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Post by singupgas on Oct 9, 2023 20:37:27 GMT
You can bet on Oxford having a new ground before us.
The club really do need to kick on, the Mem either needs to be flattened or we move on somewhere else.
Just looking at Oxfords plans, it pains me that some would be happy if we just rebuilt the Mem in the style of the new south stand.
Come on the Gas, please can we start showing some ambition.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2023 20:38:18 GMT
Guys I live up here, the whole fan base is estactic.
Blackbird Leys (Kassam), which is ironically the roughest area of Oxford (Hartcliffe) is 4.4 miles from Oxford Centre.
Stratfield Brake where the ground is being built is 5.4 miles from central Oxford.
Summertown is a proper affluent area, it’s your Henleaze, 3 miles from the ground.
The towns of Banbury, Bicester and Thame can get a train to the ground. It’s just off the A34 as well, I’m telling Oxford fans are over the moon with this ground.
Edit: it’s closer to Witney and Chipping Norton, David Cameron’s old constituency. Abingdon and Didcot further away but they both just jump on and off the A34. They couldn’t have picked a better place, I live in Woodstock, 4 miles for me.
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 9, 2023 20:56:07 GMT
Guys I live up here, the whole fan base is estactic. Blackbird Leys (Kassam), which is ironically the roughest area of Oxford (Hartcliffe) is 4.4 miles from Oxford Centre. Stratfield Brake where the ground is being built is 5.4 miles from central Oxford. Summertown is a proper affluent area, it’s your Henleaze, 3 miles from the ground. The towns of Banbury, Bicester and Thame can get a train to the ground. It’s just off the A34 as well, I’m telling Oxford fans are over the moon with this ground. Edit: it’s closer to Witney and Chipping Norton, David Cameron’s old constituency. Abingdon and Didcot further away but they both just jump on and off the A34. They couldn’t have picked a better place, I live in Woodstock, 4 miles for me. How are they going to fund a £100m build cost when our group of foreign millionaire owners can't even seem afford to fully re-develop the Mem or find an alternative site? The time scales seem incredibly tight, if it was planned for around Bristol we'd be lucky to have pp by 2026 let alone have the stadium finished. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2023 21:31:10 GMT
They are owned by the Indonesian billionaire who used to owner Inter, he brought his CEO with him. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Thohir#:~:text=Erick%20Thohir%20(born%2030%20May,on%20media%2C%20sports%20and%20entertainment. I am trying to be more positive but Wael has written off £30 million hasn’t he? . Minus the £5 million or so on the Quarters, if Wael had run us more like perhaps Exeter, he’d probably have had £20 million for a big down payment on a stadium which is a lot. You raise the rest, bring in investors, get grants, the UWE was an example of this. Wenger stayed on to pay off the Emirates, I bet someone like Oxford have a 15 year maybe more repayment plan. Brighton the American Express Stadium, maybe Oxford can raise a few million for this, McAnthony has done this at Peterborough now. I guess it’s all about the down payment, the banks like to see this, a lot like buying a house. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2023 21:34:02 GMT
www.oufc.co.uk/news/2023/october/new-stadium-details/The hotel will bring in investment, someone like Holiday Inn will pay a good rent I guess. The figure about up here is £110 million total stadium build cost, I was told this last week for the FM site. If you are putting down a nice lump, you raise the rest I guess.
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 9, 2023 22:37:33 GMT
Guys I live up here, the whole fan base is estactic. Blackbird Leys (Kassam), which is ironically the roughest area of Oxford (Hartcliffe) is 4.4 miles from Oxford Centre. Stratfield Brake where the ground is being built is 5.4 miles from central Oxford. Summertown is a proper affluent area, it’s your Henleaze, 3 miles from the ground. The towns of Banbury, Bicester and Thame can get a train to the ground. It’s just off the A34 as well, I’m telling Oxford fans are over the moon with this ground. Edit: it’s closer to Witney and Chipping Norton, David Cameron’s old constituency. Abingdon and Didcot further away but they both just jump on and off the A34. They couldn’t have picked a better place, I live in Woodstock, 4 miles for me. Woodstock you say;…you aren’t the 12th Duke of Marlborough by any chance? 😉 |
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Post by playtowin on Oct 10, 2023 7:37:47 GMT
Sounds like a good reason to move to south Gloucestershire. Being the only league club in the county might bring land availability (?).
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Post by matealotblue on Oct 10, 2023 8:13:45 GMT
Guys I live up here, the whole fan base is estactic. Blackbird Leys (Kassam), which is ironically the roughest area of Oxford (Hartcliffe) is 4.4 miles from Oxford Centre. Stratfield Brake where the ground is being built is 5.4 miles from central Oxford. Summertown is a proper affluent area, it’s your Henleaze, 3 miles from the ground. The towns of Banbury, Bicester and Thame can get a train to the ground. It’s just off the A34 as well, I’m telling Oxford fans are over the moon with this ground. Edit: it’s closer to Witney and Chipping Norton, David Cameron’s old constituency. Abingdon and Didcot further away but they both just jump on and off the A34. They couldn’t have picked a better place, I live in Woodstock, 4 miles for me. Woodstock you say;…you aren’t the 12th Duke of Marlborough by any chance? 😉 No Mr Yasgur, a local friendly farmer….(for those of a certain age…  ) |
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Post by Quarters on Oct 10, 2023 8:46:45 GMT
Sounds like a good reason to move to south Gloucestershire. Being the only league club in the county might bring land availability (?). There have been constant rumours that South Gloucestershire were keen. Would mean an out of town stadium which many would object to. Also where is there land with good transport infrastructure? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2023 12:59:48 GMT
Sounds like a good reason to move to south Gloucestershire. Being the only league club in the county might bring land availability (?). There have been constant rumours that South Gloucestershire were keen. Would mean an out of town stadium which many would object to. Also where is there land with good transport infrastructure? Both councils have tried to help Rovers over many years. The only reason we haven’t got a new stadium is down to us not having the money to do so |
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 10, 2023 13:55:34 GMT
There have been constant rumours that South Gloucestershire were keen. Would mean an out of town stadium which many would object to. Also where is there land with good transport infrastructure? Both councils have tried to help Rovers over many years. The only reason we haven’t got a new stadium is down to us not having the money to do so Helping the club by identifying suitable land is somewhat different than supplying the land/loans like Oxford and Wrexham councils appear to be doing. I doubt not having the money is the main issue, it's making the deal viable which is the issue. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2023 15:43:03 GMT
Both councils have tried to help Rovers over many years. The only reason we haven’t got a new stadium is down to us not having the money to do so Helping the club by identifying suitable land is somewhat different than supplying the land/loans like Oxford and Wrexham councils appear to be doing. I doubt not having the money is the main issue, it's making the deal viable which is the issue. You can’t seriously believe your last sentence? We’ve had chances to rebuild our own stadium and didn’t do so because we didn’t have the money. |
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Oct 10, 2023 16:35:58 GMT
Out of interest how is that being financed Paul ? |
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Post by gas2 on Oct 10, 2023 16:45:50 GMT
Almost 15k reply s to this subject surly the stadium is built now
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 10, 2023 18:23:06 GMT
Helping the club by identifying suitable land is somewhat different than supplying the land/loans like Oxford and Wrexham councils appear to be doing. I doubt not having the money is the main issue, it's making the deal viable which is the issue. You can’t seriously believe your last sentence? We’ve had chances to rebuild our own stadium and didn’t do so because we didn’t have the money. Wael's family are major shareholders in a bank, I'm sure they would lend him the money if he ever produced a viable plan, unfortunately, I've no idea how you produce a viable plan to pay off a £50m+ loan, when the club's already losing £3m/£4m a season. |
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Post by singupgas on Oct 10, 2023 19:08:47 GMT
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Post by Colyton Gas on Oct 10, 2023 19:24:37 GMT
 When we were asked to choose our seats at Cheltenham for two seasons whilst the Mem was re-built,I was chuffed living in Staffordshire at the time thus reducing my journey.Smelt a rat when nothing was happening at the Mem so enquired why not even the demolition had started by early August.Green -'Un reported Lennie Lawrence saying the reason was that the players needed somewhere to meet before games?  ? Think the cost was given as the reason but getting info on the debacle wasn't easy. Long time ago now but we do have a history of ineptitude in the stadium department and the costs I suspect are rather more now than then. Down here ,Axminster FC near me have a fab new set up and only get miniscule crowds but I understand they have sold land to pay for things and clear their debts. |
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Post by wallywalters on Oct 10, 2023 19:44:48 GMT
Almost 15k reply s to this subject surly the stadium is built now I wonder how long it would take to read this thread from start to finish. Be a good novel with several ups and downs. Could maybe do a league table with positions denoted by number of posts. |
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Post by gas2 on Oct 11, 2023 1:04:10 GMT
Almost 15k reply s to this subject surly the stadium is built now I wonder how long it would take to read this thread from start to finish. Be a good novel with several ups and downs. Could maybe do a league table with positions denoted by number of posts. We should rename this thread the never ending story |
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Post by Westy on Oct 11, 2023 1:57:53 GMT
I wonder how long it would take to read this thread from start to finish. Be a good novel with several ups and downs. Could maybe do a league table with positions denoted by number of posts. We should rename this thread the never ending story And our stadium plans are like rewatching the moment Artax goes down in the swamp! |
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