Southend, Wembley, Bristol Rovers and Sainsburys -

[united we stand]

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Some interesting similarities between ourselves and Bristol Rovers

• BR average attendance 6600- similar to our 6024
• BR last game of season 11,000- similar(ish) to our 9000
• BR are building a new stadium hand have sold their stadium to Sainsburys who are dragging their heels (see below)
• BR won at Wembley
• We are going to win at Wembley !

full article here re stadium . This piece is the most interesting

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ll-league-grimsby-conference-play-off-wembley


This month a High Court judge is expected to settle a long-running dispute between Rovers and Sainsbury’s in relation to the Memorial Stadium. Sainsbury’s has threatened to pull out of a plan to build a supermarket on the site, scuppering Rovers’ hopes of moving to a 21,700-seat new home near the University of the West of England campus in Stoke Gifford.
If the judge finds in favour of the club, who claim Sainsbury’s is contractually obliged to purchase the site, the supermarket could be forced to go ahead with the original plans or pay up to £30m in damages.

 

[Jam_Man]

Rovers must be livid, we dragged our feet for years, theirs was only agreed recently.

 

[Trucking shrimper]

Love the the way the guy in the far left of the first picture looks like he's got a really bad wig on!

H e could look a bit happier too!

 

[Silencer]

Steve Mildenhall

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2015/2002.html

 

[Blue_Wes]

Rovers must be livid, we dragged our feet for years, theirs was only agreed recently.

Maybe they learnt their lessons from the dealings they had with Ron, and put clauses into any new agreement made afterwards to protect their investments.

 

[greyerfox]

Please remind me as to whether Sainsbury has terminated its contract with SUFC. Or are we unaware of the current position? I have lost track. Thanks for a help on this.

 

[Jam_Man]

Not confirmed but sainsbury won't be building a big store, that's a given

 

[onceknownasrab]

Not confirmed but sainsbury won't be building a big store, that's a given

Maybe not a big store but http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...mes-forms-joint-ventures-Land-Securities.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-intends-add-stores-bid-turn-sales-slump.html

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Maybe they learnt their lessons from the dealings they had with Ron, and put clauses into any new agreement made afterwards to protect their investments.

You appear to be living on a different planet to the rest of the human race.

 

[Jam_Man]

Maybe not a big store but http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...mes-forms-joint-ventures-Land-Securities.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-intends-add-stores-bid-turn-sales-slump.html

YEah thats what I was wondering.

Could make sense as they havent been confirmed as withdrawing, so maybe there are smaller plans they have.

 

[Shrimper]

I feel like now it would just be best redeveloping Roots Hall and building flats in the extra space.

 

[greyerfox]

Quite sure Ron will be reading the High Court judgment with great interest, especially if the contract he has with Sainsbury contains the same (or very similar) provision upon which the judge found in favour of Sainsbury. But it would seem that the Rovers' threatened appeal means that their case may not have run its course quite yet.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

It may be that Sainsbury/Ron have housing plans for Roots Hall: a big stumbling block could be shortage of skilled builders for any big(ish) project; for example: The Hall Road, Rochford site is delayed until the other sites run by the same builders are finished so the work force can move across to that one.
We may never know as few companies want to share their ideas, problems and plans or issues.

 

[onceknownasrab]

So we know Sainsbury's are still going to do something with Roots hall, even if it is to landbank it. We also have uncle Rons assurance the stadium will still be built without Sainsbury's money. According to http://www.leisuremanagement.co.uk/detail.cfm?pagetype=detail&subject=news&CodeID=316136 the new stadium et all is an 80 million quid project so the mysterious backer must be a major player.
Ron Woodley is quoted and paraphrasing it suggests the new planning application is about crossing T's and dotting i's and some minor tidying up.
Question 1 has to be; Who is the scret backer? and 2) If Sainsbury's are able to dictate the future of Roots Hall and renege on their planned funding of FF, then how much is RM already into Sainsbury's for?
I have no answer, for sure, to either, but if I were a betting man then answer one may be reminiscent of the Max Bygraves song 'You need hands..' and answer two is as much money as it would take for Sainsbury's to be in control and this would suggest our main asset is no longer an asset to us at all.