IN the second part of our exclusive interview, former Worcester City chairman Dave Boddy looks at the club's future, reveals previous discussions with Cecil Duckworth over sharing with Worcester Warriors and talks over merging with Kidderminster Harriers.

If you were still in charge of Worcester City, what would you do now to solve the current new ground predicament?

“I would be going back to see Worcester Warriors chairman Cecil Duckworth about ground-sharing at Sixways. In my view that’s the only option.

“I would go back and say can we use your stadium and pay rent. That’s what I would do.”

Was Sixways ever a viable option?

“Yes. I sat in Cecil’s lounge at his home in around October 2006. To say we had shaken hands on a deal would be the wrong thing to say because we didn’t, but I left his house with the view that we had verbally agreed a deal and we had cracked it.

“The deal was for a joint venture partnership. We were going to put the proceeds from the sale of St George’s Lane into a stadium holding company and we were going to be joint owners of Sixways on a 50-50 basis.

“The principal was that there was going to be a management holding company of Sixways of which Worcester City owned 50 per cent and Worcester Warriors owned 50 per cent.

“I don’t know what changed but I left his house thinking we had cracked it but two or three months afterwards it faded away.

“Primacy of tenure was mooted. It was an issue but I don’t believe it was an insurmountable issue. I think it was used as a reason.”

Is there any other alternative?

“The council only ever offered us Nunnery Way.

“We talked at length with Peter Millichip but that scheme (the Hindlip sports village) was completely beyond us in terms of finance of what they wanted for us to go up there. There was no chance of that happening.

“The Cinderella Ground was never ever an option. The first time it got mentioned was after all these contracts had been signed and I think it was brought up by Paul Curtis, Derek Jones and co when they decided that they wanted to challenge what we were doing.

“The best you are going to get apparently is a 25-year lease on it.

“You have got a similar, if not worse, situation to St George’s Lane in as much that, apart from a little bit of parking on the main road opposite the golf club, there is no parking at all.

“There is less street parking at the Cinderella Ground than there is at St George’s Lane so I personally don’t think that is goer.”

What about a ground-share with Evesham United?

“Not if you have got any ambitions to do anything.

“With respect to Evesham, they are building for what will probably be their best-ever requirements, but Worcester City will always have ambitions above that.

“Worcester City has got to be in the conurbation of Worcester. Worcester City will not survive playing in Evesham, Bromsgrove or Kidderminster.

“Before my time at the football club, they were serious conversations with Kidderminster Harriers about merging while the Aggborough club were in the Football League.

“Colin Youngjohns was chairman at Kidderminster at the time and there were serious discussions about merging but they failed.”

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