Negativity always rears it head

Quoted from Son of Cod

It's not negativity to ask a perfectly valid question though, is it? We currently don't know where the vast majority of £20M+ is coming from, without that there won't be a ground. You're confusing being realistic with being negative, in my opinion.

To be honest mate its not our worry where the 20+ mill is coming from just as long as it does come.
Lets get this done now, it been going on longer than Brexit.
IH has brought a breath of fresh into the club. Lets take advantage of this by getting behind the Fremo move.
Let be positive for the first time in years.
UTM

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Very good.  It's the Fenty stand version I fear the most.

The away end?

Serious question - why doesn’t Fenty front the project £10m to get the ball rolling?

He’s an exceptionally wealthy individual with the club, and town’s, interests at heart and would stand to do well financially if it all worked out.

He doesn’t want to sell up now, so why not just stick it on the benign loans slate?

Panic over. Philip Day says he has a meeting scheduled for next week with the council to discuss the matter, and is starting with a blank sheet of paper.

I don't think I will be seeing a new stadium before I pop my clogs.

I know its negative but goodwill alone isn't going to get a new £20 million plus stadium built. Grants take ages to prepare and process and God knows where the bulk of the money will come from even if we ever get to that stage.

A 3-5 year time span seems very optimistic.

Quoted from ska face

Serious question - why doesn’t Fenty front the project £10m to get the ball rolling?

He’s an exceptionally wealthy individual with the club, and town’s, interests at heart and would stand to do well financially if it all worked out.

He doesn’t want to sell up now, so why not just stick it on the benign loans slate?

Probably because he would have to resign as a councillor. Daft as it seems he may be more valuable to a project that has other strands to it than just a pro football ground by staying where he is and being the voice of the stadium where it matters the most.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Panic over. Philip Day says he has a meeting scheduled for next week with the council to discuss the matter, and is starting with a blank sheet of paper.

I don't think I will be seeing a new stadium before I pop my clogs.

I know its negative but goodwill alone isn't going to get a new £20 million plus stadium built. Grants take ages to prepare and process and God knows where the bulk of the money will come from even if we ever get to that stage.

A 3-5 year time span seems very optimistic.

This has been my concern throughout. Just where will that level of cash come from and I still worry about Day heading it up. I mean, this is the club that were taken in by Extreme...

I would far rather Day be doing it than Marley.
Although I guess that’s not exactly a glowing recommendation 😕

As an eighty-plus year old the main feature must be
ample and quick access to the Gents.

That, of course, is provided it's built in time !

I think it's difficult for any of us who have been supporting Town for any length of time to be anything other than negative (about anything and everything connected to the club not just a new ground)

From defeat in my first ever match in 1958, through countless relegations, a near miss on promotion back to the old Division 1, Wembley defeats (and a Cardiff defeat I will never forget due to the circumstances surrounding it), good managers leaving (I know I'm probably on my own but I liked Lennie Lawrence), crap managers arriving, good players leaving (I know I'm definitely on my own but I liked Menno Willems) even more crap players arriving, it's hardly likely to inspire confidence and optimism.

Holloway looks a marvellous appointment, yes he is as mad as a box of frogs but he appears good for the club and the town generally however it's difficult to be 100% positive about that too. I'm waiting for him to fall out with John Fenty and also I want to see results rather than just good PR.

As for the new ground, great idea, great to hear John Fenty speaking so positively about it but there's no money, knowing GTFC it won't be the super all singing all dancing stadium we all want and it certainly won't be welcoming us all in 5 years time and anyone who believes that well good on you but prepare to be disappointed.

Can't anybody give Fenty credit when he does get it right?

He got us Ollie, which for once is a managerial masterstroke, IMHO.m

The other thing he deserves credit for is steadying the club financially and not risking the club as Bury did.

Since financial prudence is his byword, I come to the conclusion that he has thought about financing the stadium and has a plan to deliver it without endangering the club and playing budget. He has been around businesses long enough to know what he is doing and I suspect he knows a thing or two about finance, which is a lot more than the financial experts on the Fishy.

One final point, whatever money we have to borrow, it will need a guarantor to secure it. Now who would that be?