New stadium update...

[Johnny]

Hicks and Gillett are no longer looking to load the debt onto the club in the way that the Glazers have done with Manchester United, and are hopeful of clinching a refinancing deal before February 1.

That is excellent news if true.

Notice how it was ignored by those with an agenda????

[The_weatherman]

Hicks and Gillett are no longer looking to load the debt onto the club in the way that the Glazers have done with Manchester United, and are hopeful of clinching a refinancing deal before February 1.

That is excellent news if true.

The pair of them have mellowed down a little bit me thinks......

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Yaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!

Wake me up when it's over...

[sonsofthedesert]

If you were being truly objective you'd be prepared to give people the benefit of the doubt for believing the bad news stories. As you don't you can't claim to be objective as you are taking up a postition against them. Same thing applies for Sonsofthedesert

I said this:

Wonder if the people that trusted the press with the negative stuff will take this as gospel.

So basically I am not taking the positive stuff as gospel either, I am saying I don't trust the press and am waiting to see what happens. I am neither negative or positive. You seem to be the person that can not be objective on this one, I even think the likes of johnny should not be so positive at the moment. We don't know what is going on and I will only judge facts unlike some.

[sonsofthedesert]

If you were being truly objective you'd be prepared to give people the benefit of the doubt for believing the bad news stories. As you don't you can't claim to be objective as you are taking up a postition against them. Same thing applies for Sonsofthedesert

Also how is Dom9 not objective, he hasn't tried putting a positive slant on anything, the point surely is that the people that believe everything negative in the press should also believe positive stuff from the same source. Obv some don't though.
As I have said before I have respect for you but your so negative at the moment it is unbelievable.

[Yozza]

Sorry lads.... got the pics but they're of the old stadium design!

Will try again asap

[kurtangle01]

Sorry lads.... got the pics but they're of the old stadium design!

Will try again asap

That explains why your contact said it was a bowl design?

[Yozza]

no it still is apparently, but with one larger 'feature' stand forming the kop....

I'm off now - will hopefully have more luck 2mrw

my contact is a stupid ****er.... I bloody showed the old design as well & I distinctly remember saying 'NOT THIS ONE'!!!

[kurtangle01]

no it still is apparently, but with one larger 'feature' stand forming the kop....

I'm off now - will hopefully have more luck 2mrw

my contact is a stupid ****er.... I bloody showed the old design as well & I distinctly remember saying 'NOT THIS ONE'!!!

Thanks for clarifying, mate. I guess, as always, it's a case of wait and see.

[rushscored4]

Right,

I've got a contact at AFL who's managed to get hold of the Powerpoint presentation that was shown today... cant be e-mailed as it's too big... so it's been put on a memory stick

Hopefully I'll get hold of it tomorrow & will be able to extract some pics

The said person says it doesnt look anything special - just an ordinary bowl stadium

No promises....

Thought RS4 was told the revised AFL design was Kop orientated? Could this still fit in a bowl type design??

RS4, you out there geezer?

it could.. dont see why one side couldnt be bigger that the others as its been done before (google Hull City's KC stadium) - dont want to speculate too much; hopefully I'll/we'll find out tomorrow

Sorry lads.... got the pics but they're of the old stadium design!

Will try again asap

I've not seen my mate at AFL since New Years Eve but I should know by Friday whether they've got the contract and I'll also try to get some more information.

[loco_law]

Cheers RS4.

[Guest]

Notice how it was ignored by those with an agenda????

If you include me in this bracket I think I have to clarify my stance. I don't have an agenda against Hicks and Gillett, just that after analyzing what has been said, I just don't trust them to keep Rafa in charge beyond this season. I may be wrong and I'd love to be.

Happy Birthday Johnny.

[Tom]

Notice how it was ignored by those with an agenda????

So you have started believing the press reports then?
If you believe this, it also confirms the earlier telegraph report that they are up **** creak and were looking to offload debt onto the club. do you believe that now then?

To right i've got an agenda, I'm against the bumbling neo-con, leverage jerks who've bought our club lock, stock and barrel.

[Tom]

Also how is Dom9 not objective, he hasn't tried putting a positive slant on anything, the point surely is that the people that believe everything negative in the press should also believe positive stuff from the same source. Obv some don't though.
As I have said before I have respect for you but your so negative at the moment it is unbelievable.

That's your choice but the stuff I'm hearing isn't coming from the national press, it's coming from people very close to the club.
If it happens to displease you, simply ignore it. If I was to post that I'd been told we were about to sign Kaka, you wouldn't be posting the stuff in bold would you? People on here only want to hear good news it's frankly hypocritical.

[dawmdt]

Again, deadlines being put back.

They jumped into this club head first, now they're trying to swim without knowing how to in the first place.

What deadline being put back? When did the CLUB actually announce publically that they were going to present plans to the public on any given date? The first quote I've seen (I could be wrong of course) with regards to these two new plans is Parry saying a decision will be made in the next two weeks. "Deadlines being put back" is pure speculation by the newspapers who had "sources close to the matter" (probably a bottle of ketchup at the table where the meeting was had) that there would be a 12th Jan announcement.