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Post by A Source (aka Angry Badger) on Aug 16, 2018 17:46:38 GMT
Mayor getting questioned on local news. Would not commit to where arena - & other facilities - will be.
Just thought I'd mention it and get it out the way before gaschat goes into meltdown
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Post by cj on Aug 16, 2018 18:05:43 GMT
The mayor won't say where the arena will be.
Wael won't say anything either about the stadium.
Hmm.... You don't think that they could....
Nah.... too simple of an idea for Bristol and for Rovers!
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Aug 16, 2018 18:10:10 GMT
Brabazon Hangars owners YTL paid for Bristol mayor Marvin Rees to fly from China to Malaysia in December 2017, stay overnight in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Kuala Lumpur (pictured above), paid for all his meals on that trip and the flight back to Bristol; as well as one dinner in March 2018; and one working lunch last month.
Just five days after the working lunch on July 12, Rees made his annual address to the council where he made his strongest hint yet that the arena would not be built in the city centre, saying that the arena decision is not a choice between the locations of the land near Temple Meads or YTL’s offer to privately fund a venue at Filton Airfield, but whether the city can afford an arena and what the best use of the Temple Island site might be.
Marvin Rees became mayor of Bristol in May 2016 – photo by Zac Crawley at Candour Creative
YTL are a Malaysian investment company who own the Brabazon Hangars and former Filton Airfield site, which they hope to transform into a new 354-acre neighbourhood to be known as Brabazon, which will contain almost 3,000 homes, three new schools, student housing and a new train station.
Former Bristol mayor George Ferguson has slammed the hospitality that Rees has received over the last seven months from YTL, saying that the “sorry sequence of events” disqualifies Rees from being involved with the arena decision, “both legally and morally” under the Local Government Association Code of Conduct
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Post by abbeygas on Aug 16, 2018 19:47:06 GMT
Only number 50? I could swear its more than that.
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Post by aghast on Aug 16, 2018 20:56:34 GMT
If this is true, then I am going to get really excited, just as soon as I've figured out what it is that I need to get excited about.
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 17, 2018 13:08:28 GMT
YTL our new investors.
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Post by baggins on Aug 17, 2018 13:09:39 GMT
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 17, 2018 13:11:38 GMT
Malaysian company behind the Arena, who seem to have enough to worry about already! |
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Post by baggins on Aug 17, 2018 13:15:33 GMT
Malaysian company behind the Arena, who seem to have enough to worry about already! Well worth a rumour though. |
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 17, 2018 13:21:08 GMT
Malaysian company behind the Arena, who seem to have enough to worry about already! Well worth a rumour though. Francis Yeoh, now the head of the company after his Dad died last year, is worth £2.3B Definitely worth a rumour to go with the thousands of others 😀 |
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Post by toddy1953 on Aug 17, 2018 13:34:25 GMT
Bit lost with this one. Are we hoping that ....
A) BCC build the Arena at Temple Meads & turn down the investment opportunity from YTL & they will then spend their money building us a stadium on that site
B) if the Arena is built at Filton YTL will also build us a stadium next door?
C) that either way YTL will be the investors behind building a stadium either at Filton or UWE or they are the investors behind a Mem rebuild.
D) None of the above & this really is another pointless stadium thread.
Wael said there is always a plan A,B & C & he is exploring all options - but then again 12 months ago, he said UWE was dead & a regeneration of the Mem is the only way - still it keeps the Forum going & everyone at each other's throats, if it wasn't for this it would be all about DC's tactics & Babestation!!
UTG
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 17, 2018 13:39:03 GMT
Bit lost with this one. Are we hoping that .... A) BCC build the Arena at Temple Meads & turn down the investment opportunity from YTL & they will then spend their money building us a stadium on that site B) if the Arena is built at Filton YTL will also build us a stadium next door? C) that either way YTL will be the investors behind building a stadium either at Filton or UWE or they are the investors behind a Mem rebuild. D) None of the above & this really is another pointless stadium thread. Wael said there is always a plan A,B & C & he is exploring all options - but then again 12 months ago, he said UWE was dead & a regeneration of the Mem is the only way - still it keeps the Forum going & everyone at each other's throats, if it wasn't for this it would be all about DC's tactics & Babestation!! UTG Did Wael go as far as option D? Because in all probability it is none of the above and really is another pointless stadium thread. |
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Post by baggins on Aug 17, 2018 14:01:26 GMT
Well worth a rumour though. Francis Yeoh, now the head of the company after his Dad died last year, is worth £2.3B Definitely worth a rumour to go with the thousands of others 😀 Inheritance kid with sod all to do with his money. We're sorted. |
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Post by lpgas on Aug 17, 2018 16:26:35 GMT
Francis Yeoh, now the head of the company after his Dad died last year, is worth £2.3B Definitely worth a rumour to go with the thousands of others 😀 Inheritance kid with sod all to do with his money. We're sorted. I wish he was my generous mate  |
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Post by wertongas on Aug 17, 2018 16:56:27 GMT
can pointless stadium threads be banned there not even pointless anymore there just nothing threads
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 17:35:47 GMT
can pointless stadium threads be banned there not even pointless anymore there just nothing threads exactly. At least a pointless thread is a thread with no points and you can see it for what it is - pointless.
Nothing threads have points, get you all excited, but they mean nothing. so overrated. |
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Aug 17, 2018 17:43:21 GMT
I'd like to point out that if a pointless thread is created to prove a point it then it's no longer pointless.
Unless people carry on making other pointless threads then the point made in this pointless thread will have been pointless.
But I'm sure I didn't need to point that out to anyone. So this post is itself, pointless.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 17:47:45 GMT
I'd like to point out that if a pointless thread is created to prove a point it then it's no longer pointless. Unless people carry on making other pointless threads then the point made in this pointless thread will have been pointless. But I'm sure I didn't need to point that out to anyone. So this post is itself, pointless. Good point |
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Aug 17, 2018 17:55:13 GMT
I'd like to point out that if a pointless thread is created to prove a point it then it's no longer pointless. Unless people carry on making other pointless threads then the point made in this pointless thread will have been pointless. But I'm sure I didn't need to point that out to anyone. So this post is itself, pointless. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 17:55:50 GMT
Rovers are pointless
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