New Stadium Rumour

Quoted from Vance Warner

I've given up trying to understand how his mind works. A new stadium down Freemo might just be what we need to attract outside investment to put an end to his appalling tenure.

I think you’ve just answered your own question !

Quoted from barralad

Thanks for this...so it is one pot of money. Not being Ross's biggest fan I looked up the nature of this plan. What surprised me was that (and I'd forgotten it) there is already an outline plan for the regeneration of Freemo involving houses/retail blocks open spaces and even a new school. This has got a deal of support out there and the council could have another problem image wise if they try to change that. I also didn't realise that £35m of the investment money is being provided by the council making it IMO even more unlikely that GTFC will be "given" any ownership rights on the basis that it is ultimately council tax payers money...

When they announced the GGP plans i giggled to myself, over 9000 new homes , 8000 jobs ...67m ...... 9000 homes for who ?There are new build sites now that cant sell out. There just isnt the demand for that scale of housing.
Where the hell are 8000 jobs coming from ??  I work for a decent sized engineering company in the town we work nationally, in europe, and occassionally globally, turning over 15 - 20m  a year...we employ around 180 staff and that has built up over 40 yrs of trading...8000 jobs is a HUGE amount, Courtaulds and the like employed what 500 - 1000 people...are we going to draw 10 companies of that size ?  Create another 80 companies like the one i work for ? or 800 companies employing 10 people each ?
Pie in the sky numbers.

I am sure something will get done, infrastructure to existing trading estates etc that will improve things for existing businesses, no doubt why ABP will be happy to support, upgrading routes to their land will benefit them, if funding gets released for the kasbah, yet again good for ABP.

Potential for anything beyond that i am a sceptical.

Quoted from Ipswin

Fenty has spoken after months of much appreciated silence.

Just read in the Telewag that Fenty is not as keen on Freemo as us lot and that all 'sites are still under consideration' including Peakes Parkway

Just need to exhume Great Coates and we're back 20 years - again!

Apparently he doesn't want the club to 'stick its head in the sand' !

Isn't that what its been doing for the last fifteen years?

No chance of a new ground this century, it'll never happen

There is no chance of a new stadium with Mr. Fenty in charge for a whole variety of reasons.

I wonder what the situation would be if indeed the council do have the vision, the money and the expertise (unlikely I know but leave that to one side) to build the stadium at Freeman St. as part of a regeneration plan and Fenty refuses to co-operate?

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

There is no chance of a new stadium with Mr. Fenty in charge for a whole variety of reasons.

I wonder what the situation would be if indeed the council do have the vision, the money and the expertise (unlikely I know but leave that to one side) to build the stadium at Freeman St. as part of a regeneration plan and Fenty refuses to co-operate?

Surely even the NELC wouldn't be stupid enough to build a community stadium without a football club to move into it, I think eventually Fenty would have to go with it as the council could ensure it doesn't get the go-ahead anywhere else other than where they want it.

That said I don't see the regeneration plans for Freeman Street allowing such a huge amount of the available space to be taken up by a football ground they rent out for 23 matches a year and a few evening soirees run by the Trust. It would have to rely massively on music concerts and non-football related events.

Colchester is a 'community' stadium and they seem to manage very well with their local council as their landlords but it's on a green field site well out of town. Great Coates was always the best location, space and access wise

Quoted from Ipswin

Don't be silly Pete, by the time building work starts 75% of posters on here will be dead

How old are Grimsby Town directors-just asking.

Quoted from Cloudy

I see JF was against the knocking down of the high rise flats!

What planet is he on?

Sadly, the same one as us.

Would the capacity be like 12,000 seated stadium or more or less does anyone know, personally think it would be  ridiculous  If we do a capacity of like 20,000 seater stadium

I've just read the interview and it served as a timely reminder why he shouldn't speak to the press.

His gripe with Freemo is that the council would be in control of the project not the club and that it will be the council who would take the plaudits. I find it unbelievable that he feels the flats should have stayed - well, if you liked them that much, move your family in! I've spent long enough in those flats to know that what LHP (Shoreline) have done is entirely the right thing.

Come on John - get off your own bandwagon and work WITH (key word) the council and deliver what the majority want. We can all do this if we pull TOGETHER (another key word).

Just quite why Fenty wanted the flats to stay absolutely beggars belief, it seems to me he is anti Freeman street from the off and is getting his reasons and excuses in straight away 😡

I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was the idiocy of the 'bedroom tax' that did for the flats? Might be mistaken but I thought that the additional bedroom in the flats made them too expensive for many.