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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 19:47:34 GMT
Maybe the plans for the ground were based on getting £30m? If we knew we were 'only' getting £22m, the plans would have been for a 16k seater stadium perhaps? Didn't GCC have this thing in their minds about the stadium needing to be a certain size for them to look favourable on the planning application? And I'm not sure that you would save £8m by reducing the capacity by 20%. We'll probably never know, but it may have been that Nick explained to the people tendering that with anything less than £30m it wasn't possible for him to sell?
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Post by severnbeachline on Nov 18, 2015 19:52:02 GMT
Makes me lol how people think a boycott would have ever been a possibility when there was a queue of hundreds of Gasheads at the Sainsbury's outside Wembley.
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Post by dido on Nov 18, 2015 20:36:28 GMT
Ah, but do you know what they were queuing up for?
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Post by severnbeachline on Nov 18, 2015 21:54:39 GMT
Ah, but do you know what they were queuing up for? Tinnies and snacks.
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Post by droitwichgas on Nov 18, 2015 22:00:40 GMT
I will never go in to Sainsburys, I'd rather get food from a bin. Not just for us but for all the others they have fed about with. I personally don't believe they ever wanted to build a shop, I think they went through all this to stop their competitors getting the land. Someone told me that Waitrose had put in a bid of £22 million and it was about to be accepted when Sainsburys put in the £30 million bid. We shop at Aldi, M&S and Waitrose. I like Waitrose, although they are a little expensive. and of course good old British Sainsburys with Oman Royal family being the biggest shareholders Where would the balance between £22m and the build cost of UWE have come from? Assuming these figures are true don't you think NH/TW should have smelt a rat? As why would Sainsbury's bid around a third more when Waitrose probably get more per sq foot out of a store than Sainsbury's do? I also wonder if Trash would have objected to a Waitrose store like they did to the Sainsbury's store?? Perhaps with a bit more foresight we could now be sat in a new £20m UWE stadium?
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Post by mentors on Nov 25, 2015 22:54:33 GMT
Touché to you, it's all a bit tongue in cheek, if I knew you I'm sure I'd be proud to be your mate. Protest is fine as long as it's justified, ours isn't because Sainsburys has done nothing wrong legally and I always find it a but rich when anything football related attempts to mount the moral high horse. True enough, Mentors. Where are the morals in any of this? We entered into a tawdry arrangement with Sainsburys, to demolish a stadium that exists to perpetuate the name of men killed in WW1. Short of knocking down the cenotaph on the centre, and replacing it with a Costa Coffee, I don`t see how either party could have acted less morally. But life is what it is, and I`ll continue shopping in Sainsbury`s, and watching Bristol Rovers. Sorry I haven't responded earlier I'm overseas, still supporting but not watching and currently shopping at Mercadona. Back sometime in the next few weeks or so when it warms up over there. Adios amigos.UTG
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Post by Thatslife on Nov 26, 2015 11:03:10 GMT
I will never go in to Sainsburys, I'd rather get food from a bin. Not just for us but for all the others they have fed about with. I personally don't believe they ever wanted to build a shop, I think they went through all this to stop their competitors getting the land. Someone told me that Waitrose had put in a bid of £22 million and it was about to be accepted when Sainsburys put in the £30 million bid. We shop at Aldi, M&S and Waitrose. I like Waitrose, although they are a little expensive. and of course good old British Sainsburys with Oman Royal family being the biggest shareholders Certain players have been seen shopping at Sainsbury. ...................
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 11:37:55 GMT
I will never go in to Sainsburys, I'd rather get food from a bin. Not just for us but for all the others they have fed about with. I personally don't believe they ever wanted to build a shop, I think they went through all this to stop their competitors getting the land. Someone told me that Waitrose had put in a bid of £22 million and it was about to be accepted when Sainsburys put in the £30 million bid. We shop at Aldi, M&S and Waitrose. I like Waitrose, although they are a little expensive. and of course good old British Sainsburys with Oman Royal family being the biggest shareholders Certain players have been seen shopping at Sainsbury. ................... A good friend of mine bumped into Nick Higgs shopping in Sainsburys in Filton.
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Post by brizzle on Nov 26, 2015 11:55:35 GMT
I will never go in to Sainsburys, I'd rather get food from a bin. Not just for us but for all the others they have fed about with. I personally don't believe they ever wanted to build a shop, I think they went through all this to stop their competitors getting the land. Someone told me that Waitrose had put in a bid of £22 million and it was about to be accepted when Sainsburys put in the £30 million bid. We shop at Aldi, M&S and Waitrose. I like Waitrose, although they are a little expensive. and of course good old British Sainsburys with Oman Royal family being the biggest shareholders Certain players have been seen shopping at Sainsbury. ................... . . . and others have been spotted watching the other mob, allegedly that is. Life's a gas ennit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 11:57:53 GMT
Certain players have been seen shopping at Sainsbury. ................... A good friend of mine bumped into Nick Higgs shopping in Sainsburys in Filton. Hope your friend wasn't hurt? Higgs should apply for a job. It would be quicker to start as a shelf stacker and work your way up to CEO then tell the procurement team to buy the Mem rather than wait for the court case and then battle TRASH and Carstairs.
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