Fruit Market OFF - Club redeveloping Mem instead.

I'd suggest the big football stadium shaped hole in Bristol maybe a clue.

Seemingly every other comparable city and even a good few towns in the UK have managed to build something approaching a reasonable stadium be it for rugby, athletics or football, yet Bristol has just about refurbished one old ground.

It's painfully apparent unless someone can make money out of us it isn't happening. UWE thought we'd provide them with a nice passive income until Wael had a flick through books. The original Friut Basket crowd thought they'd get the Mem cheap until Wael was handed the reigns entirely at the club.

So here we are again, not one centimetre closer to a new stadium than we were in 1980 when the Stoke Gifford site was kicked into touch.

So unless I've got the whole Father Christmas, fairies at the bottom of the garden thing wrong I think we need a serious plan C

I would suggest one of the biggest opportunities missed was a development with the Arena at Filton.

That would have answered many of the infrastructure issues given the transport requirements for the Arena.

There was a rumour that neither parties thought of approaching the other on this, if true big own goal.
 

Im not sure it would’ve worked on the same site anyway, an indoor arena and outdoor football stadium are two different beasts. However the adjacent wasteland which is now developed with warehouses, car garage, Village hotel and offices would’ve been ideal for a stadium.

I guess it is.

What difference would it make if a football stadium was next to the Arena or on the other side of the A38, they'd both use the same car parking facilities and transport network.

The fact we didn't enquire and the FM shows no signs of materialising does make you start to wonder if Wael has any real intentions of building a new stadium.

1. I’m talking very general terms and of course regarding the detail you are right, no expectation about detail being revealed. But I suspect you knew what I meant by “maintaining a line of communication” in my original post, in general terms about the position re the ground. That would be good for everyone to know the broad position. And you’re right about why we think we should be told. Not sure what’s wrong with that though.

2. Thank you. Easily done!

3. Yes we have had the occasional response to questions as you say but it’s been very seldom. Wael has given nothing away and no one else has really been in a position to say anything either. Any response has been very reactive to whatever GT has asked. There has been no statement, nothing that has given a lead, been pro-active, given the position where we are. Given some of the open letters over the past 18 months over other aspects of the club, it’s not an impossible task to think something similar could have been written to keep the fans up to date with where we are on the ground. (No contractual, confidential stuff or anything that would compromise any progress of course!) And in a way from that we can probably draw our own conclusions. 

UTG!

Edit: I’ve never considered that the Mem redevelopment was an option. WAQ has been fairly consistent about it not being an option which makes finding the land elsewhere even more important. 

The club have a master plan for a new stadium at 'THE QUARTERS' it will be gradually developed until we have an all singing, all dancing, super stadium.
As for Filton, it did seem the obvious solution, the fact that no one seems to have explored the possibility is not encouraging. 

How would you know what money Wael's got, he's clearly wealthy enough to write off £3m p.a. so must have a few £m stashed away. 

Did you still think Wael is working undercover for Lansdown to destroy the club??   

Latest from Sam Frost's Q&A:

"There were plenty of stadium-related ones (questions), as you'd expect. On that, no update to report this week, I'm afraid. We're still waiting on a statement from Conygar regarding the end of the exclusivity period for the fruit market."