Negativity always rears it head

Does it matter to us fans where the money comes from ?

As long as the ground is built let the money men sort it out.

I would think if it's going to be a community stadium some of the money will come from the council. Some will come from grants that are available and the rest from the bank manager.

Please hurry up because I am getting on a bit and can not wait forever.

I'm a natural skeptic and as with others, I'd like to know where the money is coming from, if not an enabling development.

Of course it matters where the money is coming from. The only reason we don’t have a ground was because there was no money to build it.
Great Coates was approved, Peakes Parkway site would have virtually been given to club. Freeman street will fail if Fenty can’t raise the cash. This town won’t support public money being used to build it.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Does it matter to us fans where the money comes from ?

As long as the ground is built let the money men sort it out.

I would think if it's going to be a community stadium some of the money will come from the council. Some will come from grants that are available and the rest from the bank manager.

Please hurry up because I am getting on a bit and can not wait forever.

If only if it was that simple.
It's totally right supporters should question the financial viability of the development.
It's obvious the club need new stadia but let's not bury our head in the sand.

Quoted from crusty ole pie

I should imagine 10 million will be raised by the club in the form of grants, naming rights, sale of bp ect, the rest should be loaned by the council just like happened in Rotherham. Two summer concerts per year by big name artists will go a long way to repay that loan
Get it done UTMM

Interesting you have just invented that figure or maybe you have evidence that those sort of amounts are available??
I believe Rotherham were loaned 5m,you are proposing twice that amount.
Laughable regarding concerts,Grimsby Auditorium can't attract any sort of bands never mind filling a stadium.

Quoted from crusty ole pie

I should imagine 10 million will be raised by the club in the form of grants, naming rights, sale of bp ect, the rest should be loaned by the council just like happened in Rotherham. Two summer concerts per year by big name artists will go a long way to repay that loan
Get it done UTMM

Rotherham is owned by a company - ADS Lighting which is owned by the Rotherham chairman who has invested at least £20m in the club since taking over in 2008. They bought the land for the stadium themselves. Not a reasonable comparison because much of the cash came through the company not the club.

York’s new stadium is still being constructed after about 17 years of plans and counter plans by the way.

Get it done? Yes we should. But don’t count any chickens just yet.

Anyway, what did happen to Extreme Leisure? 🤔

For the first time in years i feel the good vibes inside and outside of the club , And i am completley on bord  with things and how they are looking to go. But you still have to be a realist on some points, like where is the money comming from. Maby in time this will be told to us and things regarding this will become clear. But for now i am quite prepaired to go with the flow and accept we are starting to go places and will do my best not to get upset when things dont go to plan. Oh and like pete said hurry up with the new ground as for many of us older ones who grew up under the flood lights have started to have bits drop off and we would like to sit in the new ground before too many bits drop off and we are no more

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Anyway, what did happen to Extreme Leisure? 🤔

Or the free men and women of Grimsby. I'm still not even sure who that organisation is or what they do besides make cheesy videos.

Always interesting that people mistake negativity and realism.

Given the previous twenty years, you’d be foolish not to be realistic and cautious when it comes to GTFC.

The thought of Day et al heading up a project team worries me and asking where the money will come from is a perfectly sensible question. That doesn’t mean people don’t believe the redevelopment is necessary or in fact are opposed to it.

I’m intrigued how the club will win over the council and convince them to stump up cash when it’s abundantly clear they don’t have a pot to urine in and there are wider developments that the vast majority of the town believe are more important. Convincing those will take time.

It’s consistent on here though, and that’s always good. The minute folk air on the side of caution people start condemning them as negative types, similar if folk get over excited they got shot down.

We just need to be realistic and hopefully see improvements on the pitch in the meanwhile...