New south / south west stand

It's not really a "we" problem. The owners who bought the clubs surely must have some money?

Imo, the tarting up of the Mem will not do an awful lot for the club, the facilities are terrible so people will not even sit in the new shiny south stand unless it's just a 10er a head, the terraces you get wet, even sat in the East stand you get wet. Not to mention the toilets being flooded, cramped etc..

If there is any ambition, the club will have to roll the dice to build proper ground, to attract regular fans, more families, casual supporters. I genuinely believe even some players would look at us differently if we had a decent ground.

Ambition for me is Rovers to be a stable, respected club at least having a go in the Championship, not battling to stay up and getting a little bit excited when we are still 4 points off the league 1 playoffs.


One day the Teds will make it to the Prem and we will be stuck in the Mem not much different as it is, but with a few more seats. We will lose generation of new supporters, I look around at our home games most of our supporters have collected thier bus pass.

why not just flatten the lot,  complete rebuild to fit site, 3 year ground share with our friends south of the river...

Tbf the south stand plans pre dated the current owners and possibly the decision to pull out of the fruity.
So for me, a more ambitious east stand is how will measure their ambitions. Don’t expect a spurs stand but should not be a south stand and should maximise facilities and fan experience

I’m just being realistic. If costs have widely increased since Brentford built we are looking at £100m to replicate that. If we were lucky enough to have a billionaire owner they would need to chuck 10% of their total wealth at a league one ground with no guarantee of getting anything back. 

If we can do a fairly cheap renovation (South done, make a decent job of extending the East and then something more substantial to the North) we can hopefully progress to the championship and increased revenues funding a better and more further rebuild. Even a single season in the Prem would give us enough cash for a brand new ground so any cheap renovation we do now doesn’t need to be our ‘forever’ stadium.

The worst thing about City is that Lansdown just came in and threw cash at it. His attitude to spending his own cash is really rare and sets a false expectation of that being something all owners need to replicate. As far as I’m aware Bristol has two multi billionaires. Lansdown who likes sport and his mate Hargreaves who doesn’t. We didn’t get lucky there! 

I think if we are going to be looking at the Brentford model, we shouldn't start at the stadium.

We should start at their Ethos, pirate has been explaining to us over the last 6 months to a year how Brentford sat down and basically said, How can we do this in a clever way. A way that no one else has done it. They decided on a player first approach. Invest in young hungry players and give them the facility and the pathway to the first team and then sell them at a profit with a sell on clause. You only have to look at Ivan Toney and Peterborough, whats the figure they are likely to receive if Toney gets sold? It way more than a year of turnover for Rovers without any costs associated with it. Let alone the fact Peterborough have already received £5m for him.

The difference between Bentford and Rovers is that Brentford had a plan and when it got a bit turbulent, they stuck with the plan. We also had a plan, but when it got turbulent we chucked that plan out of the window and started with another plan. Now we don't seem to have a plan.

If the Mem site could have a 12,000 new,good facilities stadium plus other money making ventures on the site that would be fine. To make the club on a balanced financial basis.

Thats buildable on limited investment.
Once thats done ,focus on a new site for a much bigger stadium.

We could have started this 25 years ago...

Instead we go for pie in the sky never happens plans and slapdash bodge it together add ons to the mem.
Wasting time and money.

Absolutely I agree. Who isn't going to go in the south stand when it is £10 and the Thatchers end double?

Flipside I know people who have tried the South stand. There is no toilets, no bar and no food.

I just want to see us playing in a proper ground. Surely we all want that. Questions should be asked why the owners aren't delivering it not just accepting bolt on to already unfit for purpose stands relying on a pipe dream that we somehow end up in Championship.

Plenty of toilets, food and two bars, both outside unfortunately!

Does anyone actually expect a decent upgrade of the mem?? I can't stop unfortunately laughing at anyone that does.