A New Beginning Part 2

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Whilst I think the AQ's do not have, or will not, invest the required amount of money, I do feel Wael's intentions are good.

When it comes to football club ownership, I would rather the AQs than a lot of others I see around us.

It may be a bitter pill to swallow, knowing we will forever be in our neighbours shadow - and knowing the best we can hope for is the odd season in the championship.

However, I enjoy going to the mem on a Saturday with my kids. The most important thing for me is we have a club to go and support, to share those experiences together - and I don't think if we were in the premier league looking down on the red half it would be any better than it is today.

I wonder if Swansea can answer that seeing as though they are currently experiencing it, and they dont even own their ground. Of course it would be better than it is today lol 

Back by popular demand. Couldn't be bothered before as Ive said before, too many children on here being hilariously funny. It took all this time for someone to come up with the definitive answer, as repeated above. I repeated what was heard and the people discussing it are well known to most gasheads.

I was surprised to hear  there were two potential prospects as I had heard only a snippet of one.  It was the conversation in the West Stand  that confirmed the rumour I had heard. No more, no less.  That was what I posted, and suddenly I am being asked to name names, etc etc. All I know is as above.

I like many others, don't believe it is viable to remain at the Mem. I hope, if that's our only choice, that I am wrong. What do I think will happen? Nothing.  I think that the UWE failure will be allowed to fade, then sometime later we will be told the Mem will not be redeveloped. In our current layout, nothing can be built at the tent end, as the retaining wall there is not strong enough. So we would need to start buying properties at that end to reinforce it.  Cost? No idea. We already know that to make a decent size stadium (20,000 plus) the ground would need to be turned round, so presumably it would be only about 15000 capacity. Doubtful that we could sustain championship football with that capacity. It's well known that it is cheaper to build a stadium from a clear site than one already developed. Severciders cousin who has helped develop several stadiums over the years could tell you. Though he is not a gashead, and not on this site. More importantly, to complete a rebuild quickly, we would need to leave for two years. ?The council will not be happy to let the locals live next to a building site for 4 or 5 years.

If the Mem is rebuilt, how do we pay off the people putting up the front money? No, I don't know either. 

By the way Someone said there were reciprocal Heads of Terms, the vice chancellor confirmed on the radio that he was expecting to receive one, but hadn't, and we say we sent one. The question is, who is telling porkies? I hope it's the UWE, but again I don't know.

Interesting point. I've seen lots of players for Rovers who gave there all and who I'd never doubt the intentions of, but many of them just weren't up to the job. Should they have continued to be picked because their intentions were good?

PS that isn't a personal dig at you just an observation that some people can't deliver their intentions

I can see what you mean, and I agree with you. I think Wael's intentions are good, but I get the feeling that he doesn't have the financial support he needs.

Seems I was proven right about Wael having to get his families approval to invest in the club/build the UWE plus there's still no sign of Will Dubey at the club, what snippets of info have you ever come up? 

Just because the Mem is sh**e, unsustainable and cannot be developed, that still doesn't mean the deal with UWE was the better option.

The way some of you are going on you'd think it was the end of the world.

If WAQ had completely sold us down the river with a crap deal with UWE the same old faces would be on here saying 'we should never have left the Mem. At least that was ours'

WE KNOW NOTHING!!!

That's exactly what I meant. You know me too well 😉

As opposed to losing money hand over fist where we currently are, how long can we do that? We could go out of existence NOT trying to attain it.