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  1. I believe Ashton Gate stadium is owned by Bristol City Holdings Ltd which, along with the various other companies in the group, is ultimately owned by Steve and Maggie via Pula Sport Limited. No problemo. I think most clubs have restructured in this sort of way in modern times. Which is very different from, say, a Coventry City situation where they sold their stadium and then rented a new one from a third party, which was absolutely ruinous for them.
    4 points
  2. This is eerily like the Oxford situation when Uncle Firoz got hold of the club. Sold the Manor Ground for redevelopment, built a cheap as chips 3-sided monstrosity and then charged the club £750,000 per annum to rent it.
    2 points
  3. regarding the build, they could get a bunch of clueless gasheads to start it for free season tickets then call in diy sos when it falls down
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  4. The theoretical capacity of Eastville was 39,000. The safety at sports ground act reduced that to 12,500. The record attendance was 38,472 against Preston in the FA cup in 1960. I watched a league cup game against Stoke as a youngster in the seventies. The crowd was over 33,000 and it was scarily packed. The idea that you could legally still squash in another 6,000 horrifies me. It’s amazing that there weren’t more crowd fatalities than there were over the years.
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  5. The structure involving Bristol Sport, Bristol City and Bristol Bears etc is complicated to say the least and I don’t try to understand the way money flows between the various parts of the structure. There is however one thing that’s clear from the City accounts and that’s commercial income for City was (from memory) approx £15M last year. If Rovers end up in a stadium owned and paid for by a consortium, then the consortium will almost certainly get the commercial income. Ruinous for Rovers as said by @City Rocker . The only way to make money from the new ground will be for Wael to buy the portion of the fruit market site to be used for the stadium and finance it’s build himself. He may decide to do this or he may not. Time will tell
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  6. Turning Japanese...The Vapors
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  7. The irony is that they are only in the position they thought they were in when he took over
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  8. It’s funny that when SL writes of our debt they mock this approach and gloat how it will all go wrong when SL sells up, yet when exactly the same thing happens to them it’s amazing news and the start of a new era!
    1 point
  9. Any land has potentially a change of use. It just needs planning permission for that change. As none of this has actually even begun to happen, and may never, there seems to be loads of speculation. But then that’s what forums are for.
    1 point
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