bristolcitysweden Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Happy clappers Thought I'd get one in before anyone else. But this has answered a niggling question. Having bought the land how will the stadium get financed? So the next one is something the ST can throw their badgering powers behind. The way of football is that the ground will be sponsored up to the eyeballs. So the chances of it being called Ashton anything are remote. I really don't care who the sponsors are but can the home end be named the East End for old times sake? The JJB East End, the Pirelli East End but please god NOT the Dunfords Dairies East End. We call it whatever we wan't. For free. But first we need to contribute. £50 got it?? In Stockholm we got the "Stockholm Globe Arena", sorry "Ericsson Globe" http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globen But it has always been "Globen", The Globe. You are welcome to pay for it.. idiots ####### Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon uk Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 I replied earlier, but since then this is up on the offish site. This is a stunning gesture from Steve, and in years to come he will stand alongside Harry Dolman as the 2 eminent people in the history of our club. Fantastic news, we must be the envy of most clubs in the country. I wonder what Peter Hargreaves makes of all this, his share price will have dropped as well today, but if he thinks there is any chance of a profit from the property development he might be interested as well? Si. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 The stadium name/stand names will be sold to the highest bidder but if for whatever reason they didn't, then 'Landsdown End' or Landsdown Stadium would be fine by me! We are VERY VERY lucky to have SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foghornred Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Wow,can you think of a better chairman in the football league ? Steve Lansdown is a top bloke and we are very lucky that he supports the City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 please god NOT the Dunfords Dairies East End. Then it could be called the Double D End no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolcitysweden Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 I replied earlier, but since then this is up on the offish site. This is a stunning gesture from Steve, and in years to come he will stand alongside Harry Dolman as the 2 eminent people in the history of our club. Fantastic news, we must be the envy of most clubs in the country. I wonder what Peter Hargreaves makes of all this, his share price will have dropped as well today, but if he thinks there is any chance of a profit from the property development he might be interested as well? Si. Harry Dolman bankrupted Bristol City Football Club. He wasen't the chairman on the 2nd of February 1982 but a long time before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanhamreds Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Do you really think Steve L would have sold a significant amount of his own business without recieving some kind of assurances from the council regarding planning. I still believe that the council will have been approached by the FA to look at the possibility of hosting World Cup football and in turn the council will have approached the club with there backing. The stadium project is starting to gain momentum and backers. People/fans will have been looking at it with the mentality of "I'll believe it when I see it" The FA has ALREADY been in Bristol and has spoken to the Council as well as City. SL has already said that BCFC have recommended to the Council that we should hold WC matches in Bristol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 If this comes off he is the modern day Colston in terms of a benefactor to the community of Bristol. He deserves the freedom of the City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolcitysweden Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 If this comes off he is the modern day Colston in terms of a benefactor to the community of Bristol. He deserves the freedom of the City. Who the **** is Colston?? 1. Paul Cheesley 2. Steve Lansdown/Isambard Kingdom Brunel ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Can't let this thread fall by the wayside compared to today's other ludicrous 'hot topic'. This is great news and its clear BCFC are in safe hands with Lansdown at the helm. I can't think of many chairman as well liked and respected as Lansdown. :chant6ez: Now lets get the design spot on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmersonsKev Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Who the **** is Colston?? 1. Paul Cheesley 2. Steve Lansdown/Isambard Kingdom Brunel ; ) Wiki - Sir Edward Colston Also add the Wills Brothers to the list aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolcitysweden Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Wiki - Sir Edward Colston Also add the Wills Brothers to the list aswell. If you made it 85 in the 17th century you must have had a good life.. Poor soul. Tribute to the people who suffered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunley Legend Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Do you think we will own the ground? Or is Lansdown going to stick us on a 999 year lease charging a peppercorn rent with a possible "buyback" option after a certain time period? I reckon this new ground/development is Steve Lansdown's way of "getting his significant investment back" without plunging the club into massive debt or risking administration whilst also "doing his bit" as a supporter and leaving Bristol City a fantatsic legacy. We are lucky to have a genuine fan like him as Chairman rather than being owned by some dodgy Fund Manager at Legal and General!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolcitysweden Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Do you think we will own the ground? Or is Lansdown going to stick us on a 999 year lease charging a peppercorn rent with a possible "buyback" option after a certain time period? I reckon this new ground/development is Steve Lansdown's way of "getting his significant investment back" without plunging the club into massive debt or risking administration whilst also "doing his bit" as a supporter and leaving Bristol City a fantatsic legacy. We are lucky to have a genuine fan like him as Chairman rather than being owned by some dodgy Fund Manager at Legal and General!!! You have already answered your own question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunley Legend Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 You have already answered your own question. I've answered it in my own mind but does anyone have any facts? Has Lansdown stated yet how we are going to fund this development and how it will work financially thereafter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolcitysweden Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 I've answered it in my own mind but does anyone have any facts? Has Lansdown stated yet how we are going to fund this development and how it will work financially thereafter? Of course it's all set up. Reckon you are spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stick Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 with the government looking into changing the laws regarding succession to the throne, if SL pulls this one off, there should be a seat waiting for him at Buck Palace !!!! All hail the king ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookey Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonwheeler Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Seconded. After all of todays mass hysteria whether GJ is right or not PLEASE let us not lose sight of WHO is our real boss - Steve Lansdown. Managers come, managers go and if for whatever reason GJ made his comments so be it............ Such is But Chairmen like SL are as rare as rocking horse excrement Thanks Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dynamite Red Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Shares in Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) tumbled 14.5p to 212.5p on news that its chairman sold 23 million shares in the financial advisory firm. Stephen Lansdown, who sold some of his stake in the firm to fund the building of Bristol City’s new stadium, will retain a share of 22.9% or 109 million shares in the firm after the sale. On Thursday, the firm announced that its chairman was looking to sell at least 15 million shares in the company. From: From UK-Analyst.com: Friday 17th April 2009 What a legend and many thanks. He will go down in history as one of the most important people to have ever been involved in the club. http://www.ftadviser.com/FTAdviser/Adviser...res-in-firm.jsp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Harry Dolman bankrupted Bristol City Football Club. He wasen't the chairman on the 2nd of February 1982 but a long time before. I assume you mean bankrolled? No Harry Dolman, no Bristol City. The problems started with us paying third highest wages after Liverpool and Everton, giving players 11 year contracts and so on, not on Harry's watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 We are indeed fortunate - great manager and great Chairman. Exactly, they are a rare partnership when at so many clubs there is a power struggle between Chairman and Manager. Compare with QPR where the owners are putting none of their wealth in but Briatore picks the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 If he's going to put that sort of money in to the stadium then I think that we are going to have to roll up our sleeves and prepare to get very very grateful. I don't mean to sound ungrateful but I have 100% supported Bristol City for 40 years at Ashton Gate, and would be very happy to do so for another 40. The new stadium will be nice, but it won't add to my enjoyment of supporting this club and anyway, Steve isn't exactly donating the money, is he. It's an investment. Good chairman, nice bloke, but don't get carried away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 This is complete conjecture, but it wouldn't surprise me if he retained a stake in the ground, rather than loaning cash to the football club. I said a while back that we should possibly prepare ourselves for the idea that BCFC may not own our new ground in the way we do Ashton Gate. How would people feel if the new stadium was not ours, but was owned by a company which managed a mixed use leisure/housing development? We would have a very long term lease at a completely immaterial rent. ie saves us a fortune each year on rent/loan repayments, but we don't own the ground. Could happen. It had bloody better not. The whole point of a new stadium is to make revenue on the other 6 days a week. The extra money from ticket sales alone comes nowhere near justifying building one. If that revenue is in some separate business there is no benefit to the football club and a whole lot of unnecessary risk. The same legal entity must own both the club and the stadium and be the only business in which shares are traded and if that is not to be the case then fans should be 100% against the idea - every club that has suffered after building a new stadium has been a club that didn't retain ownership. Besides, Steve doesn't need to retain a separate stake in the ground if he retains his stake in Bristol City Holdings. If he's pulled out £40m of his own cash, financing the rest as a secured loan without giving up shares will be easy enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headhunter Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 It is clear from today's EP that SL is fully committed to the stadium build. Personally I don't care if it's called the Haregreaves Lansdown Arena and the club don't own it but hae a lease of 125 years that is longer than the club has been in existence to date. What this does prove is that we have probably the best Chairman in the football league who presides over a club with minimal debt compared to many at this level. We should be saying in SJ we trust rather than GJ. Next season it will be interesting to see if GJ has what it takes to take this club further forward on the field. GJ needs to get it more right in terms of his transfer dealings and, even if just in cameos, he needs to give youth a chance. His comments this week about the fans are out of order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 I do think this is absolutely stunning. Harry Dolman did indeed bankroll this club for many years and his greatest achievement was keep continuing to build the stand that bears his name when many on the board wanted to stop because of escalating prices. But this something on a different level of investment. Although I don't think it's his style, he would be more entitled than any other chairman in the league of naming the ground after himself. I hope now that all the rest falls into place so I can see my team in a new ground before I get too old to appreciate it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easton boy Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Why is SL putting the money aside NOW?? If building starts later this year(very very doubtful), the contractor will still be on interim payments, with a 2- 2.5 year construction period, so why the need to have £40m sitting ready for it NOW?(unless he is also planning on giving GJ a F.off big warchest this summer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Why is SL putting the money aside NOW?? If building starts later this year(very very doubtful), the contractor will still be on interim payments, with a 2- 2.5 year construction period, so why the need to have £40m sitting ready for it NOW?(unless he is also planning on giving GJ a F.off big warchest this summer) Well he runs an investment company, so I would think he knows where he can invest it to get the best returns during the interim period. He could add to the value of this investment quite substantially with the right interest rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Personally I don't care if it's called the Haregreaves Lansdown Arena and the club don't own it but hae a lease of 125 years that is longer than the club has been in existence to date. I don't care what it's called but the club absolutely must own it. Otherwise there's no point and we'll end up like Coventry, Southampton and the rest of the clubs that did the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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