Fruit Market OFF - Club redeveloping Mem instead.

Watching Championship football all day long. I've been lucky enough to see Rovers play in the same division as Tottenham ,Wolves, Liverpool, Manchester United & City and Leeds United in my lifetime supporting Rovers. I've also seen Dartford, Dover, Bracknell & Yeovil. I know which teams I'd sooner be watching Rovers play.

Wael doesn't deserve the level of disrespect he gets. Personally don't think the FM is dead in the water its probably at a crucial stage of financial negotiation and we are trying to get some leverage using media outlets to get a better position. The new shareholders are experts in this field hence why Wael has got them on board to try and get a stadium over the line. Until the club make a statement saying its off and are exploring other options I still believe it has a chance. Playing devils advocate have we found a better option?

You are correct 

The south stand is a bit more than “knocking through a couple of bars”

Because conygar had no intention of this happening is another, more likely, scenario.  

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.

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.

That’s all management rather than ownership and I’m at the point where I’m fed up defending the management.

The investment is there, though, from our owners. Even if our management couldn’t organise a water up in a brewery but would probably put their selves forward for some wanky award still.

Who appointed the management?