£67m Town Deal Signed

Quoted from realist

PP is dead.  Wrong location, wrong way to fund it, developer with no experience. Strong local opposition. It was stillborn from the start.
However, a modest project on Europarc with conferencing facilities and no training pitches would tick a lot of boxes. Access, location, locale to industry on the Humber bank that would possibly use said facilities. Maybe not enough to massage the Fenty ego though

Euro park worst location than Great Coates, think it's time the club came clean with the fans  on the PP development I mean when was the last update FFS.

Quoted from Grim74

Euro park worst location than Great Coates, think it's time the club came clean with the fans  on the PP development I mean when was the last update FFS.

Totally agree that Europarc is wrong place. Out of Town stadia would kill the club imo. If not PP then part of the regeneration near the Freemo area flats

Shame we couldn't get our hands on the old titans site, keeps the ground next to the river, nice harsh wind for the visitors to endure and pretty large plot to expand for carparking and training facilities.....

I really don`t get what is going on in relation to town relocating? The Club appear to get zero help from the Council and I can only guess the lack of an anchor tenant and the death of retail as we know it has done for the ground at least short term? £67m is nothing these days and the ground would cost an estimated £20m sadly that money must come from somewhere and nobody has it.We can only hope at some point somebody realises the potential of a new community stadium in the right area and everybody on the council backs them up.The Gateway into both GY and CLPS leave a lot to be desired and a shiny new stadium would help.

Think many on council WOULD want a new stadium for GTFC but they expect GTFC to come up with a sound, commercially viable plan rather than sounbites and rhetoric. I wouldnt trust a word JF said and guess the council may feel the same

67 million for this town lol, howler. like chucking 10p at a high class hooker.
Buys you fook all, just gets lardy mel onns face in the paper again.

Probably cost more to demolish all the shite the council are resposible for building.

Depends what it's for monkey. Could be a useful pump primer. I'd like to see some flesh on the bones before commenting.

We're shafted long term I am afraid. The last few decades have seen numerous teams overtake us and they continue to do so. I fear it's inevitable we'll drop down into non-league again and this time it will be a lot harder to come back. If we don't get a new stadium we might as well forget league football in the town on a long-term basis.

Any investment in this area has to be welcomed with arms wide open, regardless if the football stadium is at the heart of it or not.  That said I think not having a community football stadium at the heart of any regeneration will be a huge mistake.  

Couple of things stand out for me, I remain quite cynical regards this £67million deal that has been signed.  Despite Ray Oxby's declaration of us having an iron-clad deal, it wouldn't surprise me if it comes to ultimately nothing.  An iron-clad deal from this Government is about as effective as a chocolate fireguard.

Secondly, why are the football club not sat around the table for these talks?  An absolutely vital part of what our local community looks like, going through our own process (apparently) of bringing some sort of regeneration to the area via the stadium.  You can only conclude sheer incompetency on the behalf of the local authority in not recognising the club, the club didn't want to be involved or the club weren't invited.

Ray Oxby is a Town fan, regardless of your views of him as an individual, leader of the council or as a local Councillor.  I'm pretty certain he's aware that the club are in need of a new stadium and have plans of some sorts in place.

We've not heard anything of substance regards the stadium since the Extreme rep embarrassed themselves at the Fans Forum last November.  Their poor show was forgotten by the hatchet job done on Matt Dean later on.  We're close to 8 months passing since then.  C'mon Fenty, either put up or shut up (for good).  If you or Extreme can't deliver on this stadium come out and say so.  Sick to death of these drips of meaningless information from the club as if we're some sort of lesser being that only deserves what we get.  We are the club, not Fenty or Extreme.  

Quoted from GrimRob

We're shafted long term I am afraid. The last few decades have seen numerous teams overtake us and they continue to do so. I fear it's inevitable we'll drop down into non-league again and this time it will be a lot harder to come back. If we don't get a new stadium we might as well forget league football in the town on a long-term basis.

I would love to say you are wrong Rob but can`t. NE Lincs is a massive area NOT to have a football league side though and I prefer to try and remain optimistic in the hope someone will actually try and exploit the potential on offer?