West Ham don't own their own stadium and they are doing Ok at the
Of course Ron doesn't want to ruin his asset and his payday....However his actions in the last few seasons clearly showed he never had the funds or backing to complete the major project on his own.We are now on the verge of losing our league status because he has created the situation where the ground must take priority over the playing side for his own survival and the clubs.The council of this town should also take some of the blame for helping to create a long drawn out planning application and putting obstacles in the way over many years.Does anyone really believe the council would now be behind the plan if it didn't fulfil its own housing targets and allow the Seaway development no competition from the previous FF plans.
For a start when Ron took over and paid off our debt, to the tune of £4.5m..Weren't we about to go bust, I mean forget signing 10 players in January with enough games to save ourselves. Or forget dropping into the national league... I mean do a Bury.
Do some of you think that debt would never have to be paid? Not only that, do any of you think you can borrow £4.5m and not pay interest for 25 years?.....If you do, my advise is not to pay off your gambling debts with a loan from John Gotti.
As far as i'm aware Ron never has claimed he had the funds nor have I ever believed he would be funding the stadium. It was always going to be Sainsbury's.....They get RH and build us a stadium in return.
Rons earner would be to sell a Championship club (he hoped) to a mythical billionaire who would fly in on a unicorn land on the centre circle. The new sugar daddy would then enjoy nothing more than wasting £50m per year making us a PL team......And we would all live happily every after without a single complaint, even about onions in burgers.
The biggest problem with plan A was Sainsbury's. If you don't know the history then you shouldn't be commenting on this thread.
Plan B involved British Land who quickly realised their idea of a retail park was not viable in a dying town let down over decades by successive town councils.
So we are now close to plan C. which suits the council and Ron gets someone to build houses at RH. Houses that he never expected, just like none of us did when the Sainsbury's plan was launched.....I remember a stadium being mooted in 1984 but perhaps someone can let us know when Sainsbury's were first mentioned?
Finally and crucially Ron is going nowhere. You can scream and door slam all you like but Ron will see through the FF project. When he sells it all on then the new owner has a choice of buying the business and the stadium with it, just like any other business deal. Why people have such difficulty with that I'm not sure.
Either way us fans wont own anything and we never will. That boat sailed long before the PL money made that scenario impossible in the future.
Now Mr Trigg, once we can all agree on the facts so far....Then we can have a discussion about Ron.......For those of you who wont admit to the above my question is why?.....You can still hate Ron, he can still be your bogyman or your Keyser Soze. I for one don't think anyone has to be guilty at a lynching party, where's the fun in that. After all, allowing myth and hysteria to rid us of mangers has worked well, so lets get Ron out...It simply cannot get any worse....As any fan of the 30 odd clubs who have been relegated out of L2 will tell you.