New south / south west stand

we don't even have an artists impression to fantasise over😂😂

The Al Qadi family wouldn't spend the capital on a property/business they could not easily sell on, should Wael lose interest.
The 'UWE Stadium not right for the club' was the excuse surprisingly still accepted by many supporters.  
Result is, we have a football club permanently embedded in the lower leagues with no likelihood of the investment required to build a modern stadium.

In Bristol?

The car park deal was for the Centenary Stand not the West Stand.

What I also find surprising about it is they terminated the deal without having an alternative. When they knew it was looking like the UWE project wouldn't work for them you would have thought they would have started looking for an alternate option whilst still negotiating with the UWE and not ruled that out until we had another option. 

Unbelievable as it seems, I think there must have been some mis-understanding between the family and the old board. The stadium development must have been the cherry the family were after and as soon as the reality of that deal became apparent to them they wanted out. I guess that's where we have to be very grateful that Wael had taken the club to heart (no doubt helped by Lee Brown's promotion winner, how important that goal was).

Well some of it seems ill feted right from the start.

Originally Ed Ware and Nick Higgs were going to stay on the board in a non-executive capacity to see the UWE deal over the line.  2 hours before the announcement Hamer informed them both that that part of the deal was off and they wanted to handle it.

When it came to the break with UWE when it announced it was off, it actually went back to the negotiating table with Ed Ware being the centre of trying to make peace with the both sides, redrawing a few of the plans to accomodate what the family wanted to his own personal cost, but there couldnt be a meeting of minds.

At the time we had Hamer and Hani working together and that self important blowfish never had the interests of our club at heart, only his own position within it and he was a major instigator in influencing the decision of where and how Hani ran things.  

Thats why when I holmes asked me if it had been solely Waels decision behind the UWE would he have built it and I think perhaps there would have been, simply because his track record since taking complete control is night and day to when he had to collaborate with his dad and brother with a total dickhead chairman in the middle of it all serving only his own interests.

Quite.

Just because Wael hasnt gotten us a stadium yet, doesnt mean he wont or isnt going to and we should still show our gratitude for what he has done and is doing for us.

Exactly this. Wael has got off very lightly because too many of our fans cannot get that what is right for the owner doesn't necessarily correlate with what is right for the club! 

I see it slightly differently.

You cannot blame Wael for the last 40 years and tarr him with the same brush. He took over a club in desperate need of more than a stadium, the whole place needed going over and infrastructure put in place.

We had a false start when ultimately Hani was in charge, whilst Wael was President, he wasn’t fully in charge, so we must really judge him on his accomplishments.

He’s been in charge technically for 4 years since he acquired his brothers and fathers shareholding giving him control. In those 4 years we’ve been relegated and promoted, built a training facility. Professionalised the playing side to a standard worthy of championship level staffing. Increased our commercial revenue, reduced our operating loses and done all of that through a pandemic where he bankrolled us for 2 years.

I think he’s doing ok.

It’s also why I’m grateful to him and everyone else should be too.