New Stadium update

[The Big Dady]

I wonder why the Echo report was written by Matthew Critchell who is the Echo's "Crime and Courts Reporter"?

 

[Mad Cyril]

I wonder why the Echo report was written by Matthew Critchell who is the Echo's "Crime and Courts Reporter"?

Maybe there isn't enough crime in the region to keep him busy?

 

[RHB]

Maybe there isn't enough crime in the region to keep him busy?

Put him on weekend Seafront duty then, he'd love that.

 

[Pale Blue Dot]

I wonder why the Echo report was written by Matthew Critchell who is the Echo's "Crime and Courts Reporter"?

Chris Phillips is on Holiday.

 

[overseas shrimper]

Chris Phillips is on Holiday.

Doubt we'll be signing him anytime soon then. Does Stan follow him?

Sorry, wrong thread.

 

[overseas shrimper]

'Full steam ahead for new Southend United stadium plans with substantial progress made'

BLUES bosses are confident of “starting the 2024/25 season” from the first phase of the new multi-million pound stadium as “substantial…

www.echo-news.co.uk

Notable quotes:

“The conversations with Southend United are positive and it’s all full steam ahead from the council’s point of view.

“The deal for funding with Homes England is still very much on the table.”

Other notable quotes:

The club has insisted... (all is right with the world)

Season ticket holder Justin Macal, 51, from Benfleet said: “I really do believe it will happen... (poor guy)

 

[Jai]

Chris Phillips is on Holiday.

Chris wouldn't write the stadium stuff.

Unfortunately it comes under news rather than sport, and nobody on the newsdesk has the first clue about Southend United.

 

[londonblue]

If that is how you read it, you could also read it as the deal already in place, I doubt they would give too much details out regarding that aspect of things.

My point being there was no chance of the build starting a couple of months ago if the funding hasn't even been agreed.

 

[Pale Blue Dot]

My point being there was no chance of the build starting a couple of months ago if the funding hasn't even been agreed.

It says the funding is on the table? I'm not sure how you have read that its not in place?

 

[londonblue]

It says the funding is on the table? I'm not sure how you have read that its not in place?

Because it hasn't been agreed, and with people's ability to drag out a negotiation it could take a very long time to be agreed.

 

[kentblues]

The funding can only be formally put in place against the final plans (and we are now seeking very sensible amendments that will go through pretty quickly under delegated powers I would imagine). Then the funding arrangements can be formalised. We can't sign up to a formal agreement on the funding and then change what we are building it doesn't work like that ..regrettably..

 

[blueblueblue]

I'm sick to death with hearing about all these stadium plans year after year, it's the same old, same old..... Unles I hear that the builders are on site, I don't believe a word.

 

[Pale Blue Dot]

I'm sick to death with hearing about all these stadium plans year after year, it's the same old, same old..... Unles I hear that the builders are on site, I don't believe a word.

Cool.

 

[JAL]

I'm sick to death with hearing about all these stadium plans year after year, it's the same old, same old..... Unles I hear that the builders are on site, I don't believe a word.

Yawn.

 

[blueblueblue]

Yawn.

Same old crap, different year.

 

[JD]

I'm sick to death with hearing about all these stadium plans year after year, it's the same old, same old..... Unles I hear that the builders are on site, I don't believe a word.

Appreciate the update on your position. We can all settle down now.

 

[blueblueblue]

Appreciate the update on your position. We can all settle down now.

I do believe in Father Christmas and the tooth fairy though :)

 

[rigsby]

I'm sick to death with hearing about all these stadium plans year after year, it's the same old, same old..... Unles I hear that the builders are on site, I don't believe a word.

In my experience builders saying they are on site should always be confirmed with a personal vist.

 

[blueblueblue]

In my experience builders saying they are on site should always be confirmed with a personal vist.

You're probably right, I correct myself, I wouldn't believe it untill it's built ;) I'd probably be dead before it happens.

 

[Scamps]

#martinout