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Post by harrybuckle on Jul 17, 2015 14:29:28 GMT
Now that's what I call AMBITION ....Such a pity Vince and his electricity business is not at BS7. Should we try and buy the New Lawn ?
Forest Green Rovers plan new £100m stadium development
National League side Forest Green Rovers have unveiled plans for a £100m sports facility, which will include a new stadium for the club.
The new stadium is expected to accommodate 5,000 supporters with capability to double in size. Forest Green have played at The New Lawn since 2006 with chairman Dale Vince hopeful the new development would be completed in around five years."By the time we get to build, we will be in the Football League," said Vince.
The development, dubbed 'Eco Park', will be a 100-acre sports and green technology centre at Junction 13 on the M5.
Located on either side of the A419, half of Eco Park will be dedicated to creating state-of-the-art sporting facilities, including an all-seater stadium, training fields, 4G pitches, multi-disciplinary sporting facilities, as well as a sports science hub. The other half of Eco Park will compromise a green technology business park, capable of serving up to 4,000 jobs.
Forest Green were promoted to the Conference - now called the National League - in 1998 and Vince says they are outgrowing their existing home.
"We've seen our gates double and it chokes the hill and it upsets our neighbours," he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire. "We want to get bigger. We've got intentions to get into the Football League so the problem will only get worse. "We've been looking for a couple of years, working with Stroud Council. This place would be ideal."
Vince added he hopes The New Lawn "could become affordable low carbon homes" and after an initial consultation period the green-energy tycoon hopes to submit a planning application in September.
Since taking over the club in 2010, Vince introduced:
•An organic pitch - the first in the world - which is spread with cow manure
•180 solar panels which generated 10% of the electricity at the New Lawn
•A red meat ban for players and all produce sold on matchdays |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 14:31:09 GMT
Silly little club, silly little kit, silly little man.
F*ck off.
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Post by brizzle on Jul 17, 2015 14:35:01 GMT
£100m stadium for (potentially) 5,000 supporters initially?
Now that is ambitious by anyone's standards.
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Post by Curly Wurly on Jul 17, 2015 14:35:31 GMT
Silly little club, silly little kit, silly little man. F*ck off. P'raps we could get the silly little man to invest in the right Rovers. No? Just a thought. |
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Post by harrybuckle on Jul 17, 2015 14:36:50 GMT
Silly little club, silly little kit, silly little man. F*ck off. NO NEED OF THAT CHEWY ...
For the record
Ambitious smallish Conference club...attractive kit and very bright and successful business man ...and a veggie to boot ....what's not to like ...puts his money in like Higgs and is a genuine fan ...fair play to them
How can you deride ambition and plans such as theirs
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Post by Curly Wurly on Jul 17, 2015 14:37:57 GMT
£100m stadium for (potentially) 5,000 supporters initially? Now that is ambitious by anyone's standards. That's even more expensive per seat than Wembley. Given the queues for the veggie burgers at the Lawn, the seats would probably be as empty as Club Wembley after half-time. |
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Post by Gas Since 1957 on Jul 17, 2015 14:41:39 GMT
The whole development is £100m - the stadium is about £10.50! (OK more than that, but the point is the stadium is a small part of a business development by the eco-warrior). I think we'd be a bit p*ssed off is NH announced plans to include a 5000 seat stadium for BRFC!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 14:41:48 GMT
Did this need a new thread?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 14:42:38 GMT
Silly little club, silly little kit, silly little man. F*ck off. NO NEED OF THAT CHEWY ...
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Ambitious smallish Conference club...attractive kit and very bright and successful business man ...and a veggie to boot ....what's not to like ...puts his money in like Higgs and is a genuine fan ...fair play to them
How can you deride ambition and plans such as theirs
Oh yeah, lovely bloke.
Changed the clubs kit to his businesses colours, is now looking to move the club out of Nailsworth and employs convicted violent criminals. His ambitions aren't for the club, they're for him, to get him in the papers. I'll put a fiver on this never happening, it's just an excuse for local rags to print a picture of him looking philosophical in front of a wind turbine with his arms crossed, a fake leather jacket on a Palestinian style scarf on. The man is a cretin and what FGR have become is pretty grim.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 14:43:13 GMT
Moving a Nailsworth club 24 miles is surely proportional in non-league terms to Wimbledon being stolen and rehomed in Milton Keynes?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 14:54:04 GMT
Moving a Nailsworth club 24 miles is surely proportional in non-league terms to Wimbledon being stolen and rehomed in Milton Keynes? He changed their colours, he's moving them, he'd change their name if it didn't have green in it. The man is all about himself AND he wears bootcut jeans. |
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Post by fanatical on Jul 17, 2015 14:59:50 GMT
NO NEED OF THAT CHEWY ...
For the record
Ambitious smallish Conference club...attractive kit and very bright and successful business man ...and a veggie to boot ....what's not to like ...puts his money in like Higgs and is a genuine fan ...fair play to them
How can you deride ambition and plans such as theirs
Oh yeah, lovely bloke.
Changed the clubs kit to his businesses colours, is now looking to move the club out of Nailsworth and employs convicted violent criminals. His ambitions aren't for the club, they're for him, to get him in the papers. I'll put a fiver on this never happening, it's just an excuse for local rags to print a picture of him looking philosophical in front of a wind turbine with his arms crossed, a fake leather jacket on a Palestinian style scarf on. The man is a cretin and what FGR have become is pretty grim.
No - he is looking to tap into all the government and EU grants he can get - he has been very good at that so far - the only problem he has is his ex is looking to get her share. |
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Post by harrybuckle on Jul 17, 2015 17:16:23 GMT
Moving a Nailsworth club 24 miles is surely proportional in non-league terms to Wimbledon being stolen and rehomed in Milton Keynes? He changed their colours, he's moving them, he'd change their name if it didn't have green in it. The man is all about himself AND he wears bootcut jeans. But green is the new black and he is correct no one in Nailsworth supports them they generate most of their support from Stroud/Glos areas and he hopes to attract some new fans from Gloucester/Cheltenham A clever so and so in my opinion and as he said in his tv interview £100m is not much to raise ...starting on site in 2018
Will take the £5 off you when FGR move in and BRFC are in league one.
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Post by nickchippenhamgas on Jul 19, 2015 11:30:53 GMT
Interesting read, don't think it will happen, bit like our plans, such as they are, just a note to the OP, we will read your posts, there's enough on this forum, I'm on here several times a day, but there is really no reason for you to word your title as you did is there? £100 million pound stadium for FGR would suffice, especially so soon after us getting kicked in the knackers???!!
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Post by PeterHooper57 on Jul 19, 2015 11:38:25 GMT
Silly little club, silly little kit, silly little man. F*ck off. With loads of energy, ideas, influence, connections and money; sounds like a perfect combination to me; although, I must say, I do not like the FGR veggie burgers. Our board members look burnt out, and would not be able to deliver newspapers let alone a £100M stadium, they are though pretty good at borrowing expensive money, wasting it and leaving the club saddled with an enormous debt UTG |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 11:43:13 GMT
Silly little club, silly little kit, silly little man. F*ck off. With loads of energy, ideas, influence, connections and money; sounds like a perfect combination to me; although, I must say, I do not like the FGR veggie burgers. Our board members look burnt out, and would not be able to deliver newspapers let alone a £100M stadium, they are though pretty good at borrowing expensive money, wasting it and leaving the club saddled with an enormous debt UTG So you'd be happy with someone coming in changing our colours, our badge and moving us 14 miles to a stadium with a reduction in capacity? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 11:44:49 GMT
With loads of energy, ideas, influence, connections and money; sounds like a perfect combination to me; although, I must say, I do not like the FGR veggie burgers. Our board members look burnt out, and would not be able to deliver newspapers let alone a £100M stadium, they are though pretty good at borrowing expensive money, wasting it and leaving the club saddled with an enormous debt UTG So you'd be happy with someone coming in changing our colours, our badge and moving us 14 miles to a stadium with a reduction in capacity? 23 miles. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 11:49:08 GMT
So you'd be happy with someone coming in changing our colours, our badge and moving us 14 miles to a stadium with a reduction in capacity? 23 miles. You're right Stu. I clicked on the wrong motorway junction. That's buggered my argument right up. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 11:55:35 GMT
With loads of energy, ideas, influence, connections and money; sounds like a perfect combination to me; although, I must say, I do not like the FGR veggie burgers. Our board members look burnt out, and would not be able to deliver newspapers let alone a £100M stadium, they are though pretty good at borrowing expensive money, wasting it and leaving the club saddled with an enormous debt UTG So you'd be happy with someone coming in changing our colours, our badge and moving us 14 miles to a stadium with a reduction in capacity? And they have a tw&t with a drum. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 12:12:21 GMT
Good news! Stale Mince has decided to take over and put some of his eco-millions into the club. There will however be a couple of changes to the club but nothing you won't find too annoying. Here is the new Bristol Rovers badge for the forthcoming season. It's a classic design but we've amended to the blueness of the badge to green to represent the pitch and not ecotricity's colours at all or nothing...  Obviously with the change and lack of blue on the badge it would be silly to have a blue kit so we've changed the Rovers kits to green and certainly nothing to do with the corporate colours of Ecotricity.  Dale has also announced intentions to build a new £100m business park that is nothing to do with his business which is why the first part of Ecotricity's name hasn't been put in front of the name of the business park. The business park will include a new stadium for Rovers which, will have a capacity smaller than our current ground and is only 20 miles away in Caldicot. We feel a stadium in Caldicot will attract new supporters. |
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