Nottingham Downsize To Secure Future

Moving from a 20,000-seater stadium to a wide open space with no permanent stands at all might be seen as a backward step but for Nottingham RFC the business case is clear and the move from Meadow Lane to Lady Bay Sports Ground is a step in the right direction. The club has been sharing Notts County’s stadium since 2006 after it sold the Ireland Avenue home it had owned for over a century since 1904 to a property developer and the average attendance has never risen above 2,000, just a tenth of its capacity. Crowds have dipped, as they have done for a number of other Championship clubs, by arou…