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I see the planning decision is due to be made on 3rd July. As I understand it the club will be able to play at their current ground for another 3 years (whilst the stadium build goes ahead). If it's a no then they just have one year left where they are. That means they would likely have to ground share. Thames Valley Royals anyone?  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Another income stream for us possibly?  :sherlock:

Wouldnt put anything past this lot :D

I see the emotional blackmail is really being cranked up for the planning committee's benefit so who knows.

FWIW from 240 miles away it would be funny as fuck if they had to come begging to be our bitches for a few years, albeit I cannot see Inspector Knacker agreeing to it in any form.

Be a shame if they found some Gold crested newts on site  ;)

I guess they could then claim they did indeed deliver Championship football to the County Ground…

I can't let this pass. Great not Gold. Apologies

:D

Need Tansmedia to get onto this  :D

The sad irony of this is that there is probably more possibility of the CG being listed as a condemned premises, and it would be STFC asking OUFC if Town could play at theirs  :no:


#Shudders

Now apparently going to planning committee on 31st July....

Oh dear  :girlgiggle:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25336280.crucial-decision-new-oxford-united-stadium-pushed-back/

Council doing council things

Getting a bit heated. Not unduly surprised.

Look at what Clarkson has to contend with with WODC.

It’s looking more favourable for the pox now.

https://x.com/_LiamWalker_/status/1948432530123682046?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Been approved at planning meeting

Meanwhile Clem has delivered fuck all and nothing changes until he fucks off for good.
Fair play to them for getting it over the line.

Agreed

Ha, when we are in the championship within 5 years you're going to feel pretty silly 😁.

Seriously though, he hasn't got the means to do everything but run us down.  I'm not sure I could take Oxford pulling this off to rub our noses in it.

They are going to have built 2 stadiums since we last did a stand….

How are they financially? I have little interest in them so really don't understand how a small club like them have done so well for themselves for the past 25 years whilst we've been left to rot.

They are owned by an Indonesian billionaire who previously owned Inter Milan and DC United

 :moon:

We've been through a lot of shit to get to the planning approval today. This will mean finally unshackling ourselves from Firoz Kassam, the cunt, and his shitty stadium that we've paid increasingly large annual rental fees for the priviledge of playing in.

Having experienced 25 years of his ownership and landlordship, I have a lot of sympathy for any club being badly run.

Good luck to them it is good to see and any negative comments from morons is purely jealousy, there are to many crooks having an easy ride i in this world on the back of football.

I have no feeling other than bitterness and extreme jealousy

They are going to build a new, sensibly sized modern stadium.

Ours is falling apart in front of our eyes.

It's another massive wake up call.

Always look forward to reading the well reasoned posts from Mystical Goat. As a young lad I used to visit the Manor back in the days when they were captained by a certain Ron Atkinson. These visits were only when the Town were playing up north I might add ! In later years I would stand at the back of the London Road end when Town visited wondering if we had a death wish and after that standing on the delightfully names Cuckoo Lane end in a beautifully constructed metal cage !
Never jealous and certainly never envious I always thought we were better than OUFC. Now as I sit in the Town End that is falling down around me whilst trying to decide whether it’s my crap hearing or just another pathetic attempt to fix the PA system I wonder where it all went wrong. Good luck to our friends up the road, perhaps not “ in our shadow” to quote a fellow Teffer. After reading MG’s post I read the BBC article about Wrexham’s development and what they have just spent on their pitch !
Oh well, you never know perhaps one day we will get the lake drained at the back of the Town End, that at least will be some progress.  :suicide:

...in a city in which it's notoriously difficult to build anything.  They've had to go a long way out of town - again - but that was always going to be case in Oxford.  (They were never going to get it built on Christ Church Meadow.)

Fair play to them.  With astute owners, they're leaving us behind...on & off the field.  The 'forever in our shadow' talk has stopped.  Unshackle ourselves from the current owner and the shifty cabal of 'hangers on', and we might have a shout at competing again.  But not until then.

Any action that reduces the control and power from dodgey owners of any lower league football club should be celebrated, no matter what team it is..

Oxford as a city is still a shit hole. I have to work there most days.

Happens all too often unfortunately  :(

Yup.

Just depressing another local club have a route forward when we seemingly don't. Reading, City, Oxford, even arguably FGR.
Never change Cheltenham/Rovers.

Any info on how much it’s expected to cost & how it’s being paid for?

£130-£150m been quoted, borrowed development finance I would expect.

A bit more from 'Building Design' a journal for architects...

AFL Architects’ plans for a 16,000-seat stadium for Oxford United FC have been approved.

Cherwell district council voted 14 in favour and one against with three abstentions for the scheme and its surrounding mixed-use development at a four-hour planning committee  meeting yesterday evening.

It is set to be the UK’s first all-electric stadium with the wider scheme including a 180-room hotel, a 1000-seat conference centre, an 820sq m and a health and wellbeing centre, a 690sq m gym and a 200sq m sports bar.

The club’s history will be incorporated into design features, including a modern interpretation of the famous Manor Ground arch at the entrance.

The application will now pass to Angela Rayner, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, for final sign off as it breaches the council’s local development plan and is located on green belt land.

The scheme, which will replace the club’s current ground the Kassam stadium, will be located on a 17-acre site site near Oxford Parkway station.

Oxford United development director Jonathan Clarke said the club was “absolutely delighted” to secure planning consent, adding: “We’re now one step closer to delivering on our goal of creating a once-in-a-generation venue for supporters and the wider community”.

The project team includes Ridge & Partners on costs, planning, transport, sustainability and as project manager, Mott Macdonald on civils, structures, MEP and fire, and Fabrik as landscape architect.

Honestly good luck to them, but putting my professional hat on depending on the extent and wealth of the objectors its got JR written all over it!

Fair play to them, proper club that's been run by a cunt for years.

I’m laying my hopes on the appalling record of Asian owners in the UK - Chansri, Tan, Venkys, Reading, Hull, QPR

Fuck ‘em in the ear

Playing at their own Bermuda Triangle hopefully a bad omen.

As I suspected.... https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25393913.campaign-group-think-oufc-stadium-open-challenge/

Or Leicester, which is another example of Asian ownership. A premier League title and an FA Cup win is not too shabby. 

So would you not prefer an Asian businessman to take over instead of Clem?

Obviously if one was intereted.

Australian is Asian in football, so Clem counts.

Technically its Australasia...so as you were, Asian or Clem?

As a continent. As a football entity it's Asian.

Now going well

We have breaking Leicester City news for the Blue Army on this Monday evening. And it is not a pleasant update for the club at large or its fan base, I'm afraid. The claim is that The King Power International Group, the company owned by the Srivaddhanaprabha family who in turn run LCFC, is in dreadful financial trouble. In fact, the suggestion in the article released only a few hours ago is that the Foxes' future is now actually in trouble.

The organisation belonging to Leicester chairman Aiyawatt 'Khun Top' Srivaddhanaprabha is, dramatically and shockingly, said to be 'facing a total business collapse'. Obviously we all know the previous worldwide Covid shutdown drastically affected the duty-free corporation. And that domino effect appeared to signify less investment in quality personnel on and off the field on Filbert Way.

A set of unique circumstances here though, not really dodgy owners or anything. The helicopter crash leading to the inexperienced son navigating the club and company through Covid couldn’t have been easy. I’m sure there will be plenty of interest in purchasing them.

I've seen a couple of rumours about intrest from Singapore today. Most likely BS though

The Leicester thing is from a bit back and is apparently actually sorted anyway.

This is only from a couple of months ago

https://foxesofleicester.com/significant-financial-implications-for-leicester-explained-after-bombshell

For us, or Leicester?

Us. Nothing to back it up though, just internet rumour

That's dated 26 June, story on same website on 28 June addresses the issues.