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Post by Finnish Gas on Jul 18, 2015 16:46:57 GMT
what miles away from our fan base? hope not Without the money from the supermarket sell we have no chance of funding a new stadium by ourselves. The only option is to sell the Mem' for housing and split building and running costs with Bath RFU The site doesn't have to be in Keynsham but you would be looking at somewhere between the two Cities Lots of thoughts come to mind - we could have "Bath and North Bristol Sport" headed by James Dyson. The football section and rugby sections could be based at the UWE or alternatively a new 35,000 seater stadium at the M4 Tormarton Interchange where James would have easy access from Doddington House! Now back to the real world!
I think there would be huge benefts if BRFC and Bath RUFC could work together on a joint stadium project.
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Post by Bridgeman on Jul 18, 2015 17:57:22 GMT
Without the money from the supermarket sell we have no chance of funding a new stadium by ourselves. The only option is to sell the Mem' for housing and split building and running costs with Bath RFU The site doesn't have to be in Keynsham but you would be looking at somewhere between the two Cities Lots of thoughts come to mind - we could have "Bath and North Bristol Sport" headed by James Dyson. The football section and rugby sections could be based at the UWE or alternatively a new 35,000 seater stadium at the M4 Tormarton Interchange where James would have easy access from Doddington House! Now back to the real world!
I think there would be huge benefts if BRFC and Bath RUFC could work together on a joint stadium project.Yeh and what sort of trust do you think Bath RFC would have in us to deliver on our side, I mean there's been three failed stadium projects in the last ten years let alone all the other proposed developments since the 1950's, Rovers are running at a loss and have a substantial debt and our supporters don't have that good a history sharing a stadium with a rugby club do they ? We're not exactly a great proposition to share with are we ?!
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Jul 20, 2015 5:19:08 GMT
The club has to appeal because it cannot go forward until the whole thing has been well and truly put to bed and the door, which has been left ajar, is firmly shut. Not appealing would leave lingering doubts forever and turning our backs on it now would only add another unsavoury 'rag bag' episode to Rovers' timeline. Also, if the law is not about ethics then what is it about? Sometimes you just have to make a stand for what you know is right in order to move forward in the knowledge that you may have lost on a technicality but you gave them a run for their money and took it to the wire. If we win we also set a precedent for future such cases.
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Post by irishrover on Jul 21, 2015 10:58:10 GMT
The club has to appeal because it cannot go forward until the whole thing has been well and truly put to bed and the door, which has been left ajar, is firmly shut. Not appealing would leave lingering doubts forever and turning our backs on it now would only add another unsavoury 'rag bag' episode to Rovers' timeline. Also, if the law is not about ethics then what is it about? Justice - which is a totally different, less individualistic and far more difficult concept. The law has never been about ethics. It's incredibly difficult to build a legal system based on wildly different conceptions of justice but it is pretty much impossible to build a justice system based on ethics because you will never find 2 people that completely agree on ethics and would be willing to accept the rights of others to impose their ethics on them, let alone 60 million.
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Post by brfcwerton on Jul 21, 2015 16:33:07 GMT
The idea of using the £750,000 foundation grant with some match funding to build a larger permanent all seated stand to replace the tent sounds the best idea so far , with an extra £100,000 the Centenary stand could be made all seated and both area of open terrace covered. We still wouldn't have a brilliant ground but for the first time in our history we would have a ground that is covered and have two permanent all seated stands. Also like the idea of the fish tank it would be so unusual that away fans would come in large numbers to see it and Rovers could charge them double to see such a sight. Would make a lot of dosh when Portsmouth turn up!.
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Post by dagnogo on Jul 21, 2015 18:14:50 GMT
Making a terraced area all seater vastly reduces capacity does it not?
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Post by PessimistGas on Jul 21, 2015 18:25:37 GMT
The club has to appeal because it cannot go forward until the whole thing has been well and truly put to bed and the door, which has been left ajar, is firmly shut. Not appealing would leave lingering doubts forever and turning our backs on it now would only add another unsavoury 'rag bag' episode to Rovers' timeline. Also, if the law is not about ethics then what is it about? Sometimes you just have to make a stand for what you know is right in order to move forward in the knowledge that you may have lost on a technicality but you gave them a run for their money and took it to the wire. If we win we also set a precedent for future such cases.
The required planning conditions were not obtained by the cut off date. Pretty big technicality that.
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