If you were consulted on the stadium

It did once and we both got relegated lol!
But you’re right it will never happen, thank f**k!

That's just nonsense talk as if we submitted plans tomorrow it would take us 3 years minimum to get pp, sort out funding appoint a construction co etc then 18 months/2 years to build the stadium, the minimum is 5 years, most likely 10 years. assuming one ever gets built before the owners lose interest and move on. 

Are you smoking it, or injecting it?

3 years to get planning permission? I'm not sure that's right. Funding is already in place, exactly as it was if UWE didn't mess us about, 2 years to build is about right. No evidence whatsoever the owners are going to lose interest, in fact, it's the exact opposite.

What a fantastic notion. And Liz Hurley taking care of my other end at the same time. Who would have time to think about a new stadium with that lot going on? 

5 - 10 years from inception to completion? ? ? ? This is a private enterprise backed by investment bankers not a lib-dem council project.

So is our training ground and that looks like taking 3 to 4 years from identifying the land to the opening day, if we're lucky and that's basically 4 pitches and a clubhouse. My rough timetable would be another year to find a suitable site, another year to purchase it/draw up plans, 2 to 3 to get full pp, another year to plan the build/sort out finance, two years building it, and that assumes everything goes to plan!         

The question is ambition.

If the club stay at the Mem then the biggest stadium which had some other income streams is going to be 18,000.
That is not big enough for Prem football . So a new stadium would then be needed anyway should Rovers ever get there.
To stay at the Mem and have really good income streams built into the site you might have to downgrade ambition.

12,000 all seater with more boxes and plenty of space for other things onsite.
This will set the ambition as League one top enders with the occasional dabble into the championship for a year or so.

If the ambition is to compete at the top of the championship and beyond then a new stadium elsewhere will be needed.
A 20,000 stadium with the space to allow it to become 75,000 in the future as needed.
Key word is the "space" to do it.
Not the expectation that it will happen.
Populations in the area could increase massively in the future who knows ?
The old Eastville site had the space to build a 75,000 stadium before Tesco and Halfords etc moved in.
A 20,000 stadium might be all that's ever needed ,but lets not restrict the options for the future if possible.

The stadium needs a wow factor though whatever size it needs to compete with Ashton gate for new customers/fans.

I am amased anybody has any energy left to go through this again. Stadium with a "wow factor", whatever next ?; I am resigned, to a patched up MEM, sometime in the future, I really like Waq, but I do not think he understands a lot of us would like to be simply be playing in the same division as the ****, but to be honest, I cannot ever see that happening again. Talking about new stadiums is a waste of time.