: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:17 pm  

snowie wrote:

just like to leave you thinking on this one, could the new stadium hold their own privately run swimming baths :wink: that would be brill new fans could be born from just visiting the the baths

sorry mate but that willl never happen anywhere, pools lose a fortune on their own.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:20 pm  

What do people want? A proper swimming pool or one with slides and gimmicks?

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:25 pm  

t-r-i-n-i-t-y wrote:

What do people want? A proper swimming pool or one with slides and gimmicks?

actually, and you wont like this, generally people want a swimming pool, but dont want either to pay what it would take in entrance fees to make it break even, or accept a rise in leisure costs from a council to subsidise it.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:58 pm  

t-r-i-n-i-t-y wrote:

What do people want? A proper swimming pool or one with slides and gimmicks?

swimming can just be boring on its own, as you put it slides and gimmicks gets the young kids enjoying the water which in turn can develop confidence in the water,
I would like something similar to the metrodome but that's my preference

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:48 am  

chapster wrote:

actually, and you wont like this, generally people want a swimming pool, but dont want either to pay what it would take in entrance fees to make it break even, or accept a rise in leisure costs from a council to subsidise it.

The problem is that the council have done the feasibility studies and found out that stand alone swimming pools don't make money whereas those incorporated into say a 'sports village' are more likely to. On the back of this they sanctioned the re-building of Sun Lane as a stand alone pool.

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:40 pm  

snowie wrote:

I would like something similar to the metrodome but that's my preference

Still trying to get over my son saying that the black hole slide thing at Metrodome was "tame" - still trying to get the trunks back out of my booty!!!

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:21 pm  

lad13 wrote:

Still trying to get over my son saying that the black hole slide thing at Metrodome was "tame" - still trying to get the trunks back out of my booty!!!