9:07am Friday 12th March 2010
RE: Opposition to plans for a new stadium for Wycombe Wanderers and Wasps.
HAVING just returned from holiday, I am trying to get to grips with the views expressed in your pages by ex-councillor Peter Morris, pensioner Rex Pawley and your correspondent BP Wilson over Wycombe District Council’s financial involvement in a new stadium for Wycombe Wanderers and London Wasps.
The common factor in all these comments is a complete lack of commercial awareness. Wasps have been seeking an enlarged stadium at Adams Park to accommodate the increasing number of supporters.
If anyone doubts this perhaps they should take a look at the attendance this weekend for the match with Gloucester or the proposals for the St George’s Day clash with Bath in aid of Help the Heroes.
They have also been seeking improved access to this ground which the council have refused.
Without Wasps it is possible Wanderers would not be able to survive and then what would happen to the £7million debt – would this not have reperc-ussions on the local community?
Wasps have looked at alternatives to staying in High Wycombe, and owner Steve Hayes is quite right is seeking additional funding to his own resources and that of the club to ensure the council have a commitment to the project, as the local community will benefit substantially from some 10,000 additional supporters coming into the town every other week during the winter months.
I would have thought that the residents of Booker affected by this proposed stadium would willingly exchange the inconveniences on a dozen or so Fridays or Saturdays for the constant drone of aircraft taking off and landing and the pilots trying to emulate the Red Baron by doing aerobatics as they do over Marlow early on a Sunday morning. Mr Wilson [who said Wasps should go back to where they belong] – where do Wasps belong?
Are we not lucky that accountants do not run commercial organisations?
Mervyn Buston, Herons Place, Marlow.
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