According to members on the other forum news due in October

When you talk about confidentiality clauses I think you are confusing the previous Board with the current Board.
The previous Board leaked like a sieve and directors often used or were aware that a certain individual(s) could be used to pass on information to fans.

The fact that "former" directors are happy to open up to fans since then shows that confidentiality clauses meant nothing as they act in perpetuity unless information is officially put into the public sphere.
And to quote an old saying "What is truth"

Happy Friday

He can be very petty in the correspondence I used to have with him. I won’t go into detail other than one message said you are important to me as you are the first Gashead I followed to no response on having a bucket collection for Bailey Coopers family. 
In my opinion I just don’t think he had any idea of what was coming in running the club. 
I’d like to think he would be big enough to let go, if he truly did have an offer, for the good of the club. Surely there would be reputational damage were we to go into admin. 
Lets see how the accounts look. It seems a few are saying we should be prepared for a shock. 
It’s Rovers we are talking about, I think shock & disappointment is our default setting 

Money's never an issue when people are only talking about it....

You’ve just reminded me the bloke in local kebab van still owes me a £1

Didn't they tell us why. I thought they said that UWE didn't respond to communications in a timely way, they reminded UWE of a deadline by which a response was required, no response received, so the deal died. I think that's what they claimed anyway.

Have to say, it seemed a bit of an over-reaction, to throw away an entire stadium project, all of those facilities, community assets etc just because a deadline, which they never said that UWE had agreed to, had been missed. But there you go....

Not for the first time, there's more than a hint of double standards here, Higgs would have been slaughtered for this and it wouldn't have been forgotten in the way it seems to have been with these guys. I don't fully understand why these owners are immune from criticism?

Given that the club have already intimated legal action on one poster on here and others, who do not use the forum, I think many are now worried about open criticism due to the precarious situation we are in. When the club is basically entirely owned by one entity, I’d guess there is a fear that they could pull out. I know that this worries me but I will say what I think but try to use fact, that can be proven in doing so. 
There certainly has been a sea change in how Wael is viewed & you don’t see the many selfies now. 
Seems the poster , kid in the riot on Otib has been spot on and very early on. 

the following is from gashead 1981 at the other place.  I have no insight, but the following does ring true to me....

The ALQs not having the resources or desire on certain sides of our board were the real stumbling blocks.  The freehold of the land was not an issue. We were given 150 year lease with an option to extend to 250 years after 5 years.

Hani has no desire to sink money on a large scale into Rovers. Him and his father are the money men. The lack of progress on the colony and absolute no stadium plans for the Mem or other project. Wael has the desire, but he doesn’t have the finance.

UWE, since the collapse, have come back to the table twice more, with negotiated terms on land purchase price, freehold options and build options. When it comes to the crunch, the ALQs don’t have money to sign off on any deal. A very interesting conversation with a UWE board member told me that.

To match the ALQs expectations and desires should I hasten to add.....They wanted to add hotels and other revenue streams to the site and even had plans drawn for it.


also, from wertongas...

I met the UWE Chancellor in Bristol Cathedral when my daughter graduated, at the time he was very enthusiastic about working with Rovers on the project. Enter AQs who brought in Stadium experts, did a feesability study which appears to have indicated the project was not feasible and so tried to re-negotiate, couldn't get what they wanted and pulled out...... Problem is AQ want to have a stadium that will make money, until that happens things will stagnate, which is why we have the colony waistland and improve ments at the Mem paid for by corporate advertising.

Perhaps Wael just needs to nag a bit more and wear Hani down.  My son (9) did this with me recently and went on and on about a Thunderbird 2 model so much that I ordered it on ebay in a moment of weakness.

Agreed, it's the only way to get an old meanie to buy you a ThunderBird 2.

He could have saved all that trouble and just bought the thing when first asked, but no, he had to go and get involved in a battle of wills.