Adver News: Chairman wants to get County Ground revamp up and running

[News Monkey]

Chairman wants to get County Ground revamp up and running
           

  ANDREW Fitton is keen to start the wheels turning on the County Ground redevelopment as soon as possible, but insists that will only happen with the
  support of Swindon Borough Council.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/8422225.Chairman_wants_to_get_County_Ground_revamp_up_and_running/?ref=rss
           

[leefer]

Like the look of this...even the Don Rogers is getting a facelift.

[THE FLASH]

Support of the Council?

We're fucked then!

[Arriba]

i think we have alot to look forward to.
the one thing i'd like to see is a decent supporters-social club within the complex.

[chalkies_shorts]

I think this time the Council will come under seriuos pressure if they don't come up trumps. I don't think anyone thought the plans in Mr Whippy's head were ever going to be extracted so couldn't get too excited by a pipedream.
The Council are hardly covering themselves in glory and a £20m investment is bloody big given the recession and particularly when they're fucking up the regeneration plans for the Town Centre.

[leefer]

i think we have alot to look forward to.
the one thing i'd like to see is a decent supporters-social club within the complex.

Like a modern day Rendevouz.

[Arriba]

a club open 7 days a week. a social club and ran that way.quiz nights,a sunday league team,pool,darts,etc,etc.
other clubs have them.see no reason why we can't.

[bassett boy]

a club open 7 days a week. a social club and ran that way.quiz nights,a sunday league team,pool,darts,etc,etc.
other clubs have them.see no reason why we can't.

Maybe the ground should be moved to the High street club 

[bassett boy]

being serious if AF wants support from the council then i do not think the ground will be revamped via the current plans as SBC has never helped

[glos_robin]

being serious if AF wants support from the council then i do not think the ground will be revamped via the current plans as SBC has never helped

What current plans?

[bassett boy]

What current plans?

I meant the plans that we have yet to see

[glos_robin]

I meant the plans that we have yet to see

Why? I'm pretty sure Fitton will have had some informal dialogue with the council already, you're being a bit presumptuous. What do you suggest then, moving outside Swindon so we don't have to go to them for planning permission?

[Bogus Dave]

Completely different board now though isn't it. This board have done more for the town than the old lot ever did

[BANGKOK RED]

I meant the plans that we have yet to see

So you think that SBC will reject plans that neither you nor they have seen yet! Have you been doing seances with normy?

[pauld]

being serious if AF wants support from the council then i do not think the ground will be revamped via the current plans as SBC has never helped

FFS, how many times?

Maybe the reason the council have been unhelpful in the past is because they've never had plans put in front of them that have not been:
a) insane
b) unlawful

As a council taxpayer myself, I'd have been fuming if the council had got into bed with a scheme cooked up by Diamond Mike and Baghdad Bob, as it would have been of little or no benefit to either the club or the town, although I'm sure Mr D would have seen a decent return on those shares he bought "for a laugh" out of it. Look what happened to Pox with Kassam, would you have wanted that to be the outcome of a more "cooperative" council in the past?