Fruit Market OFF - Club redeveloping Mem instead.

We don't have any evidence of expertise in anything. Since they have been involved directly or indirectly all we have had is the new stand shambles, the embarrassing JCH deal farce and now this new stadium situation.

Why do you participate in a Bristol Rovers discussion forum, when you proudly admit to not being a supporter?

You are assuming that our owners don't have the wealth but have also forgotten that the new owner of Bournemouth got involved because they were in the Premier League . Things change when you get to Shangri La. If Rovers ever get to the Premiership you would suddenly find that suitors come calling and that opportunities for new stadiums would grow out of the woodwork. Life would be easier than they are at this transition stage 

Given the total nonsense we have seen over the last six months - has all been listed on here before, I am not surprised in any way that this may have collapsed.

Just when it feels like we are making some progress up the ladder we come across snake after snake and end up lower down and further away from decent facilities than we have been in years.

If you attend the Mem you will now what a shithole it is .... the match day experience is pathetic and it's getting worse and that's before the team have entered the pitch. We accept it though. There aren't enough people within the club who are either skilled at what they do or actually care about their standards.... I can name maybe two who impress and the rest are appalling, the result of awful hiring by the in house HR team looking to do everything on the cheap and poor examples and standrads set by their bosses.

I think we are at a crossroads as a club now .... One way is a genuine new owner and  proper investment strategy that just might see something come to pass in the next six years . The other way will see us stay in L2/L1 certainly for the rest of my lifetime and potentially beyond.

I don't see Wael as the answer - lovely guy but not the massive financial clout we had hoped for  (although he is certainly better than Higgs and his cronies who continue to feed from the trough on match days in their hospitality box)- and he has kept us alive albeit on a life support machine of his bank account for the last few years. The new owners wont be around too long if they don't see value - I am assuming they didn't come in on the back of promises at the Fruit Bowl and if rumour is to be believed that they got up and walked out of a meeting with the developers, their exit could come sooner rather than later. In their short tenure they have seen us phuck up on a grand scale twice and now lose out on our future potential home.

Equally wont be surprised to see Barton and his entourage up and go at some point this season - again he must be shaking his head at what is going on, the only consolation is there wont be too many clubs who fancy his style of leadership or his track record in L1.

Sadly the club treat the fans with an almost air of contempt - here we go again with the policy of 'We will tell you what we want , when we want and how we want' 

All that said - If the deal was not right for the club then we are correct to walk away - crap geographic venue anyway  BUT that's two deals where we were leasing the ground and we expected to call the shots - Never going to happen that way is it.

I don't know the circumstances behind the Wrexham cock up. Did they have permission to speak to the player at 5:30pm and then agree a deal around 9pm leaving TWO HOURS to complete the deal? Did they have the Harrogate Head of Football Operations or equivalent help with the paperwork to speed things up and give reminders in plenty of time of a possible extension available, but then somehow inexplicably lodge the extension request at 11:01pm and the transfer itself at 11:17? What we do know is they are capable of paying the fee and highly unlikely that they got cold feet at the last minute.

Hussain Al-Saeed has been reportedly part of discussions around the proposed Fruit Market development at St Philip's Marsh so will have presumably been aware of what is going on with the new stand. The new owners talks started in February and in the subsequent 6 or 7 months they have had more than enough time to do due diligence and then start to make any changes they feel is necessary in the month they have been in control. But then again, I suppose they have and those 'changes' are pulling out of negotiations for a stadium at the Fruit Market.