springy-park
Vital 1st Team Regular
A lot of grounds have houses around them.Springfield Park was in the wrong place to be developed, to many houses in the area with poor access and very little car parking areas etc and also it was sat on prime development land.
It made sense to build a new stadium, at the time if we had built a 15k capacity stadium Whelan would have been slated for being unambitious and holding us back from his PL dream.