Im confused how we are paying for this considering they struggle to pay for anything else
More than likely a commercial loan against future revenue. Clem isn’t going be putting his hands in his pockets!
The biggest concern for me is that back in October, Neil Hutchings was saying publicly that the Trust members needed to be surveyed in January if there was any hope of hitting the 3 year deadline.
The club sat on their hands for the first 12 months and wasted so much time with Wrenbridge, which was a red herring. So the club is really behind schedule on making this happen within the contracted timetable until they really pull their finger out.
All of this is just gearing up for the club to blame everyone else but themselves. If the Trust members vote no, the fans will be blamed for the 3 year clause not being met. It’s the classic game played by the owner to really push the boundaries in the fear of loss.
And to be clear, the reason why it’s this or nothing is because it’s the cheapest and easiest redevelopment to do.
So those saying they don’t want this lot to touch it, I would hazard a guess by their behaviour to date, they don’t want to do it either and looking for any reason not to do. For context to how much the club have dragged their feet, by the time the development starts, Oxford will have bought a piece of land, got planning permission and will have likely moved in to their new 16,000 all seater stadium in the same amount of time we’ve been talking about hospitality boxes in a stand largely ready to go.
On top of that, if Hall is saying today that they are going to present 4 options at the next JV, I very much doubt that the Trust or the Easy’s will know anything about those 4 proposals, which IMO, is really poor form to go to the media first over sharing any insights or plans with their actual partners first!
Clem, just do us a favour and look for someone to sell the club to then fuck off.