Adver News: SWINDON TOWN: Club present their vision to businesses and sponsors

[Simon Pieman]

Also Murrell was quite open that the idea for the current board is to set up the club on sound footing and the potential gain for them is if they did that and opened a way for someone else to take the club further forward at a later stage.

[Ginginho]

Cheers Si, sounds very promising.

[Batch]

Thanks Si Pie, appreciate it, was unable to go tonight (actually turns out I could but that's not the point).

[Cibocchi_Is_God]

Sounds pretty promising. I get the feeling the board members are really starting to get to grips with what it means to run a football club now and are beginning to make positive inroads. Maybe the past 6 months (from January) should be forgotten and from this season forth there is a clean slate for Jed and co?

[otanswell]

Hope this shuts up the doom mongerers now

[Simon Pieman]

Hopefully the Trust will publish something as they were there too. I had a 3.5 hour business plan meeting at work this afternoon so I was fairly shot by the time the presentation even started this evening.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

Only negative is putting a roof on the Bank - a shite stand which is falling apart. Get rid of it all together.

[Simon Pieman]

Only negative is putting a roof on the Bank - a shite stand which is falling apart. Get rid of it all together.

And replace it with what? Where would the money come from?

[Ardiles]

So with regard to ground redevelopment, they're sticking with the tried & tested strategy that has served the Club for the last 100 years or so: piecemeal upgrade.

One step at a time, I suppose.  But like it or not, the North Stand (I'm being old fashioned) and the Town End are reaching the end of their natural lives.  You can't keep putting this one off for ever.  A wholesale redevelopment has to happen sooner or later.  The County Ground is an asset that has now been sweated to the point of dessication.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

And replace it with what? Where would the money come from?

Leave it as it is then when re-development comes up again it should be the first to go.

Very rarely used - in the regular league season wasn't it only one club (Portsmouth) who had it last season? It is awful.

[janaage]

Perhaps if they put a roof on SB (at a great price) that opens up the possibility of doing up the TE at some stage?

[Simon Pieman]

Ground redevelopment was discussed but isn't in the short term plans. Longer term there is an option for a 99 or 999 year lease.

Expansion if we get to the championship (to £20k capacity) was a definite plan though.

[Simon Pieman]

Perhaps if they put a roof on SB (at a great price) that opens up the possibility of doing up the TE at some stage?

The question which raised this point (which was not part of the presentation) was the fact the stand looked shit, pathetic and empty when we were on telly.

There will be incentives to fill the ground e.g. for soldiers/army to purchase tickets at a fiver but only if uptake was 500+. It was recognised that filling the ground has much more than a financial gain.

[Simon Pieman]

Oh and almost forgot, they are looking into putting an area outside the town end to go for a drink and a smoke at half time. Not sure they'll get planning permission but they are looking at it.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Sounds very positive. Got to say I have been impresed with the new board lately.