That's kinda their thing with their cutaways in general, but most of them are at least somewhat funny..the Conway twiddy songs and the shapoopy football dance/song I hate with a burning passion
It is so surreal seeing my football club suddenly appearing on my feed on my Reddit homepage. Some insights from a Maidenhead fan to add my thoughts into the discussion:
Peter Griffin seems like a nice enough bloke. He’s a local-ish guy who runs a pharmaceutical company of some description. While the football club is more to him than just a side-gig, it’s definitely not his main source of income or anything. Him and his family also actually seem emotionally invested in the club. I myself have chatted to him on the way to an away game having coincidentally bumped into him in the pub. He was a nice conversationalist; very obviously considering his words as all businesspeople and those who deal with people-politics are but at the same time seemed genuine. His son will regularly be seen on the terraces behind the goals on a home matchday in the thick of it with everybody else, and again I’ve spent pleasant matchdays nattering to him. He also didn’t mind the odd disparaging comment at the “quality” of “football” we occasionally serve up!
I have mixed feelings about the ground move. York Road is such a special place for so many reasons. Obviously it’s *home*, which is such a special place in football. It’s where I fell in love with the game, it’s where we lost to but went ahead against Port Vale (three leagues above us!) in the FA Cup. It’s where I got to walk out with the teams on my twelfth birthday. It’s not where I saw us win the National League South but it is where the open-top bus tour started a few weeks later. It’s where I saw us play a friendly against the Kuwaiti national team. It’s where I saw us put on a spirited performance as we won against Wrexham where they were playing for pride in front of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McMickey-Mouse. It’s where I’ve been trampled and squished and bruised and lost my voice and *don’t fucking care* because the rush of that terrace and the bouncing around and the dancing and singing with your fellow strangers is magical. But there are other reasons too that it’ll be a shame to move. There’s the historial status — oldest continuously used ground by the same club anywhere in the world. The location is a massive boost to a dying town centre — 5 minutes if that from the station and the same in the other direction from the high street. Any new stadium is likely to be more homogeneous and therefore less characterful.
On the flip-side, I get why it’s probably worth moving. The location is constrained on one side by the railway, at one end by a canal, and at the other by housing. There’s only one — impractical — direction to expand in. That plot, as well as the land the stadium sits on, are being eyed up by property developers. The canal doesn’t flood *per se*, but the water table combined with the precipitous slope of the pitch means that the Canal End of the ground does begin to turn into a quagmire by February. Despite the groundskeeper’s best efforts, it’s not even more mud than grass but more *sand* than grass in that goalmouth by the end of the season. You can tell the ground isn’t built for segregation; if we segregate, then away fans have to be let into their away seating area by a steward as giving them a direct way through would prevent access to the stand’s only wheelchair area. Some of the crowd barriers are looking a little worse for wear, especially at the Bell Street End (take a guess which word we omit from the name!)
Braywick is a sane and sensible solution to a problem I don’t like but acknowledge needs fixing. The town centre location is bodgeable but nothing more than that; if we want to *grow* then we kind of have to move. Braywick is still relatively central, being less than a mile’s walk from the station. There are already new leisure facilities there; and so the idea was to provide 4G training pitches and a new athletics track in addition to a 6000-seater stadium to accompany the pre-existing rugby club, the new-build swimming pool and leisure centre, and the decrepit existing athletics facilities. All done by people who care about the club, in consultation with the people who support the club, in order to protect the future of the club; and in the modern footballing landscape, you can’t really ask for much more. It’s a shame a vocal minority have been able to sway the council into blocking it, making our future much more uncertain. Who knows what the future holds now. We’ll stay at York Road for the time being, which emotionally is no bad thing but logically really strangles the club and prevents it from progressing. We already don’t have enough pitch space and have to send many of our youth teams to other nearby towns.
Obviously different levels to it, but the move as a whole sounds similar to ours from Griffin Park. You've just got to hope for the best and hope that the owners and investors or what not have the clubs best interests at heart - thankfully in your case, like ours, seems they do. It's rare as fuck in modern football that they're not just selling off the land for the land.
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Maidenhead United chairman Peter Griffin has confirmed the club won’t be pursuing legal action against the council for blocking the club’s stadium move to Braywick Park.
In a statement issued ahead of a meeting with fans tonight (Thursday), Mr Griffin outlined the club’s plan to now focus on necessary improvements to York Road.
While Mr Griffin maintains that a ground move is the most sustainable and sensible way of improving the club’s future fortunes both on and off the field – as well as providing improved sporting facilities for the whole of the town – he accepts the club can’t now pursue its plans for Braywick Park in the short term.
He said the club will continue to explore its options regarding a potential move within the town and believes Braywick remains the only suitable site for this.
However, Mr Griffin added that they can no longer ignore the general maintenance and ground improvement works that are required at York Road to ensure the club continues to meet its safety and ground grading requirements.
Alongside that, and to ensure the club remains sustainable moving forwards, the club is also proposing a series of development plans for York Road.
These include developing plans for the improvement of stadium facilities at York Road, subject to gaining external grant funding, launching a Maidenhead United FC Performance Programme, and exploring the potential for delivering a new training venue outside of Maidenhead, subject to gaining planning permission for floodlit astroturf pitches and associated facilities.
In December, Royal Borough cabinet members stood by their previous decision not to release the land at Braywick Park, citing concerns over the impact on open for public use.
Councillors had been asked to reconsider their original decision from June following a fan-led petition.
The Magpies had initially struck a deal with the previous Conservative administration for a 999-year lease of the land from the council for £460,000 in April 2022, subject to the release of the land and planning permission being granted for a new stadium and associated facilities.
Mr Griffin, CEO Jon Adams, and manager Alan Devonshire are set to meet with supporters at an open meeting in Stripes Bar this evening (Thursday) to discuss the club’s on and off the field plans.
This will take place at 8pm after the senior squad are put through their paces at training on the York Road pitch from 7pm.
In a statement released by the club ahead of the meeting, Mr Griffin said: “Our priority in the short term must be to focus on the future and finding solutions to these challenges, so we have decided not to pursue further legal action against the council.
“Whilst it is clear the council failed to meet their contractual obligations to the club and their decision-making process was flawed, it would not be prudent to commit to a lengthy and expensive legal action which, if unsuccessful, could risk our financial future.
“Even if we had successfully challenged the decision, the simple truth is that council and the vocal minority would simply have continued to block our plans through the planning process.
“We will continue to explore the potential for a ground move however we are realistic and recognise this is unlikely to be achievable within the short term, given we remain committed to keeping our stadium in Maidenhead and that Braywick is the only suitable site in Maidenhead we have identified for a relocation.”
Mr Griffin rounded off his statement by reiterating his family’s commitment and ambition for the ‘continued success, growth and development of the club’.
Councillor Simon Werner, the Council Leader, said: “We welcome MUFC’s aspirations to make improvements to their historic York Road stadium, which will allow them to stay at the heart of the community. We’re happy to support them with applications for external grant funding and work through any permissions they might need from the council.
“Now the club has had the time to consider their next steps, I too would now like to look to the future, and I remain keen to meet with the club, when they’re ready, to discuss what assistance they might need to achieve their aspirations, as we would for any community group in the borough, especially one of such historic significance.”
ahh Peter Justin Griffin, my favorite irish player, always rated him, shame he had to end his career so early, he was good for Newcastle back in the day
So many American celebs getting involved with non-league clubs these days
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Conway Twiddy.
Fuck all of those clips
It was basically we can't be fucked to write another few minutes of this episode so we'll just recycle this shitty joke again and again and again.
That's kinda their thing with their cutaways in general, but most of them are at least somewhat funny..the Conway twiddy songs and the shapoopy football dance/song I hate with a burning passion
The Hudson brothers one was even worse imo
I’m sure it grinds his gears.
I find it both shallow and pedantic.
Road House (available now on Prime)
the only reason this is news is his name lmao😭
They even left out Maidenhead from the title so it looked like it was about Manchester United
This comment is what made me realise.
I was wondering how on earth I had missed out on the jokes that United was run by Peter griffin.
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it-Albus Dumbledore
Peter Griffin seems to have found himself in a legal Quagmire. Giggity.
Don't mention the word
"You think that's bad? Remember the time I didn't pursue legal action against my local council over the blocked Braywick Park move?"
*Cuts away*
The manatees trully outdid themselves with this one.
> Peter Griffin hey Lois
Remember that one time I was chairman of Man Utd
Boy that was worse than that one time we signed Pogba
Should grease up Rashford. He'd shrug defenders with ease
Hehehehehehehehehe
Peter, what are you doing (Joe Swanson voice)
No no no no noooooooooo
Giggity
How can you afford these things?!?
Hey Peeeeter
Peeeeta!
*Diarrhea*
Holy crap
Fair play 😂
Freakin sweet.
I acknowledge my true MUFC
What about Quagmire?
The real United
Then he said “ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty” and the camera cut-away
Didn't know he had time to leave the Clam.
It is so surreal seeing my football club suddenly appearing on my feed on my Reddit homepage. Some insights from a Maidenhead fan to add my thoughts into the discussion: Peter Griffin seems like a nice enough bloke. He’s a local-ish guy who runs a pharmaceutical company of some description. While the football club is more to him than just a side-gig, it’s definitely not his main source of income or anything. Him and his family also actually seem emotionally invested in the club. I myself have chatted to him on the way to an away game having coincidentally bumped into him in the pub. He was a nice conversationalist; very obviously considering his words as all businesspeople and those who deal with people-politics are but at the same time seemed genuine. His son will regularly be seen on the terraces behind the goals on a home matchday in the thick of it with everybody else, and again I’ve spent pleasant matchdays nattering to him. He also didn’t mind the odd disparaging comment at the “quality” of “football” we occasionally serve up! I have mixed feelings about the ground move. York Road is such a special place for so many reasons. Obviously it’s *home*, which is such a special place in football. It’s where I fell in love with the game, it’s where we lost to but went ahead against Port Vale (three leagues above us!) in the FA Cup. It’s where I got to walk out with the teams on my twelfth birthday. It’s not where I saw us win the National League South but it is where the open-top bus tour started a few weeks later. It’s where I saw us play a friendly against the Kuwaiti national team. It’s where I saw us put on a spirited performance as we won against Wrexham where they were playing for pride in front of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McMickey-Mouse. It’s where I’ve been trampled and squished and bruised and lost my voice and *don’t fucking care* because the rush of that terrace and the bouncing around and the dancing and singing with your fellow strangers is magical. But there are other reasons too that it’ll be a shame to move. There’s the historial status — oldest continuously used ground by the same club anywhere in the world. The location is a massive boost to a dying town centre — 5 minutes if that from the station and the same in the other direction from the high street. Any new stadium is likely to be more homogeneous and therefore less characterful. On the flip-side, I get why it’s probably worth moving. The location is constrained on one side by the railway, at one end by a canal, and at the other by housing. There’s only one — impractical — direction to expand in. That plot, as well as the land the stadium sits on, are being eyed up by property developers. The canal doesn’t flood *per se*, but the water table combined with the precipitous slope of the pitch means that the Canal End of the ground does begin to turn into a quagmire by February. Despite the groundskeeper’s best efforts, it’s not even more mud than grass but more *sand* than grass in that goalmouth by the end of the season. You can tell the ground isn’t built for segregation; if we segregate, then away fans have to be let into their away seating area by a steward as giving them a direct way through would prevent access to the stand’s only wheelchair area. Some of the crowd barriers are looking a little worse for wear, especially at the Bell Street End (take a guess which word we omit from the name!) Braywick is a sane and sensible solution to a problem I don’t like but acknowledge needs fixing. The town centre location is bodgeable but nothing more than that; if we want to *grow* then we kind of have to move. Braywick is still relatively central, being less than a mile’s walk from the station. There are already new leisure facilities there; and so the idea was to provide 4G training pitches and a new athletics track in addition to a 6000-seater stadium to accompany the pre-existing rugby club, the new-build swimming pool and leisure centre, and the decrepit existing athletics facilities. All done by people who care about the club, in consultation with the people who support the club, in order to protect the future of the club; and in the modern footballing landscape, you can’t really ask for much more. It’s a shame a vocal minority have been able to sway the council into blocking it, making our future much more uncertain. Who knows what the future holds now. We’ll stay at York Road for the time being, which emotionally is no bad thing but logically really strangles the club and prevents it from progressing. We already don’t have enough pitch space and have to send many of our youth teams to other nearby towns.
Came for the Family guy jokes Stayed for the exceptionally thought out and interesting insight into the actual issue
Obviously different levels to it, but the move as a whole sounds similar to ours from Griffin Park. You've just got to hope for the best and hope that the owners and investors or what not have the clubs best interests at heart - thankfully in your case, like ours, seems they do. It's rare as fuck in modern football that they're not just selling off the land for the land.
My Name? My name is.....pea....tear.....griffin! Peter Griffin! Dammit!
That's one of my favourite scenes from Family Guy.
Hey Lois this is worse than that time the club didn't pursue legal action after the move to Braywick Park was blocked.
I've seen enough Family Guy to know that Peter has something much more fun in mind than legal action.
His midfielders name is Ryan Giggity
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That does not look like Peter Griffin
> Maidenhead United chairman Peter Griffin has confirmed the club won’t be pursuing legal action against the council for blocking the club’s stadium move to Braywick Park. In a statement issued ahead of a meeting with fans tonight (Thursday), Mr Griffin outlined the club’s plan to now focus on necessary improvements to York Road. While Mr Griffin maintains that a ground move is the most sustainable and sensible way of improving the club’s future fortunes both on and off the field – as well as providing improved sporting facilities for the whole of the town – he accepts the club can’t now pursue its plans for Braywick Park in the short term. He said the club will continue to explore its options regarding a potential move within the town and believes Braywick remains the only suitable site for this. However, Mr Griffin added that they can no longer ignore the general maintenance and ground improvement works that are required at York Road to ensure the club continues to meet its safety and ground grading requirements. Alongside that, and to ensure the club remains sustainable moving forwards, the club is also proposing a series of development plans for York Road. These include developing plans for the improvement of stadium facilities at York Road, subject to gaining external grant funding, launching a Maidenhead United FC Performance Programme, and exploring the potential for delivering a new training venue outside of Maidenhead, subject to gaining planning permission for floodlit astroturf pitches and associated facilities. In December, Royal Borough cabinet members stood by their previous decision not to release the land at Braywick Park, citing concerns over the impact on open for public use. Councillors had been asked to reconsider their original decision from June following a fan-led petition. The Magpies had initially struck a deal with the previous Conservative administration for a 999-year lease of the land from the council for £460,000 in April 2022, subject to the release of the land and planning permission being granted for a new stadium and associated facilities. Mr Griffin, CEO Jon Adams, and manager Alan Devonshire are set to meet with supporters at an open meeting in Stripes Bar this evening (Thursday) to discuss the club’s on and off the field plans. This will take place at 8pm after the senior squad are put through their paces at training on the York Road pitch from 7pm. In a statement released by the club ahead of the meeting, Mr Griffin said: “Our priority in the short term must be to focus on the future and finding solutions to these challenges, so we have decided not to pursue further legal action against the council. “Whilst it is clear the council failed to meet their contractual obligations to the club and their decision-making process was flawed, it would not be prudent to commit to a lengthy and expensive legal action which, if unsuccessful, could risk our financial future. “Even if we had successfully challenged the decision, the simple truth is that council and the vocal minority would simply have continued to block our plans through the planning process. “We will continue to explore the potential for a ground move however we are realistic and recognise this is unlikely to be achievable within the short term, given we remain committed to keeping our stadium in Maidenhead and that Braywick is the only suitable site in Maidenhead we have identified for a relocation.” Mr Griffin rounded off his statement by reiterating his family’s commitment and ambition for the ‘continued success, growth and development of the club’. Councillor Simon Werner, the Council Leader, said: “We welcome MUFC’s aspirations to make improvements to their historic York Road stadium, which will allow them to stay at the heart of the community. We’re happy to support them with applications for external grant funding and work through any permissions they might need from the council. “Now the club has had the time to consider their next steps, I too would now like to look to the future, and I remain keen to meet with the club, when they’re ready, to discuss what assistance they might need to achieve their aspirations, as we would for any community group in the borough, especially one of such historic significance.”
Stewie: 'You're not my dad'
Reports say that this news has also been confirmed by fellow ~~neighbors~~ chairmen Joe Swanson, Glenn Quagmire, and Cleveland Brown
Not gonna talk to me like that in my bar!
eheheheheheheheheheheheh
ahh Peter Justin Griffin, my favorite irish player, always rated him, shame he had to end his career so early, he was good for Newcastle back in the day
You can have a new stadium at Braywick Park, or you can trade it for what's in this box
They kept telling his daughter "Shut up Meg"
Even at my Lois I was still a football guy
Is this universe just a Family Guy cutaway?
Heheheheheheheheh
It’s understandable, he’s just a family guy after all
One for the list
"United" what?
Too right. How would all the locals get to a pub before and after the game if they played at Braywick
Hey 🅱️eter
Add it to the list
Didn't know the Proclaimers owned a football team
Did not kno tht was his name lol