Open letter from the Owner

Not sure about 'in-depth' but prem clubs and others align to the FES.
If there are stadium plans, community plans, investments, staff changes etc, this stuff is usually shared on official forums and through Supporters club Directors at meetings.

We get tweets.🤪

Firstly, no one is asking for in-depth plans.  Just a brief statement about how they see us achieving championship status. 

Loads of clubs do share their vision.  Brentford, P'boro, Oxford are just 3 clubs that have come to my mind whereby they communicated how they were going to progress.  DMAC takes it one step further and does a monthly podcast and is fully transparent with goings on at the club.  

For example, take a look at our board of directors.  Who is in charge of what? What daily responsibilities do they carry?  What is their background?  Who do they answer to in the overall structure?  Are they able to communicate any improvements directly to us or the SC?  

Does anyone have any idea what Abdullatif or Tom does now?  What about Wael, does he have any input?  Who is Abdulaziz Alroomi?  Who does he do? Who is Khaled Alkandari? What does he do.  

Look at Brighton www.brightonandhovealbion.com/club/club/whos-who

You cant just assume on face value we are going to get to the champ because Hussain has said its a goal.  Its no different to me saying I am going to buy Bristol Rovers in 3 years.  With no plan or means of execution its just words.

Interesting - thank you. 

Building more sheds with seats isn't going to grow the fanbase much.

Like it or not football is also a 'middle-class' sport nowadays and these customers, especially the well-off families, demand a level of comfort that the Memorial Ground does not offer. There are plenty of families and professionally employed people in North Bristol & South Gloucestershire who would enjoy a Saturday afternoon at the football, but not at the Mem unless the stadium facilities and general match-day experience is drastically brought up to date.

A new modern East Stand is needed with the appropriate facilities, anything less is just a bodge and probably a waste of money.

I think if you're getting annoyed at the content of letter you're being a bit unreasonable. There was nothing particularly bad in there.

However- I think it's fair to be annoyed at what was missing and there was a fair bit omitted.

My hope is that this is the start of a more transparent board- with fuller details to follow. Details on the specific roles of executive level staff would be welcomed.

My views on the new owner have been a bit variable since they arrived. Great that they pushed on and got the South Stand done which is more than generations have achieved but the failing of the JCH signing (regardless of whether us as fans thought it was a good footballing decision) worried me somewhat. 

Yesterday’s statement is just words at the end of the day, whether these come to fruition remains to be seen so for now they are still in favour with me although not 100%. They can chip away at me with some positive actions over the coming months - some progressive transfer activity, a recruitment team, some drawings of stadium plans, then plans being submitted etc…..

Let’s wait and see what the plans are like.

If it turns out to be a wrap around of the south stand then yes it would be underwhelming. However I firstly don’t think that’s feasible, and secondly I think supporters underestimate what’s possible with an extension and refresh.

On feasibility - if they try to extend the south stand around they’d impede on the sight lines from the east stand. We’ve seen what you get if you try and do that, the old bolted on family stand. It would reduce capacity. I think it’s a non starter altogether - you’d lose out on more capacity than you would add.

To do it they have to get a roof up to the level of the East Stand. Surely cantilever is the way to go for this. I don’t believe for one second it’ll be like the south stand.

On what’s achievable they can include ample facilities in the extended sections. New bars, eating areas. They’ll need to do something as our equivalent to the concourse in the form of the top level standing areas where the pasty huts are will have been removed. They can put a new back section in with lifts for less able supporters - all sorts. You never know they might even replace the roof entirely for the existing sections and cover the as is terracing properly.

If the improvement on the south stand is the marker for the level of improvement from a scale factor that we will see in the enhanced areas then I think we’ll be pleasantly surprised.

If we’re expecting 30k at the Mem built incrementally then I’m afraid you will always be disappointed in the short to medium term. Itll never happen. Better off going

My understanding is all the office based staff will be moving to the Quarters, Changing rooms, showers, etc will then be brought over to the East Stand.

The "add on bits" will extend further back into the car park, my expectation is they will also build on the back of the existing stand enabling the roof to be higher all along the old and new bits giving improved hospitality at the back of the East stand. So an entirely new roof. I would hope that the seats in the existing will be replaced to match with the add on sections. Looking forward to seeing the plans as I cannot imagine how the East stand will meet with the South. I think we will be waiting a while though as the letter does say "We will share our designs and plans once we have obtained all the necessary approvals."

Maybe they mean pre planning approval.