Anyone know what the score is with this lot? Are they bankrolled or something?

1 point off the top of the conference!!

I believe their current chairman used to own Oxford United and (rumour has it) did well out of selling the club, and now has a bit of cash to throw at his boyhood team in Solihull.

They’re not super-minted like Salford, but they have a bit of financial ballast. A bit like us when we went up from that division, in fact.

Kairdiff Exile wrote:I believe their current chairman used to own Oxford United and (rumour has it) did well out of selling the club, and now has a bit of cash to throw at his boyhood team in Solihull.

They’re not super-minted like Salford, but they have a bit of financial ballast. A bit like us when we went up from that division, in fact.

They also have a very good manager in Tim Flowers.

Lying on the outskirts of Birmingham, shouldn't be too distant a trip if they get promoted. Presuming we don't of course.

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:Lying on the outskirts of Birmingham, shouldn't be too distant a trip if they get promoted. Presuming we don't of course.

Very close to the airport for anyone wishing to fly in for the game.

Amberexile wrote:

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:Lying on the outskirts of Birmingham, shouldn't be too distant a trip if they get promoted. Presuming we don't of course.

Very close to the airport for anyone wishing to fly in for the game.

Possibly Stan, via New York of course

It’s a great ground for plane spotters - nearly as good as Brentford!

I used to live near their ground - the one end used to be a driving range - went there a few times to hit a few balls onto what now is the pitch - they formed up from Moor Green, who I think the County played down at Spytty one year and whose main stand burned down rendering them homeless, and Solihull Borough. If I remember rightly Birmingham Citys old training ground was on the same road and I think Birmingham City ladies play at the Moors ground on Damson Parkway - btw its next door to a massive Land Rover plant.

The old Moor Green ground was peculiar. It had one of those traditional non-league stands that looked like railway signal boxes but they'd turned the pitch 90 degrees so it was at one end, with just a rail along both sides and a bikeshed cover at the other.

The neighbours objected to permanent floodlight pylons so they had to lie flat and be winched up. Driving through Shirley to get there, you passed a big Chinese called the Shirley Temple.

George Street-Bridge wrote:The old Moor Green ground was peculiar. It had one of those traditional non-league stands that looked like railway signal boxes but they'd turned the pitch 90 degrees so it was at one end, with just a rail along both sides and a bikeshed cover at the other.

The neighbours objected to permanent floodlight pylons so they had to lie flat and be winched up. Driving through Shirley to get there, you passed a big Chinese called the Shirley Temple.

Went to Moor Green a few times. I quite liked the stand behind the one goal; was like a minitiaure Hazell Stand in my memory isn't playing tricks on me (i.e. terracing at the bottom and shit wooden seats at the top).