground is
51:10
prepped. Ready to go in National League
51:12
North again that, you know, from a playing side as well, you'll
51:15
be able to click on from there. No doubt which is your ambition,
51:18
absolutely brilliant. Looking forward to it.
51:20
Thank you very much, both years, evening dip, and thanks as
51:22
always very much appreciated, thanks to everybody.
51:25
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