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After 1pm apparantly....

[url]http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Grimsby-Town-make-announcement-new-stadium-plans/story-26228900-detail/story.html[/url]

Quoted from pizzzza

After 1pm apparantly....

[url]http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Grimsby-Town-make-announcement-new-stadium-plans/story-26228900-detail/story.html[/url]

i looked at about 10 this morning and that was there but when clicked on, it had been removed for some reason !

Fingers crossed its good news.. Surely the club wouldn't announce negative news at this delicate stage of the season....

Quoted from Peeler_Crab

Fingers crossed its good news.. Surely the club wouldn't announce negative news at this delicate stage of the season....

peeler, peeler, peeler - you should know by now that if there is any way of fookin something up, gtfc and fenty will find a way

Grimsby Town launch bid to attract investment to plug 'funding gap' in new stadium project

Grimsby Town have launched their bid to find new investment to help make their new stadium dream a reality.

A press conference at Blundell Park this afternoon saw director Stephen Marley outline plans to attract backers to get behind the plans for a community stadium off Peaks Parkway.

He told the media that he was heading up a working group to attract investment and will report back in three months.

He said there was a "funding gap" within the £22 million plans and added that the club was paying "due diligence" as a PLC to look for investment.

He said the gap could not be quantified, adding that it was an "ever moving target".

He insisted that the club had not "missed the boat" with regard to attracting a retailer as an enabling development but said housing could also fill that role.

A club statement said: "Expressions of interest are invited with all options considered, which could lead to a shift in overall control, on terms that may suit such an investor."

The club recently held consultation events with the public over proposals for the community stadium off Peaks Parkway.

See Thursday's Grimsby Telegraph for the full story and reaction.



Read more: http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.....y.html#ixzz3VPG3iaec

Town looking for investors isn't really news is it.

Quoted from ginnywings

Town looking for investors isn't really news is it.

No not really is it

Was hoping the press conference was going to be something a bit more interesting, i.e. that we have a developer on board but maybe that was being overly optimistic!

did he say what the funding gap was ? i'm guessing about £ 21.5 million

Quoted from ginnywings

Town looking for investors isn't really news is it.

Unfortunately not. I would have been surprised and a bit perturbed had they not been looking for investors.

More ammunition for the opposition if you ask me,

Dear Council....GTFC want to build this great big new stadium, which the community can use, but it can only be on council land if you can give it to us cheap and to pay for it we need you to also say yes to a big housing development on the green fields next to it, in an area that our major shareholder is opposing all other housing developments...oh and by the way we need other investment as well outside of the above to make it happen, but we are doing a due diligence on that now.. so can you please forget about the previous planning permission we were given to develop Great Coates, but which we let pass without any development, and now please say yes to this one instead ??!!??

Forgive me for being sceptical about ever getting a new stadium.

Quoted from forza ivano

did he say what the funding gap was ? i'm guessing about £ 21.5 million

I think you underestimated it a bit there.

Still looking for investors FFS.

Why not get in touch with the Chinese group interested in buying the high rise flats tell them they can have the old BP to build some new apartments,

Just more evidence to suggest it will never happen

Quoted from forza ivano

did he say what the funding gap was ? i'm guessing about £ 21.5 million

You're not allowed to raise questions like that Ivano. You should just trust that the great and the good have it all mapped out.

That's more or less what I was told on here.

Quoted from ginnywings

Town looking for investors isn't really news is it.

It is a bit odd I agree. With the season coming to the boil, it is something that could have waited surely?

Most of us think there is only one thing on the agenda at the moment - promotion back to the Football League.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

It is a bit odd I agree. With the season coming to the boil, it is something that could have waited surely?

Most of us think there is only one thing on the agenda at the moment - promotion back to the Football League.

surely its the best time to ask for investment, when the team are doing well. utm

So there is a shortfall and the club is asking for investment...they just aren't sure what the shortfall is at the moment......where do i sign?


Do these people have any experience in business to business dealings because that is not a good way to ask for investment or instill confidence.

UTM

Carl Magnay must be worth £20m  

Quoted from bobbyturtle

surely its the best time to ask for investment, when the team are doing well. utm

Spot on Bobby.

Quoted from bobbyturtle

surely its the best time to ask for investment, when the team are doing well. utm

But so much better to ask for investment as a Football League club.

Quoted from GrimRob

Carl Magnay must be worth £20m  

Yes indeed,

BUT

We could never sell him.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

I think you underestimated it a bit there.

It's a bit like the national debt,

It goes up a £1 a second.

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Still looking for investors FFS.

Why not get in touch with the Chinese group interested in buying the high rise flats tell them they can have the old BP to build some new apartments,

Plus they could build the new stadium for us,

They could have naming rights and have Chinese take aways scattered around the stadium,

The Golden Dragon Stadium home of the mighty mariners.

20+ Million to be given over by someone who is prepared not to think too much about it ........................ Heart over Head ??? Its 20 Million not 20p FFS

Quoted from grimsby pete

Plus they could build the new stadium for us,

They could have naming rights and have Chinese take aways scattered around the stadium,

The Golden Dragon Stadium home of the mighty mariners.

I sure this will Drag on for a long time to come.

Love how negative some people are. Do you think the club has £20 million in the bank? Do you expect them to sit back and wait for the money to arrive at our doorstep? Good on the club for getting the ball rolling.

Is it 20years nearly since a new stadium was mentioned.....and still nothing on the horizon

Not negativity just unbelievable

Terrific (IMO) article on Cod Almighty today re the new stadium proposal:

http://codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=5349

Quoted from jimgtfc

Love how negative some people are. Do you think the club has £20 million in the bank? Do you expect them to sit back and wait for the money to arrive at our doorstep? Good on the club for getting the ball rolling.

Not particularly negativity is it? Just pointing out some facts.

The club have been having a big push lately on lets make the stadium happen, we need your support, please sign this petition, please sign that petition, come to the consultation, even going public in the media with hopeful timescales etc....all that raises hopes amongst some supporters and people who have signed up in support that irons are in the fire and warming up nicely......and now they produce a statement saying they have a funding gap and are doing a due diligence on investment required....seems a little back to front to me.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

But so much better to ask for investment as a Football League club.

Maybe but perhaps getting investors on-side prior to getting League Status could be an advantage. I'm no marketing person but investors might get a better deal now, as the number of interested parties could increase once we get League Status.

Quoted from rancido

Maybe but perhaps getting investors on-side prior to getting League Status could be an advantage. I'm no marketing person but investors might get a better deal now, as the number of interested parties could increase once we get League Status.

They might so maybe it might be better for us to wait......

it could just be a box ticking thing to show the council the club has tried every single avenue to get funding...but I was born cynical.

This clarifies some of the points raised

http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/article/community-stadium-funding-clarification-2365417.aspx?

Quoted from BIGChris

This clarifies some of the points raised

http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/article/community-stadium-funding-clarification-2365417.aspx?

Does Town's 6 million include any grants available (if any) from the Football League?

Wonder what BP would look like with £6M invested? although I assume this sum includes income from the sale of the Park.

It just seems this is a never ending story but maybe all these renewable energy giants may be able to contribute, how about they generate all power needed for the stadium although having your ground plastered with Siemen all over it may not give the best impression!!!!!!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Wonder what BP would look like with £6M invested? although I assume this sum includes income from the sale of the Park.

It just seems this is a never ending story but maybe all these renewable energy giants may be able to contribute, how about they generate all power needed for the stadium although having your ground plastered with Siemen all over it may not give the best impression!!!!!!

Siemen should be fine as long as the decorator isn't dyslexic.

Quoted from 3605[b

]Wonder what BP would look like with £6M invested[/b]? although I assume this sum includes income from the sale of the Park.

It just seems this is a never ending story but maybe all these renewable energy giants may be able to contribute, how about they generate all power needed for the stadium although having your ground plastered with Siemen all over it may not give the best impression!!!!!!

A tarted up sh*t-hole ! There is no way the Main Stand, changing facilities and general amenities i.e toilets etc could be brought into the 21st Century for £6M. You wouldn't improve income streams either from the present site and still no car parking. I know fans park in the streets but this is an annoyance to anybody living near the ground. I know some will say that householders knew the score when they moved there but car ownership is greatly increasing. How do you overcome the situation where the vast majority of householders in the surrounding streets owns a car and parks on their fronts on match day. Where do fans park their cars then?

Quoted from rancido

A tarted up sh*t-hole ! There is no way the Main Stand, changing facilities and general amenities i.e toilets etc could be brought into the 21st Century for £6M. You wouldn't improve income streams either from the present site and still no car parking. I know fans park in the streets but this is an annoyance to anybody living near the ground. I know some will say that householders knew the score when they moved there but car ownership is greatly increasing. How do you overcome the situation where the vast majority of householders in the surrounding streets owns a car and parks on their fronts on match day. Where do fans park their cars then?

Not disagreeing with you just a thought of how the old place might look. In respect of car parking in the streets will it really be that different at the proposed site? Certainly if we got the improvements hoped for from such a move we would attendances of 6k plus and not sure how much parking will be available at the new site. Just we could get a site that suited town, the council and the locals which seems achievable imm much larger towns and cities then Grimsby.

Quoted from BIGChris

This clarifies some of the points raised

http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/article/community-stadium-funding-clarification-2365417.aspx?

Sooo.......16m is the gap......a gap that can either be filled with either;

a pure enabling development  = large scale development required to recoup the outlay = more land required, more controversy, more changes to local plan and potentially more opposition and hoops to jump, planning nightmare and economically sensitive with a general election coming up so potential instability to follow.....or

pure additional funding from the club = new investors, JF standing aside, smaller scale development = less land, less contraversial and council more likely to agree to getting rid of their under used land, less hoops easier planning.....or

the middle ground of the above.....or

a possible failure to meet any of the above.    

2020?

Nice clarification. Blame others for your failure to be clear in the first place.

"THERE has been some misinterpretation appearing in the media". FFS.

Next question. Where is the £6m coming from that the club is providing? Is the sale of BP really going to net that much?

The sale of Blundell Park will net £500,000 after demolition costs are taken into account. This is from John Fenty direct.

I'll buy my seat (and maybe a bit of turf if I'm feeling flush) if that helps.

Yeah I imagine I'll be spending a small fortune on bits of BP if they auction it all off.

A Chesterfield fan at work bought a turnstyle when Saltergate shut. I'd like to think I wouldn't go that far but the excitement might get the better of me.

that and the ticket printer! I'd tell my family it's all ticket and they have to buy a week in advance from the ticket office / shed before they can visit me.

Yeah. I'd draw the line at a floodlight for the garden.

Please someone give us a new ground!!!!!!!!

There seems to be an awful lot of pieces missing from the jigsaw at the minute.