FIVE weeks ago, we spent 10 days examining Worcester City's plans for a new stadium made possible by the building of an adjacent B&Q store.

We wanted to help set the scene for a series of council meetings which were due to explore vital aspects of the scheme, not least the fact that planning guidelines don't look kindly on such retail development at the site.

From the outset, it was important to recognise that this wasn't an emotional debate. It was about what would benefit the city.

And those involved should ask themselves what's good for the city, and think 20 or 30 years ahead to find the answer.

Those meetings needed to end, we thought, with councillors giving the club time and encouragement to develop their plans - nothing more, nothing less.

D-Day is near. Tomorrow - the biggest day in club history - the full council decides whether or not to give the go-ahead for feasibility studies to be compiled.

In short, as support grows across the city, it must.

If it doesn't, the club will stay put and struggle to keep up as football authorities crank up their demands over facilities.

The folk of Barbourne will still have to put up with disruption.

The city council will have to find land for the housing it wants to build at St George's Lane.

And the eastern fringes of the city will have industrial units or an office block to complement the Cattle Market which, the council has already decided, is acceptable the other side of the hill.

We don't want any of that.

Instead, we hope councillors keep in mind a picture of Worcester in 20 years time, and then decide that a thriving, community-based football team, in a majestic stadium made possible by imaginative political thinking, is what we want.

For the greater good of the Faithful City, we think it is.